How do I enter data into an array quickly?

[undergroundmonorail]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I'm writing a simple Guitar Hero clone. I decided to store the notes in an array, to make my program cleaner. I looked up a tutorial and implemented a 2D array, with one axis separating the five rows of the note track, and the other being the length of the track. A zero is no note, a one is a note and a two indicates the tail of a long note.


What is the problem you are having?
Yeah, storing the notes in an array to make it cleaner... The majority of my code is setting each of the sections of the array to the correct digit.


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
I tried setting them all on one line, but Turing complains about the parenthesis, saying "'notes' is not a procedure and cannot be called".


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Turing:

var notes : array 1 .. 5, 1 .. 427 of int % stores the notes for i : 1 .. 5 % Sets everything in the array to 0     for j : 1 .. 427         notes(i,j) := 0     end for end for notes(1,1) := 1 notes(1,2) := 1 notes(2,2) := 1 notes(3,2) := 1 notes(3,3) := 1 notes(3,4) := 1 notes(4,4) := 1 notes(3,5) := 2 notes(4,5) := 2 notes(3,6) := 1 notes(4,6) := 1 notes(3,7) := 1 notes(4,7) := 1 notes(3,8) := 1 notes(4,8) := 1 notes(4,9) := 1 notes(4,10) := 1 notes(3,11) := 1 notes(4,11) := 1 notes(3,12) := 1 notes(4,12) := 1 notes(4,13) := 1 notes(4,14) := 1 notes(4,15) := 1 notes(3,16) := 1 notes(4,16) := 1 notes(3,17) := 2 notes(4,17) := 2 notes(4,18) := 1 notes(4,19) := 1 notes(4,20) := 1 notes(5,21) := 1 notes(5,22) := 1 notes(4,23) := 1 notes(4,24) := 1 notes(2,25) := 1 notes(3,25) := 1 % ...etc.

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
OpenTuring 1.0.1 (based on Turing 4.1)

[Raknarg]

So this seems to work. What did you do before?

[undergroundmonorail]

Raknarg @ Thu May 10, 2012 1:55 pm wrote:

So this seems to work. What did you do before?

It does work, but doing it this way seems really... wrong. If it's the way it's supposed to be done, I'll keep it like that, but I was hoping there was a better way.

[Amarylis]

Try init

[Dreadnought]

Either use init as amarylis said or store the notes in a file and read them into an array.

[jr5000pwp]

I would recommend saving your songs to text files for easy editing and neater code. You can format your song so its easy to read, and easy to edit. Then you can read this in automatically using a simple loop structure. Alternatively, you can put your assignments into a separate ".t" file and just include it.

See: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=12972 and http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/doc/include.html

[copthesaint]

Since turing sucks at colors, and I doubt you will use my program: Download

You should make it so the notes are randomly generated and that after a level (song) is completed this like the speed of the notes and length and distance is decreased per level. you wouldnt have to use text documents.

[jr5000pwp]

@copthesaint Very nice, upon attempting to play every song in an album simultaneously I noticed that it only supported 10 audio files, is there a way to support more? When I was making my 2d minecraft clone game I ran into the audio issues and this seems very promising(I assume you can use the audio without a separate window opening?)