Beginning types

Hello everyone,

I am trying to learn to use types to make my game design more structured. However, I don't understand how they work. Can someone tell me why this code doesn't work? All I want is to be able to access the data within a type variable. The tutorial included in the IDE says this is how it's done, unless I am misunderstanding it.

AppTitle "Types Test"

Type player
Field name
Field x
Field y
Field lives
Field bullets_left
End Type

p.player = New player

p.player\name="John"

p.player\x=10
p.player\y=20
p.player\lives=5

Print p.player\name

WaitKey

End

You have done everything correctly except declare the type of variable.

For string variables you need to add '$' to the variable
name should be name$

Also you don't need to put
print p.player\name

just put p\name as you have told blitz p is of type player.

Although you only need to add the $ after the "String" variable, you should get into the hang of always putting the type of variable at the end of its name in the declare (ie #)

Also, while the advice that you dont need p.player is correct, as a nameing convention it "could" be a good idea
ie.
First\x =20; Second\x = 20
or
First.Player\x =20 ; Second.Player\x = 20

Right!

It works just like you said. I don't understand how I could've been so dense as to forget the $ :).

About the p.player thing, it works both ways it seems, but I prefer the shorter version (I understand it better).
Thanx for your replies!!