Author Topic: Balance game (Read 7957 times)

Jim Bauwens · « **Reply #15 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:10:13 pm »

Do you mean convert a table to a string, or opposite?
To simple display a table number value, use this:

a={1,2,3}
nr=1
text=tostring(a[nr])

Edit:
I get it.
If the table is a global table, you can do this

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ball1={1,2,3}
nr=1

thetable = _G["ball" .. nr][5]

_G is the global table.

Adriweb · « **Reply #16 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:14:18 pm »

Instead of having to mess aroud with dynnamic variable names, I'd have put new balls in a Balls table, then assign an id to a ball, and call it by reading/writing like that :

Balls[ballID][1]

I did that kind of thing for my BreakOut game :

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    aBall = Ball(math.random(10,platform.window:width()-10-XLimit),platform.window:height()-26,-1-speedDiff,-1-speedDiff,#BallsTable+1)
    table.insert(BallsTable,aBall)

Full source here.

Jim Bauwens · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:18:18 pm »

Yes, its better to keep a table with your balls in it, more flexible that way

* jimbauwens smacks himself

Nick · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:23:12 pm »

thanks both, but i'll use adriweb's way, it'll be easier xp

well in fact, that's the way i did it with tetris too, but with blocks, but i seem to have forgotten that xp

Jim Bauwens · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2011, 02:25:16 pm »

And better

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