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Jeff

12:37 AM

thanks @WillihamTotland

Yi Jiang

1:10 AM

Wonder if anyone here would want to post this as an answer to this question:

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Q: Psychedelic 90s banner-style header has got to go

The parent Game Dev site's banner-style header reminds me of a bad 90s website with an added MySpace ad. It's distracting and wastes space. Look to the sister sites for efficient, non-distracting headers (except for gaming.stackexchange.com, of course). It's up to you guys, but this was my first...

@namespace url(w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("gamedev.stackexchange.com") {

#header {
    background-position: center -2px !important;
    height: 130px !important;
    margin: -3px auto 0 !important;
    overflow: hidden !important;
}

#hlogo a {
    height: 62px !important;
    margin: 5px 0 0 17px !important;
}

#header #hmenus {
    height: 24px !important;
    margin: 7px 0 0 !important;
}

.nav a {
    padding: 4px 15px !important;
}

#portalLink {
    margin-top: 6px !important;

Simple userstyle to limit the size of the header. kthxbye.

AttackingHobo

2:10 AM

@Noctrine @WillihamTotland do you know how to get use styles working in opera?

Noctrine

@AttackingHobo Not at all. Don't use opera and haven't for awhile.

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Cyclops

2:25 PM

FYI to @AttackingHobo, in case he sees this later :) The answer at meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/323/… does have information on how to use user stylesheets for all browser types (and I use Opera, it works fine there).

TreDubZedd

2:55 PM

'morning, all

CiscoIPPhone

Morning

I answered a question earlier:

A: Tracking Multiple Touches using Hash codes in Cocos2d for iPhone

To reduce the amount of if statements you have you need to make your solution data-driven instead of manually adding logic for each UI component that needs to interact. You could do this by storing your buttons data (such as each buttons bounding box and state) in an array of structs or a NSArra...

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Ari Patrick

4:05 PM

Hello All!

Hey @mpistrich

AttackingHobo

4:57 PM

@Cyclops yeah I tried to do that, but It does not seem to be working in my case.

Tetrad

5:19 PM

@AriPatrick why'd you flag that question as "should be CW"?

Ari Patrick

@Tetrad Because it is very subjective

"As game developers , which would you prefer, (no themes, partial themes, partial themes + bitmaps)?"

Tetrad

subjective doesn't necessarily mean CW

Ari Patrick

But there is no "right" answer, so it seems like a very good CW candidate

Tetrad

there are no "right" answers for most of the questions on the site

as long as there's a "why" component that dips into expertise, the fact that it's "subjective" doesn't really matter

Ari Patrick

Then what is the criteria for CW?

Tetrad

5:23 PM

and if somebody says "you should do this because if you do X, Y, Z will happen" then they should get points for it

the original reasoning behind CW is that there are certain kinds of questions that people shouldn't get points for

i.e. "what's your favorite X" shouldn't get you a billion points because you were the first person to link to something popular

so right now I basically limit it to questions which are asking for little more than links to resources

i.e. "where can I find free X"

Ari Patrick

I see. that makes sense. by that criteria, you can ignore my CW request

Tetrad

(I already did)

that being said, most questions which "really should be CW" under the "old" way of doing things are usually bad questions which should be discouraged

there's sort of an unwritten rule right now that the only "acceptable" "CW" questions are "list of X" questions

Cyclops

6:11 PM

@AttackingHobo, yes, looking at that link, the Opera instructions are a bit out of date. For Opera 10, at least, the sequence is: Menu->Settings->Preferences->Advanced tab-> Content sidebar -> Style Options button. Try that instead.

AttackingHobo

Yeah I got to the style options, I created user.css file it was looking for put it in the correct spot, restarted opera, no difference

Cyclops

I actually created a file elsewhere and changed the location, that worked for me. You could also right-click a page and edit Site Preferences stylesheet location, that might work - although it seemed to reset all sites when I did that, still not sure how to confine a custom stylesheet to one site in Opera 10.

Hmmm - has anyone else noticed problems with the gamedev site logo now? I removed all my css files, restarted opera - and there isn't a logo any more... Meta looks okay, but not gamedev. Am I the only one seeing this?

AttackingHobo

@Cyclops looks fine to me.... See this is why I don't like playing with styles!

Cyclops

@AttackingHobo, understood, but I removed all styles... Meta looks as it should, including the large banner - just one site is missing a banner. Try reloading your gamedev page, see if it changes, please.

Not to mention I just opened the page in Firefox - same problem.

AttackingHobo

@Cyclops Yeah.... No, its working fine. I tried it on my current browser, refreshed 3 times, navigated to new pages as well, tried it on firefox, and tried it on my work computer which I am remoting to

Cyclops

6:28 PM

Weird... then guess something in my machine is hosed... I love software...

@AttackingHobo, also, if you don't want to use CSS, you could put in a feature-request to make the logo toggleable - it might get implemented. :)

AttackingHobo

on MGD or MSO?

Cyclops

There ya got me :) I'm never sure... Maybe MSO?

In fact, it would be a site-wide feature, so definitely not MGD.

But not sure if it should be meta.stackexchange or meta.stackoverflow - probably the first, MSE.

AttackingHobo

7:06 PM

hello @Tetrad

AttackingHobo

7:47 PM

Hello @aaronfarr

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lathomas64

9:14 PM

any of you know how to delete a chatroom you've created?

TreDubZedd

Are they not remove automatically when all the participants are gone?

er... removed

lathomas64

removed? hmm

Tetrad

9:58 PM

@TreDubZedd you know you can edit things you've already sent out right

also I think for rooms the only thing that you could do would be to flag a message in the room and ask a moderator to delete the room for you

lathomas64

ah i thought he had typed something and then removed it and for some reason chat was bugging out and saying removed

TreDubZedd

@Tetrad I was able to edit the second line (from "er...*removed*), but not that first one

The "edit" and "delete" options had disappeared

Now they're gone on that previously-edited line.

lathomas64

I had so mayn things i wanted to put up for the AI beta and now that its here I don't remember what they were

AttackingHobo

@lathomas64 I was really close to committing to it, but decided not to, I didn't realize that committing to it was the only way to get into the private beta.

lathomas64

@AttackingHobo well you just have to wait until the 15th is all

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AttackingHobo

11:16 PM

@Noctrine DO A BARREL ROLL!

Noctrine

/me rolls

How is everyone?

@lathomas64 They die when they get old. Don't think they are ever gone gone though, just like SO questions

AttackingHobo

Good @Noctrine, deciding if I should learn C++ or C# or both