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lcfcfan
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 22:32
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Can someone please tell me how i can draw text to the screen randomly? for example if i wanted to have dog,cat and ball randomly drew to the screen in a loop that stopped after a certain time how would i achive this, i don't know how to use variables so if someone can briefly explain how i would do this it would be great.


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Terabyte
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 23:01
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`lets say your resolution is 640*480

do
`clear the screen each time you go through the loop
cls
`make three things random on the scren
set cursor rnd(640),rnd(480) : print "dog"
set cursor rnd(640),rnd(480) : print "cat"
set cursor rnd(640),rnd(480) : print "ball"
`wait a bit so that you see it
sleep 5000
`and so it again
loop

hope this helps

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 23:12
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not quite what i had in mind, what i want to do is make words that i have stored in variables or what ever you store em in appear on the screen for example, the word dog appears on the screen for 1 second then is replaced by cat for 1 second then ball for 1 second then it starts again but i want the them to be put on the screen randomly so they would not appear in the same order the next time round.

Thanx

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The Darthster
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 23:52
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You'd store your text in string variables like this, I'm using an array for simplicity:

dim message$(3)
message$(0)="cat"
message$(1)="dog"
message$(2)="ball"

do

rem write the string to the screen, in a random place (change that if it isn't what you want)

text int(rnd(640)),int(rnd(480)),message$(message_showing)

rem choose a new word, make sure it isn't the same as the last one

repeat
new_message=int(rnd(2))
until new_message <> message_showing

message_showing = new_message

rem sync, wait for a second, then clear

sync
wait 1000
cls

loop

That should do what you want, although you haven't made it particularly clear.

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lcfcfan
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Posted: 27th Mar 2003 00:19 Edited at: 27th Mar 2003 00:27
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thanx darthster i want it to appear in the center of the screen in one place for my program but i can change the random position thingy, thanx again that has really helped a lot, hope i'm as good as you some day.

just 1 more question can i do this with bmps also?



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