need help with coding in app

[keirien]

I making this app and i need to the code for repeating image

i was thinking it some like this

math.randomseed(os.repeat())

not sure

[CrowdAds]

[Habhome]

Be more descriptive in your thread title what you need help with, otherwise people may not bother to check the thread.

And how to you mean with repeating image? Be more descriptive with your problem. I can at least safely say that your suggested solution would not work to get any kind of image on the screen.
To get an image you first have to load one:
myimage = image.load("image.png")

Then you need to draw it to screen:
myimage:draw(xcoordinate, ycoordinate, width, height)
Exchanging the words for the value wanted

It has now been added to the screen buffer, to show it you need to update the screen:
screen.update()

Now an image has been drawn on the screen. But without a loop to catch the program it'll just exit immediately without giving you time to see it.

myimage = image.load("image.png")
While(true) do
myimage:draw(xcord,ycord,wid,hei)
screen.update()
os.sleep(5)
end

This will show an image, but it is impossible to quit the application since it's an eternal loop. Check other apps' main loop for ideas how to do it.

[keirien]

Originally Posted by Habhome

Be more descriptive in your thread title what you need help with, otherwise people may not bother to check the thread.

And how to you mean with repeating image? Be more descriptive with your problem. I can at least safely say that your suggested solution would not work to get any kind of image on the screen.
To get an image you first have to load one:
myimage = image.load("image.png")

Then you need to draw it to screen:
myimage:draw(xcoordinate, ycoordinate, width, height)
Exchanging the words for the value wanted

It has now been added to the screen buffer, to show it you need to update the screen:
screen.update()

Now an image has been drawn on the screen. But without a loop to catch the program it'll just exit immediately without giving you time to see it.

myimage = image.load("image.png")
While(true) do
myimage:draw(xcord,ycord,wid,hei)
screen.update()
os.sleep(5)
end

This will show an image, but it is impossible to quit the application since it's an eternal loop. Check other apps' main loop for ideas how to do it.

ok thanks would this code

myimage = image.load("image.png")
While(true) do
myimage:draw(xcord,ycord,wid,hei)
screen.update()
os.sleep(5)
end

work with two images in a countious loop?

[keirien]

I making a strobe light

Please Habhome can you examine this code and explain it to me because i need your help

[Habhome]

Originally Posted by keirien

I making a strobe light

Please Habhome can you examine this code and explain it to me because i need your help

That code wouldn't do anything short of crash, to be honest. Do you want me to lay up the most basic code for a strobe app with comments so you can see what happens?

Or do you want me to do as I did with RobertsAccount and guide you through it via MSN?
(Whichever you choose, it'll have to wait for another day it's past 1AM and I want to sleep)

[keirien]

Originally Posted by Habhome

That code wouldn't do anything short of crash, to be honest. Do you want me to lay up the most basic code for a strobe app with comments so you can see what happens?

Or do you want me to do as I did with RobertsAccount and guide you through it via MSN?
(Whichever you choose, it'll have to wait for another day it's past 1AM and I want to sleep)

you could lay up the most basic code for a strobe app with comments

[Habhome]

Originally Posted by keirien

you could lay up the most basic code for a strobe app with comments

Here you have it. It's just flashing and exit when you press the home button.

Be careful with this code, I'm not sure what happened but I got a screen buffer error the first time I ran the code, but after a restart it didn't occur again. (See screenshot for the error)

[keirien]

thanks

[keirien]

Thanks Habhome for the code it helped me understand it a lot more.

I have one more thing i want to make a menu
so people can choose different colored strobe lights

thanks i really appreciate it