[DeadKiller987]

Simspelaaja posted:

I got Terraria to compile!



I hate this codebase. I know that decompilation changes stuff a little bit but Main.cs is 9803 lines long and I doubt a decompiler would lengthen it that much. Main.cs contains a method called GetInputText, which (as the name implies) handles texboxes, and it's 252 lines long and full of hacks.

It's awesome how people are just casually compiling a game that's released on Steam and the developer is still becoming richer by the second. This is going to be one of those games whose modding communities are going to make it more popular. If only big-shot companies such as Activision would do this...

[Dlaor-guy]

DeadKiller987 posted:

It's awesome how people are just casually compiling a game that's released on Steam and the developer is still becoming richer by the second. This is going to be one of those games whose modding communities are going to make it more popular. If only big-shot companies such as Activision would do this...

It's so easily modded because it's made in an easily decompilable language: C#.
CoD is made in C++, IIRC, and decompiling that back to C++, changing code and then recompiling it again is a hell of a lot harder to do with C++ than with C#.

[ColdFusion]

Save the text as a batch file

Edit line
xcopy MyFolder "backup\%str%\MyFolder" /-Y /H /E /G /K /O /I

For example if i would like to backup 2 folders


C:\Test 1234\Folder1
C:\Folder2

I would change the batch file to

echo off

echo Backing up Files
echo ""

set slash = "/"
set stuff = ":"
set str=%time:~-0,8% %date%
set str=%str:/=-%
set str=%str::=.%
mkdir "backup\%str%"

xcopy "C:\Test 1234\Folder1" "backup\%str%\Folder1" /-Y /H /E /G /K /O /I
xcopy "C:\Folder2" "backup\%str%\Folder2" /-Y /H /E /G /K /O /I

echo ""
echo Done Backing up files

Then to create the Scheduled event Asuming you are running Windows 7 (might work for vista to)

- press CNTRL+R Type "compmgmt.msc" press enter
- Right click on system tools -> Task Scheduler -> Create Task

- Under the Actions tab add the Bat file.
- Under Triggers add a new Trigger
-- Choose "One Time"
-- Choose Repeat Task Every 1 hour for a duration of unlimited.

[Sakarias88]

The project deadline is getting near.
Just a few days left now.
Have planned to finish it this weekend so we've started wrapping stuff up.

We've fixed dialogues, a map editor and a dialogue editor today.
The camera automatically focuses on the one talking actor.
I know the dialogue box is a bit stretched, will fix that tomorrow.

Still don't have any name of the game. Any suggestions?
It's basically a shmup air plane game inside an arena.

[Ingve]

eXiv2 posted:

Who here uses/used C++ Primer Plus 5th Edition to learn C++?

I bought it together with Accelerated c++, Only read the intro in both of them.

[SupahVee]

Simspelaaja posted:

I got Terraria to compile!



I hate this codebase. I know that decompilation changes stuff a little bit but Main.cs is 9803 lines long and I doubt a decompiler would lengthen it that much. Main.cs contains a method called GetInputText, which (as the name implies) handles texboxes, and it's 252 lines long and full of hacks.

Wow yeah, the source code is messy as hell. Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking?

[Jallen]

Probably something like "It doesn't matter as long as it works well, people find it fun and it's successful"

[ColdFusion]

You are decompiling something, Are you expecting it to be clean ?

[voodooattack]

eXiv2 posted:

Who here uses/used C++ Primer Plus 5th Edition to learn C++?

I tried reading a C++ book once, but I found myself ignoring the paragraphs and going for the code samples right off.

So I learned C/C++ by trial and error.. the syntax gradually stuck on me.

That's probably why I tend to use google every time I decide to use something from the STL that I don't use often, but that kinda grows on you as well.

Kamrua posted:

Wow, I really want to start on some kind of project but I have no clue what to do/try. Any ideas?

How about a Minecraft clone?

