I am making an algebric calculator but at this moment the main thing I would like to make before finishing it is to find a way of changing the values of the variables during the simulation, and i cant do it with parameters (nor iparameters), I always get an error saying it cant perform arithmetics on the value. Help please?
Please paste your code, then we might be able to help you.
A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
function Normal:init(x)
d = B * B - 4 * A * C
print("A = "..A)
print("B = "..B)
print("C = "..C)
print("-----------------------")
print("Delta = "..d)
x1 = (-B + math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
x2 = (-B - math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
print("X1 = "..x1)
print("X2 = "..x2)
end
what i want is a way to change A,B and C while in the simulation, parameters dont work whenever i try it says the parameter is a nil value.
I tried using:
A = parameter("A",-100,100)
parameter("A",-100,100)
iparameter("A",-100,0,100)
and
A = iparameter("A",-100,0,100)
This works, don’t know if it helps…
parameter("A",-100,100,100)
B = 2
C = 3
function calc()
clearOutput()
d = B * B - 4 * A * C
print("A = "..A)
print("B = "..B)
print("C = "..C)
print("-----------------------")
print("Delta = "..d)
x1 = (-B + math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
x2 = (-B - math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
print("X1 = "..x1)
print("X2 = "..x2)
end
function draw()
calc()
end
Thank You! It is just what I wanted! 
There is a way of not selecting decimals on the parameters? Because it is quite annoying 
Maybe you could make a
math.round
At the end of the calc function to snap it to the integers or so?
I got 2 problems: when i put math.round at the end of function calc() it says “= expected
near end” and i got multiple calculations in this program, and in the biquadratic equation class it dont recognizes x1. Here is the whole thing:
Biquadrada = class()
parameter("A",-100,100,100)
parameter("B",-100,100,100)
parameter("C",-100,100,100)
function Biquadrada:init(x)
end
function calc()
d = B * B - 4 * A * C
m1 = (-B + math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
m2 = (-B - math.sqrt(d)) / 2 * A
x1 = math.sqrt(m1)
x2 = - math.sqrt(m1)
x3 = math.sqrt(m2)
x4 = -math.sqrt(m2)
if x2 == -0 then
x2 = x2 * -1
elseif x4 == -0 then
x4 = x4 * - 1
math.round
end
end
function Biquadrada:draw()
calc()
background(0, 0, 0, 255)
pushStyle()
fill(255, 0, 0, 255)
font("AmericanTypewriter-Light")
fontSize(60)
textAlign(LEFT)
text("A = "..A,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -60)
text("B = "..B,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -130)
text("C = "..C,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -200)
text("Delta = "..d,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -270)
text("X1 = "..x1,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -340)
text("X2 = "..x2,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -410)
text("X3 = "..x3,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -480)
text("X4 = "..x4,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -550)
fill(190, 190, 190, 66)
font("Baskerville-Italic")
fontSize(105)
text("ax^4 + bx^2 + c",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT -670)
end
(im Brazilian BTW so biquadrada = biquadratic)
No such luck
parameter("A",-100,100,0)
math.floor( A )
You are not using the result of math.floor( A )
E.g.
B = math.floor( A )
print( B )
@PLPP math.round is a function, so you have to give it a number as a parameter. For example:
x = 5.6
math.round( x )
-- Will return 6
There is also math.floor (always round down) and math.ceil (always round up).
I’m happy to see that there is a “round” function in the “math” library, because I wasn’t able to find it in the manual. Perhaps it should be there…
I didn’t know there was one. I have been spinning my own.
function math.round(num)
return math.floor(num + 0.5)
end
I guess I can stop using that code.
Still not working…
parameter("A",-100,100,0)
a2 = math.floor( A )