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Alright, I've written a buttload of smaller programs and I've launched my first real one, a World Sim.

How could I code some internal "timer" or another or a random variable puller to implement into my game so real-time things could happen such as a storm or earthquake. A random "picker" to pick out a disaster or something good from an established list.

From the selection of that timer it would also affect a continous string of text. Say the string is at the very top of the screen and says, "Everything is okay." But when something is not okay it displays, "Something is not okay." I've tested this with the code below. So when I start it all up I mouse click and come up with "Something is not okay." But when I hit the space key "Something different" is printed onto "Something is not okay" and it gets all jumbled up. Why isn't it clearing properly? Have I messed something up with the sync?

I'm sorry if this is in any way confusing.

Thanks

`i cant get your code,source is broken so try again
`are you using the rnd() command?
`if you did use it would look something like this:
randomize timer()
do
dp=rnd(10000)
if dp=1 then disaster=1
if dp=2 then disaster=2
if dp=3 then disaster=3
if dp=4 then disaster=4
if diaster=0 then print "everything is fine"
if diaster=1 then if dh=70 then disaster=0 else dh=dh+1 : print "earthquake!"
if diaster=2 then if dh=70 then disaster=0 else dh=dh+1 : print "tornado!"
if diaster=3 then if dh=70 then disaster=0 else dh=dh+1 : print "tsunami!"
if diaster=4 then if dh=70 then disaster=0 else dh=dh+1 : print "hurricane!"
loop

`the probability of there being a disaster is 1/2500
`so about every 4 minutes or so, there will be a disaster for 7 sec.
`dh stands for disaster happening
`dp stands for disaster probability

I've actually never thought of it like that with the IF command resetting the arch-variable.

The source code was just example, not the real stuff. I'll be back soon and I'll post some real code after I execute a couple other things to see if anything works.

It sounds like you're not clearing the screen between prints. Is it currently a 2d application without sync? If so, when you change it, you want to use "cls" to clear the screen so it's blank for you to print on.

Mind you, it'll get everything else off the screen too.

You'll find if you move to having a main loop, with sync every frame, that you'll need to print your status string every time you go through the loop anyway, with cls cleaning it before you do.

Hope that helps.