Solsund's messages

I applaud your thinking, actually. It sounds like instead of simply doing the search across the whole of the screen you are trying to narrow down the search location so the search takes less time. Considering most of the things you can search for stay in the same basic position relative to the upper-left corner of the Flash window I do all my searches using the exact position they should show up.

The exception is the food items as they shift around on the bar. So instead I do my search covering the bottom bar but just that location.

One trick I use is that I have a hotkey that just runs a simple test and sends it’s results in a MsgBox. I tend to put a full screen ImageSearch into it when first testing the image and then use the coordinates from the results to narrow the search down. It lets me be sure the image matches before I try to shorten the range.

Yup, I’ve been doing that for quite some time now, especially since I’ve got all my T5 stuff done. I’ve also been working on the wiki and other projects that are Grinn related. If Grinns Tale was not a “wait for stuff to build” type game it might be stranger.

I’ve been getting refined chances superior to no-rally by dumping a lot of rallies in the middle of the crafting; admittedly, I just beat the grand ghost so my sample size is small. Rallying at the end of crafting seems not to be a concern for me.

Ah, my wizardry. What I did is pretty simple. I’ve got three variable I store to help with moving the thumb around and from the look of it one of them should be local. Basically, I wait for a mouseDown to happen and check to see if it was pressed over the thumb. If it was I change beingDragged to true and store the position, relative to the upper left corner of the thumb, that we clicked. We only need the Y value as we can only drag up/down.

Next, during each update it checks to see if we are in the middle of dragging the thumb. It then works out where the Y position of the thumb would be using that previous offset. It then compares the Y position to the highest and lowest positions possible. It then checks to see if the new calculated spot is different from the current spot and only moves the camera if it is.

To do this move we first find the percent scrolled down the thumb is found by taking (thumbPos – thumbMinPos) / (thumbMaxPos – thumbMinPos). It is not perfect as for some reason I never would get a 100% scroll using this.

We then take that % value and multiply it against the total area we have to scroll over in the camera window section. This is the bottom of the viewable items minus the size of the camera window itself. The value we get from this leaves us the correct position to set the camera to, in pixels.

The fact that I hard coded the numbers probably did not help but I saw no reason to make it work via generic values when simply getting it working.

You do not change your name. The only way is to create a new Kongregate account. You just joined so doing it now really would not make you lose very much.

You used to be able to change your name until people started to abuse it by causing trouble then changing their name to avoid the repercussions.

Do you have a way to show FPS on the screen? The closest I can come is to watch my timer and I get one timer second every 2.5-3 seconds.

On the faster machine in the house it seems to run 1:1 but is tremendously fast and hard to precision jump.

ah then you didn’t get what I was talking about. Twice now Kongregate has given bonus points for sitting and watching a video. Both times it was for a driving based thing. First time it was for that “Bugs that drink and drive” video and the second one is for the “Video game driver busted for no seatbelt”.

Those are the only ones I’ve ever seen like that. They’re both ones that were showing up before games for a while then suddenly you could get Kong points. So maybe it’s because the K’s agree with the message or maybe the Transportation people paid extra.