Subj : Re: Silly question
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Scott Adams
Date : Wed May 04 2005 12:09 am

-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to Bj�rn Felten <=-


BF> That means that you cannot pass it a string[40]. And since I guess

SD> Ah! *the light turns on*

SD> Okay, I was trying to be good and save room in memory.  I can go fix
SD> that then.
SD> Thanks for the advice!  Wow, I feel much happier now. ;)  I spent
SD> about two hours last night working on the display, etc.  I'm taking my
SD> time with this door, even though it's simple, it takes a massive
SD> effort on my part to program because it's hard for me to grasp things
SD> initially (but once I get them, it's a lot easier).

       If you want to save memory use pointers :)

BF>    Oh, and don't forget to use 'with BBSR do...' rather than writing
BF> 'BBSR.' in front of every record part, it makes it so much easier to
BF> read the program lateron, IMHO.

SD> What exactly do you mean?  I'm not quite sure-in writing the file or
SD> what?  I don't know a lot of the shortcuts in Pascal, but I'm hoping
SD> that my skills will improve enough for me to figure things out. ;)  I
SD> just started using included files (for my help files and such-makes
SD> the main source code much easier to read).
SD> Thanks again for your help.  Much appreciated!

       You ever read my pascal tutorial files I did in Advnet
       a few times over the years in AdventureNet programming
       echo?




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