Hi Tom, Thanks for that. I guess I am so used to arrow keys and the like that it never even occurred to me not to use them. So far, it has been going well...although now my problem is that the options, you know, to press 1 for this and 2 for that, sometimes doesn't show up or doesn't get read by the screen reader, I am not sure which. I thought maybe trying to root jaws to pc would help, but that just screwed up and made things go back to the constant looping of reading everything, lol.
I think I will look forward to playing the one you make. Text is just fine if that is what you want to do. Thanks again, al -----Original Message----- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] command prompt and wrestling Hi Al, Ah, yes. That will do it alright. You need to keep in mind these are text based games from the 90's designed for Dos not Windows. That's why things like the arrow keys do not work because they didn't have things like DirectInput for dos and it was difficult to write applications that used keys that didn't map to a simple ASCII keycode. The cin function in C++, which I suspect they are using, can only accept input from letters, numbers, and symbols like plus, minus, divide, and so on. Keys like the arrow keys, home, end, page up, page down, and so on don't have a specific keycode and require a much more complex input handling system than I suspect the developers were willing to write for games like Piledriver and Wrestling League Simulator. That's pretty par for text games though. For example, even in my own wrestling game you can't use the arrow keys for accessing the menus because its a text based game using the print function and raw_input function in Python for displaying text and handling input. I wrote it that way to run on Windows, Linux, and Mac without having to add a bunch of extra stuff like Sapi support, SDL input, blah, blah, blah just to make a quick and simple wrestling game like Piledriver or Wrestling League Simulator. Although, I could have if I was really seriously interested in doing so. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
