Forms :: Beginner Text Based Game Location Handling?
Mar 18, 2009
I am just for learning purposes trying to develop a one player text based game.
I have a rich text box (GameWindow)
I have a text box (InputWindow)
I have a button (InputButton)
and a bunch of labels that aren't really important
I have two questions first is easy probably. How do i get InputWindow to respond to me hitting enter when text is in it?
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But if i plan to have more that is only going to increase the size and code needed and im sure there is an easier way i just don't know how to do it.
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Aug 20, 2010
I just need a good nights sleep, but Im simply reading through a file (2010 data) and for selected teams, accessing the corresponding data for the previous year (2009 data), which is held on a separate file. (I painstakingly input all the 2009 data manually)
ds1.Clear()
cmd1.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Teams WHERE Team = ?"
cmd1.Parameters.Add(NewSqlCeParameter("Team", (ds.Tables(0).Rows(x) ("Team"))))
cmd1.Prepare()
cmd1.ExecuteNonQuery()
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Jan 13, 2010
I had this incredibly ambitious goal to make a video game and so I am teaching myself/relying on kindness and knowledge of others as I go along. So far I have learned a lot, however needless to say, this is a monstrously difficult challenge, however one that I am very passionate about completing. The idea is that I am making a trading card style game and I was hoping that I could continue to use this thread and your kindness to keep me going whenever nessecessary throughout this challenge.So, here is where I am now. (Please forgive me if i have posted too much details/not enough details. Since I am new, I am not sure what information you need to help me. This will be corrected as time goes by and I learn more)I have created a card class with two properties. name and picture with name As String, and picture as PictureBox. the constructor looks like this: [code]
My next goal(and where I am currently stuck) is making i so that when the user clicks on one of the items in the listbox, a picture of the appropriate card(saved in a pictureBox of its own on a different form, and referenced in the card via the picture element) will be placed inside the empty picture box on the deckPage.
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Mar 31, 2009
Im using Visual Basic 2008.Okay I got all the design, and everything set up, even the hangman body parts coming on the screen and stuff. So my problem is creating the BLANKS, the underscores "_", and replacing them with a letter...
I was thinking creating Lables which i have no idea how to dynamically. Then giving each label name the letters they belong to, and everytime the user gets the rigth letter they get replaced.
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Mar 25, 2010
is there a tutorial for making a Text Based Game In Visual Basic?
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Nov 9, 2011
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Yup,not PHP but it's the same for readability)As you may imagine I want to make a simple text based rpg game, but that's not an important fact.The buttons btn1 to btn3 are already created at the designer, and there are going to be other procedures which will assign values to their text property according to the game context (main menu, combat, shopping, training, etc.) you're at.Ok, so what I want to do with that procedure I pasted is to parse the text of ANY of those buttons when I click them, and according to its value select a case which will trigger another appropriate procedure (now there are only msgboxes as placeholders for testing only).My problem is that I dont know how to refer to the originating class of the handled event! I mean, let's say I click btn2. I'll want to immediately get the text property of that button only and use it as the value for the select case tree. I suppose I need to put something at that ?I wrote there, but I don't have any idea. The first time I was so naive to put me.text in there, and of course it returned the form name. Is there's something to do this thing...? I thought at first it would be a very simple task, but I'm going nuts searching for a solution so it's like if it was not possible, but I find hard to believe that, because this would be very useful, right? By the way, what I want to achieve is not needing to make a separate procedure for each button and to avoid as well the need to move any game option to another procedure if later on I want to rearrange the menus, because I expect the game to have more than three buttons actually.
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Dec 12, 2011
Well this is a re-post now as nobody replied in the gaming section, and i believe this question could go as a normal VB question, therefore I'm asking in this category instead.I have decided to pick up on programming and want to make a text based RPG Game i will "upgrade" as my programming knowledge grows.I got some ideas that i think i should use, but i want you guys' opinions on it.I assume I'll use different classes for each monster, which will have properties.Should those monsters then be inside a list of all possible monsters, or would i have a monster class which i would use and generate the enemies when needed? And would i use the same approach on items and character stats?
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Aug 5, 2009
Im having a hard time getting this to work. Im building a game in .net vb (text based) and where it says "if main.currentpowerget.text <= "7" then ...." when that textbox is between the numbers 1-9 it works but as soon as it hits the number 10 it stops working and shows the msgbox that says you ran out of power.
