Game Development

12:23 AM

hey

@ChristianCareaga you'll do it with cx_freeze?

I use py2exe

but actually @Pip idk if i can do it

but that's python2 only

im getting errors

like what?

just read a list off

and I will fix them, if I can

If you want to make an exe out of a Python 3.X program cx_freeze is the way to go.

12:26 AM

@Pip not with your prog, but with py2exe its a tricky bastard

ah

you should just get it working with cx_freeze

D:

I will try..... I have no idea where to start, though

it would also make your repo like 10 mb bigger hahaha

I've never made an exe before

:P

12:28 AM

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@Pip

Yeah it's probably alot better than py2exe

@Jovito thanks

nathan

py2exe is for heretics!

does pyinsteller work with 3

nope

hahaha

12:35 AM

lol

I looked around a lot

hasherr

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Source Engine Modder finally gets his code to work

Worth the wait

TF2 <3

@AlexM. If you like chiptunes check out fantomek

@Pip did i ever show you Dan's C# game?

github.com/linkey11/WaterRising

@ChristianCareaga I will take a look :D

12:44 AM

github.com/linkey11/WaterRising/tree/master/latest

just get the exe

thats the link

kk

boat_gen.py? Using python too?

I wonder why @ChristianCareaga

#this script is pretty much so I can have a multi-language repo

^^^ haha

@ChristianCareaga do you know why, other than that?

who knows how dan thinks ahaha

12:53 AM

It's just a script

lol

Probably to intergrate scripting

with python

Also added a python script to generate the
code for a boat in case I ever want to change it

that what his commit message was

ah

Invalid URI Scheme. Break time. OAuth Round 2. SOon.

1:03 AM

@Pip yeah thought maybe you would like it, it doesn't get much attention

I'm scared now. First search results for "could not verify ouath request" turns up the bitbucket api

@ChristianCareaga :D

1:30 AM

alright, gotta go to bed

cya, all

Okay, C gods. Tell me what dumb thing I'm doing:

`int get_int() {
char buffer[BUFSIZ];
int number;
fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);

if (buffer != NULL) {
number = strtol(buffer, NULL, 10);

if(errno)
return -1;
else
return number;

}
return -1;
}`

mainly: no indentation

I thought back ticks were supposed to be for code

But apparently not.

press the fix code when u edit it

thatll then indent it

@VaughanHilts what is the outcome you get

Basically, I can't check for a valid integer since that check is botched.

Clearly, I am a noob.

1:44 AM

here's the code, indented right:

ey its tbodt

o/

.

int get_int() {
    char buffer[BUFSIZ];
    int number;
    fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);

    if (buffer != NULL) {
        number = strtol(buffer, NULL, 10);

        if(errno)
            return -1;
        else
            return number;

    }
        return -1;
}

looks like i had to manual indent was hoping fix font would do it also

I once saw code with 2 tabs for initial indentation. It also had branching. It was hideous :(

1:46 AM

quite hideous

am i the only one who is uncomfortable with if statements without {}

first, why would buffer be NULL?

there is really no reason

Isn't it null when it fails?

oh there are lots of reasons

no

you declared the buffer

1:47 AM

If a read error occurs, the error indicator (ferror) is set and a null pointer is also returned (but the contents pointed by str may have changed).

nobody will change your pointer to it

for a start, you never actually initalize'd buffer

well, it is stack declared

so it exists

so

it exists, but itll contain bullshit

whats BUFSIZ

1:48 AM

if you're lucky

is that a variable ?

or some inbuilt function

BUFSIZ I think is a macro

he doesn't think a user will enter a line longer than BUFSIZ

if you're really unlucky it wont contain a \0 which will be entertaining

ok...

he might be adding user input validation later @tbodt

1:49 AM

@MattD That explains my -12246028438784662-42366471-17718587285882442-183682212-98603871-2633301670738723-137818747302265491686423121112224-292419577234969-25868902-96046821-31515049-17489729-456565118037208-216718091059442365247868-56271365-24879887-2839647533384044582669454916083837867970-13984508-49618747-1223637234014349-39369289-25051363841965982529-42696750-35225984-3589929021047809-35776-30277262220147842027520920693146-2436391250656829294832-4309349-281542721954762327623200-31754918-22803464-15733697326130482012186312809132317600452650189420284708-1739935122070462-18753018-28864502-…

yes. because buffer is full of crap. :P

buffer will never be null though

itll always exist

omahgerd

Isn't it being written to by fgets anyway?

it just wont always have anything useful in it

I thought fgets was assinging to buffer

1:49 AM

you'll have to read the docs for fgets

how can you check its usefulness though

it is not assigning to buffer

it is writing to what buffer points to

Aw crap

@VaughanHilts what?

It takes a pointer to it

Just looked at the prototype

So arrays are always pointers, then?

1:51 AM

and yes @tbodt is right. if you think about what buffer is. its just a contiguous block of memory you've declared. its on the stack as its function local. and when you use fgets, it writes into that block of memory

an array is just a contiguous block of memory

yes arrays are pointers

pointers to a contigous block of memory

so no, you don't need to pass a pointer

ugh, okay so what I did was created a block of 512 bytes, and then got a pointer to it

just pass buffer

yes

they're not really pointers.

well, yess...

