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Evangelion
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Posted: 19th Apr 2003 20:05
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I have a game with several levels, however when you load the second level the first level is still on the screen, they flicker between each other very quickly. And all you can do is press F12 to exit. The same happens when you load back up my Game Main Menu. Each level is written all in a single large routine, this routine also contains little functions so it works. Is there a way to unload the whole level and then re-load the main menu or the next level? Also does anyone know the code to exit the game? eg. User presses 'q' then the game shuts down and returns to Windows.
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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 20th Apr 2003 04:42
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a$ = inkey$ : if a$="q" then end
or you could do it with scancodes
or input
or....

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Evangelion
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Posted: 20th Apr 2003 16:12
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i couldn't get that line to work, it compiled properly but nothing happens when you press 'q'.

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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 20th Apr 2003 16:44
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do you have it located in your main program loop?

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CloseToPerfect
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also are you checking for upper and lower case?
if a$ ="q" or a$ = "Q"

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indi
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Posted: 20th Apr 2003 19:18
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its important to make sure u flush not only all media but flush arrays and variables that need to be reset.

if u load 50 arrays and 20 objects u need to destroy them for the next level and flush the arrays back to the starting positions for the new level.

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k0shi
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Posted: 20th Apr 2003 21:26
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if inkey$()="q" then end
or
if keystate(16)=1:end:endif

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Evangelion
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Posted: 21st Apr 2003 00:28
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its important to make sure u flush not only all media but flush arrays and variables that need to be reset.

if u load 50 arrays and 20 objects u need to destroy them for the next level and flush the arrays back to the starting positions for the new level.

Exactly how do i do that? Is there a command? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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CloseToPerfect
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Posted: 21st Apr 2003 01:07
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there are commands like
delete object
delete image
delete sound
delete array
ect...
before the final END statement you new to go through and delete every media type object you have loaded.
if you don't the users system resources will drop everytime they run the game.

are you getting the inkey or scancode thing to work yet?

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hexGEAR
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Posted: 21st Apr 2003 03:27
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yeah, i've got a delete function that works for nearly every game, it's just simply the code snipped below.

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Evangelion
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Posted: 21st Apr 2003 17:53
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yeah the code to exit the game by pressing q works fine thanks.
IS there a similar line that by pressing a button a subroutine will run? I want to press 'M' which will return the player to the Main Menu, i have tried the following line but it didn't work:

if keystate(12)=1:gosub main:endif

Can anyone spot the mistake?

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2003 02:27
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if keystate(12) = 1 then gosub main

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