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Will my feature request get noticed?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:19:52 +0000

I just posted this feature request, except right now it has 0 votes.

The default sort is by votes. Does this mean my feature request will end up ignored? I don't think it should since it seems rather easy to implement, but if it won't get noticed because of the default sort then how am I ever supposed to get people to vote for it other than manually asking strangers?

Just wondering,
-D

Why was my hub entry moved to "Pending"?

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:28:17 +0000

http://www.byond.com/games/Cowed/Cowed

The entry was moved to "pending" status for no apparent reason and I saw a comment on it by Warlord Fred claiming the game is a rip-off of another game.

I don't like this! Was this an automated process, or did someone change it? If it was changed, I'd like to know why this was done.

Regular expressions

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:59:41 +0000

I'm trying to get regular expressions to work in DM. So far I've found two libraries that allow the use of regular expressions:
hub://LummoxJR.Regex is a hub entry advertising a regular expressions library. By the looks of things the file has been removed and the hub entry is stale.
hub://Kuraudo.libregex is the library I'm trying to use now. It uses a DLL file which also speeds things up a lot.

Unfortunately, Kuraudo's library keeps crashing on me when I try to put in anything remotely complex:

var/len = regex_search_first(string, "(\\s+?)(\\()(.*)({)\[\\r|\\n]")
if(!len)
    world << "Invalid parameters!"
    return 0

I guess my question is to the regular expression fans out there: is my query accurate? I've constructed it using the "RegExr" tool (http://gskinner.com/RegExr/) but every time that bit gets executed DreamSeeker crashes thanks to the DLL.

I'm not that experienced with C++ and the expression is complex enough to make me second guess myself. Am I doing this right?

Is this valid? (preload_rsc)

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:45:18 +0000

client
    proc
        DownloadMusic()
            preload_rsc = "http://www.domain.com/custom_resources.zip"
            preload_rsc = 2

Would the above code prompt the client to download the specified .zip file yet continue to download custom content no matter where it appears?

Or do I need to have a delay in-between? Or does it simply not work that way?

Number2Text

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:09:29 +0000

I present a grossly imperfect Number2Text proc that, while it can do the job, I think many of you can do way better than I can.

To be honest I was only interested in the first ten digits, which AFAIK need to be manually specified anyway.

If anyone can make this proc better, please do! It'll help me learn and it'll help others out.

/*
Title:           Number2Text
Credit to:       Android Data
Contributed by:  Android Data

This function returns the text form of any number you specify, so long as it's under a hundred.
*/

proc/Number2Text(n)
    switch(n)
        if(0) return "zero"
        if(1) return "one"
        if(2) return "two"
        if(3) return "three"
        if(4) return "four"
        if(5) return "five"
        if(6) return "six"
        if(7) return "seven"
        if(8) return "eight"
        if(9) return "nine"
        if(10) return "ten"
        if(11) return "eleven"
        if(12) return "twelve"
        if(13) return "thirteen"
        if(14) return "fourteen"
        if(15) return "fifteen"
        if(16) return "sixteen"
        if(17) return "seventeen"
        if(18) return "eighteen"
        if(19) return "nineteen"
        else
            if(n >= 20 && n < 30)
                return "twenty-[Number2Text(n - 20)]"
            else if(n >= 30 && n < 40)
                return "thirty-[Number2Text(n - 30)]"
            else if(n >= 40 && n < 50)
                return "fourty-[Number2Text(n - 40)]"
            else if(n >= 50 && n < 60)
                return "fifty-[Number2Text(n - 50)]"
            else if(n >= 60 && n < 70)
                return "sixty-[Number2Text(n - 60)]"
            else if(n >= 70 && n < 80)
                return "seventy-[Number2Text(n - 70)]"
            else if(n >= 80 && n < 90)
                return "eighty-[Number2Text(n - 80)]"
            else if(n >= 90 && n < 100)
                return "ninety-[Number2Text(n - 90)]"
            else if(n >= 100 && n < 1000)
                . = round(n / 100)
                var/b = n - (. * 100)
                return "[Number2Text(.)] hundred[b > 0 ? " and [Number2Text(b)]":]"

-maxplayers argument for DD

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:04:04 +0000

Specifies the maximum amount of players this server will allow.

For games that don't have this feature coded in.

Linking blogs

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:20:03 +0000

I'm considering to open up a blog on androiddata.net given that I do very little with this site and it is listed as my website.

I think others might benefit from this idea, too: allowing your blog to act as an RSS feed to one or more other blogs. In addition to listing "local" posts on the BYOND site, it would also list posts from other blogs. These posts would have a special class so you can give them a different stylesheet.

Multiple info elements

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:45:39 +0000

Allow multiple info elements! What's the purpose of creating multiple elements if we can't do anything with them?

Verbs should have a set control="controlid" configuration that allows us to specify the control to put the verb on (or null for all controls). Perhaps allow controls to be separated by commas for multiple info panels.

the statpanel() proc should have a similar parameter. again, null puts it on the default control or all controls.

world.computer_id

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:43:10 +0000

Very simple: gives the developer access to the computer_id of the host machine. If the BYOND Pager isn't running, then this value is null.

cidban.txt

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:59:26 +0000

Stores a list of computer id's used for banning, put in cfg folder next to keyban/ipban