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doppelgreener

21:01

Most of the time I've thought "it must be a framework bug" it's been a bug in my own code and the framework's been fine :P

Vue's old and widely-used enough chances are it's the same here too; you might have a race condition for example

FreezePhoenix

Tell me about race conditions.

doppelgreener

Race conditions come up when you're working with multithreading. You might not be. But basically it's like....
You have thread A wanting to paint the screen red.
you have thread B wanting to paint the screen blue.
You set them both up and say "go". The operating system and/or runtime environment manages these threads to have them perform their instructions in some order, with absolutely no guarantees about which one finishes first.
Thus you have a race condition wherein you don't know which color the screen will wind up painted.

FreezePhoenix

I didn't set one of those up.

However, I'm using ES6

Which may have some of those builtin with classes.

@doppelgreener There.

Darn it...

It works, but too well.

doppelgreener

  summon() {
    if (this.summonCost <= this.manaManager.mana && turnManager.turnNumber % 2 === this.decks.indexOf(this.deck)) {
      new Promise((r) =>{
        this.toggleSelected();
        setTimeout(r, 10);
      }).then(() =>{
        if (turnManager.turnNumber % 2 === this.decks.indexOf(this.deck)) {
          if (confirm('Are you sure you want to summon this card?')) {
            this.hand.manaManager.mana -= this.summonCost === 'N/A' ? 0 : this.summonCost;
            delete this.hand.cards[this.id];

What's r here meant to be?

The Mattbat999

@FreezePhoenix how big is the file size?

FreezePhoenix

21:09

@TheMattbat999 why?

@doppelgreener See MDN documentation for Promises.

doppelgreener

Oh, whoops, yes.

FreezePhoenix

It's the "resolve" parameter.

doppelgreener

R would just be the object for interacting with the promise.

Yeah.

FreezePhoenix

At least I didn't name it "I"

Jimmy

boy I'm glad it's 2018 and we can use async / await everywhere

FreezePhoenix

21:12

@TheMattbat999 the file is only 9 KB

But it does reference a copy of vue...

@doppelgreener Oh dear... I used a promise somewhere.

doppelgreener

Yeah

FreezePhoenix

@doppelgreener Right there

:| And thats the part where it's messing up

doppelgreener

Promises are async, but I'm not sure right now how that one's causing the issue

(but then again it's late and I have a cold)

FreezePhoenix

:| The evidence is overwhelming

doppelgreener

yes

it's overwhelming evidence something is messing up there in that part that is async

something confusing me is why you have two then's like that

Jimmy

21:19

why the 10ms delay?

it seems there only to rely on a race condition

FreezePhoenix

@doppelgreener :P that is a bad idea

doppelgreener

yeah waiting on specific timing is a good way to mess something up

because whatever happens may take longer or shorter than 10ms

FreezePhoenix

@Jimmy that is so that the card name lights up before the confirm does

:P But know that I think about it, that broke it

doppelgreener

you can light up the card name on mousedown and respond on mouseup

and unselect the card after you mouseout or after the mouseup is done

FreezePhoenix

@doppelgreener you mean 'onbeforemousedown'

Jimmy

21:22

I'm not sure that would run before the confirm halts your execution

FreezePhoenix

@Jimmy it did.

Ok, now it works

Crap...

I mixed up Ligher and darker colors

The Mattbat999

@FreezePhoenix ok

(I was thinking on downloading the game)

Jimmy

It's online, just go to freezephoenix.github.io/Angels-And-Demons/game.html

and click on random card names until something happens

FreezePhoenix

@Jimmy NONO not random..

read the page.

Infer some things about which side of the screen is which

Jimmy

:P I demand the active cards be highlighted! like in Hearthstone

FreezePhoenix

21:26

@Jimmy they are.

wait

F is darker than D in hexcolor, right?

Jimmy

F is maximum brightness

0123456789ABCDEF

doppelgreener

@FreezePhoenix Some feedback:
- The turn order should be stated in white text; black-on-dark-grey isn't great
- I'm not sure what the numbers beneath the cards represent. (I think the left is a mana cost and the right is how much mana it adds back each turn?)
- I'm not sure what I do after summoning cards. I imagine that's not implemented yet?

FreezePhoenix

@doppelgreener after you summon, you can click a card name on the current team side, and then click a card name on the other team side, and it attacks.

doppelgreener

aha, and red is the attack power

FreezePhoenix

Yep.

I should make a tutorial, but that's in 3rd on priority

Jimmy

21:31

yeah by active card I meant, it took me a while to realize you attack by click your card then click the target

because it didn't look like the card was being selected

why can the demons not summon a ravine on turn 0?