[Jawalt]

ROBO_DONUT posted:

People put too much emphasis on the language, rather than general programming theory or problem solving skills.
I really think that most good programmers can pick up new syntax in a week or less.

I think experience is just as important when it comes to language, especially higher level ones. Being experienced in a language and knowing all it's quirks and such is very important in being productive and writing less buggy code. (Was going to put bug free, but I've never met anyone who can bang out some code and have it no bugs first time.)

[s0ul0r]

Sakarias88 posted:

A* is the fastest, yes.
If you want to know more you might want to try different heuristic functions (Chebyshev, Manhattan or Euclidian distance).
The heuristic function and overestimation you choose will have a major impact on how fast and accurate the algorithm is.

Right now it's basically the pythagorean distance. I should try some others...

[r4nk_]

Simspelaaja posted:

I got Terraria to compile!



I hate this codebase. I know that decompilation changes stuff a little bit but Main.cs is 9803 lines long and I doubt a decompiler would lengthen it that much. Main.cs contains a method called GetInputText, which (as the name implies) handles texboxes, and it's 252 lines long and full of hacks.

Riiiiighhttt so you think its more likely that the developers wrote a 10,000 line main file than that it is caused by decompiling.....

[Maurice]

What's the deal with long main files anyway? What's so bad about it? I honestly have no clue so someone educate me.

[Richy19]

voodooattack posted:

How about a Minecraft clone?

Pff minecraft?
terraria is where its all at now

[Natrox]

Remember how I posted about my first C++ game? (Probably not, so; http://www.facepunch.com/threads/108...1#post29670848)

It was for my next school and it was good enough. I got an invite for an interview.

[LeninStalin]

Alright, as you know I am just starting C++, well I wanted to make a simple counter that adds 1 when A(dd) is pressed, but it doesn't work, can someone tell me what I did wrong?

#include "stdafx.h"


#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	int x = 1;
	cout << x;
	int Akey = 5;
	if (5)
		x++;

	cin.get();
	return 0;
}

[SupahVee]

Buggy, slow, unoptimized, lags with more than 40 roaches.

[icantread49]

// break: fileName is "test.obj", good
private static void parse(string fileName, OnVertex onVertex, OnNormal onNormal, OnTexCoord onTexCoord, OnFace onFace, OnMaterial onMaterial)
{
	// break: actualFileName is "data/models/test.obj", good
	string actualFileName = Util.DATA_DIR + "models/" + fileName;
	// break: actualFileName is still good, everything looks good
	StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(actualFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read));


[later]
parse("test.obj", ...); // all good

OpenFileDialog fileDialog = ...;
fileDialog.ShowDialog(); // (browsing for the file)
// break: fileDialog.SafeFileName is "test.obj", good
parse(fileDialog.SafeFileName, ...); // EXCEPTION! "Could not access part of path"

Guess The Bug

[Samuka97]

Finally got C::B looking the way I want, with a copy that auto-installs on my pendrive and managed to compile & run SFML 2.0. And then, when I thought I was already happy enough:

YEEEEEEEEEEAHH

[BlkDucky]

Maurice posted:

What's the deal with long main files anyway? What's so bad about it? I honestly have no clue so someone educate me.

The longer the file is, the harder it is to read. The harder it is to read the more difficult it is to maintain. IMO anyway.

No difference at all to the end-user, obviously.

[Dlaor-guy]

Procedurally generated snowflake-like physical objects, yay!

[CarlBooth]

Dlaor-guy posted:

Procedurally generated snowflake-like physical objects, yay!

If they were different opacities it would make a cool wallpaper

[Ac!dL3ak]

Dlaor-guy posted:

Procedurally generated snowflake-like physical objects, yay!

I wish I could do stuff like this :smith:

[OrYgin]

Ac!dL3ak posted:

I wish I could do stuff like this :smith:

You can. Searching and learning is the real force of a programmer.

