Help with Just BASIC syntax error. - Overclock.net

UnAimed · 06-25-09

Ok I am trying to write my first small app on just basic but it keeps giving me syntax error and it won't run at all. I am following the guidelines of a book exactly the way its written as far as I know. Does it matter if you do not use the exact spacing maybe?

Here is the code.

Script Name: KnockKnock.bas (The Knock Knock Joke Game)
Version: 1.0
Author: Alex Schot
Date: March 1, 2007

Description: This Just BASIC game displays a series of interactive
Knock Knock jokes.

nomainwin

response$ = "Who is there?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Knock Knock!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Who is there?'"

else

response$ = "Disease who?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Disease!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Disease who?'"

else

notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$)(13) + _ "Disease this joke seem funny to you?" end if

end if

response$ = "Who is there?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Knock Knock!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Who is there?'"

else

response$ = "Butter who?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Butter!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Butter who?'"

else

notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$)(13) + _ "You butter move on to the next joke."

end if
end if

response$ = "Who is there?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Knock Knock!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Who is there?'"

else

response$ = "Max who?"

prompt "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + "Max!"; response$

if response$ = "" then notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$(13) + _ "Error: You must respond by entering 'Max who?'"

else

notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$)(13) + _ "BASIC, JAVA, C++, it Max no difference to me!" end if

end if

end

UnAimed · 06-27-09

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rabidgnome229 · 06-28-09

Just out of curiosity, why BASIC? Python is both more powerful and easier to write, just to name one example

UnAimed · 06-28-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by rabidgnome229

Just out of curiosity, why BASIC? Python is both more powerful and easier to write, just to name one example

Because I am learning out of a book and the book is using just basic.

KClaisse · 06-30-09

Code:

notice "Knock Knock Joke Game" + chr$)(13) + _ "You butter move on to the next joke."

I haven't fooled with basic since back in highschool with my TI-84 Plus, but im pretty sure thats bad heh.

chemicalfan · 07-02-09

Which version of BASIC is this? 'Prompt', 'Notice' and 'Nomainwin' aren't BASIC functions/statements in a version that I know, and you'll need to stick 'rem' in front of all of the stuff at the top of the page before the main code.

I'm also unsure if you can sure 'end if' statements in BASIC - IIRC, an 'if' statement ends on the line it starts.

With regard to getting stuff on the screen, it should be

Code:

print "stuff"

or it you can print the contents of a variable with

Code:

print stuff$

To get a prompt where the user can type, it's

Code:

input "type your stuff"; stuff$

Edit: You can make your code a bit more readable by using subroutines. Stick the if statements together in a subroutine at the end of the code with

Code:

iftests:
if .... else
if .... else
if .... else
return

and when you want them to run in the program, use

Code:

gosub iftests

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