Private Sub robbank_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles robbank.Click
If Main.currentlevel.Text >= "3" Then
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Here is another code from the same game im making just another event that works just fine when the text box is above and below 10
Private Sub attackaboy_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles attackaboy.Click
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Apr 12, 2011
I am new to VB and I have two detail listviews with one full of items that can be droppedinto the other. I have three groups in Listview1 and I would like different forms to open up based on the group each dropped item belongs to. I was able to open Form2 on drop by adding Form2.Show() at the end of the ListView_DragDrop handler sub, but this opens forevery item and I want different forms to open depending on the ListViewGroup the item belongs to.I set the items and groups in the property windows and not in code; I do not know if this makes a difference. So here is the code I have on Form 1 where the listviews are:Public Class Form1
Private Sub ListView_ItemDrag(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
System.Windows.Forms.ItemDragEventArgs) Handles ListView1.ItemDrag, _
ListView2.ItemDrag
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Dec 19, 2011
i am using an unbound datagridview so i can dynamiclly add rows. all that is working fine. but the grid is not is the location i have coded.. i am using the defualt form as a base then coding the unbound stuff in.. should i just create a blank class file and do everything? the only problem i am having is the grid must bees in the correct location according to the pixel point that i have given it. Right now it is placing the grid at point (0,0) no matter what point is entered on the line for location. so what am i missing??????
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Oct 4, 2008
I am developing a game in compact framework. In Mobile Devices there is a button that Rotates the screen by 90 degrees so you can hold the mobile device the way that suits you. The problem is that i want to handle that in my game, so if i see that the screen has rotated the game will pause.
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Jan 25, 2010
I was wanting to make a little game. You press a start button, and a picture moves into different spaces. If you can hit stop when the picture is in a certain spot, then you win. How do i make it so when i press the stop button, it will check to see if the picture is in the location (180, 307)?
This is what i have:
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Oct 20, 2010
I am writing a windows mobile application based on GPS technology. everything is ready but I need the function which is used to retrieve GPS location coordinates (latitude and longitude).I declared latitude and longitude, but now I need the function of GPS to put it inside a button I created, get longitude and latitude values and save them.
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Jun 22, 2010
I want to get the user's approximate location (down to like a 1km radius) by their IP. Is this possible in VB Express 2008?
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May 4, 2011
I have created a scrabble game that generates random letters. For the user to type in a word using the random letters they have to type it in a text box.
I want my program to prevent users from typing in letters that are not provided in the text box and to allow them to type in the random letters that are provided.
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Jan 13, 2011
I have a picture box and I tell it to appear on a random location on another specified larger picture box.
here's my code:
Code:
Sub P2_AppleMove()
Dim P2ax As Integer = CInt(Int((P2Foodarea.Width * Rnd()))) ' sets the random area of the food
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P2foodarea is a large picture box I created. I only want the apple to spawn on P2Foodarea, atm, it spawns on P1Foodarea which is very weird. P1foodarea is a whole other picture box. I even made new variables as you can see P2ax and P2ay, but it still doesn't spawn on P2Foodarea. I have even tried recreating a new picture box for P2foodarea
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Jun 7, 2010
I have a DGV that is getting created on loadup, getting the results from a SP. So in this case, I have a DGV that is not bound to anything. It only get bound to a datasource at runtime.I have specific values that I'm looking for. See code
If e.Value.ToString = "HU-3" Then
e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Chartreuse
e.CellStyle.ForeColor = Color.White
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Jun 14, 2011
I have a DGV that is getting created on loadup, getting the results from a SP. So in this case, I have a DGV that is not bound to anything. It only get bound to a datasource at runtime.I have specific values that I'm looking for.[code]
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Sep 30, 2009
i have a chart of images.. and i want to load individual images into picturebox from that chart..chart = big image, eg alphabet chart. (yes i am creating a game for my small nephew.. pictures and alphabet) now, i want to show different pieces of images into picture box. like the A box, b Box etc one option is to cut the chart into pieces, save each piece with different filename and load individual filename into picturebox.but i saw somewhere that we can use pixel location to load images into picturebox..as i recall it required two pixel location, 1 was upper left and other was lower right.. and passing that pixel locations would load the rectangular image between those pixel locations into picturebox?
