[supersnail11]

Lexic posted:

Wow, that was some damn creepy creepypasta.
I was also impressed by the way you authentically froze the browser in the woods area.

It's very difficult

while(true)
{
  continue;
}

Edited:

Also, input is disabled in case firefox does the "this plugin is not responding" thing and stops the loop.

[polkm]

I started to work on my c++ opengl 3.0 game again. I think it is going to involve space monsters and weird looking flowers. I have a long way to go but it feels good to be back.

[C:\]

I should use source control.
I held ctrl+z until I found what I did.
then I accidentally hit the T did
now I have to write 10 mins worth of code again

[boomer678]

Added some background textures to my game. still working on them.

[Simspelaaja]

wingless posted:

Goddammit. The part on Source Control.
Source Control has been something that has been completely pissing me off lately, not because I can't use it or it doesn't work for me. Because of a friend I am working with on some project absolutely hates it, he continually wants to move to FTP and it always saying FTP does what Source control does but is't as volatile. The other day he re-arranged all the shit on my SVN, in a way that removed all way of reverting back WHILE leaving all the hard drive space taken up by the delta's. Worst part is he will not read up on it, Refuses to, avoid it whenever brought up. I tried to get him to get the "Version Control by Example" book (Brilliant book, I love Version Control because of it) but he said his family would freak the fuck out if a random book appeared in his name, so I found him an online version and PDF version. Still won't read it.

I have that book. Pretty good, even though it's mostly the same chapter copy-pasted four times with some modifications. I guess it has to be like that so you can compare the differencens between version control systems.

[Chuushajou]

supersnail11 posted:

I made this in an hour or two after reading the creepypasta.

From here.

[Lord Ned]

How do you guys handle filepaths? Some functions I have work if I ask it to load "test.txt", it'll pick it up off of the exe's directory, some if I do load "test.txt" I never find out and end up typing out a full path.

What's the best way to get/set the directory so everything can be relative to the theoretical install directory?

[reevezy67]

Lord Ned posted:

How do you guys handle filepaths? Some functions I have work if I ask it to load "test.txt", it'll pick it up off of the exe's directory, some if I do load "test.txt" I never find out and end up typing out a full path.

What's the best way to get/set the directory so everything can be relative to the theoretical install directory?

Couldn't you just store the directory somewhere and then just append the file name onto that?

[Richy19]

garry posted:

Made a little coding blog: http://garry.tv/post/14613360572/coding-evolution

Setup git on dropbox
Now im trying to setup premake,

managed to get premake working, but is there anyway to set the directory that the makefiles created by premake build to?

[Lord Ned]

reevezy67 posted:

Couldn't you just store the directory somewhere and then just append the file name onto that?

Getting the directory is fuzzy - it should be sent to the program as the first arg, but that's untrue if you're debugging (though I know you can manually set what's passed to it) - I wouldn't want the entire thing to fall apart because it didn't have the directory.

C++ for the record.

[NovembrDobby]

Lord Ned posted:

Getting the directory is fuzzy - it should be sent to the program as the first arg, but that's untrue if you're debugging (though I know you can manually set what's passed to it) - I wouldn't want the entire thing to fall apart because it didn't have the directory.

C++ for the record.

What IDE? The dir is always passed in for me, regardless of whether I'm debugging or not. Also, there are methods to get the current working directory and stuff if you need it.

[supersnail11]

Chuushajou posted:

From here.

[SteveUK]

Lord Ned posted:

Getting the directory is fuzzy - it should be sent to the program as the first arg, but that's untrue if you're debugging (though I know you can manually set what's passed to it) - I wouldn't want the entire thing to fall apart because it didn't have the directory.

C++ for the record.

Tried _getcwd()?, although I can't see why it wouldn't work. Also a reminder that questions are best off in the "What do you need help with?" thread.

[Jookia]

SteveUK posted:

Tried _getcwd()?, although I can't see why it wouldn't work. Also a reminder that questions are best off in the "What do you need help with?" thread.

How about we use getcwd() instead? You know, to avoid having your code Windows-only because Microsoft deprecates half the standard functions.

Edit: Ah, it's a POSIX function, that's probably why Microsoft ignore it. A simple '#define getcwd _getcwd' should fix that and give you instant portability.

[supersnail11]

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Directions for Pale Luna.

[Octave]

   var dir:Array = new Array("north","east","north","west","north","west" ,"south","west",
"north","west","north","south","east","east","west ","west");   
Teehee.

[high]

Never knew but apparently this box appears when an unhandled exception occurs in the main application thread. Wish I knew earlier because apparently this causes the exception to be 'handled' and it wont be passed to the appdomain unhandled exception handler. So basically your program has 0 knowledge of this exception so you cannot handle or log it.



Edited:

danharibo posted:

That's not a terrible way to go about it tbh, using scope like that isn't a bad thing.

Especially seeing as if an exception is thrown by the code in the first snippet your layout is now stuck suspended.

[Lord Ned]

NovembrDobby posted:

What IDE? The dir is always passed in for me, regardless of whether I'm debugging or not. Also, there are methods to get the current working directory and stuff if you need it.

Visual Studio 2010. Maybe because it's a windows application?

SteveUK posted:

Tried _getcwd()?, although I can't see why it wouldn't work. Also a reminder that questions are best off in the "What do you need help with?" thread.

I feel that putting them here leads to a lot more discussion (such as what Jookia pointed out), and it tends to lead towards more overall knowledge.

Jookia posted:

How about we use getcwd() instead? You know, to avoid having your code Windows-only because Microsoft deprecates half the standard functions.

Edit: Ah, it's a POSIX function, that's probably why Microsoft ignore it. A simple '#define getcwd _getcwd' should fix that and give you instant portability.

