1. Re: Your recent message to Topica.com
- Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM>
Feb 02, 2001
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Last edited Feb 03, 2001
Here is a msessage I sent and what I got back.
>From: Natasha <support at get.topica.com>
>To: Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Your recent message to Topica.com
>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 20:02:36 -0800
>
>You recently sent a message,
>
>Re: A few simple questions...
>
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>From: "Lewis Townsend" <keroltarr at hotmail.com>
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: A few simple questions...
>Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:01:50 -0600
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>Hello Scott,
>
>
> >I have a few simple questions that are just questions about a few
> >Euphoria commands. I included a few examples if you dont understand what
> >I mean from the text:
> >
> >1. Does anybody know a command that makes it so at ANY time during the
> >ENTIRE program (such as a game) you can assign a few different keys to
> >hotkeys for the user that will always do a certain command and ALWAYS
> >work until you tell them not to or reasign them(not just after that one
> >if statement or while loop)?
>
>-- Warning this is Pseudocode (Euphoria syntax)
>integer firekey
>firekey = ' ' -- Space
>while in_game_loop do
> if key_pressed = firekey then
> FireGun()
> end if
> firekey = '\n' -- now the firekey is the Enter key
>end while
>
>
>I think this is what you want. Let me know if it isn't.
>
>
> >2. Do you know of anyway to do a wrap function that wraps the text for
>long
> >sentences but not at whatever letter the side of the screen ends at but
> >then goes back to the last Word and wraps it?
>
>Looks like someone already helped with this one.
>
>
> >3.( And last) Do you know anyway to get out of the computer puting that
> >annoying \n after every prinf?
> >
> >Example:
> >
> >object name
> >puts(1, "What is your name?\n"
> >name = gets(0)
> >printf(1, "Hello %s! How are you???", {name})
> >
> > On my computer that apears when you run the program as:
> >What is your name?
> >Hello (name)
> >! How are you?
> >
> > I want it to be:
> >What is your name?
> >Hello (name)! How are you???
>
>
>Heh heh. This is the kind of problem that jumps up and
>bites you when you are looking the other direction. The
>'\n' isn't put in there by printf(). It is put in there
>by YOU. Yes, when you type "Scott" and press ENTER, it
>records that as "Scott\n". Here is how to fix it:
>
>--CODE
>-- assume name contains "Scott\n"
>name = name[1..length(name)-1]
>--END CODE
>
>I just hate to spit out this complicated looking stuff
>without explaining it:
>
>name[x..y] is a slice of name of course
>1 means we start at the beginning
>length(name) means we go to the end EXCEPT for that
>last character ('\n') which we remove with the -1.
>
>
>hope this helps,
>Lewis Townsend
>
