Drake7707

who is where now ?! @Fluffz: So you opened a map, imported a 24-bit tileset, saved the map, and both bak and normal lvl are doomed ?

the way it was originally worked here, and i have vb6 enterprise edition (without sp4 installed)

or if you want to understand it later what you did if it's been a few months. I didn't say it wasn't stupid, i just hate doing it

ty ^^

RiiStar suggested that it might be a good idea to make a website for DCME, where screenshots and the files can be stored, with maybe a suggestion box or something. So ehh, i'd like to request dcme.sscentral.com. RiiStar will build and maintain the site.

well it isn't MY server, it's webspace from my university that every student has.

maybe i can link it to somewhere else where i can see stats ? Only don't know where :/

java isn't slow. I wrote a ray tracer in it, and the computations speed and drawing is a lot faster than vb. But it has to load the java virtual machine into the memory first, and java is waaaaaay too easy to decompile. VB/Delphi are all high level languages that are designed to be easily interactive with users. It's only natural they optimise for gui rather than computation speed and kirk, i hate writing do!@#$%^&*entation , it takes about the same amount of time to do!@#$%^&*ent a program as to write it, while if you write it, you can see it working, with do!@#$%^&*entation you're standing still in its progress. I hate not moving forward

errr sama use ctrl+break, to pause the ide and i don't think a lot of ppl care so much about DCME .

well you if you type on the picpreview_keypress event, only cache the letters typed when a selection is active, and the left top boundaries are in screen visible. Else you'd replace every shortcut that was previously !@#$%^&*igned to a letter, like G for grid etc. btw until 2045, iiiiiiiii don't think so. DCME is already on lower priority here, and it won't certainly go back up again. I mean, come on , DCME is almost 1 year old (15th october), it's my longest project ever. There isn't so much to do in it anymore, nothing that you can't handle. I might redo the undo/redo to work better with selection but that'll be about it (aside from some minor tweaks or so).

if A-Z correspond with tile 1 - 26 you can easily use if keyascii >= asc("A") and keyascii <= asc("Z") then place tile where keyascii - asc("A")+1 is the source tile from the tileset end if you can add an offset in there (as i think most letters are sequentially placed ?!) keep in mind that A != a, so you'll have to make 2 checks maybe selecting the area where the tiles have to be placed ? Or put anything you type with that tool on a new selection, so you can move it

i like vb6 for its simplicity. In c++ it can get just a tad bit too complex for me, if i write a program i memorize every link between, and structure of the entire program, with c++ i can't do that so easily without writing it down on paper And vb6's Variant is quite useful too. I mean, it gets abused waay too often, making the program more unstable and slower, but what if you have a method where you p!@#$%^&* a parameter, but you don't know the parameter before hand what type it is. Like i'm reusing the same parameter for different meanings, depending on the context of another passed variable (the downside is that it takes 16bytes but it gets a lot less complex, instead of overloading the same method ... 4 or 5 times)

heh, you wanna do that everytime you need it for a different tileset ? I don't think so

overall vb6 programs quality is low because a lot of programs have been created by beginners. Thats why the general idea of vb6 is seen as bad. If you know other languages as well, and have a lot of experience with programming, you can create a stable program just as good in vb6 as in c++ or any other language.

yeah, ive been thinking about mapping some tiles to the alphabet, so you can just type your tiles down. It might get in DCME, once i get some free time as DCME is not top prio anymore. (Haven't changed anything to it in 2 weeks), or sama can get it done once he's able to.

pascal ? delphi ?

yeah, but if you need that on every single line, then On Error Resume Next in vb is way easier to read than having that chunk of text on every line you want to test. Btw vb6 isn't all that different from c, because the vb6 compiler is a hacked c compiler.

DCME creates a bak file for every map (well at least it should), if you saved more than once in the process of map making. Is there a .bak present in your directory ? If so, try renaming it to lvl and open it with DCME.

maybe the file was read-only , or you had low disk space ?

DCME shouldn't have problems with clt or ssme. Could it be that it was an elvl, or extra data was stored in the lvl besides the tileset and map tiles. Like ASSS regions ? Because i never tested a read/write to such lvl files

could you explain what you exactly did ? If i draw a bit in the new map, then save it, then close DCME and reopen it, then open the map it's still there tho. How big is the saved lvl file ? (like if you draw a !@#$%^&* of a lot of tiles, it should be quite big)

yuck .net, its way too much like c++/java, stick with vb6 The "On Error goto errh" or "On Error Resume Next" is easier for me to handle exceptions

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riiiiiiiiight "purchase"

It's stupid to argue whether someone believes in something or not, if you don't believe it, well good for you, but don't try to convince the other one that he/she is wrong in his/her beliefs. That's whats happening way too much, and is the cause of many many quarrels, fights and even wars. "Spread the word" is just the biggest crap ever, you can tell others about what you belief, but you'll have to accept that persons personal beliefs too. All religions force in some way their beliefs to others, and thats just what the problem is. Beliefs are just an escape of reality, a thing to hold on to when you're having difficult times and maybe a motivation to keep going. Anyway, back on topic: marriage is originally invented by the church, but the way it's integrated into our society has changed the meaning from religion-based to a more general; someone loves someone else, so marriage is more the bond of those 2 persons. It has nothing to do with man-female relationships anymore. Those who oppose gay marriage should wait for a sec, and think about "why am i opposing it ?". Is it because the church says so, or is it because i believe so? If you always belief the church more than your own beliefs then you're a narrowminded person that beliefs everything you hear. Maybe you should consider beliefs that have been written down as actual "guidelines" or "considerations" than actual facts or laws.