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Ok, hopefully an intelligent question:

How are the ShowForm() and DrawArc() procedures any different from a GOSUB??

Yay, I sufficiently finished my list enough to code again.

Both routines work great! I added a 40ms delay between pixels and that's exactly what I want!

Now to dissect it to figure out what makes the code tick, then put it in my sonar program.



Y'all great. Thanks alot!

Zach wrote:Two Scotsmen are standing on opposite hills and one says to the other, "Are ya shearin' sheep?" And the other replies, "No, Get yer'own!"

WHAT? AAAAAHAHAHA! Thanks, I needed that after this typical Monday.

WHAT!?? Wow, thank you! I didn't expect ya would give me the inkey code and make the direct to window change for me!

Thank you so much. That's awesome.


Hopefully you think my reasons are valid for the direct draw..... I'm not trying to be hard to get along with :)

I should be able to try this ...

In Purebasic help, look at the Keyboard link under 2D Games & Multimedia Libraries

Also under the General Libraries section, Console -> look up Inkey / Rawkey instead of Input. Since you are using the Console library, basing your input parsing routine on the Inkey() command should work better for ...

It seems a very strange thing to do spiral72.

If you need that Graphics Window, drop the Console! No reason why you should not have an input box (string gadget or spin gadget) on the Window, or if the real estate cannot be spared use a Message Requester. Also, you initialise an Image Gadget but ...

If you have a window opened, you need to have an event loop running. This means you can't use Input() from the same thread, since this function blocks until the user inputs something (essentially stalling the event loop).

I understand that the Input() stalls program execution. I DON'T understand ...

Thank you for the suggestions. I wanted to let you know I'm still interested, just working a LOT since posting this. I hope to get back to it tomorrow night.

I really, really tried to figure this out myself.... It's just not working for me.

This is the graphics portion of a larger program I'm working on. This routine just isn't working properly. I tried to simplify it so what I have left is:

;---------------------------[ Initial setup ...

AH! Thank you! It works perfectly


and thank you for the fast response.

Actually, more correctly, I "CAN" type a number in for the input() entry, but it's just a string which happens to contain numeric digits.

It'd be real nice if I could, something like:

a = input()

I'm trying to use input() to accept a number from the keyboard. It doesn't work since this is a string instruction.


Is there another version if input() that will accept a number?? Or is there a work-around???

My searches come up with nothing.

Hmmmm.

Thank you both. I'll play with both of your suggestions and see what I come up with.

It looks like things work very different to what I'm used to.


Have a great day!...........Or night for you

There's nothing wrong.
Delay delays the execution of the next code.
If your code (that you removed) takes 5seconds to execute that's either loading time, like many programs have, or in your case, since you are a beginner, there's an error in the code eg endless loop.

Thank you for the kind reply ...

Ok, I had a thought and changed the code as follows:

; Shows possible flags of ButtonGadget in action...
If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 222, 200, "ButtonGadgets", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
ButtonGadget(0, 10, 10, 200, 20, "Standard Button")
ButtonGadget(1, 10, 40, 200, 20, "Left ...