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Barmyfluid

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Posted: 26th Jun 2019 14:02

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I was a bit surprised not to find the standard BASIC Read and Data commands in AKG, those with a For loop are so useful and readable (to me at least). I know you can read external files, JSON strings etc but all seems a bit unwieldy, am I missing something?

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fubarpk

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Posted: 26th Jun 2019 14:10

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I figure its how well it interprets the code into machine code
but you can get around the data issue by using arrays
for example how I create a ship in asteroids

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function createShipImg()
    local data as integer [119] = [
           0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
           0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,
           0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,
           0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,
           0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,
           0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,
           0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,
           0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,
           0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
           0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
            
    dataCount=0
    ClearScreen()
    for y = 0 to 9
        for x = 0 to 11
            if data[datacount]=1 then DrawLine(x,y,x,y,255,255,255)
            inc dataCount,1
        next x
    next y  
     
    render()
    img = getImage(0,0,12,12)
    SetImageTransparentColor(img,0,0,0)
endfunction img

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Barmyfluid

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Posted: 26th Jun 2019 19:52

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Ah, I'd tried similar but I couldn't get it to work, didn't realise you could omit DIM.

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//WRONG
dim test$ as String[2] = [
"one",
"two",
"three"]

//RIGHT

test$ as String[2] = [
"one",
"two",
"three"]

Thanks

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janbo

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Posted: 27th Jul 2019 16:17 Edited at: 27th Jul 2019 16:17

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But we can't do the same with two Dimensional arrays right ?

like so ?!

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global triTable as integer[2][16] = [
[-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1],
[0, 8, 3, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1],
[0, 1, 9, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1]]

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blink0k

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Posted: 29th Jul 2019 11:14

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You could do it with json like so

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global triTable as integer[-1,-1]
triTable.fromJSON("[ [-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1],  [0, 8, 3, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1], [0, 1, 9, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1] ]")

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janbo

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Posted: 29th Jul 2019 19:03

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Good point.
Never played with AGK's JSON feature. Thanks

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