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DarkBASIC Discussion / strings as subroutines and question on exe vs f5 compile and run

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devastation
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I'm workin on another first person shooter before I finish my paintball game and I have 2 questions about it.

anyone know if/how u can use a string as a subroutine, like so u could go to the shooting code for a specific weapon without if-thens?

and when I make an exe, my game tops out at about 22-25 frames per second, tho it stays at a steady 32 when I run it in the editor. I changed it so that all the media is in folders(thinking that maybe having all the media clogging the exe file was the problem) but that didn't help. Is there some automatic video hardware config done in the editor thats not done in an exe, is the exe maybe suffering from somethign that the editor can get around, does god hate me?

thanks for your help in advance

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Yes, the editor uses something that makes the games you make run better than the EXE. IT did it for my game when I made an EXE out of it.

As for the string as subroutine thing, you mean something like this?:


If so, then I don't think so. I'm sure I'm mistaken though.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2005 02:38 Edited at: 11th Oct 2005 02:38
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You you mean something like this?


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i meant like green bunny's. I'd test it but i'm off the computer today. I'm researching 4 school now....

would it work to like

wep$ = "shotgun"

gosub _wep$

((((then down to))))

_shotgun



and anyone know of some settings that would pull the exe up to par w/ the editor's runtime?

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P Schnell
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For one thing, _wep$ would return a null string, you'd have to use "_"+wep$ to get _shotgun.

I don't think you can use gosubs like that anyway, because (I'm guessing) the compiler wouldn't store _shotgun, but probably just number the sub.

It shouldn't be too time consuming to write the "If wep$ = "shotgun" Then ..." code.

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Quote: "I don't think you can use gosubs like that anyway, because (I'm guessing) the compiler wouldn't store _shotgun, but probably just number the sub."

That's correct.


Quote: "It shouldn't be too time consuming to write the "If wep$ = "shotgun" Then ..." code."

Either that or use Select/Case (not sure if that's only in DB Enhanced, though)


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devastation 328,

For what reason would you use this method, even if it were possible. Somewhere in your program you might have to use if statements to fill the variable string with a specific word. That is, unless you are using a mathematical technique.



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I'm makin the guns react way different when you shoot, plus I want to have alot of other features without wasting time with the other guns stuff. not to mention theres like 200 ifthens in my main loop already

and strigns was a bad example, I kinda meant currwep# variable or something.

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Quote: "and strigns was a bad example, I kinda meant currwep# variable or something."


You should definately use select/case (as Empty suggested above). Select/case are the coolest set of commands.

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ill give that a try thanks guys

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