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first of all, since i know of the excistance of darkbasic i'm very interested in programming, now years later, i still suck at it.

while reading through " hands on darkbasic pro" for the second time i had to type some test code for the hangman game.
the weird part is, it doesn't work at all, double checked the code.
another weird part is, it only works if i put a " print word$ " after " next c"
why doesn't it work right out of the book?

Rem Project: testhinkofword
Rem Created: Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Rem ***** Main Source File *****
randomize timer()
thinkofword()
print word$
wait key
end

function thinkofword()
data "london","glasgow","blackpool","edinburgh"
data "boston","berlin","moscow","sydney"
data "wellington","washington","rome","amsterdam"
data "stockholm","oslo","lisbon","madrid"
data "prague","bonn","budapest","vienna"

num = rnd(19)+1
for c = 1 to num
read word$

next c


ENDFUNCTION


and please excuse me, don't know how to post code snippets, i see when i post a "code" button, but it does nothing but putting a [CODE] in my post

That [ CODE ] goes at the start of your code, and the [ /CODE ] tag goes at the end (I put extra spaces in there to see the tag.)

As far as your code, you don't declare word$ as global, so your program is essentially using two versions of it - one local to your main code, and one local to the function. On page 239, the first instruction listed is



Simply add that to your code to make word$ a global variable that your function can access.

geeez , i forgot that line, thanks man

I've seen some forum posters posting coloured code when using the code feature on these forums?

How is this done?

It's the standard code snips but with "lang=dbp" added to it.

Remove the end spaces from this:
[ code lang=dbp ]
` This is in color
print "Hi!"
wait key
[ /code ]

And it'll do this: