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[Aqizzar]

Your funeral.  I almost feel like I shouldn't even put it here, because this is definitely not a public release thing I want people to look at, this is a transition between Console drawing and Libtcod drawing that nobody who doesn't understand Libtcod C# (as if I do) should be bothering with.  There's probably stuff I still haven't done, but I won't really be able to look at it again until tomorrow afternoon, so I might as well offer it.

[Max White]

Eh, if you are that ashamed you can take it down, I have my copy.
Anyway, I think you underestimate just how much tea I can drink when required.

[Valid_Dark]

is there a way to do gamestates without classes?
I had it set up with a series of loops, but whenever going to a previous class the font doesn't show up, but all of the graphics and everything else works.
like, when you start the menu works perfectly, then when you go to the game it works perfectly, but when you go back to the menu the font won't show up, then when you go back to the game from the menu the 2nd time the font in the game doesn't show up.
I don't know as much c++ as I should for attempting to make a game,  I've recently started up my basic c++ studies again. (today learned about scopes, the scope resolution operator, static variables, and overloading functions)  classes don't start for another 200 pages o_O


but maybe it's just a problem I'm having with SDL,

[Max White]

Eh, if you are that ashamed you can take it down, I have my copy.
Anyway, I think you underestimate just how much tea I can drink when required.

Ok, so I'm going to give a general description of what I am doing here, so if I fix this, you know not only what I did, but how.

Firstly, running the program.
Whoa, You are right! Thing is very unresponsive, however not entirely. With a little bit of effort, I can get the window to glitch across the screen. What we are looking at is most likely an infinite loop eating all the processing power allocated to the program, and never finishing the frame. From the fact that it apparently happens while you are drawing the level, I'm going to guess that during your loop to go over each tile, you forgot a counter++ somewhere.

Will edit post with an update if I find anything, stay tuned!

[Mego]

is there a way to do gamestates without classes?
I had it set up with a series of loops, but whenever going to a previous class the font doesn't show up, but all of the graphics and everything else works.
like, when you start the menu works perfectly, then when you go to the game it works perfectly, but when you go back to the menu the font won't show up, then when you go back to the game from the menu the 2nd time the font in the game doesn't show up.
I don't know as much c++ as I should for attempting to make a game,  I've recently started up my basic c++ studies again. (today learned about scopes, the scope resolution operator, static variables, and overloading functions)  classes don't start for another 200 pages o_O

Sounds like I need to post more C++ tutorials. They'll come after I finish being busy with real-life things and trying to run Hellcannon.

[Gatleos]

Well, V_D, it sounds like the program is screwing with the pointer to the SDL_Surface when you switch states. Do the menu and game state use separate fonts?

[Valid_Dark]

I only do my c++ learning from my book,
it takes a long time, but it's the only way I can assure a proper and thorough education of c++.
1600 pages and covers most if not all of the standard library.  on page 380 and have already made a game, so it must  be doing something right, right?  (and yes, I know I shouldn't have tried to make a game yet, it's just my book got to a boring part and I got bored so started learning sdl)

the menu has 2 ttf_fonts that are the same font, just different sizes,
and the game has 4 ttf_fonts that are all the same font (but a different font from the menu font) different sizes.

and Gatleos, I sent you the source code like a week ago asking for help with this very same problem and you never replied.

[Vector]

... Does anyone know of any sort of command that can slow down how fast the print operation works?  Like... "wait .5 seconds," or something like that?  This is driving me nuts.

[Max White]

Python? From what I recall, it uses

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time.sleep(x) This causes the code to wait for the given time. I'm somewhat sure x is in seconds. If not it should be milliseconds.

[nenjin]

So all this talk of SDL got me reading, and I found what looks like a really good set of tutorials on SDL, graphics implementation, ect...

http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/

What's people's opinions of SDL? It sounds like a higher level version of what libctod is about, handling input, graphics, events, ect. Thoughts?

[Max White]

Not exactly... But sort of, yea.
Libtcod is all about roguelikes. As such, although it handles graphics and input, it does it in a way designed specifically for roguelikes. It also provides other cool functions like random number generators and noise generators.
SDL is for some basic boiler plate code that is very reusable that relates to input like keyboard an mouse, output like graphics and music, and other cool shit. It is to be used for anything you can use it for.

[Vector]

Okay, thanks.  I really appreciate it.

There's no way I can turn in this coding project with the desired modifications, though... I'm just going to have to mod them the hell in, erase/comment out craploads of extra code that doesn't fit with the new stuff so that the program doesn't have to go through a billion pointless checks, and take it in to office hours or something to show off.

*siiiiigh*

Yeah, like that's going to happen, and like they're going to want to goof around with my crummy stuff =(  Well, maybe if I finished by Monday, they'd still be interested... doubt it, though.


EDIT:

Actually, I have an idea.  A basic, horrible, and generally strange idea, but an idea.  An idea so generally bizarre that I don't really know why I'd ever do this thing, but if I work on it pretty hard through the next week, I'll have a respectable setup by at least next weekend, and ... well, I should go write up a game design doc.

Is it considered cheating to use a basic library for stuff like drawing windows, by the way?  As a math student, I feel enormously... underhanded using less rudimentary stuff without knowing how it works.

[Max White]

Still rolln with pigs?
How much functionality can you possibly be giving this game?

[Gatleos]

and Gatleos, I sent you the source code like a week ago asking for help with this very same problem and you never replied.

If your code hasn't changed much since you sent it to me, then: you're loading and unloading the fonts every single time the game loops. Move those function calls outside the while(gamerun) loop. Move all those SDL_surface loading functions outside the loop while you're at it, that's probably eating up quite a bit of CPU. That will probably fix the font disappearing problem as well.

[Valid_Dark]

kk, and ya my code had changed a great deal since then, but that area hasn't been touched.  thanks for the advice.  I'll tackle my code head on tomorrow and do a major renovation.