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engkin

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Re: Showing off what my 7 year old did with Lazarus!
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2021, 08:08:00 pm »
Binary might be easy here. Each digit for one arrow key. Here is how to track the keys:
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  1. unit Unit1;
  2.  
  3. {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
  4.  
  5. interface
  6.  
  7. uses
  8.   Classes, SysUtils, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs;
  9.  
  10. type
  11.  
  12.   { TForm1 }
  13.  
  14.   TForm1 = class(TForm)
  15.     procedure FormKeyDown(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word; Shift: TShiftState);
  16.     procedure FormKeyUp(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word; Shift: TShiftState);
  17.   private
  18.   public
  19.     TrackDownKeys:Byte;
  20.     procedure LetUsMove;
  21.   end;
  22.  
  23. var
  24.   Form1: TForm1;
  25.  
  26. implementation
  27. uses
  28.   LCLType;
  29.  
  30. {$R *.lfm}
  31.  
  32. { TForm1 }
  33.  
  34. const
  35.   CFourArrowKeys:array[VK_LEFT..VK_DOWN] of byte = (%0001 {Left}, %0010 {Up}, %0100 {Right}, %1000 {Down});
  36.  
  37. procedure TForm1.FormKeyDown(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word; Shift: TShiftState
  38.   );
  39. begin
  40.   if Key in [VK_LEFT..VK_DOWN] then
  41.     TrackDownKeys:=TrackDownKeys or CFourArrowKeys[Key];
  42.  
  43.   LetUsMove;
  44. end;
  45.  
  46. procedure TForm1.FormKeyUp(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word; Shift: TShiftState);
  47. begin
  48.   if Key in [VK_LEFT..VK_DOWN] then
  49.     TrackDownKeys:=TrackDownKeys and not CFourArrowKeys[Key];
  50.  
  51.   LetUsMove;
  52. end;
  53.  
  54. procedure TForm1.LetUsMove;
  55. begin
  56.   Caption:=TrackDownKeys.ToBinString;
  57. end;
  58.  
  59. end.

In this case Up and Left is %0011. As you can see it is visible.
Up and Right is %0110  and so on

Choosing which of the eight directions could be like:
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  1. procedure TForm1.LetUsMove;
  2. begin
  3.   Caption:=TrackDownKeys.ToBinString;
  4.   case TrackDownKeys of
  5.   %0001:;//Left
  6.   %0010:;//Up
  7.   %0100:;//Right
  8.   %1000:;//Down
  9.   %0011:;//Left and Up
  10.   %0110:;//Right and Up
  11.   %1100:;//Right and down
  12.   %1001:;//Left and Down
  13.   end;
  14. end;

If you know the direction you can turn it into delta for x and y. Maybe like:
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  1. procedure TForm1.LetUsMove;
  2. var
  3.   dx,dy:integer;
  4. begin
  5.   Caption:=TrackDownKeys.ToBinString;
  6.   case TrackDownKeys of
  7.   %0001:begin dx:=-1; dy:= 0; end;//Left
  8.   %0010:begin dx:= 0; dy:=-1; end;//Up
  9.   %0100:begin dx:=+1; dy:= 0; end;//Right
  10.   %1000:begin dx:= 0; dy:=+1; end;//Down
  11.   %0011:begin dx:=-1; dy:=-1; end;//Left and Up
  12.   %0110:begin dx:=+1; dy:=-1; end;//Right and Up
  13.   %1100:begin dx:=+1; dy:=+1; end;//Right and down
  14.   %1001:begin dx:=-1; dy:=+1; end;//Left and Down
  15.   end;
  16. end;
« Last Edit: October 19, 2021, 08:18:22 pm by engkin »

Tony Stone

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Re: Showing off what my 7 year old did with Lazarus!
« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2021, 02:34:11 am »
Thank you guys for the suggestions on the diagonal drawing aspect.  For our purposes and skill level it was a bit much.  But her and I tonight were able to complete the project!  And as I said before, this is almost all her design!!  Her ideas... I did the coding but walked her through what it was all doing and I did it based on logic she suggested!  It was a ton of fun to do this with her.  I am attaching the project.  It actually works very well!  Maybe it can even be useful to another beginner!  :D 8)

Feel free to comment on the code and design.  We are tough, we can take some criticism!   ;)

Edit:  just realized you may not find form1 right away as it will be off screen likely.  Use the Window menu then Center a Lost  Window if you need to get it on the screen.
« Last Edit: October 20, 2021, 03:01:18 am by Tony Stone »

 

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