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VGHero11

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Posted: 13th Dec 2011 20:04

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Hey fellow Dark Basic Coders

I am doing this exercise from a dark basic guide book but it was made using dark basic not DB pro. My problem is that I'm trying to format this program to DB pro since I rather use it. The problem is that they have you input a number which will cause a for next loop to run for that inputted number. If someone could give me a hand, that would be great.

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Rem Project: Hello World
Rem Created: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Rem Designer: Andrew D. South
Rem ***** Main Source File *****

	`Display First Message
		cls
		print
		print "Hello, World!."
		print
		
			`Pause for one second...
				sleep 1000
					
	`Display Second Messag
		print "Wait, what ws that?"
		print
		
			`Pause for 1/10 second...
				sleep 100
		
	`Display Third Message
		print "What, you want more?"
		print
		
			`Pause for 1/10 second
				sleep 100
				
	`Display Fourth Message
		input a
		
		`Display the message several times
		for x = 1 to a
			print "Hello, Again!"
		next x

When we all lend our power together, there is nothing we
can't do!
Please Lend me your STRENGTH!

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TheComet

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Posted: 13th Dec 2011 21:08 Edited at: 13th Dec 2011 21:10

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There's no problem with the existing code, it outputs the "Hello World!" in the for...next loop. But it all happens way to quickly for you to see it. I modified your code to this so you can see it work:

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Rem Project: Hello World
Rem Created: Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Rem Designer: Andrew D. South
Rem ***** Main Source File *****

	`Display First Message
		cls
		print
		print "Hello, World!."
		print
		
			`Pause for one second...
				sleep 1000
					
	`Display Second Messag
		print "Wait, what ws that?"
		print
		
			`Pause for 1/10 second...
				sleep 100
		
	`Display Third Message
		print "What, you want more?"
		print
		
			`Pause for 1/10 second
				sleep 100
				
	`Display Fourth Message
		input a
		
		`Display the message several times
		for x = 1 to a
			print "Hello, Again!"
		next x

        `Wait for user input
                print "Press Any Key To Exit..."
                wait key

        `End program
                end

Also, that's a very strange way to indent code. I suggest you only add a tab when a command has a counterpart, such as function...endfunction, if...endif, for...next, etc.:

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rem friendly computer interaction
rem by TheComet

`get input from user
print "Please enter a number dear user"
input a

`check if a is equal to 2
if a=2
   
   `tell the user that he sucks
   print "2? THAT'S your number? Wow, you suck..."

`if not, do something else
else

   `tell user that he's gay
   for t=1 to a
      print "you are gay"
   next t

endif

`wait for input
wait key

`end program
end

Excuse my warped humor

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MrValentine

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Posted: 13th Dec 2011 22:11

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Rofl Comet...

But yeah it has inpot asking for a message or something but needs to be a number in his original code...

Why not get hands on dark basic... it has a lot of code to put you up to speed... or look for something called TDK`s tutorials... on the forum... I have no idea where it is and also I am on my phone so sorry... hands on dark basic pro is available through the tgc store... I am not sure about the pdf versions however...

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VGHero11

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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 19:48

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Thank your for the help TheComet. That helped me finish the code.

When we all lend our power together, there is nothing we
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nonZero

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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 21:58 Edited at: 14th Dec 2011 22:10

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@TheComet:
Insert

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IF a > 9000: PRINT "It's OVER 9000!!!": PRINT " ": PRINT "Press any key...": WAIT KEY: END: ENDIF

at line 8.

Quote: "Also, that's a very strange way to indent code"

      It is rather strange.
      It's like indenting for the sake of indenting.
      It's very confusing when dealing with nests.
      Especially for people debugging the code.
      I must admit though, it does look pretty...
      ...horrible.

      When I see code that's a mess and somebody's asking for halp
            I usually ignore the request.
      Unless I'm feeling generous.
            Then I usually have a look.
                  If it's coherent, I'll help
                  If it's not, I'll tell them to rewrite it
            That's all there is to it.
      I guess that's the long and short of it.

I'm a little bit of a neat-freak (except when it comes to cleaning my room. I'm breeding shadow-things under my bed!)

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TheComet

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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 22:16

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Wait, how did you do more than 2 spaces? The forum always deletes my spaces when I do that... Here look:

hi
I'm
Adding
A
New
Space
here
for
every
line.

and this is what it looked like in the edit box:

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hi
 I'm
  Adding
   A
    New
     Space
      here
       for
        every
         line.

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nonZero

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Posted: 15th Dec 2011 21:10

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Quote: "Wait, how did you do more than 2 spaces?"

With my dark magic XD

Ascii number 255 is invisible to just about everything yet is treated as a valid character. It doesn't always respond well to being pasted in web browsers so it's best to just hold down Alt and type 255. Some applications may display it as a box, but they are few. You can create truly hidden folders on your desktop this way (if you name the folder chr$(255), assign it a custom icon of a blank space and hide it behind a gadget so Ctrl+a wont reveal it).

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