Interesting enough, crtdbg.h defines "getcwd" to:
"#define getcwd(s, le) _getcwd_dbg(s, le, _NORMAL_BLOCK, __FILE__, __LINE__)"


That being said, getcwd/_getcwd work wonderfully, though my usage of strcat is probably not the best...

char *GetWorkingDirectory()
{
	char *buffer;
	char *trail = "\\";

	buffer = getcwd( NULL, 0);
	strcat(buffer, trail);
	
	return buffer;
}

[C:\]

I have been using love2d for some time and I would like to move on to something... sexier.
I want something good. I heard XNA is real good, but I don't know.

[reevezy67]

C:\ posted:

I have been using love2d for some time and I would like to move on to something... sexier.
I want something good. I heard XNA is real good, but I don't know.

I found XNA pretty sexy.

Simple and powerful.

[Yogurt]

C:\ posted:

I have been using love2d for some time and I would like to move on to something... sexier.
I want something good. I heard XNA is real good, but I don't know.

XNA is good.
It's better if you use YogUI.

[swift and shift]

super meat boy pro video game developers



lol:

[Jookia]

Why edit out the names and passwords if you just showed us how to find them?

[Yogurt]

swift and shift posted:

super meat boy pro video game developers



lol:

Wait, you connected to the SMB database?

[Jookia]

Do you think they'll secure their score system now?

[swift and shift]

Jookia posted:

Why edit out the names and passwords if you just showed us how to find them?

so skids can't fuck around, only those who have some sort of technical proficiency

Edited:

also lol:

[Jookia]

swift and shift posted:

so skids can't fuck around, only those who have some sort of technical proficiency

It'd be a shame if their MySQL login data just disappeared right after you discussed that, wouldn't it?

Also, I don't like the developer(s). They pretty much went 'fuck you' to Linux users.

[ROBO_DONUT]

Well, I mean, how bad is it?
Can you just read information that you'd have access to through the game client anyway, or is it something more critical, like login information or the ability to modify/drop records from the database? Of course, don't get yourself into trouble or do anything stupid.

Edited:

Jookia posted:

They pretty much went 'fuck you' to Linux users.

They did a pretty solid port, I think, database security issues aside. Is there something I missed?

[swift and shift]

ROBO_DONUT posted:

Well, I mean, how bad is it?
Can you just read information that you'd have access to through the game client anyway, or is it something more critical, like login information or the ability to modify/drop records from the database?

SELECT, UPDATE, and INSERT work.



Edited:

Jookia posted:

Also, I don't like the developer(s). They pretty much went 'fuck you' to Linux users.

The OS X version can't go fullscreen.

[Jookia]

ROBO_DONUT posted:

Well, I mean, how bad is it?
Can you just read information that you'd have access to through the game client anyway, or is it something more critical, like login information or the ability to modify/drop records from the database?

Complete DB access.

ROBO_DONUT posted:

They did a pretty solid port, I think, database security issues aside. Is there something I missed

I'd bet my avatar's glasses that they only did it to get in the Humble Indie Bundle, and they got Icculus to do the port, not themselves.

swift and shift you have some amazing self control. If it were me I'd have the login information up on every website I could put it on. If they don't want to fix shit, they shouldn't be using the technology.

[supersnail11]

I'm staying out of this
I'm staying out of this
I'm staying out of this

[Jookia]

To be fair, there's literally no other ways to add levels to an SQL database without connecting to the database dir- Oh wait, there's shit loads.

Why would you pick the most insecure one?

[ROBO_DONUT]

Jookia posted:

they got Icculus to do the port, not themselves.

Oh. Well at least they went to the right guy. Icculus is awesome.

[Jookia]

Also, if somebody does actually screw with the database besides charliesome, IT WASN'T ME. I'M ON HOLIDAY.

Edited:

ROBO_DONUT posted:

Oh. Well at least they went to the right guy. Icculus is awesome.

Couldn't agree more. I would like him to put shit according to the XDG Basedir spec, though.

[Maurice]

swift and shift posted:

SELECT, UPDATE, and INSERT work.

It's fine. Trust me.

[acpm]

Psh, hah, I'd fuck up their database in a heartbeat. I dunno, I just don't have much self-control and it's not every day that you get to work with holes as gaping as a prostitutes'.

Edited:

I guess they'd learn from it, too, or whatever.

[horsedrowner]

amcfaggot posted:

Psh, hah, I'd fuck up their database in a heartbeat. I dunno, I just don't have much self-control and it's not every day that you get to work with holes as gaping as a prostitutes'.

Edited:

I guess they'd learn from it to, or whatever.

I love Super Meat Boy, but the internet levels suck anyway. I'd say nothing of value would be lost

I wish I had content, though. I've got plenty of experience in C# but nothing with XNA whatsoever. I kinda wanna start doing game development too, but I never know what to do.

[acpm]

I think people here talk about what they're more interested in developing on vs. what they're actually going to develop.

Starting game development and not having even a general goal is just like any other project, except you're setting yourself up to fuck yourself in the ass harder.

Think of an idea first if you're going to go that path. Or if your intention is just to learn how to mess with graphic functions and the sort, that's always extremely helpful to learn, too.

Edited:

swift and shift posted:

so skids can't fuck around, only those who have some sort of technical proficiency

yeah, because looking up the strings is so difficult that a skid couldn't do it, right?

[high]

Very easy to get the username and password. Just sniff the connection using wireshark to get the username. Then use a hex editor to search the exe for the username, the password is with it.

[acpm]

high posted:

Very easy to get the username password. Just sniff the connection using wireshark to get the username. Then use a hex editor to search the exe for the username, the password is with it.

I was also thinking about this, there are clearly multiple ways so there isn't really anything holding anyone back right now.