Some Tutorials!

[Jeremysr]

I decided to write tutorials for people since DSLua is so hard to learn with just examples! I'm writing them on my DSLua site, I've done two so far, which teach how to use DSLua and how to use some text functions. The tutorials are located here:

http://www.bio-gaming.com/jeremy/dslua/index.php?act=tutorials

I don't know too much about DSLua, but I'll teach all I know!

[jeffx]

awesome, I will check them out

[daltonlaffs]

I am currently in the works of putting some tutorials for DSLua on my site, as well. But that Hello World tut isn't too shabby. No errors there, but why on earth do you confuse people by saying colour through the whole thing? 

[Jeremysr]

Lol, well ,I guess it'd be a good idea to change that...there, it's all back to color!

And I added another tutorial: Loops and if statements!

Then I'll make the short tutorials of button/touch screen presses and music/sound playing, but I'll skip the sprites tutorial for now...I don't know enough about them, I don't think. Especially with frames and scrolling. Instead I will try to create a new section where I list all the functions I know/can find, and describe how each one works and give examples etc.

[daltonlaffs]

I'll skip the sprites tutorial for now...I don't know enough about them, I don't think. Especially with frames and scrolling.

I can always teach you over MSN or PM or something, ya know. They're easy once you find out how to use em. 

Wanna go 2 msn or something? I have Instan-t, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL. I'm sure I can teach you what you wanna know in less than 20 minutes.

[Jeremysr]

Sure ok! I have MSN: jeremysr@hotmail.com

[daltonlaffs]

Come on MSN whenever you can, I'll be on 4 a while.

[Jeremysr]

I've added a tutorial on the touch screen and buttons, which also explains my stylusInBox() function. And here's a new bigger list of future tutorials:

Tutorial 0: How to run DSLua programs on your DS - When you download my DSLua programs, you will just get source code. Go to this document to find out how to run it on your DS.

Tutorial 1: Hello World - How to print stuff to the screen, use variables, use comments, colour text, and choose where on the screen to put the text.

Tutorial 2: Loops and If statements - Learn how to let your programs make decisions and run repetetetetive code.

Tutorial 3: Touch screen/Buttons - Get user input from the stylus and the 12 DS buttons.

Tutorial 4: Sound and Music - Coming Soon

Tutorial 5: Sprites and Backgrounds - Coming Soon

Tutorial 6: Functions - Coming Soon

Tutorial 7: Strings - Coming Soon

Tutorial 8: Randomization - Coming Soon

Tutorial 9: User Information - Coming Soon

Tutorial 10: File I/O - Coming Soon

Tutorial 11: Arrays - Coming Soon

Edit: I just quickly wrote a Sound & Music tutorial. The next one to write is Sprites & Backgrouns..which I'm scared to write.. It'll be so big...But at least I get to make some nice graphics for the tutorial along the way!

[Jeremysr]

Wow, according to my hidden pageview counters on the tutorials, there are a lot of people using these! The counter keeps going up a few times every hour!

[brennan]

Hehe, back when I had interest in Lua, there was almost no docuentation at all. Now, I have moved on, started learning C, and this shows up :p.

Well, it seems as if the project is dieing anyway, it'd probably been a waste of time.
(Btw, those tuts are pretty good, Jeremy)

[Jeremysr]

I've added the tutorial about sprites and background maps: http://www.bio-gaming.com/jeremy/dslua/index.php?act=spritesandbackgrounds

And I'll quickly write the functions tutorial tonight. (making your own functions)

[jester]

we need to save DSLua it is the most comfortable way of coding for the nds keep the dream alive i am going to also search for waruwaru

[daltonlaffs]

Hey jeremysr!

I saw that you were struggling on your Language fuction, cuz you didn't know what number is what language, so here. I tested this on REAL hardware, by resetting my DS and changing my language over and over again. Here is each language and its number:

Japanese = 0 (Dualis speaks Japanese, who knew?)
English = 1
French = 2
That one that sounds like Dutch = 3
Italian = 4
Spanish = 5


And on the chinese iQue DS, they have chinese, but I don't have one, so good luck... probably 7, but not sure.

Just say (thanks Daltonlaffs) somewhere on the page 

[Jeremysr]

Yay, thanks! I'm pretty sure the dutch one is how you say "German" in German. I'll go check.

I'll definately give you credit.

(BTW I just "elsed" the chinese one (if the number is not inbetween 0 and 5 it must be chinese))

[jester]

i cant wait for more tutorials jeremysr