Control Arrays

I'm making a map editor using VB. In text format, the map is a bunch of 0's and 1's.

111111111
100000001
100111001 It looks something like this
100000001
111111111

When you open the file it finds out the where
the 1's are and it loads an image from a
control array using this code:


Load imgBlock(1)
imgBlock(1). Move 0,0
Load imgBlock(2)
imgBlock(2). Move 0, 480


and so on until I cover every grid on the map. My question is...This of way coding it is going to take fovever!! Is there a simpler
ay of doing this??



[This message has been edited by Megatron (edited 01-03-2000).]

[MartinLiss]

I don't see the relationship between the 0's and 1's that you show and your coder sample. can you explain further?

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Marty

The 0's and 1's are just telling you how the map is made. It's a 14x16 grid and you write it in a text editor. When you are done, you use the game to open the level and the game will translate the text into a map. Where there is a 0 in text format, there is a blank spot on the game. Where there is a 1 in text format, there is an image of a block on the game. I would have to use the code (shown below) at least 100 times to scan the .txt
file and create an image or a blank spot on
the game.


Load imgBlock(1)
imgBlock(1). Move 0,0
Load imgBlock(2)
imgBlock(2). Move 0, 480


My question is: Instead of writing that
code 100 times, is there an easier time-saving way of doing it?




[This message has been edited by Megatron (edited 01-03-2000).]

[ShadowCrawler]

Use a loop.

For i = 1 to 100

Load imgBlock(i)
imgBlock(i).Move 0, i * 480
Next i


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