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lokatsis

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Posted: 31st May 2004 00:18

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hi i'm trying to make a game using multiple enemies sprites and because i want to keep my code short i think that dim commands maybe are usefull but i dont know how to use them. maybe someone could give me a simple example or tutorial on how we use the dim commands or arrays to make multiple sprites having the same time common properties (movement,kill sprites that you shoot etc). thanks

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CattleRustler

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Posted: 31st May 2004 00:50

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DIM builds an array.

you can dim a varaible like
DIM sMyVar(9) as String
which gives you 10 string elements with the name sMyVar

or you can dim a user defined type...

Type Person
Name as String
Age as Integer
EndType

Dim oPeople(9) as Person

each of the 10 people would have a name and age property like

oPeople(0).Name="Joe"
oPeople(0).Age=12

oPeople(1).Name="Hector"
oPeople(1).Age=60

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Mizipzor

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Posted: 31st May 2004 00:57

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I tried to make a simple code to show you how arrays worked (not user defined though). But the plan backfired

for some reason it only writes in the first element of the array.

Now im stuck as well

hehe, yet im not good enough to teach... any REAL darkbasic programmer who can figure this out?

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Sync on
sync rate 60

rem the number of enemies to use
howmany=9

dim enemy(howmany)

Do

   set cursor 100,100
   print "Values are now:"
   for x=0 to howmany
      print enemy(x)
   next x

   Input "Which enemy do you want to alter? ", whichone
   Input "Enter new value: ", enemy(5)

   sync
   cls

Loop

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