What non game workarounds would you like to have

petermeisenstein

@SteveZX81 ok so you have all what you need

AndyG1985

Coming from ZX Spectrum coding, I miss flashing text and the ability to define both the "ink" and "paper" colour for sprites. Both easily worked around, though!

Mechanical

Flashing Text could be done like that:

Loop
Ink() white
Print(Hello)
Update()
Sleep(1)
Ink(black)
Print(Hello)
Update()
Sleep(1)
Repeat

The word Hello will flash white for 1 sec and flash black for 1 sec then repeat

petermeisenstein

@Mechanical Dont forget the "" in the print function

SteveZX81

Sleep stops the whole thing though doesn't it? So not really useable in-game?

petermeisenstein

@SteveZX81 sleep is like a pause

petermeisenstein

@Mechanical Do we have a image.hide or something like this in fuze maybe you could hide and show it but i have no clue on fuze graphical stuff

Kat

Not sure what look you're going for exactly, @AndyG1985, but here's some code that can give you text that flashes between different colours and gives you control over the speed

col = [white, blue]
index = 0
colTimer = 0
textSize(100)

loop
    clear()

    colTimer += 1
    if colTimer % 10 == 0 then  //change speed by changing the 10 here
        index += 1
        index %= len(col)
    endif

    ink(col[index])
    print("whatever you want to say")

    update()
repeat

To be honest I don't fully understand the line "index %= len(col)" (that was Dave's great idea), but you can add as many colours as you like to the col array and it will cycle through them :)

vinicity

@SteveZX81 said in What non game workarounds would you like to have:

Sleep stops the whole thing though doesn't it? So not really useable in-game?

You could put it in a function called by a timer...

AndyG1985

Thanks Kat, I think that will come in handy for my inventory system! I had something similar but this looks like it will give more control over speed :)