Formula to convert Print to _Printstring

[Dimster]

Hello All

I'm fumbling for a formula which accurately converts the location on the screen when I switch some of my prior code from Print to _Printstring. Actually, it's not so much what I'm actually printing to the screen it's more the conversion of the comma's... as in Print "Hello World","Are you ready for the day",,,"YES/NO".

So those comma's move the print zone by 14 characters, so to convert to say a new screen (1800,900,32), what I have been doing is dividing 1800/14 (or whatever the new screen column by 14). It's close but no cigar. I wind up continuously playing with column value...takes forever to recreate the Print screen to _Printstring. Am I missing something in my formula or is this rough calculation the best approach to the recreation of the old screens?

[bplus]

If you are printing with default size 8x16 chars then
divide x pixels _Width by 8 for columns and y pixels _Height by 16
cols = _width\8
rows = _height\16
notice I use \ (integer division not / float division)

And remember first row or col start at 0 not 1 for _printstring.

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. Screen _NewImage(800, 480, 32) ' Graphics Screen  800\8 = 100 cols  480\16 = 30 rows
2. text$ = "Here is first liner test... zzz"
3. row = 1: col = 1
4. Locate row, col: Print text$
5. RndRow = Int(Rnd * (28)) + 2: RndCol = Int(Rnd * 40) + 1: rndText$ = "Here is rnd col row test."
6. Locate RndRow, RndCol: Print rndText$
7. Sleep
8. Cls
9. _Delay 1
10. locate2PrintString8x16 row, col, text$
11. locate2PrintString8x16 RndRow, RndCol, rndText$
12.  
13. ' convert Locate Row, Col " : Print text$ to printString version  ON GRAPHICS Screens not Console or Screen 0
14. Sub locate2PrintString8x16 (Row, Col, text$)
15.     _PrintString ((Col - 1) * 8, (Row - 1) * 16), text$
16. End Sub
17.  

Good luck with the commas Prints.

[Dimster]

Thanks - I didn't think that I needed the row, just the column because the comma was a column or lateral move, plus bplus, that division by integer I definitely overlooked. Thanks again.