[Dlaor-guy]

CarlBooth posted:

If they were different opacities it would make a cool wallpaper

Like this?

[OrYgin]

Dlaor-guy posted:

Like this?

Seems like an optical illusion to me

[CarlBooth]

OK, that's my winter wallpaper for this year sorted

[Eudoxia]

As a side project I'm making a program that will speed up my posting of news by aliasing things like [ QUOTE ] and [ B ] with single-character things. Because typing them out involves too many keystrokes and I often end up typing QBOPE//].

[s0ul0r]

Ok I just found out that the manhatten distance works way better in terms of efficiency than the euclidian distance for the heuristic function in A-*

[ThePuska]

In a square grid, possibly.

Edited:

What kind of a heuristic would one use in a triangular grid anyway?

[lavacano]

(Crosspost between Programming WAYWO and WebDev WAYWO)

Whoo hoo, I'm actually working on something complicated for once! I'm making a bug tracker.

Sadly here's what I have so far:



I'm still working out what the default text colors will be, as well as what would actually be in the default header. But it doesn't matter TOO much, seeing as it's going to be shit simple to create your own damn header and footer.

I don't have many feature plans for this yet, but one I do have planned is having multiple priority levels saved. So instead of one little thing marked "This is a high priority bug", you'll have a thing similar to GetSatisfaction's Mood display that says something like "12 people think this is a high priority bug, 6 people think this is a critical bug, and 4 people think this is a medium priority bug".

[Veers]

Eudoxia posted:

As a side project I'm making a program that will speed up my posting of news by aliasing things like [ QUOTE ] and [ B ] with single-character things. Because typing them out involves too many keystrokes and I often end up typing QBOPE//].

If you don't actually want to do the work you can just use a text expander. Lifehacker has a free one that works even though it has not been updated recently.

[r4nk_]

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the MSDN documentation? I find it harder to browse than others, less appealing and so on. But it has code examples which is good.

Eudoxia posted:

As a side project I'm making a program that will speed up my posting of news by aliasing things like [ QUOTE ] and [ B ] with single-character things. Because typing them out involves too many keystrokes and I often end up typing QBOPE//].

On one of the old version of facepunch (or maybe it was just my browser) if you had a block of text selected and hit ctrl-b it would insert bold tags around the text. Those were the days.

[Dj-J3]

r4nk_ posted:

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the MSDN documentation? I find it harder to browse than others, less appealing and so on. But it has code examples which is good.



On one of the old version of facepunch (or maybe it was just my browser) if you had a block of text selected and hit ctrl-b it would insert bold tags around the text. Those were the days.

Does in firefox IIRC.

[s0ul0r]

-snip-

[Eudoxia]

To do: Disable parsing the slash in URL's into Italics tags

Bit of a derp there.

[high]

r4nk_ posted:

Riiiiighhttt so you think its more likely that the developers wrote a 10,000 line main file than that it is caused by decompiling.....

When dealing with .NET yes. Granted the decompiler might have added a few lines but the 'Main' class is a mess. http://pastebin.com/qdBaTnL3

[strata8]

high posted:

When dealing with .NET yes. Granted the decompiler might have added a few lines but the 'Main' class is a mess. http://pastebin.com/qdBaTnL3

What the hell? I don't know anything about coding, but shouldn't that all be in classes or something?

    protected override void UnloadContent();
    protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime);
    private static void UpdateClient();
    private static void UpdateDebug();
    private static void UpdateInvasion();
    private static void UpdateMenu();
    protected void UpdateMusic();
    private static void UpdateServer();
    private static void UpdateTime();

Ugh.

[HeatPipe]

ROBO_DONUT posted:

People put too much emphasis on the language, rather than general programming theory or problem solving skills.
I really think that most good programmers can pick up new syntax in a week or less.

This.

[VoiDeD]

There's something about the ratio of code quality to indie success that just makes me want to punch children.