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aarrowh

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Ok, so I tried making my own text game, and I've gotten to where I need to make multiple choice questions, so I tried using the inkey$ command, the program opens fine, but when I push the button I declared nothing happens, although this is the first time I've used the command I'm guessing I'm doing somthing wrong. Here's my source code.

rem Entrepreneur
rem hide mouse
hide mouse
rem load music
load music "elevator.mp3",1
loop music 1
rem start game
start:
print "Welcome to Entrepreneur V. 0.1! Designed by, Aaron Horrar"
wait 5000
CLS
print "Before you can play your character needs a name. Please name your chracter."
input name$
print "Alright, ", name$, " hope your ready."
wait 2000
cls
print "Press any button to begin."
wait key
cls
wait 2000
print "You wake up in your bed, you had a late night at work. You can't stand your job "
print "and are on the verge of quiting. (press any button to continue)"
wait key

cls
print "You've been trying to decide what to do if you quit...."
print " You remember that your friend was trying to open up an electronics store, you "
print "think that it is a good idea.(push any button to continue) "
wait key
cls
print "Then you remember that you have a budget and can only invest so much."
 print "How much do you want to invest? (1)$5000(easy) (2)$3500(medium) (3)$1000(hard) "
 print "(4)$100 (you will fail)"
rem difficulty select
if inkey$()="1" ; print "You decide to invest $5000 in your friends buisness"
endif
 do
loop

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rem Entrepreneur
rem hide mouse
hide mouse
rem load music
load music "elevator.mp3",1
loop music 1
rem start game
start:
print "Welcome to Entrepreneur V. 0.1! Designed by, Aaron Horrar"
wait 5000
CLS
print "Before you can play your character needs a name. Please name your chracter."
input name$
print "Alright, ", name$, " hope your ready."
wait 2000
cls
print "Press any button to begin."
wait key
cls
wait 2000
print "You wake up in your bed, you had a late night at work. You can't stand your job "
print "and are on the verge of quiting. (press any button to continue)"
wait key

cls
print "You've been trying to decide what to do if you quit...."
print " You remember that your friend was trying to open up an electronics store, you "
print "think that it is a good idea.(push any button to continue) "
wait key
cls
print "Then you remember that you have a budget and can only invest so much."
 print "How much do you want to invest? (1)$5000(easy) (2)$3500(medium) (3)$1000(hard) "
 print "(4)$100 (you will fail)"
rem difficulty select
if inkey$()="1" ; print "You decide to invest $5000 in your friends buisness"
endif
 do
loop

P.S. Please don't flame me for a crappy game/source. Its my first program.

Ima DBpro noob...haha

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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 12:31 Edited at: 20th Feb 2008 05:13

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inkey$() is not like input. it doesn't wait for anything (enter key, or otherwise).
it is whatever key is pressed when the command is called (or, if nothing is pressed, inkey$() = "", or null).

since you didn't place inkey$() in a loop, you gave your program 1 cycle to determine what inkey$() will be.
if "1" wasn't pressed before/while the command was called, inkey$() cannot be "1".

so, either put it (the inkey$() request) in a loop and make it loop until a valid option is chosen, or use input (or choose another method altogether).

hope that helps. if not, ask away

edit:
run this:

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while inkey$() <> "1"

   text 0,0, "pick a number!"

endwhile

cls
input "now you got it :) ", WeAreAllNoobs$

edit2 removed last input$ typo and replaced with input so as not to confuse anyone who might stumble across this thread.

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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 19:14 Edited at: 19th Feb 2008 19:20

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Ok, thanks, I'll try that. Um, incase it dosn't work, how exactly do you use the input$ function, because I couldn't find it in the help content.

*edit*
I tried what you posted, and all it did was crash the program. Could it be that I'm running Vista?

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 04:01

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bump.

help?

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 04:36 Edited at: 20th Feb 2008 04:46

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Quote: "how exactly do you use the input$ function"

There's no such thing.

There's Input and Inkey$() - both of which are covered in detail in tutorial 3 - Beginners Guide To Programming - Part III, which can be found here:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=99497&b=10

As for your program crashing:

input "now you got it: ", WeAreAllNoobs$

should be:

input "now you got it: ";WeAreAllNoobs$

but I'm sure that in itself is in no way the reason your program crashes.

In fact, it's more likely that your program is not crashing at all - it's just ending because you don't have a Wait Key as the last line of the program.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 04:44

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Thanks alot TDK!

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 04:48

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No problem.

By the way, I edited my last post while you were typing yours, so in case you didn't see it, I've added a bit of info about your program crashing... or not as the case may be.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 05:16 Edited at: 20th Feb 2008 05:17

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Quote: "
input "now you got it: ", WeAreAllNoobs$

should be:

input "now you got it: ";WeAreAllNoobs$

"

for clarification purposes, input accepts both semicolons and commas (which are shown in the help file).

and, sorry for that typo showing "input$" instead of "input" toward then end there. i went and edited it so noone else gets mis-informed.

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