?define question

[Gary]

I have checked the manual, searched for forums but cannot see where I am going wrong when I try to use ?DEFINE

I am porting some C code and it has heavy use of #DEFINE which I assumed I could just swap for ?DEFINE but it seems im doing something wrong

This is some example code

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?DEFINE SPIN_TO_WIN 1
PRINT SPIN_TO_WIN,0,0
SHOWSCREEN
KEYWAIT

and this displays 0 instead of the 1 I expected.

Thanks for your help

Gary

[MrTAToad]

?DEFINE'd variables can't be accessed from GLBasic - they are really for changing what gets compiled.

If you want to convert #DEFINE, you would use CONSTANT

[Gary]

Ah ok, I understand

Thanks for the info