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Nov 14, 2011
I'm having some issues with the suppression of the typical javascript and other scripting errors that show in the webbrowser.I have three webbrowsers. The third webbrowser goes out and determines some action based upon location. The one thing I'm having trouble with is this example. It states that it should work but the errors keep on coming.I attached some of the code below. Am I doing something wrong?
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Oct 9, 2010
I am creating a point system for a game. What i have right now is that fastest time with highest score gets a higher ranking.
But i can't seem to create this, what i did was to sort the time first from lowest to highest. Then sorted the points from highest to lowest.
Now my problem is, when i display the results. This is what i get.
RANK TIME SCORE
1 0:56 5
2 0:60 4
3 0:37 2
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Jun 1, 2010
i'm creating a game for a college assignment based on Yahtzee, and so far everythings going smoothly but i've run into a hitch! Basically, after each roll of the dice i want to be able to retrieve the number of the dice wich apeared in each picture box. But how would i go around retrieving that type of data from a picturebox?
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Dec 16, 2010
I am reading the memory from a game and I have managed to find the x,y,z values of the player (z is irrelevant). Now I am trying to make some sort of a waypoint system and I thought it would be best to make a small coordinate based map that will act as a birds-eye view of whats going on ingame. But I don't know where to begin creating this thing, since it needs tons of xyz values.Just throwing this in here since I've already made the thread:I also want a small circle to represent the player that will turn, facing waypoint 1 and move in a straight line towards it.
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Jan 17, 2010
To programming and have a question with sound files. I am trying to figure out the basics and here is what I did: I created a button that is supposed to play a sound.
My.Computer.Audio.Play("C:.......file.wav")
When I click this button in my .exe file it obviously plays because I am using the computer with the above location for the .wav file. When I use the .exe on another computer it doesn't play because it does not recognize that .wav location. How do I make this work for me? Do I need to embed the .wav with my .exe somehow?
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Jun 10, 2012
I often think of classes and modules as "global" variables or variables you can use any where in your solution/project. can you make global timers? I basicly want to make a farming like game but the plants will grow based on a timer. So if the player closes that form the timer needs to still tick. So can I make global timers so the timer would not have to start over if the form is closed and reopened?
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Jun 29, 2011
I am trying to make a turn-based board game that will be run on multiple computers. I am writing the game logic and design in VB. I searched for a little and could not find the information I was looking for. One question I have is, will I need a server if there will only be 2 players. Also, what language should I use to write the server side code.
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Jan 26, 2010
the rules are that same coloured blocks of two or more can be removed by clicking on them. blocks then slide down from above. if a column is empty columns other columns move in from the sides.when someone clicks on the green blocks in the bottom row the columns should slide in from the sides. columns to the left of the black line slide right and on the right of the black line slide left. so in this case only the two rightmost columns should slide from the right to the black line after removing the green blocks.The problem i am having is in designing a suitable algorihm to do the collapsing after the removal. my current approach is to test each column from left to right to see if it is empty. if it is empty then i slide whatever column is to the left (if left of the black line) or to the right (if to the right of the black line) over the blank column and repeat this in the direct i am sliding from
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Apr 29, 2010
I'm writing a simple application - address book. User enters new addresses and they are added as an entry to a list visible on the main form (frmStart). I use one form to add and edit (AddContForm). Add button on the frmStart works fine, however I experience some problems with the edit button as when I press it and enter new data they are added as new entry however the previous entry is still there. Logic is handled by Contact.vb class.
Contact.vb
Public Class Contact
Public Contact As String
Public Title As String
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Update:I really don't care much for whether the data on the AddForm is the old data or the new data. I think the problem now is that when I click edit previous entry on the list is not deleted (what I believe I have indicated in my question) - I tried to delete it (by using the if condition and checking what button was pressed) however it seems it is not working properly for some reason.
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Oct 15, 2010
I am doing a internet cafe sweepstakes slot game in vb.net. I want to show the objects based on the payout and the prize money for paylines in the slot game. I tried using MT algorithem but it basically random number based. the final output should not be radom.
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Nov 12, 2010
i am coding in vb2008 express.Can u suggest me any tutorial or sample code for "Handling Data between multiple forms".
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