June 2003

• Damage and Stuff (Math and Code) Ben Chambers
• MMO Launch issues ruining potential segments of the market. Derek Licciardi
• • MMO Launch issues ruining potential segments of the market. Mike Shaver
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• New Column by Dave Rickey "Engines of Creation" Now at Skotos Christopher Allen
• Announcing Shadow Door: an NPC Control Interface for Neverwinter Nights Robert Zubek
• ADMIN: So, what has been happening? J C Lawrence
• [Meta] Forward of moderated message J C Lawrence
• New Here MIKE MacMartin
• • New Here Mike
  • • New Here MIKE MacMartin
      On 20 Jun 2003 13:13:04 -0700
      Mike <szii@sziisoft.com> wrote:
      
      > Welcome to the list. =)
      
      Thanks.
      
      > Now on to your question...
      
      > This may be a style thing, but...
      
      > Do this. Change your while from
      
      > while ((pos = fmt.find('$', pos + 1)), pos != string::npos) {
      
      > to
      > while (pos != string::npos) { // string::npos is -1
      > pos = fmt.find('$',pos + 1);
      > if (pos != string:: npos) {
      > // work the string in here
      > }
      > }
      
      Actually, my fix was in my CSocket::operator >> ... I made my socket class
      work like iostreams, since, for all intents and purposes, that's what they
      are.
      
      I had it looking something like:
      
      CSocket& CSocket::operator >>(string& text) {
      // appropriate read call into a buffer, assigning to text
      text.erase(text.length() - 1); // to get rid of \n
      return *this; // to chain it like cout/cin etc.
      }
      
      If you pay attention to that code, you'll notice that it's
      incomplete... what I really wanted was to get rid of newline chars
      ... but sometimes I get a \r\n ... and this just gets rid of the
      newline.
      
      Brace yourself: this means that it goes to the start of the line
      with a character that there's no way I'd be able to get outputted.
      I was drawn to this (correct) thought due to the extra characters in
      the string's size.
      
      The fix is just a simple change:
      
      while (text[text.length() -1] == '\n' || text[text.length() - 1] == '\r')
      text.erase(text.length() - 1);
      
      Also, on the subject of scripting languages, I've embedded TCL, but
      I'm thinking Ruby might be a better choice (due to the obvious
      object-oriented nature of an RPG) but I've never used it. Any
      thoughts?
      
      Also, I'm expecting people to be designing game systems over top of
      my library. So, I've gone and made a superclass "Functor" for the
      object, which just currently makes sure they implement an
      operator().
      
      Functors, for those of you who don't know, are C++ objects that
      basically look like:
      
      struct Functor: binary_function<CCharacter&, vector<string>&, bool> {
      virtual bool operator()(CCharacter& ch, vector<string>& args) {
      ch.descriptor() << "Plain functor! Bug!";
      return true;
      }
      };
      
      I'm thinking I may want to extend it with this:
      
      struct Functor: binary_function<CCharacter&, vector<string>&, bool> {
      // operator()
      int tclAPI(/* TCL args ... can't remember them */) {
      // fetch the character
      // break up the TCL args I get from one string to a vector<strings>
      return (*this)(ch, args)? TCL_OK : TCL_ERR;
      }
      };
      
      and mandating that in the constructor for the functor (odd thinking
      of functions having constructors...) having a
      
      Game::getGame().registerTCL("name", tclAPI);
      
      ... would that work? It would seem to be the best solution, as it
      would almost automatically provide a TCL API for everything
      implemented.
      
      
      > -Mike
      MIKE (yup, another mike)
      --
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• SW:G this is so unfair Marian Griffith
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• Players policing themselves (was: MMO Launch issues ruining potential segments of themarket.) Derek Licciardi
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• Q&A with Ken Troop, Lead Designer at Turbine Michael Tresca
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