[gbg24]

Hello everybody,

I am working on a project for my class right now, but I am stuck. I am supposed to draw a rocket on the screen, using functional decomposition. The rocket is basically a cone, a variable number of rectangles, and another cone. The cone has to fit for all kinds of numbers. I got the part for the even numbers, but for the odd numbers it doesnt quite fit. I am supposed to have one star at the top (for the odd numbers) but I am having two. Here is the code for the odd numbers:

 { 
					 width=(width/2)+1;
					 int count,count1;
					 for (count=1; count<=width; count++)
					 {
						 for (count1=width-count; count1>=1; count1--)
						 { cout <<" "; }
						   cout <<"*";
						 for (count1=2; count1<=count*2-2; count1++)
						 {cout << " "; }
						 cout <<"*"<<endl;}
						 }

Any hint on how to get rid of that one star would be greatly appreciated.

This is what the rocket looks like for even numbers:

Enter width of the rocket: 6
Enter height of the rocket: 7
Enter how many stages you wish to display: 2
--*--*--
-*----*-
*------*
******
*------*
*------*
*------*
*------*
*------*
******
******
*------*
*------*
*------*
*------*
*------*
******
--*--*--
-*----*-
*------*
Press any key to continue . . .
Thank you. Have a great day.

[brds]

Since you have two separate routines, even & odd, you could throw an if(row != first) on that first cout<<"*";.

[gbg24]

Thank you for your answer. I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. Here is the entire function for the even/odd

void drawCone (int width, int stages) {
	 
	 if (width%2==0) {
					 width=width/2;
					 int count,count1;
					 for (count=1; count<=width; count++)
					 {
						 for (count1=width-count; count1>=1; count1--)
						 { cout <<" "; }
						 cout <<"*";
						 for (count1=2; count1<=count*2-1; count1++)
						 { cout << " "; }
						 cout <<"*"<<endl;}
						 }
					 
	 else 
					{ 
					 width=(width/2)+1;
					 int count,count1;
					 for (count=1; count<=width; count++)
					 {
						 for (count1=width-count; count1>=1; count1--)
						 { cout <<" "; }
						   cout <<"*";
											
						 for (count1=2; count1<=count*2-2; count1++)
						 {cout << " "; }
						 cout<< "*"<<endl;}
						 }
}

I know I have to do something to the very last 'for loop', but I'm not sure what. I tried different settings for the counters, but that doesnt work either. I'm a little confused.

[brds]

Funny, when I put the if statement in I get
---*---
--*-*--
etc.

[gbg24]

now I got it. I used the variable count1 instead of count.

Thank you for the help.

Have a nice evening.