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Text-handling experiment

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:39:14 +0000

I have been doing a little experimenting with text-handling and I've managed to create two functions: reversing text and scrambling text. I wanted to know if these functions are fine the way they are, or if they could be improved.

proc
    text_scramble(string)

        if(string)
            var
                oldstring = string
                newstring
                copy_pos
                rand_character

            for(var/textleft = length(oldstring), textleft, textleft --)
                copy_pos = rand(1,textleft)
                rand_character = copytext(oldstring, copy_pos, copy_pos+1)

                newstring += rand_character
                oldstring = copytext(oldstring, 1, copy_pos) + copytext(oldstring, copy_pos+1, 0)

            return newstring


    text_reverse(string)

        if(string)
            var/newstring

            for(var/textleft = length(string), textleft, textleft --)
                newstring += copytext(string, textleft, textleft+1)

            return newstring

Decimal frame delays

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:06:47 +0000

For example, a frame delay of 0.5
Would it be possible?
It should be useful to specify more accurate animation speeds than with only integers.

Feature suggestions for Dream Maker's icon editor

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Hello,

Me and the iconer of the game I work for would like to request some features for Dream Maker's icon editor tool, which would make iconing - and especially for large and lengthy animations - a whole lot easier.
My suggestion consists of the following features:

- It would be extremely, indescribably convenient if there was an option to REALLY delete a selected frame (as in, the frame disappears from the list and the frame count decreases evenly).
Currently, when you click a frame and hit the delete key on your keyboard, it will only make the selected frame(s) go empty.
And a contrary option, to insert a new frame at a chosen position within the frames list would also be appreciated by many icon artists.

- The ability to select multiple frames within an icon state, so that the option of simultaneously changing delays for all of the selected frames at once would come to exist.

- Additionally, the ability to simultaneously edit all of the frame delays in a group of selected icon states.

- The ability to remove selected colors in "Edit..." under "Colors" option.

- Allow for importable/exportable template laying out states for use in other graphical editing programs. (*)

- Display more than nine frames of a movie state while editing that state. Currently, only nine frames are displayed at the time, regardless of the size of the Dream Maker window.

- Display frame numbers under frames, or some intelligent way of identifying individual frames, without having to count through the frames manually.

(*): Kind of like how 3D modeling programs have a feature that allows you to unwrap the polygons and arrange them in a way that allows easy mapping of textures in other graphics programs. So it would basically make a PNG file with a bunch of boxes containing the contents of each state/tile/frame, etc. Which can then be edited and re-imported to save the hassle of having to bring in each 32x32 chunk manually.

Thank you very much.

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:07:59 +0000

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