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Yeah the free antiviruses (and firewalls) are just fine, and usually more efficient and more easily removed than the commercial ones.

Yes it is, just not in most versions of IE as I said. It's just one of the niggles that make webdesigners hate IE. You have to use the other version if you want transparency to work in all browsers... yeah it looks a bit crap... it's just not so noticable on sprite art which is designed for the hard edges.

Basically there are two ways of encoding transparency in images. There's the method where one colour in the image is selected as the transparent colour which palette based GIFs and PNGs have. And there's the other way which is to encode a level of transparency for each pixel, called the alpha channel, which true colour pngs can do (but Internet Explorer doesn't always support properly).

256 colour version, 1 bit transparency (slightly messy):


24 bit colour, alpha transparency:


AGS supports both ways in sprites, but only the second way if you're using 32 bit colour mode.
How do you make these images? Well you need to use photoshop or another graphics program that supports transparency.Ã,  Just erase the background by some means (or don't draw things on a non transparent background). In this case I used Photoshop's "background eraser" tool.

I don't think Mittens can really be in Britain anymore, due to Brittens being almost as big.  North America again would be one likely spot... otherwise I wouldn't mind going somewhere we don't have someone to host in.  Just to go somewhere new.

I don't even have a cd drive (plastic slabs of data? But I have the internet!), but the AGS Annuals as much of a collector's thing as anything, so I don't mind what format it comes in.

You used the right words.

Create a function like this:

Code: ags

function myFunction() {
Ã,  Ã, Code here;
}

and call it like:

Code: ags

myFunction();

You can also specify parameters to use in the function like:

Code: ags

function myFunction(String a) { Display(a); }

and you can also return values from a function like:

Code: ags

int add(int a, int b) { return a+b; }

You should define your functions at the top of your global script. If you want to be able to call the function in room scripts then you are required to "import" it from the global script by adding a like like this to the script header:

Code: ags

import function myFunction(String);

and it will try and import the function that matches that prototype.

I tried to make a working html version for IE, but it didn't work. I guess the autogenerated xhtml in it is too much for IE to take.

The nearest train station is Taffs Well, you can walk to Brittens from there.
You can also take a bus from Cardiff which stops just over the road from the house, but you'd have to make sure you know where to get off...

Check with whoever you fly with, because the rules are set down by them. There's no legal requirement for even photo ID within Ireland and the UK, but even on internal UK flights it is required by the airlines. A driver's license is ok instead of a passport. Under 16s don't need any ID on uk/irish flights in Ryanair's TOS, others are about the same, but still check.

Edit: same on ferries

Irish Ferries recommend you bring your passport when travelling abroad. Irish and British citizens do not strictly require a passport to travel between the two countries - some form of identification is however required.

Photo ID, Bank Cards or bills for house utilities addressed to you are all acceptable and useful means of identification. Please note that all other nationalities require passports.

You might be right. Holland, Sweden and Finland are very concentrated with AGSers as well, but they're smaller countries.
On the map it appears that it's fairly close, comparing the number of Europeans to North Americans. The Europeans tend to live closer together so we can have more meet ups, which strengthens the community here...

Just above where you write a message it says "How do I post images, smileys and formatting?"
Click that.

If you don't know, then you'll probably be impressed.

iIf you have a few pms, or a small window, you can check them off on the pms list at the top and press delete without scrolling down.
In any case it's just the same old post we've seen 50 times each.

Go to the "Game" menu and press "Game Statistics", and it'll display limits for your version (and how close you are to them). Wait, rooms aren't on there? Oh... well, there are plenty as Ashen pointed out.

Give Andy some credit! This thing is just some forum spamming script that's making the rounds: http://irca.org.au/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1122456539

It's very simple to delete all posts from a user, so the forum spamming isn't a problem, but you'll have to police your own pm inboxes.

Windows 2000 and XP haven't made a difference for me, any AGS game that uses digital audio and is set to directsound output freezes all other sound.  Waveout seems to work (although it's crackly).  Perhaps it's just my soundcard.

I'd encouarage people to use AGS Uploads, rather than general free webhosting or rapidshare type places.

What makes AGS so greedy with the audio system anyway? You can play most games with winamp or whatever running in the background, but AGS blocks out anything else.

I don't mean to sound like a nazi moderator, but these kinds of runaway threads aren't usually allowed on the forum. We have some similar ones but they require some effort and are entertaining, such as the haiku thread or perhaps even the MS Paint game. This is just word association, so I'll have to lock it.