1. RE: Type_check failure, game_name is {}
Hi,
First, I was suggesting that you initialize 'game' from your file, so
instead if putting this in your program:
game = {0,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},"","","",0}
I suggested putting this in your file "gamestat.dat":
{0,{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},"","","",0}
(There is no need to initialize 'game' in your program if you are just
going to overwrite it's value from your "gamestat.dat" file.)
Now then, game[name] = game[5] which is an empty sequence ("" is the
same as {})
(keep in mind that the constants you've defined are just for readability
and/or making changes to your structure without having to adjust your
entire program.)
So you are declaring 'game_name' as an integer and are trying to assign
an empty sequence to it. You should declare 'game_name' as a sequence
but even that is a bit redundant because you could just use game[name]
as it is. (I thought that was the whole point of creating a UDT out of
a sequence...)
i.e.
menu_game1 = create( MenuItem, game[name], game_menu ... )
Hope this helps clear things up a bit...
-- Brian
timelord at zebra.net wrote:
> Thanks Brian for the reply to my message 'Making UDT's using Sequence?'
> I cutout then rewrote the code like in the reply message.
> BUT, when I run it, the following message pops up
>
> Reva.exw:38
> Type_check failure, game_name is {}
>
> --> see ex.err
>
> I figured that game_name must of loaded as "" instead of "NAVGAP #19"
> and the
> problem is either in the open("filename", "r") or the use of the get()
> command?
>
> fn = open( "gamestat.dat", "r" )
> or
> get_game = get(fn)
>
>
> ------------------------------ HERE IS THE CODE
> -----------------------------------
> <snip>
