About Keyboard Use...

[TheLostSoul]

I Know How To Do The Whole

(KEY_UP_ARROW) And Such...And I Am Messing Around In Computer Class To Make A Little Modified Etch-And-Sketch

Anyhow, I Was Wondering If There Is A Way To Clear The Screen, Like...If The User Presses The Key 'A' Or Something....Any Help On This Would Be Apreciated.

If I Posted This In The Wrong Spot, Sorry...Just Don't Have Much Time Of Class Left Today And I Was In A Panic And Very Confused Lol.

[Tony]

code:

var c:string(1) if hasch then      getch(c)      if c="a" then           cls      end if end if

stick that into a loop somewhere

[gamer]

Hi all. I have got a question is ask. There is a lot of games out there which allow players to set their own controls. I myself have tried doing that too:
var x,y,go:int:=1
var up :string
var char :array char of boolean
if *someting* then
up :='w'
elsif *something* then
up:=KEY_UP_ARROW
end if
loop
cls
drawfillbox (x,y,x+50,y+50,black)
if char (up) then
x:=x+go
end if
end loop

My problem is, I get this error saying someting like "array subscipt out range" for this line "if char (up) then". However, when I altered it abit simply to "if char ('w') then" or "if char (KEY_UP_ARROW) then", this worked perfectly fine. Does anyone know why the first situation does not work? I really need to know this because I am planning to use variables to store the players control. Thankyou.

[Mazer]

gamer wrote:

var char :array char of boolean

I didn't read the whole thing, but there's one problem at least. You want to name your variable something else. Call it "chars" or "key" or something. Also you didn't call Input.KeyDown.

[gamer]

ok yea my mistake cuz i was busy and gtg reli soon
fine now make it var chars:array char of boolean
n add Input.KeyDown(chars)

so my main problem is, how come i cant use a variable for the chars...like chars (up) doesnt work, while ONLY chars ('w') works....y is that?

[Tony]

because up is not a letter... if you look closely, it is two letters

hah, anyways... KEY_UP_ARROW is a constant for up arrow's ASCII value. So to use that with char array you'd have to use

code:

chr(up)