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Also, rather than having an array of structs each with an overlay, etc, why not have:

Code: ags

struct Enemies{

  // Sprites
  Overlay* enemy_graphics[MAX_ENEMIES];
  int enemy_sprites[MAX_ENEMIES];
  int width[MAX_ENEMIES];  // enemies sprite proberties
  int height[MAX_ENEMIES];
..
..
 int all_enemies;
 int enemy_type;
 int amount_of_enemies_per_type;

};

S. Rex, I think you need to put [hi de] around you spoilers!

To my knowledge it is (so far) not possible to create new objects of a struct in AGS. Therefore a non-static function in a struct would have no meaning since you won't be able to call it.

You can declare variables that are structs and arrays of them. However, you can't do so dynamically. And of course you can call non-static functions in structs.

Code: ags

struct a { int b; import function setb(int b); };
a b;
b.setb(4);

..And since God created everything, and everything is part of God..
God is Hell.

EDIT:

Ergo, God created Satan, the ruler of hell.Ã,  Satan is evil.Ã,  Satan, as part of "everything", is evil.Ã,  As part of everything, Satan is part of God.Ã,  Henceforth, God is part evil.

If God isn't part evil, then something exists outside of God, therefore God isn't what everyone thinks "He" is.

EDIT:

Lilly's a hardcore Christian, and we've had discussions on religion before.Ã,  I respect his belief in those, but in no way would I agree with him and in no way would he agree with my views.Ã,  That said, he's statement only backs up my point.Ã,  God created Hell, therefore God created something that's viewed as "Evil".Ã,  Considering God is everything, God made a part of himself evil.Ã,  God is not ALL good.

Actually, some Christians suggest that hell is being seperated from God, and thus inferring utter oblivion, while heaven is "merely" being with God and being able to continue living. This gets around your issue with God creating hell.

As for God creating evil, well what God created was free will. If we did not have free will we would be robots and unable to have this discussion, really. If God has given us something like free will but without the option of doing something other than what he wanted, then we would not have free will at all. It's quite simple, yet many people have problems grasping this.

Why does freedom of speech mean that you need to go out of your way to piss people off?

Paul who?

I'm really not clear if this is supposed to be in support or against Mr Harvey. Whoever he is.

A quick ask on #ags elicited the reply "A right wing nut job"

it's tricky to get a tile starting at the top left pixel, because the gray area outside the actual bitmap is not responsive to mouse clicks, and on most resolutions or zooms moving the mouse cursor even one pixel to the right or bottom means you won't select the top left pixel

I see what you mean, but it's a relatively big job to change this compared with the benefit of doing so. I'll think about it though.

I always thought it would be handy to be able to enetr the numbers for the size and origin of the sprite grabbing manually....

Eventually someone will make the obvious joke...

Eventually someone will make the obvious joke...

Eventually someone will make the obvious joke...

Banana Cream

Now, what is that a metaphor for?

Maybe rharpe and the other guy would like to know about this place: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/02/christian_shop/

Imagine a guy pointing at something remarkable. Say, the eiffel tower. Then another guy comes along and points at the eiffel tower too. This is like having two pointers and assigning one to the other. Then, a terrorist comes and blows up the eiffel tower. This affects both pointers. To do what you want, you need to creat a new copy of the eiffel tower and just blow one of them up...

Yes, you did miss it, because it is there. Zooty even mentioned how I said Pee Three En One Ess ...

As long as you don't enforce new style strings, you can still pass a "string" rather than a "String". This will make the string argument modifiable in-place.

However, you can also declare a function that returns a String by replacing "function" (which is just #defined to "int" anyway) with String.

[Best Game]

OK, peeps, here's the big list of who and what is nominated.

Voting closed Friday 17th at 3pm GMT, the awards ceremony will be at 8pm GMT on Saturday 18th.

