Here's a rough way of how I'd do it, I'd write it into the code itself but I tend to go overboard and you'd probaly end up with a new UI and completely different code.



'Onload
  Dim CurrentRound as Int32 = 0

'After each round
  CurrentRound=CurrentRound+1

'On button click, how to see what round you're on
  If CurrentRound=1 then
     Goto Round1
  ElseIf CurrentRound=2 then
     Goto Round2
  ElseIf CurrentRound=3 then
     Goto Round3
  Else
     'This fires if the the current round is not 1, 2 or 3
  End If

well, the problem I'm having is changing the currentround from 1 to 2 and then to 3.
Is there a difference between
If CurrentRound=1 then
    Goto Round1
and
If CurrentRound=1 then
    Round1
?
if not, then that's what I've got.

I'm trying to use this function

Code Sample

Function newround(ByRef roundnumber As Integer) As Integer       If roundnumber = 1 Then           roundnumber = 2           'Return roundnumber       Else           If roundnumber = 2 Then               roundnumber = 3               'Return roundnumber           Else               If roundnumber = 3 Then                   roundnumber = 1                   'Return roundnumber               End If           End If       End If       Return roundnumber   End Function

To change the round number.

it's being called in this section in the button click

Code Sample

If roundnumber = 1 Then           round1(pl1r1, pl2r1, roundnumber, player1score, player2score)           newround(roundnumber)       Else           If roundnumber = 2 Then               round2(pl1r2, pl2r2, roundnumber, player1score, player2score)               newround(roundnumber)           Else               If roundnumber = 3 Then                   round3(pl1r3, pl2r3, roundnumber, player1score, player2score)                   newround(roundnumber)               End If           End If       End If

But now after looking at it I see that the problem is in the button click where I put the value 1 into roundnumber.
Each time I click the button I reset the roundnumber to 1. so even if it is getting changed to the next number it's getting reset every time I click.

So what I need is a way to define the roundnumber as 1 outside of the button click.
As you can see above I already have "dim roundnumber as integer" outside of it
but I can't seem to place a value in it outside of the button click.

I get lost in my own old code...

I took VB.NET last semester...already forgot how to code in it.  

I took it almost 2yrs ago... Then it was VB6...  Got a student version of VB .Net a few months back and started messing around... Made a few small XML reading/writing apps, but that's it.  I lose programming skills so quickly...  I made that MXC game in flash, and 2-3 months later I couldn't remember how to make a little animation for another project.

I'll write you a response tomorrow, I'm not on my dev pc right now.

I am a master (well, almost) of Visual Basic.  VB.Net is an EVIL!!!!! program.  But what you want is very very simple.

First of all, your Interface is confusing.  I couldn't figure out what I'm supposed to do and it gave me an error when I hit the play button.

Anyway, define the variable in the General Declarations section then in the form load section make it equal to 1.  THEN when you finish a round say "round=round+1".  That'll increment it.

Also why do you have 3 separate subroutines for the different rounds when, logically, each round will play exactly the same as all the others.  The only difference is a variable or two and those can either be done with arrays or object arrays or something like that.

we haven't learned arrays yet. that's acctualy what she said we'd be doing for the next assignment

See that just makes your life so much harder.
Anyway, move that "round=1" thing to the forum_load section and you'll be able to increment the round number when you finish with the scoring.

well, I ended up just cutting out the round changes.
I think i've already strayed enough from the way she asked us to do the assignment that it won't make a big difference.

Thanks for you help.