hi

I saw a lot of topics on this forums about the same questions: 3/4-level greyscale, savegames, extra's, keypress choices etc etc...
They are in fact all the same, but each and every one of them for a different game, while they're in fact useful for every programmer to know.

Therefor i'll try to cover polls that are useful for a wide range of programs/games made for any type of calculator (like said before).
I'll post a new poll every week (if it has enough votes of course) for everyone to be useful, so please vote, and tell us why you voted for that specific choice if you want to.

This might be useful for everyone, even for yourself. I'll keep track of every poll created and i'll post the results in this first post when they finish.

Should Nspire LUA games use single tab, or mutliple tabs?
One single tab (60%)
Multiple tabs (40%)

General comment:
Depends on the program. If the parts are completely separate, then it can better be used in different tabs, but otherwise, one tab is best.


This weeks question: 3 or 4-level grayscale?

There's only one thing i ask: think before you vote!

I really hope this is going to be useful for a lot of programmers around here, if not, at least i tried

Nick

i had to exercise for my exam of 3D drawing on PC, so i decided to make a pokedex, instead of doing those stupid all-the-same-exercises...

and this is the result:



i know there are some mistakes but whatever, i like it xp and i thought that maybe some of you here might like it too

Hi

based on Deep Thought's idea, i made a program that reduces the file size of lua with about 15% (several tests came out, average reduction..)

it does not yet change anything really coding to the code yet, but:
     - tabs are removed
     - spaces are removed where possible ( var = 5 changes into var=5 )
     - empty new lines are removed
     - \000\ changes in \0\ for images
     - removes the == true in statements (not yet ==false, that will come later)
     - changes platform.window:invalidate() into p() and adds  'function p() platform.window:invalidate() end' because this takes in less place when used more than 2 times (which prob is the case)
     - comments are removed
     - gc:setAlpha(..)'s are removed
     - include external .lua files by using %, followed by the name of the file (without the .lua)
example main file:
function on.create()
%varsinit
end
varsinit.lua file:
menu = true
game = false
highscore = (var.recall("HS")  or 0)
score = 0

the resulting file is saved in the same directory as the source file, but with improved added to the name, so example.lua changes into exampleimproved.lua
i tried to remove the ,"top" from drawstring, and it all worked fine, but than it seems that it is drawn on baseline, i thought top was default?

anyway, here are screenies

I want to wish everyone around here a happy new year, and a lot of fun and a good programming year!

i hope 2012 is gonna be a great year, but i'm sure it will, so: Enjoy!
also, 300th post

you might have seen this on my website, but here it is now on omnimaga:

SpeedX 3D

a revolutionary (i love to say this) game of avoiding blocks. In it's heart, it has something like a cuberunner, but still it is something totally different.. watch the screenie
you have to avoid the red cubes and black 'holes/tiles' by moving left and right. Take the orange tiles to earn 10 extra points, and the green ones to get an extra life. This life means you can collide with a cube without getting hurt (of couse you lose one then).
Now i'm working on the lay-out, and i think i'll remake it so it uses classes, since i'm learning that now..
3D credits are for Chockosta (tiny3D)



on calc it runs smoother!!!!!

as the title says, i was wondering if some people are drummer here? or other musicians with REAL instruments (especially acoustic ones)?

i'm playing drums for 4 years now, and i started wondering if some other coders are acoustically Nspired

Periodic table



http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=762

This is a Periodic table of the elements for the Nspire OS>=3.0. Fast, accurate and designed with care. The CX displays the different types of element (metals, nonmetals.. in a different color, the nonCX's only show the nonmetals and noble gasses in a different color (because of the 'bad' quality of greyscale). database includes:
Atomic number, relative weight, type, ionisation energy, elektronegativity, melting point, boiling point, density at 20°C, electron configuration, discovery, nr of natural isotopes, oxidation states, crystal structure, group, period and radioactivity.
It shows the crystal structure in a animated 3D form so you can perfectly see how it looks like. (most general form is shown).
A lot of thanks to LOIC PUJET (AKA Chockosta) for his TINY3D!

 

Hello

I'm experimenting a little bit with visual basics, as we have to learn the basics for school (but i'm going much further of course xp hmm, or maybe i want, but it won't work) and i'm stuck

i'm trying and trying to get the saveDialogBox working, but everytime i want to create a new file, it gives an error and quits the program.. here's the code:

    Private Sub ToolStripButton4_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles ToolStripButton4.Click
        SaveFileDialog1.Filter = "Nspire Lua files (*.lua)|*.lua|txt files (*.txt)|*.txt|All files (*.*)|*.*"
        SaveFileDialog1.FilterIndex = 2
        SaveFileDialog1.RestoreDirectory = True
        SaveFileDialog1.CreatePrompt = True
        SaveFileDialog1.OverwritePrompt = True
        SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
        SaveFileDialog_FileOK(ToolStripButton4, AcceptButton)
    End Sub

    Private Sub SaveFileDialog_FileOK(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles SaveFileDialog1.FileOk
        Dim myStream As IO.Stream
        Dim SaveName As String
        ' If SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
        myStream = SaveFileDialog1.OpenFile()
        SaveName = SaveFileDialog1.FileName
        My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(SaveName, addText.Text, False)
        myStream.Close()
        ' End If
    End Sub

and this is the error screen


also saving to another file than the original does not work, where's my mistake?

Thanks in advance!
Nick