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[Siquo]

No, I don't need it, I have it Diamond square can **** my mother****ing ****. Once I have a terrain that I like, the actual abstraction of detail is inherent to the process.

Right now I've got a hilly sphere (Note that the distance-detail thing is not obvious here, it's a sphere of 6 meters diameter Edit: I mean radius). It's time to increase the scale and optimise the vertexgeneration.

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[DeKaFu]

Hoping this is a good place to put this?

So here's my situation:

My whole programming experience is one and a half semesters of introductory programming, and the language I've learned is C.
I've been working on a very simple (first!) game. Right now it's not a game so much as a non-interactive simulation that runs once and prints, but anyway...

I basically want to take what I have now and build a sorta virtual pet thing around it wherein you'd have many pets at once. I don't currently know how to do this, but I'm looking ahead and wondering if I should keep working on it as it is in C, or try to learn C++ and object-oriented stuff and continue from that direction.

The idea of learning a new language at this point when I'm not even fully competent with my first is pretty daunting, but maybe it'd make things easier in the end? I don't know. I was planning to make it run in the console but am kinda hopeful I could give it (simple, 2D) graphics someday.

FWIW I'm probably going to have to completely rewrite what I have already either way, considering I wrote the whole thousand lines of it before learning that pointers, memory allocation and structs are things that exist.

So, advice please?

[Valid_Dark]

I've made a 2d game in c++ without knowing any of the object oriented aspects of it.
so it's not impossible to make a game without object oriented stuffs.

I say go with what you know, if you're comfortable in C, stay in C.

learning a 2d graphical library is almost as much work as learning a new language.

[Siquo]

I'd say switch. C++ isn't that different from C, and if you ever want to do anything cool, it's better equipped than C. OTOH, if you want quick results, keep what you have and try to work with that. Working on something for a long time with lots of frustration with no results can be off-putting.

[Shades]

I'd say code in a functional c style but leverage the built in (and maybe boost) c++ artifacts. The stl containers, threading and exception handling are trival to use and far superior to there c counterparts.
Switch to c++ as you need/want to that way.

[Kofthefens]

In Java: I'm having trouble removing components from a JFrame.

A super-condensed version of the important parts of the code:

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public class GameWindow extends JPanel implements runnable{

JFrame window = new JFrame();
Box buttonBox; // This has buttons added to it in an irrelevant part of the program

public void run(){
       window.getContentPane().remove(buttonBox);
       window.getContentPane().add(this);

       // more, irrelevant code
}

public void gameOver(){
       window.getContentPane().remove(this);
       window.getContentPane().add(buttonBox);

       // more, irrelevant code
}

}

However, it doesn't seem to be removing the buttonBox or this

[RulerOfNothing]

From the official documentation (at least I think it's official), you need to call validate on window.getContentPane() after you add and remove those components.

[Kofthefens]

That did the trick, thanks.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

How Can I tell if a float is an interger? Ex.) if (dValue = {wholenumber}), is there an operater I can use? scratch that I fixed
it

EDIT: whats wrong with this program?

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I'm not sure what causes the error for the operator. i've had this problem a couple of times.
Also note, that although #include <iostream> is not shown its there.

[Mephisto]

How Can I tell if a float is an interger? Ex.) if (dValue = {wholenumber}), is there an operater I can use? scratch that I fixed
it

EDIT: whats wrong with this program?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm not sure what causes the error for the operator. i've had this problem a couple of times.
Also note, that although #include <iostream> is not shown its there.

Remove the endl on your cin.

Also, this form of recursion is odd.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Thanks that worked

[Shades]

Also that tabbing might get confusing as the cout << main(); is not part of the else even though it looks like it is.

[Kofthefens]

Strangely enough my program isn't registering keyboard input. Can anybody figure out why? This in Java, by the way.

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public class GameWindow extends JPanel implements Runnable {
        public GameWindow(){
                setFocusable(true);
requestFocus();
addKeyListener(new KeyHandler());
        }

        public void run(){
int period = 20;
long beforeTime, timeDiff, sleepTime;

beforeTime = System.currentTimeMillis();

running = true;


while (running){

gameUpdate();
gameRender();
paintScreen();

if (leftPressed){
leftArrowKeyPressed();
}

if (rightPressed){
rightArrowKeyPressed();
}

if (readyToClose){
gameOver();
}

//requestFocus();

timeDiff = System.currentTimeMillis() - beforeTime;
sleepTime = period - timeDiff;

if (sleepTime <= 0){
sleepTime = 5;
}

try{
Thread.sleep(sleepTime);
}catch (InterruptedException ex){}

beforeTime = System.currentTimeMillis();


if (gameIsOver){
gameOver();
}

}

} //End of run()

public class KeyHandler extends KeyAdapter{

public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e){
int keyCode = e.getKeyCode();
if((keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE) || (keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_Q) ||
(keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_END) ){

readyToClose = true;
}
}

public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
int keyCode = e.getKeyCode();

if (keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT){
leftPressed = true;
//System.out.println("left");
}
else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT){
rightPressed = true;
//System.out.println("Right");
}
}

public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e){
int keyCode = e.getKeyCode();

if (keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT){
leftPressed = false;
//System.out.println("left");
}
else if (keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT){
rightPressed = false;
//System.out.println("Right");
}
}


}

}


[Mephisto]

Strangely enough my program isn't registering keyboard input. Can anybody figure out why? This in Java, by the way.

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code


Surely that's not everything. I'm seeing lots of undeclared variables and methods. I'm not seeing any declaration of any kind of GUI components either.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I'm very curious, what does it take to make a simple interface for a game, a menu for example? Generally at least. Also what kind of libraries are needed for this?