Hi there,
I downloaded the demo for DarkBASIC and tried some of the tutorials. I do not understand much of it. I read and studied the Principals tab, wrote a couple of pages on it. Then I went into tutorials and only got 3. Screen switcher. There I got stuck. I do not know how to change the screen resolutions. I did this:
PERFORM CHECKLIST FOR DISPLAY MODES (it gives me a whole lot)
`then
CLS
FOR T=1 to checklist quantity()
PRINT T;" ", checklist string$(T)
NEXT T
`then it tells me to add
DO
IF ASC(INKEY$())>48
posiiton=ASC(INKEY$())-48
width=CHECKLIST VALUE A(position)
height=CHECKLIST VALUE B(position)
depth=CHECKLIST VALUE C(position)
SET DISPLAY MODE width,height,depth
ENDIF
LOOP
`it still just gives me a very long list and nothing happens if I press a number while the program is running. I tried to change width,height,depth with numbers, but it doesnt work.
THATS PROBLEM NUMBER ONE
PROBLEM NUMBER TWO:
DIM lottery(52,6)
lottery(1,1)=43
lottery(1,2)=76
lottery(1,3)=12
lottery(1,4)=34
lottery(1,5)=12
lottery(1,6)=11
lottery(2,1)=12
lottery(2,2)=23
lottery(2,3)=34
lottery(2,4)=45
lottery(2,5)=56
lottery(2,6)=67
for T=1 to 52
print lottery(T)
Next T
only displays
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
etc.
PROBLEM NUMBER THREE:
FOR week=1 TO 52 STEP 4
PRINT "LOTTERY NUMBER FOR WEEK";"week"; "ARE";
FOR index=1 TO 6
PRINT lottery(week,index);" "; <error,no such arry dimension initialised at line 4>
NEXT index
NEXT week
Okay, so then I went to Google and searched for some other help. I got a page of Hank Hufnagel, showing some tips. Got the first two thing right, and then, there it is again, something I have no idea of doing. The first to things was just editing some of the program that he wrote, I feel even a slightly two year old can do that. Then he gives me these tasks:
5. Change the program so that pressing ' f ' (faster) makes the camera move faster, and pressing ' s ' (slower) makes it move slower. Don't let the speed go to less than 5 for either forward or backward movement. Report the speed near the bottom of the screen, and add documentation for the new commands at the left of the screen.
<I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WRITE SPEED IN>
6. Notice how the sky pans as the camera does. Now tilt the camera down using the mouse. Notice how the sky does not tilt? Fix this bug.
<FIX BUGS?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!>
7. Implement a toggle caller ' r ' (resolution) that switches between showing the side text as now, and a whole screen mode where the plateau world image fills the entire 800x600
screen.
<STILL BLANK IN THE HEAD>
8. Implement a 'night mode' toggle whereby pressing ' n ' (night) changes the sky to a night sky and drops the ambient light level to an appropriate level
<?????>
And that was justthe first step of his tutorial. Okay, that's it. No problem, if I can do this, then I can bother you with the next step. Don't ask me what the next step is, I DO NOT KNOW (and I am afraid to ask)
If there is someone with a good heart and some time, please help me
(haha feels like asking, SO PLEASE MTV, PIMP MY RIDE!!)
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