[Spectere]

Pyro1588, on Jul 2 2005, 09:03 AM, said:

nor did i. was he talking about the repeated copy block where you press ctrl+dir?

Well, you know how some commands require x/y coordinates? Basically, on those commands you could press a function key (or whatever) and it would display the current board. You could then move the cursor around and select what you wanted rather than doing it outside of the robot editor. You dig?

It's a shame it would be hard to implement -- that's a pretty good idea.

This post has been edited by Spectere: 03 July 2005 - 01:25 AM

[Castlevania]

Yes, that is very good idea.

Here is another suggestion...

Now that the char editor can be expanded, it would be nice if there was a faint grid on it that outlines each char you are currently editing.

[Exophase]

emalkay, on Jul 3 2005, 02:24 PM, said:

Yes, that is very good idea.

Here is another suggestion...

Now that the char editor can be expanded, it would be nice if there was a faint grid on it that outlines each char you are currently editing.

It can't be done in pseudo-text mode.

- Exo

[Castlevania]

You can't even use colour? So you would have a checkerboard effect, rather than lines.

[Nedemai]

I just thought of something that has been bothering me for awhile, I should ask about this first... but meh, I know it will at least get resolved here....

is there a way to check if a certain grid coordinate has a certain overlay block there such as using something like;

 if c?? overlay p?? "randomx" "randomy" "label" (code that does not work at all)

or is anything to that extent available or possible MZX? If not could it possibly be added at all?

[Exophase]

emalkay, on Jul 3 2005, 06:24 PM, said:

You can't even use colour? So you would have a checkerboard effect, rather than lines.

Maybe in non-SMZX mode, but in SMZX mode, not really.

- Exo

[Dr Lancer-X]

Nedemai, on Jul 3 2005, 06:26 PM, said:

I just thought of something that has been bothering me for awhile, I should ask about this first... but meh, I know it will at least get resolved here....

is there a way to check if a certain grid coordinate has a certain overlay block there such as using something like;

 if c?? overlay p?? "randomx" "randomy" "label" (code that does not work at all)

or is anything to that extent available or possible MZX? If not could it possibly be added at all?

are overlay_x, overlay_y, overlay_color and overlay_char not good enough for you?

set "overlay_x" 5
set "overlay_y" 5
if "overlay_color" = 15 "dostuff"

well, if you don't want to use those you could always

copy overlay block 5 5 1 1 "#0" "#0"
if "vco0,0" = 15 "dostuff"

[Pyro1588]

yeah, i could definately go for a "if c?? 'X' overlay x y" command. i found out in the middle of programming a game that it didn't exist. i had always assumed that such a command would exist, so i was surprised and had to do the copy overlay block workaround.

[Dr Lancer-X]

again, WHAT is wrong with overlay_x, overlay_y, overlay_char and overlay_color? If you have a problem with them, TELL US, don't just sullenly use your workarounds because you don't like them

[Pyro1588]

multiple robots can't use them at the same time. that's the problem i had.
edit: i'd be fine with having robotid.overlay_x, just so long as there's something so that multiple robots can do it at the same time.

This post has been edited by Pyro1588: 06 July 2005 - 11:16 AM

[Dr Lancer-X]

multiple robots CAN use it at the same time, providing they are done atomically

you simply need to reupdate overlay_x and overlay_y each cycle the overlay_char and overlay_color commands are used!

[Castlevania]

The Alt+M modify command is pretty pointless, I think it should be like MZX 1's modify command where you could edit char properties underneath objects. It really is quite handy.

[Stylus]

How about being able to select [ "This text." in the robot editor and select a color from a list? Just like a word processor?

[Lachesis]

I am sure this has been asked about a million times, but is it possible to stack commands on top of each other? Like, back in ZZT, where you could "#if not green key #if red fake #take gems 50"? I doubt it, but I think it is worth an ask.

[Dr Lancer-X]

Not with the current bytecode--not that you need to with subroutines now.

You will be able to do something like that with exotic though

[Revvy]

Stylus: Do you mean adding color codes into text? Use ~ and @ in the string to do that.

Kuroneko: You can stack if conditions using bitwise operators like so

if "((&greenkey&=1)a(&redfake&=0))" = 1 "dostuff"

I mean, that probably won't work because I've completely forgotten the syntax for expressions, having not touched mzx for months, but apart from my syntax glitches it should work.

[Exophase]

There's also "conditional arithmetic" that has become strangely common in MZX games... stuff like:

dec "gems" "(('green key' x 1) a 'red fake' * 50)"

I don't really do things like this myself though. This particular form only works for addition and subtraction.

Revvy: Your syntax is fine, although it's an uncommon alternate form.

- Exo

[Superfunk]

Here's a feature request: An undo button for the world editor.

[Frobozz]

funkbrat, on Jul 26 2005, 11:21 AM, said:

Here's a feature request: An undo button for the world editor.

Meh - that's been asked for in the past. Exophase will just tell you to use the auto backup feature he plopped into the editor.

This post has been edited by Frobozz: 26 July 2005 - 06:51 PM

[CJA]

Multiple character buffer (which probably isn't the right term for this):

You can press F2, and select a slot for the current character to go in.
Then press F3, and select the slot to copy the character from.

Because I hate "juggling" characters in the editor.

[Pyro1588]

wait, does 'a' work just as plain old "and" in an expression? i never used it because the counter list said something about "bitwise" and i had no idea what that meant.

[Revvy]

Pyro, it's a bitwise and, which means that it masks off bits of a value and gives the result. In this case, yes, it can be used just as "and", as long as you have it in the form seen above.

[Pyro1588]

huh, i usually just do something like 'if "(('a'=1)+('b'=2))" = 2 then "blah"' or something like that because that logic stuff confuses me.

[RoSS]

You could also use +'s for ORs, *'s for ANDs, and check to see if the result =0 or != 0.

[Dr Lancer-X]

I just use the and / or stuff out of habit..

[Koji]

dude, and, and or functionality is easy... just type the first leter.

if "(('rawr'>0) a ('rawr'<2))" then "0<rawr<2"

it's not that hard.

Basicly when you talk about bitwise functions, you can use them as logicals, so long as you put the items compared into a logical syntax (that equate to 1 or 0)

like ('this' = 'that'), ('this'>'that'), ('this'<'that'), ('this'!='that), or some mixture of thoes. So long as they equate to 1 or 0 in the end, you can use them along with another to make a logical comparison.

if "(('rawr'>0) a ('rawr'<2))" = 1 then "0<rawr<2"

So, if rawr is more than 0 and greater than 2 then 0<rawr<2!

I don't think you should add functionality that's already there.

[Pyro1588]

ah. that makes more sense. thanks, koji!

and yes, i am stupid for not knowing that.

[Game master pro]

I think you should be able to put commant on the same line as code like in C or something

int main() // tis some thing

but you can't go

: "main" . "tis some thing"

you would have to go

: "main"
. "tis some thing"

it would be cool if you could do that.

edit: i'm just saying it would be cool, but i don't really care

This post has been edited by Game master pro: 16 August 2005 - 10:56 AM

[RoSS]

As it stands right now, this would NOT work in MZX and is a pretty trivial thing to be asking for, anyway.

[Koji]

Agreed! *stomps on GMP's hopes and dreams*