Need help converting my C game to Hollywood, looking for suggestions.

[MarisaG1967]

First question:
What is the recommended method to convert structs to "hollywood method"

Will edit to add more questions as they come up...

[Flinx]

Tables.
You have two syntax variants. The second looks similar to the C struct access. From the manual:

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a = {} ; create empty table
a["name"] = "John Doe"  ; assign "John Doe" to index "name"
a.name = "John Doe"  ; assign "John Doe" to index "name"

b = a["name"]
b = a.name

[MarisaG1967]

Thanks! Will give that a try!

[MarisaG1967]

I'm assuming that this will work as well:
typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield.fieldvalue

?

[Flinx]

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typeofstruct={}
typeofstruct.structinstance={}
typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield={}
typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield.fieldvalue=123
NPrint(typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield.fieldvalue)
ForEach(typeofstruct, NPrint)
ForEach(typeofstruct.structinstance, NPrint)
ForEach(typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield, NPrint)
NPrint("")

; shorter version:
typeofstruct={structinstance={structfield={fieldvalue=345}}}
NPrint(typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield.fieldvalue)
ForEach(typeofstruct, NPrint)
ForEach(typeofstruct.structinstance, NPrint)
ForEach(typeofstruct.structinstance.structfield, NPrint)

WaitLeftMouse()

Of course I don't know if it could be done better for your program. And I'm not perfect at many things in Hollywood either; I only know what I've already used. But keep asking, someone will answer

[MarisaG1967]

Interesting suggestion, thanks!

[Flinx]

By the way, have you already decided how the game's graphics will be designed? As far as I can see, there are two fundamentally different approaches in Hollywood. The classic approach, where an image is constantly being rebuilt and synchronized with the vertical sync, and the later layer functions, which are more suited to more powerful graphics hardware. I've done everything with layers so far, but I've never built a game, and I didn't have the Amiga as my target platform for my current project..

[MarisaG1967]

It's a card game so animation will be minimal at first and maybe added on later. I'm thinking sprites for now. I'm targeting amiga/mac/Linux and maybe even windows.

[Flinx]

For a card game, I think any approach will work.

[Juan Carlos]

To make a card game may be easier start it all from Hollywood, although it is true that the poker engines is more easy to try adapt it from C, I tryed to make a Texas Holdem Poker but it was a little complicated for me the CPU engine as rival and convert a example from C or Java is complicated. But to make a easy card game the best option is 100% Hollywood using layers to visual effects.