Recent posts by Haddock on Kongregate

Topic: Programming / What's wrong with this script?

Ummm… been out of touch for a while… but shouldn’t the SmiteButtone onPress function be outside the onload function?

Topic: Programming / How can I make a TD game?

You don’t sound too much like a noob to me, Thibra

Topic: Programming / HELLLPPPPPPPPPP

sorry, but plz, plz, plz, READ THE STICKY!
the one that says READ FIRST

Topic: Programming / Shootorials major screw up

ptd, surely running off a time-based system is still not gonna work if the user has a poor PC. If the computer can’t repeat a frame quickly enough, then it’s not gonna repeat time events quickly enough either – hence, major lag either way. 99% of the time, if the user’s computer can’t handle fast frame-by frame events then it wont be able to handle fast time events either.

Topic: Programming / removeMovieClip(); Problem

Virtual Falcon, fyi, the format code tags are <.pre> (before your code) and <./pre> (afterward.) Except without the ”.”s

Topic: Programming / Kongai

That’s nice, dear – lock please

Topic: Programming / Pause Menu Help

I would say its pretty obvious, billioster2 – Taco monster wants to make a pause menu and doesnt know how…

Topic: Programming / New to Flash

Also, sorry, but WOOO! 100 posts!

Topic: Programming / New to Flash

Question for Cloud_9ine – out of interest, who directed you to Foundation Flash? It’s just that that’s the one I always put up whenever anyone asks for a tut site and I would feel satisfied if I knew I had directed someone to it. Then again I get the impression you are probably a more experienced programmer than me, so it seems unlikely that it was me. still…

Topic: Programming / AS Chart

There are so many basics. When you look at it, though, most basic commands are self-explanatory. eg. Key.isDown is pretty obvious, and so on. Still, a list of words wont tend to help you that much – try some tutorials: Foundation Flash is helpful, for example

Topic: Programming / Dual Core Processors...

Thankyou freak11 that tells me what I need to know

Topic: Programming / Dual Core Processors...

That’s extremely helpful to me talrnu, my hope is that you would have figured out that the site did NOT say per core, and no sites that I have found say that. So, I dont know whether or not it is per core.

Topic: Programming / Dual Core Processors...

Again, sorry this doesnt quite fit, but best I could do.

When a dual core processor’s specs says “3.2 GHz”, is that per core, or in total?

Topic: Programming / Flash...spyware?

Complicated way of proving it to her. Get a copy of Flash CS3 (trial version if you dont have it), and tell her to look through the syntax index to find any command that looks through files on a PC. She will find none, of course. I cant think of a simple way, Im not very good at that sort of thing.

Topic: Programming / Another Dum Mistake Probly

“even small changes, like brackets, could crash the game”

That’s what I said. I also said, “fiddle with the brackets until it works”

Topic: Programming / Question for Kongregate Mods

Hi Kong Mods,

Sorry this doesnt exactly fit into this forum, but its the closest fit I can get. Just wondering whether it would be possible to have an addition made to the forums. When posting, you get some “Formatting help” stuff. (How to do bold, etc.) I was thinking, considering the number of people who post without knowing this, that the way of posting code (<.pre> tags) should be put there as well. It might help people who are new to the forum with code-posting. It can cause serious confusion when people dont know how to format their code.

Just a thought.

Thanks,

Haddock

Topic: Programming / Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Latex Ducky, just passing by, (I like to leaf through the programming forums, even old ones, sad I know) and saw that “Yes, anything” thing. Thanks, it made my day.

Topic: Programming / Action script noobie in need of help!

Bit of advice. AutoFormat your code. If you do (not sure whether you have there or not, havent looked through it properly), then problems with brackets become immediately apparent as the code is clearly not leveled properly.

Topic: Programming / wondering if anyone can help?

also, Foundation Flash

Topic: Programming / I need help with everything plz reply asap

willfight, calm down. you’re yelling at everyone here, and we’re just trying to help you out. get this straight right now. Noones going to help you if you’re this impatient. Thats simply because if you’re impatient you will NEVER get good at programming. Patience is the thing you NEED, more than anything else, as a programmer. So, I repeat, calm down and try and understand that this is going to take time and you are not going to learn overnight. Get that into your head now. In the meanwhile, a very good site for tutorials is Foundation Flash EDIT: BTW, click the ‘Tutorials’ tab once you get to that site – figured an impatient person might not see that straight away, and come back yelling at me about how USELESS i am.

Topic: Programming / Award system

for each award, have a Boolean (true/false) variable assigned to it. Then change this variable once the award has been achieved in-game. Save these variables to a shared object (see flash help for assistance here). Then change the look of the appropriate medal so that it has the “achieved” look (generally done by making it more opaque(ie. more alpha)) not the “unachieved” look (generally done by fading out)

Topic: Programming / Another Dum Mistake Probly

Is it me or is every bit of code that everyone is posting to this thread effectively the same? The only difference as far as I can see it is that andrew luong has defined his variables properly and some different brackets are being used by different people. Of those 2 differences, only one would stop the code from working entirely – the bracket one. Conclusion: fiddle with the brackets until it works

Topic: Programming / how to make a flash game without gamemaker

psycho turtle, no offense, but you need to learn how to spell

Topic: Programming / Pathfinding!

“AS3 pathfinding algorithm”? Contradiction in terms. An algorithm is a general program not written in any specific language (its either written as a flowchart or as a logical statement/series of statements). Then, programmers can use the general algorithm to help them write the function in whichever language they want to work in. Therefore you cant have an algorithm (general) that is written in AS3 (specific): then it would no longer be an algorithm. This might be why searching for an AS3 algorithm doesnt work – there’s not really any such thing.

Topic: Programming / Colour addition

Phew! That certainly sounds like a good way of doing it, lysis and ill try my best to see how it works – though I suspect I wont be able to pull it off, even with all your help. Thanks very much for the help, everyone, ill get back to you on how well I get it working. If not, ill just stick with a low alpha ball so that overlaps will just be more opaque…