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RE: Help with coding

• Posted by Travis Weddle <Weddle at tcia.net> Jul 26, 2001
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Irv--ok, instead of using the fn = open("moves.txt", "r") to open a file 
with moves in it, how would i use the Open command in the file menu to 
open a file, so i won't have to change coding for each file that i want 
to view?

Thanks, I appreciate it!
irvm at ellijay.com wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2001 12:49, Travis Weddle wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Irv, u are a great help in this--i think i have a final two
> > questions for you, what exactly do u mean by "pointer" (if u have not
> > noticed, i'm very new at this)? And where can i find Judith's IDE? I
> > searched for it, but cannot find it.
> 
> If you read in a list of "moves", and save them in a sequence, 
> you might have a sequence like:
> { {11,15},{15,20},{20,22},{22,24} }  
> 
> where 11 is the first source location, and 15 the first destination, 
> and so on. Let's say you name this sequence "move".
> 
> To point to which move you are currently interested in, you need to 
> declare an integer variable: call it anything you want. For example:
> 
> integer current
> 
> current = 1
> 
> now,  to refer to the first move on the list of moves, you'd say:
> move[current] -- which is the same as saying move[1].
> or {11,15}
> 
> The next move on the list would be move[2], so, 
> 
> current += 1 -- now current holds the value 2
> move[current] -- same as move[2], which is:
> {15,20}
> 
> So, you use the pointer into the list of moves to select the move 
> you're interested in, and send that move to your routine which 
> handles ..erm... moves.
> 
> You can get Judith's IDE from RDS' Recent Contributions page, or 
> directly from
> http://www2.txcyber.com/~camping/judith.html
> Be sure you have the correct version of Win32Lib to go with that.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
> 
> 



Trav