Links to all the nominated game's game pages are at: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/awards.php?action=shownominees . Games with broken download links might be found at hajo's torrent site, or on http://aafiles.bicycle-for-slugs.org/


AGS Awards

Best Game	Ben Jordan 4	Cedric and the Revolution	Emily Enough	Mind's Eye	Stargate
Gameplay	BJ4	Emily	Stargate	Winter Rose	Zugzwang
Story	BJ4	Emily	Mind's Eye	Prodigal	Soviet Unterthingmabob
Dialogue	BJ4	Da New Guys	Emily	Jessica Plunkenstein	Soviet Unter
Puzzles	BJ4	Cedric	Emily	Frank the Farmhand 2	Meta
Player char	Ben Jordan (BJ4)	Cedric (Cedric & Revolution)	The Brain (Da New Guys)	Emily (Emily Enough)	Jessica (Jessica Plunkenstein)
Best NPC	Invisible guy (Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment)	Anna (Anna)	Smiley Joe (Da New Guys)	Uncle Ernie (Great Stroke Off)	Cuppit (Meta)
Backgrounds	Cedric	Emily	Great Stroke Off	Prodigal	Stargate
Char Art	Cedric	Emily	Great Stroke Off	Mind's Eye	Stargate
Anim	Frank Farmhand 2	Great Stroke Off	Mind's Eye	Stargate	The Winter Rose
Programming	Adventures in Galaxy of FW	Anna	Mind's Eye	Stargate	Zugzwang
Sound	BJ4	Lost in the Nightmare	Magsic II	Prodigal	Stargate
Music	Apprentice I Deluxe	BJ4	Great Stroke Off	Mind's Eye	Prodigal
Doc	Anna	BJ4	Stargate
Short	Anna	Cedric	Saturday School	The Bar	Zooreal
Demo	Valis	Wolf Country	Da New Guys 2: Day of the Jackass	Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
Non-Adventure	Missing in Action	Operation Novi 2D	Labyrinth	Barn Runner 3	Rapstar 1.5
Resource	AGS Wiki by American Girl Scouts	Save/load GUI with Screenshots by SSH	AGS 3D by Steve McCrea
P3N1S	No, I am Spartacus	A walk in da tomb
Lifetime Achievement	MrColossal

FOREGOs

Beginners Tech	Ashen	Strazer	Gilbot
Tech	Ashen	CJ	Strazer
Games in Prod	Darth Mandarb	Ozzie	ProgZmax
Hints/Tips	cittymom	ida	jane	joyce	rosie
Comp & Act	Big Brother	Darth	GeoffKhan	Krysis	ProgZMax
Help Artist	Andail	Darth	InCreator	Loominous	ProgZmax
Musician	GeoffKhan	Nikolas	Petteri
Debate	DGMcPhee	Esper	Farlander	Helm	MrColossal
Overall	CJ	Grundislav	Kinoko	SSH
Funniest	CJ	DGMcPhee	Helm	Pablo	SSH
Worst n00b	Elliot Hird	Flukeblake	LJUBI	theatrx
Best newbie	Becky	Lord Nipper	Nikolas	Krysis
Best IRC #ags	Al_Ninio	Jake	Hajo	SSH
Sexy	Ginny	SSH	The Ivy	Yufster
CJ's Best Deed	Existing	Updating AGS
Moderator	AGA	Andail	Ashen	Darth	MrColossal
Avatar	Chicky	Darth	Pablo	TerranRich
Awaited Game	Ben Jordan 5	Gift of Aldora	Fountain of Youth	Hero Theorem	The Legend of the lost lagoon

Actually, another thing has come up which means that nominations will now close at 3:30pm GMT. You will still be able to submit until 5pm but they will be ignored! SOrry!

TWO HOURS TO GO!

The problem with that, dkh, is that password files are often stored hashed. Then a hacker takes a dictionary and hashes every word in it, forward and reveresed, with the numbers 0-9 added at each end, etc. Then they compare all of these with your encrypted pasword and when they get a match, bingo!

A secure password should be based on a pronouncable (and thus memorable) non-word, like "phlangtooie" with some letters capitalised pHlangtOOie and some numbers and other characters thrown in: "phl4ngtO0!3"

And you should use a different one for everything, if possible. Of course, as soon as you have to write them down or start forgetting, that rukle becomes self-defeating. So at least vary them somewhat, in a memorable way.

2.  String.Format - Format does not appear in the auto-complete list.  It seems like there are some other ones missing also but I am not sure.   

3. String.Format - When executed from within a module the StringFormat statement seems to have no effect.   

Code: ags

returns null.
int value=0;
String buf;
buf = "Hello World";
buf.Format("%d",value);  // This statement doesen't seem to do anything
Display(buf);  // Displays "Hello World" on screen

RTFM, n00b! 

you need to do:
buf = String.Format("%d", value);

then new string functions have no side effects.