So I grabbed this yesterday to check it out, and am working through the 'Hello World' tutorials. I'm still on number 1 and am already having problems.

So here's the deal...I grabbed two lines from the sully system.vc to add a background graphic ad am getting this:

'system.vc(7): 'string' is not a recognized keyword or identifier!'

What am I doing wrong?

here's the code:

void autoexec()


{


	while (!b3)


	{


		RectFill(0, 0, ImageWidth(screen), ImageHeight(screen), 0, screen);


		


		string _im = 'Dragonfire Shirt 1.jpg';


		int im = LoadImage( _im );


		PrintCenter(ImageWidth(screen)/2, ImageHeight(screen)/2, screen, 0, 'Hello World!');


		ShowPage();


	}





	Exit('Bye!');





}

Variable names can have underscores, but the problem is that you can only declare local variables at the base level of the function, not within a while or for loop or whatever. ... I know, I know. So if you move the variable declaration outside the while loop, it'll work.

Edit: like so.

void autoexec()


{


        string _im = 'Dragonfire Shirt 1.jpg';


	int im = LoadImage( _im );





	while (!b3)


	{


		RectFill(0, 0, ImageWidth(screen), ImageHeight(screen), 0, screen);


		PrintCenter(ImageWidth(screen)/2, ImageHeight(screen)/2, screen, 0, 'Hello World!');


		ShowPage();


	}





	Exit('Bye!');


}

You could still put the assignment inside the loop, but I moved them out because as you had it, it was loading the image at each frame and causing a big memory leak. You only need to load the image once, so, outside the loop.

Yes, your latter method will work, and more efficiently, at that.

Yes sir :) you dont need to use that intermidate string.