Been learning blitz basic through Krylar's book and i have created my own program in which when ran will display info on 2 cars.

When i runthe program no errors are reported however, it just display's a black screen.

Graphics 640,480

Type Cars
Field Make$
Field Model$
Field BHP%
Field TopSpeed%
End Type

;go to the car data
Restore CarData

;set our data reading flag to true
bData = True

;while we still have data
While bData
;read the data
Read Make$
If Make$ <> "STOP"
bData = False
Else
Read Model$
Read BHP%
Read TopSpeed%

;create an instance
Driver.Cars = New Cars
If Driver.Cars <> Null
Driver\Make$ = Make$
Driver\Model$ = Model$
Driver\BHP% = BHP%
Driver\TopSpeed% = TopSpeed%
Else
Text 0,0,"Error: Could not perform task"
bData = False
EndIf
EndIf
Wend

;set the vertical control variable
iTextY% = O

;step through each instance and print
For Driver.Cars = Each Cars
Text 0,iTextY,"Make: " + Driver\Make$
iTextY = iTextY + 16
Text 0,iTextY,"Model: " + Driver\Model$
iTextY = iTextY + 16
Text 0,iTextY,"BHP: " + Driver\BHP%
iTextY = iTextY + 16
Text 0,iTextY,"Top Speed: " + Driver\TopSpeed%
iTextY = iTextY + 32
Next

;step through each instance of the type and delete
For Driver.Cars = Each Cars
Delete Driver
Next

;wait for a keypress
WaitKey()

;end the program
End

;************
;* Car Data *
;************
.CarData
Data "Ford","Ka",63,92
Data "Vauxhall","Astra",120,111
Data "STOP"

All help would be appretiated

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-Tails

Just remember all of this:

Graphics 800,600
setbuffer backbuffer()
.loop
most of your code goes here
drawstuff
flip
cls
goto loop
functions

And there is a loop that can be used for what you are doing to doom 3, though you might want to change the loop to a "wend" loop, though I personally dont use the wend one because im wierd.
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W00terness

[This message has been edited by Psyco (edited August 25, 2003).]

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It's not seeing is believing, it's believing and then seeing.
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Oh and hi.

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how come you decided to join up on here? very nice to see you aboard anyway, metalman is around here TOO!

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Do you live or work in Surrey?
check out www.surreycounty.co.uk then !! :D

Although when following the example in Kyrlar's book it didn't tell me to put backbuffer and flip etc.

ah well.

back to the learning

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-Tails

Blitz: A language that takes a few weeks to get the hang of but takes a few years to master, though I have only been using it for one year.

Cheify I needed another forum, though I didnt see what christianity had to do with coding so I didnt come here. Anyway while BC was down I decided to have a look around and found out that here isnt that bad a place, can talk about more stuff but still about coding.
Also the name and idea of my game was somthing else keeping me from comming here

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There are only 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Baiscally it runs off a heven and hell thing that I made up, a big planet split in half by good and evil that exists in the soal plane. So when people die they go there. Now origonally 20,000 years ago the place was rules by 10 evil people (im bad wih names too) and to cut a long story short they were eventually defeted and improsoned in earth. But noone knew that humans would become on earth. Humans go to heven/hell because they can tell the diffence between good and evil. Um thats basically the background theory.
Now the game is set in 2040 in a place called mous city (Coincedently built ontop of where the evil ones were imprisoned). Anyway 5 specil people die and become emendors (people that can controll powers and take over bodys). Then they are sent back to stop the evil form enslaving earth basically. I still cant get it too sound right.
Think GTA3 meets max payne meets diablo and put in a even weirder story and your done.
There we go what do you think?

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W00terness

While bData ;read the data Read Make$ If Make$ <> "STOP" bData = False Else Read Model$ Read BHP% Read TopSpeed%

The problem is that you're saying "If Make$ does NOT equal 'STOP'" when it should read "If Make$ DOES equal 'STOP'". I've done this a hundred times, which is why I caught it!

While bData ;read the data Read Make$ If Make$ = "STOP" bData = False Else Read Model$ Read BHP% Read TopSpeed%

...change it to that and it'll work ;D

All the best!

Welcome aboard, Psyco!

-Krylar

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-Tails

[This message has been edited by Tails (edited August 29, 2003).]

Stalker sounds good, though I probably wont hear much about it as I am in Japan atm. Im more looking forward to Max Payne 2.

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