Wanderer wrote:
@LiveForIt

Maybe you can also access it via Picture Datatype using the PDTA_WhichPicture TagItem. It is worh a try.

I have used over 50 (to be safe) AMOS Pro commands, including manipulating a 4 dimensional array with at least 126 elements in it.

If then ...elseif , while... wend, For...Next, Inkey$, string manipulations (mid$,Left$,Right$), chr$,
procedures, Dim/globals, do...loop Exit, exit if, Repeat/until, and have written some fairly complex equations for decision making....

printing to/from disk files, 32 bit binary data storage/comparison,

drawing boxes/lines/points, opening all 8 screens,

increasing stack space (had to),

gosub/return,

You see, if I ask "how do I change that pixel on the screen to blue?"

is there case sensitivity?

And that last bracket seems to be missing the semi-colon. This is why I can not understand C. I can not understand why there isn't a semicolon to the right of the final bracket??

you can have non-numeric indexes to simulate structures:
mytable = { name = "Johnny", surname = "Mnemonic" }

so you can access them with:
mytable.name
mytable.surname

but this is not a LUA thread

Hi LiveForIt,

You lost me.

ptr=0x1000

"x" isn't a number?!? The more I see, the less "normal" it all becomes.

I have made a 4 dimensional array in AMOS, as well as many many other arrays and have no problem whatsoever manipulating them.

To me
char *str1;
means multiply "char" with "str1".

ptr=$1000
Rem read one byte form address ptr+0
Print "Get value of peek ="; Peek(ptr+0)

char *ptr;
ptr=0x1000;
/* Read one byte from address n+0 */
printf("Get value of peek = %d\n",ptr[0]);

#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
char *ptr;
// reserves 100 bytes at any address
ptr = malloc(100);
printf("Get value of peek = %d\n",ptr[0]);
// frees 100 bytes after use.
free(ptr);
}

In Hollywood you can force <number> to be globally or locally declared with:

Global number = 5
or
Local number = 5

// var is global
int var;

Int main()
{
// var is local
int local_var;
}

number = 5 ; <--- numeric type
number = "five" ; <--- string type
number = { "one", "two", 3, 4, "five" } ; <--- table of mixed types

/* program should always start whit this two lines. */
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/* C requires the program code to be inside a function, main is where the program starts. */
Int main()
{
/* value is of type signed integer (negative and positive values)*/
int value;
/* value is set to 5 */
value=5;
/* formatted print, '%d' is replaced by a decimal value, ?\n? equals ?new line? */
printf(?value is %d\n?,value);
}

how would I go about saying the variable "number" is now "5"?

Basic/Amos looks "intuitive" to you because you're used to it, but it is actually a poor programming language when compared to modern ones.

I've played with E many years ago and IIRC it's much more simple and "natural" then C.