Program help needed/ 8*8 grid

[RD]

hi,
I just started a course and they want us to strart programming from the beginning, so they gave us qbasic
I know a bit about qbasic but need help with the following question.
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Write a program to allow the user to move north,south east or west around a 8*8 chessboard. Assume the user is starting on the first square of the first row (1,1). Allow them to select a direction and the number of positions they would like to move. Allow them to make as many attempts at moving as they want.
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so if anyone can give me any help/idea has how to go about it plese do, as it the only question im having touble with.

thanks
RD

also can someone give me the code so that the computer will beep when an error is entered. thanks again

[Elias]

Im sorry for the (very very) Late answer, but you can always use

DIM SHARED AREA (8,8) AS INTEGER

to make any kind of grid, from there just use X and Y coordinates to move around the grid, To capture Arrow keys from the keyboard:

CHR$(0) + "H" = UP ARROW
CHR$(0) + "P" = DOWN ARROW
CHR$(0) + "K" = LEFT ARROW
CHR$(0) + "M" = RIGHT ARROW

another way to capture keyboard keys are INP(96)
but i dont remember the values for each key, you should
make a program wich monitors INP(96).


About the beep on error, you can us:


ON ERROR GOTO ERRORHANDLER
ERROR ON

' an action wich causes an error.

ERRORHANDLER:
BEEP
RESUME (NEXT ) ' next is an optional parameter



AND AGAIN IM SORRY FOR THE LATE ANSWER.