I need help with _ArraySwap or....

[quick_sliver007 0]

I am trying to make a snake game. That game were you go around collecting the dots with a snake and for every dot you eat the snake gets bigger. I have ran into a problem with the snakes movement. I need to move the the very last piece of the snake to in front of the head of the snake and become the head over and over in a loop. The problem is that the last piece of the sank just moves in front of the snake and does not become the head. Look at the function "Up()" in my code.

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#include <GuiConstants.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

Dim $label[5]
$gui = GUICreate("MyGUI", @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight - 10)
$label[0] = GUICtrlCreatePic("1.bmp", 200, 200, 10, 10)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($label[0], 0)
$label[1] = GUICtrlCreatePic("1.bmp", 200, 210, 10, 10)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($label[1], 0)
$label[2] = GUICtrlCreatePic("1.bmp", 200, 220, 10, 10)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($label[2], 0)
$label[3] = GUICtrlCreatePic("1.bmp", 200, 230, 10, 10)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($label[3], 0)
$label[4] = GUICtrlCreatePic("1.bmp", 200, 240, 10, 10)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($label[4], 0)
GUISetState()

HotKeySet("{up}", "up")
HotKeySet("{down}", "down")
HotKeySet("{left}", "left")
HotKeySet("{right}", "right")
While 1
    Global $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $gui_event_close
            ExitLoop
    EndSelect
WEnd
Exit
Func up()
    While 1
        $pos = ControlGetPos($gui, "", $label[0])
        GUICtrlSetPos($label[UBound($label) - 1], $pos[0], $pos[1] - 10)
        $label[UBound($label) - 1] = $label[0]
        Sleep(1000)
    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;help here;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
        _ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[UBound($label) - 1] )
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;help here;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
        
    WEnd
EndFunc  ;==>up
Func left()
    While 1
        $pos = ControlGetPos($gui, "", $label[0])
        GUICtrlSetPos($label[UBound($label) - 1], $pos[0] - 10, $pos[1])
        Sleep(1000)
    WEnd
EndFunc  ;==>left
Func right()
    While 1
        $pos = ControlGetPos($gui, "", $label[0])
        GUICtrlSetPos($label[UBound($label) - 1], $pos[0] + 10, $pos[1])
        Sleep(1000)
    WEnd
EndFunc  ;==>right
Func down()
    
    While 1
        Dim $pos = ControlGetPos($gui, "", $label[0])
        GUICtrlSetPos($label[UBound($label) - 1], $pos[0], $pos[1] + 10)
        Sleep(1000)
    WEnd
EndFunc  ;==>down

As you can see I tried

_ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[UBound($label) - 1] )

and it is not working. So how do I get the tail(the last element in the array) to be the head(the first element in the array) after it has moved. Edited May 13, 2005 by quick_sliver007

[buzz44 1]

_ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[4])

?

Edit: Ok that won't worklol, as the snake eats more, there will be more parts of it, and hence more indexes in the array.

Edit2: Try?

$Last = UBound($label) - 1
_ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[$Last])

Or

_ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[(UBound($label) - 1)])

Edited May 13, 2005 by Burrup

[quick_sliver007 0]

_ArraySwap( $label[0], $label[4])

?

Edit: Ok that won't worklol, as the snake eats more, there will be more parts of it, and hence more indexes in the array.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's a tricky one that I can't seem to figure out. Yep it will be a growing array.

[quick_sliver007 0]

I believe I just thought of the real problem. I need to swap all of the elements. The last to front and every thing between back one. Because it is like a rotation of rear to the front. Let me try to figure out how in a min if you don't beat me to it.

**Edit**

More like an array shift after moving the tail to in front of the head

Edited May 13, 2005 by quick_sliver007

[buzz44 1]

Perphaps look at the _Array() functions. _ArraySort/Reverse.