1:52 AM

its just that the name of the array means the start of the block

and then you offset using that location

so you got the memory location of the start of your 512bytes

Okay, so I killed th eif.

strtol should be OK, though.

str functions are hideous

be careful

use strn functions always

I didn't see any strn functions that convered to integer

that's because there are none

strtol is correct

oh right. yeah

<_< i couldnt remember what srttol did >_>

1:55 AM

I just finished looking over the code, and it looks just fine

except buffer will never be NULL

The main problem I was having is if I type 'a'

I get '0' for number

but errno is not set

fgets will return the length written right?

@MattD no

it returns the buffer you passed

Too bad I need the value 0 as a valid input

@tbodt its been a while since i delt with stuff like fgets.

1:57 AM

my advice:

write a function that checks if the string you pass is a number

not very hard

i use c# these days for anything that needs to open files and stuff

C, making life harder than it needs to be. >_<

@tbodt strtol is supposed to do that for you

well, its crap at dealing with strings

its pretty handy at everything else

here's a link to the man page:

developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/…

at least c++ has std::string

1:59 AM

EINVAL

WHY THE FUCK DID NOBODY ELSE MENTION THIS

strtol converts until it sees an invalid character

yeah, I need to prevent things like '12a' as well

fuu-

so, strtol is really not the best man for the job

it will silently accept "12a" as 12

but there is one thing you can do

you could write your own, it wouldnt be that hard.

as long as you dont need to deal with unicode

declare a char * set it to NULL

then pass that as the second argument

if it got changed, there are some letters in the string

2:01 AM

Actuall

strol to has a pointer to the last thing it stopped at

I could make use of that, I guess

oh wait

That's what you mean

I really need to go write some c++ this weekend

I'm getting BS about EINVAL not being defined

rages

@VaughanHilts so include errno.h

that is not a problem

I wish the man page would list that as the header

.. a gives errno 0 -_-

Q: Splitting a sandwich and feeling not deceived

2:38 AM

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This is a problem that has haunted me for more than a decade. Not all the time - but from time to time, and always on windy or rainy days, it suddenly reappears in my mind, stares at me for half an hour to an hour, and then just grins at me, and whispers whole day: "You will never solve me..." P...

some people have too much time on their hands

5:21 AM

@Dave indeed

5:51 AM

morning

Lol, in popular finnish comedy tv show there is a character that is mocking hipsters. Now every single hipster in finland is mocking that character and saying it's not hipster.

I find that funny

6:33 AM

Would you guys read a comic called pointer theory.

user4704

The name is not that important.

Okay

how about

dammit

; _ ;

I'll just call it null_ptr or something fancy like that

:> I SHALL UNVEIL soon.

Meanwhile Grey goes back to coding Legrande and OAuth 1.0 issues.

It's weird how BitBucket uses this when it has known vulnerabilities

6:53 AM

; _ ; I hate crazy dreams.

Lol - the one I had today was INSANE.

20 years into the future insane.

8:01 AM

Hi all

Heya

Quick question: Does my site load successfully for you? (And, like, legibly? No obviously missing css or anything?) vectorstorm.org

no, looks broken

Interesting. It looks fine to me, but it looks broken on gtmetrix and other sites which will show previews.

Uncaught ReferenceError: WPGroHo is not defined

8:03 AM

Thanks for testing that, @Lasse. Now I have to figure out what's going wrong. :(

@Trevor ey

Finally got my OAuth working. I was adding redudant params to the url

Finally took a look at the request url and realized that it was already generating some stuff for me.

little streching problems

I wonder how that should be handled

@TrevorPowell Works fine for me

@William'MindWorX'Mariager I've temporarily disabled the problematic bits. Gimme a mo. ;)

Ah. :P

8:10 AM

Okay. Test again, @Lasse? (And William and whoever else)

Still works fine. :)

Looks working

Awesome! Thanks. :) Been wrestling with that for the last day or so. xD

Now maybe I can get back to making games or something, instead of all this IT work.

Hah

(Was on an international flight, only to discover upon landing that my website had gone down and wouldn't boot up again. Got to deal with unresponsive tech support. Eventually ended up recovering stuff mostly on my own, migrating to a new VM, and then migrating to a new VM with a new hosting provider. That's pretty much been the only thing I've done this week)

Various websites, a few years' worth of e-mail, my issue tracking software, etc. Makes me wonder why I don't just use externally-managed cloud services like everybody else. Would be heaps simpler.

Hm. I'm going to have to take part in the Winter GameJam this year, aren't I? After arguing that non-web games should be allowed and having people agree to it. ;)

8:23 AM

I need to participate too

I haven't released a game in two years, I think. Very sad. :(

I haven't in like 10 years

now it's time to

..oh wait. No, my last one was Dec 31, 2012. So that's only a little over one year ago.

@TrevorPowell I haven't released a game ever, so I think you're doing alright. :P

I'm totally going to finish my huge long-term project this year. Gonna do it. :)

8:39 AM

I'm rooting for you!