need a little bit of help [DDR]

[nightcrawler938]

I have an ISP to do, I am re-creating the game Dance Dance revolution, i have a problem though, i get the user to enter watn song they want, but when the game starts, i cannot get any user input (when the arrow matches up and the user hits the key) and my GUI menus will freeze. I could use alittle help now

[Dan]

well i have not used the music fuctions in turing but i bivle they are blocking. What this means is that it will stop the progam intill it is done playing the song.

so u will have to uses a process to play the music. An example of this can be found in the turing manual witch i copyed in to this post below:

code:

process DoMusic             loop                 Music.PlayFile ("branden3.wav")             end loop         end DoMusic                 fork DoMusic         var x, y, clr : int         loop             x := Rand.Int (0, maxx)             y := Rand.Int (0, maxy)             clr := Rand.Int (0, maxcolor)             Draw.FillOval (x, y, 30, 30, clr)         end loop

[Tony]

may I introduce you to the wonders of turing v4.0.5 - althought numerically it is just a slight modification (3rd order increase), it really changed quite a bit (well... introduced quite a bit of new functions)

code:

Music.PlayFileReturn ( fileName : string )

and

code:

Music.PlayFileLoop ( fileName : string )

Both procedures return as soon as file starts playing, so your program can go on. It eliminates the need of setting up your own processes (I have my suspecions on its internal workings, but what do I know )

You could stop your music at any time using

code:

Music.PlayFileStop

[nightcrawler938]

thank you, its about time holt software didsomething useful

[nightcrawler938]

thanks guys the music coomand really worked well, however, it still proves that it is impossible to run music and recieve input at the same time, anyway around that i can get all arrows to appear, but user input freezes it up

[nightcrawler938]

also, i don't know what i should do for arrows, use grid ?

[Dan]

nightcrawler938 wrote:

thanks guys the music coomand really worked well, however, it still proves that it is impossible to run music and recieve input at the same time, anyway around that i can get all arrows to appear, but user input freezes it up

Hacker Dan wrote:

well i have not used the music fuctions in turing but i bivle they are blocking. What this means is that it will stop the progam intill it is done playing the song.

so u will have to uses a process to play the music. An example of this can be found in the turing manual witch i copyed in to this post below:

code:

process DoMusic             loop                 Music.PlayFile ("branden3.wav")             end loop         end DoMusic                 fork DoMusic         var x, y, clr : int         loop             x := Rand.Int (0, maxx)             y := Rand.Int (0, maxy)             clr := Rand.Int (0, maxcolor)             Draw.FillOval (x, y, 30, 30, clr)         end loop

it works, realy, i dont just make this stuff up. i have had input and muscik at the same time.

look:

code:

process DoMusic     loop         Music.PlayFile ("streamsound1.mp3")     end loop end DoMusic fork DoMusic var temp:string loop     get temp     put temp end loop

works and so dose this in turing 4.0.5

code:

var temp:string Music.PlayFileReturn ("streamsound1.mp3") loop     get temp     put temp end loop

but now you may say that it has to do with turing GUI but it dose not

code:

import GUI procedure DrawRandomCircle     Music.PlayFileReturn ("streamsound1.mp3")     var r : int := Rand.Int (20, 50)     var x : int := Rand.Int (r, maxx - r)     var y : int := Rand.Int (r, maxy - r)     var c : int := Rand.Int (0, maxcolor)     Draw.FillOval (x, y, r, r, c)     % In case we drew over the buttons, redraw them.     GUI.Refresh end DrawRandomCircle View.Set ("graphics:300;200,nobuttonbar ") var draw : int := GUI.CreateButtonFull (50, 10, 0, "Draw Circle",     DrawRandomCircle, 0, '^D', true) var quitBtn : int := GUI.CreateButton (200, 10, 0, "Quit", GUI.Quit) loop     exit when GUI.ProcessEvent end loop

works fine. sory if i seem pissed but so far you have made over 5 topics realting to this and i dont think you even tryed our solction.

you are knew to the site so i gusse i can undersant it, but plz dont post the same question many many many times. one time in turing help with a good suject name is fine.

[limited_skillz]

i tried creating this game as well, i sorta failed though

check out my code though, its not efficient at all, i was such a n00b 3 months ago

just create a text file with numbers 1-4 for the arrows

ex.

1
2
1
3
4
2
1

save as trial.step


when i get the time this weekend, ill redo it because now i know objects

[nightcrawler938]

i have tried it, and i works great but the problem is not just that i must press spacebar to pause music and then the arrows go up and still cannot recieve input, the arrows go up and then the game freezes

[Tony]

nightcrawler - you should be ashamed of yourself Perhaps you should start paying attention in class - Shannon is a great teacher

code:

procedure DoMusic     %put usong     if usong = "Sandstorm" then         Music.PlayFileLoop ("Darude - Sandstorm.MP3")         loop             exit when hasch         end loop         Music.PlayFileStop     elsif usong = "Speedway" then         Music.PlayFileLoop ("speedway.wav")         loop             exit when hasch         end loop         Music.PlayFileStop     end if end DoMusic

now plz tell me - why do you have those loops in there?!
also why do you set your screen and declear all your menu variables insdie the input procedure?!

I'm sorry - I don't mean offence - but the code looks like shit Maybe you should consider making another game for your project

[nightcrawler938]

i do pay attention, i manage to have 94 % in that calss , i don't really have time to change, you should have seen the code before, it is all bs, i re did my format to make it neater, especially with the GUI Menus,
i have the loops there because hacker dan told me, err, i didn't realize, now i do, but when this happens and the game starts, the GUI MEnus disapper (cls) or the arrows cause streaking effect, so i tried to recreate them, i could use GUI.Dispose, since i'm familiar with that, i also thought of using rand,int to determine where the arrows go (with specific perameters), ?SO MANY PROBELMS,

however turing 4.0.5, helped alot and i thank you for your help

[Tony]

well mark in class doesn't mean much

anyways - I'm suspecting that your main problem is the fact that you desided to use turing's GUI you might consider dropping it and writing your own UI

[nightcrawler938]

well i know how to make a GUI button, but have no clue on making my own GUI Menu, would that possibly solve all my problems, shannon thinks i'm going into a whole new world, even i though i agree with Turing's GUI screwing up my entrie program , is there no way around it

[Tony]

nope You see that

code:

loop      exit when GUI.ProcessEvent end loop

?
That what's driving your GUI and that is preaty much your entire program. Unless you use GUI for user input you just can't tell what user is doing.

You are going into a whole new world and it ain't preaty.

[nightcrawler938]

no kidding , but anywho, that loop is crucial, because without it, the menus don't drop down, shannon has informed me that,i've already technically created my own, GUI items, she thinks that creating my own GUI, will screw me over!!!