Add 2013/hou/try.sh

2013/hou/README.md

@@ -30,17 +30,14 @@ effects should be more or less recognizable when you see 16.
 ## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./hou BIG
-./hou old_default.scene BIG
-./hou otherroom.scene
-./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE
+./try.sh
 ```
 
-Try opening the file and then let the program run a while and every so often
-reopen the file, to see how it changes. The author suggests that you leave the
-program running overnight to see what happens. If however you do not have all
-night :-) then the following JPEG files should show you what happens with some
-of the invocations above:
+Try opening the file noted by the program then let the program run a while and
+every so often reopen the file, to see how it changes. The author suggests that
+you leave the program running overnight to see what happens. If however you do
+not have all night :-) then the following JPEG files should show you what
+happens with some of the invocations above:
 
 ![./hou BIG - Luna](luna.jpg)
 

2013/hou/try.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2013/hou
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null || exit 1
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+echo "2013/hou menu" 1>&2
+echo 1>&2
+echo "(0) BIG (luna.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(1) old_default.scene BIG (old_default.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(2) otherroom (otherroom.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo "(3) NAIVE otherroom (otherroom.ppm)" 1>&2
+echo 1>&2
+read -rp "Make your selection (0 - 3, anything else to quit): " mode
+
+case "$mode" in
+    0)  # BIG
+	echo "$ ./hou BIG" 1>&2
+	./hou BIG
+	;;
+    1)  # old_default BIG
+	echo "$ ./hou old_default.scene BIG" 1>&2
+	./hou old_default.scene BIG
+	;;
+    2)  # otherroom
+	echo "$ ./hou otherroom.scene" 1>&2
+	./hou otherroom.scene
+	;;
+    3)  # otherroom NAIVE
+	echo "$ ./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE" 1>&2
+	./hou otherroom.scene NAIVE
+	;;
+    *)	exit 0	
+	;;
+esac

thanks-for-help.md

@@ -4031,6 +4031,8 @@ Further, after the file `2013/hou/doc/example.markdown` was moved to
 [2013/hou/doc/example.md](/2013/hou/doc/example.md) to match the rest of the repo
 this broke `make` which Cody also fixed.
 
+Cody also added the [try.sh](/2013/hou/try.sh) script.
+
 
 ## <a name="2013_mills"></a>[2013/mills](/2013/mills/mills.c) ([README.md)[2013/mills/README.md))