I was trying to write some code for my Gameboy with GBDK, and it errored

#include <gb/gb.h>
#include <gb/drawing.h>




UBYTE ship[10] =
{
{0, 0}
{2, 1}
{1, 1}
{2, 1}
{3, 1}
{1, 2}
{2, 2}
{3, 2}
{4, 2}
{0, 3}
}

void main()
{

int x, y;
for (x = 0; x < 9; x++)
{
color(BLACK, WHITE, SOLID);
plot_point(ship[x][0], ship[x][1]);
}

}


says there was a parse error before zero on line 10, and that code was not generated for ship because of previous errors at line 24. This is all in C, and again, I'm using the GBDK for this.

Are we counting blank lines to get to line 10? I.e., is the error on the line

Code:

---

{0,0}

---

? I'm not familiar with GBDK, but I'm guessing UBYTE just stands for "unsigned byte", which would mean each of those lines needs to be just a single number. (EDIT: The documentation I found online at belial.blarzwurst.de/gb/gbdk-doc.pdf would seem to agree. Not that that documentation looks like much, mind.)

No...see, I was trying to make this plot each of those vector locations. I had the for loop run throuh each position, then plot a point based on the first and second values in the array. But I don't understand the error D=

You seem to think that UBYTE and (0,0) are somehow even remotely similar. It would appear they are not. If you want an array of points, you should choose a data type that is a point. The easy way (without looking too much into what fancy data types, if any, this DK offers) would be to make a two-dimensional array:

Code:

---

UBYTE ship[10][2] =

---

and then you would have all the numbers you desire.

(EDIT: Oh, and if there was some sort of point-like data type -- let's call it UPOINT just as an example -- then you could declare

Code:

---

UPOINT ship[10] =

---

but would have to reference at the end using dot notation, i.e., ship[10].x for the x-coordinate.)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by tabstop

You seem to think that UBYTE and (0,0) are somehow even remotely similar. It would appear they are not. If you want an array of points, you should choose a data type that is a point. The easy way (without looking too much into what fancy data types, if any, this DK offers) would be to make a two-dimensional array:

Code:

---

UBYTE ship[10][2] =

---

and then you would have all the numbers you desire.

(EDIT: Oh, and if there was some sort of point-like data type -- let's call it UPOINT just as an example -- then you could declare

Code:

---

UPOINT ship[10] =

---

but would have to reference at the end using dot notation, i.e., ship[10].x for the x-coordinate.)

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UBYTE is one of the standard, low memory usage data types the DK offers. It's the most common one too. Anyway, yeah, I was just trying to make an array that I could store the X and Y of each point. The plot method just takes two ints in the form of the DK'S data types, plus some settings. Thanks, I'll test it tomorrow!

#include <gb/gb.h>
#include <gb/drawing.h>




UBYTE ship[10] =
{
{0, 0},
{2, 1},
{1, 1},
{2, 1},
{3, 1},
{1, 2},
{2, 2},
{3, 2},
{4, 2},
{0, 3}
}

void main()
{

int x, y, i;
for (i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
color(BLACK, WHITE, SOLID);
plot_point(ship[x][0], ship[x][1]);
}

}

Now the only error I get is at line 21. It says there was a parse error before void, but everything looks alright....

The obvious is now the missing semicolon at the end of the declaration.

Not to mention, reading the forum intro threads and learning how to use [code][/code] tags.

Sorry guys. Thanks for putting up with me in my worst.