I've been wanting to make a block type game for a while now but have never understood how to actually make one. I have googled forever and there is not much and what is there comes with a stipulation that I am not wanting to bother with (gpl license, entire code base, AND the license in any project, bleh). So I took to a forums with my problem. I did not know it, but I was trying to make a Puyo Puyo type game. With blocks dropping from the ceiling and then clearing if there's a match of 3 or more. I had no idea on how to do the matching. Which is what I wanted to know. A very nice, charming, and intelligent fellow provided me with this:
http://hastebin.com/ziyejejoxu.js
Granted, that's quite a lot, but the way he managed to code it allowed me to somewhat grasp it. However, there is a single infuriating problem. One, exactly ONE, line of code does not compile and breaks. I asked him if I could email him about it and he said okay. I haven't go a response yet so I may not be getting one so I'm taking this here. Here is how I am using the code so far. There are two parts, the play state, and the puzzle piece:
The program breaks in the playstate, giving this error:
source/PlayState.hx:291: characters 33-52 : Array access is not allowed on x : Int -> Int
What I have tried:
I had assumed that it was not allowed because the puzzle piece x is a float, and of course, you can't push a float into an int array. So what I did was simply in the puzzle piece first, convert the the float to an int. That did not work. THEN in the state, I switched the float to an int. That did not work. As an exercise, I attempted to convert a Flixel game to HaxeFlixel to see if I could learn anything. I probably did it wrong and did not.
So the question is: Why does that line not compile and what do I need to do to make it compile or to achieve it's intended purpose?
The syntax is wrong. push is a function, and function calls use (). [] is for array access (hence the error message).
This should work:
if (this_piece_is_in_a_match) matched_pieces.push(_i);