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Forum: Mirage Source 4 (Visual Basic 6) Topic: Socket Handling |
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:09 pm
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| WinSock is the only thing I have ever found to work right with VB6, but I have only tried three things. Winsock, SOX and IOCP. IOCP doesn't support all windows systems and is not fully standard yet, and that makes it annoying. It also likes to act up with VB6 SOMETIMES, not always, but when it doesn... |
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Forum: Unrelated Products Topic: [DEV]Chat Program |
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:50 pm
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| Challenge: Make a component that consists of the chatbox. The component will store the type of chat (public or private) and then the channel name or person in the chat. The send button recognizes this component (use a tab system to switch them or generate new tabs each time, ect.) and sends the chat... |
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Forum: General Topic: Desk Areas |
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:03 pm
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| This is the computer area of my cube at work lol. Other than thati have a phone and a crapload of block diagrams, and some more block digrams, and oh, some D, E and H sized block diagrams. Running a dell precision 380 quad core dual 17" monitors on one system connected to the laptop (Dell latit... |
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Forum: General Topic: PicCrypt |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:05 pm
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Replies: 277
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| Um, because its a common practice to try to protect your data? For a commercial game their art costs them hundreds f thousands of dollars. End users like us just follow what we know, and what we know is that big games do go through some length to protect their graphics (these days textures for 3D mo... |
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Forum: General Topic: PicCrypt |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:19 pm
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| lul If you were really trying to protect your graphics, you would force focus or minimze when focus is lost, and when in focus, generate a fake bmp to the clipboard when prtscn was pressed. It would foil most people if you did that and your images were encrypted. but nothing is ever safe these days.... |
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Forum: Related Products Topic: Silverdale |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:14 pm
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Replies: 104
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| oh god, that is beautiful. |
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Forum: Visual Basic 6 Topic: Flash transparent - possible? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:12 pm
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Replies: 4
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Forum: General Topic: Lightbulb help |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:54 pm
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Replies: 22
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Heres how to do it:
1. Buy a nromal light bulb
2. Buy a purple sharpie
3. Color. |
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Forum: Visual Basic 6 Topic: Background panorama |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:09 pm
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| Um yea that's easy lol, I'm talking more about like moving the texture around slightly and having a small texture "tile" effect the background. Like an animation? And I guess I'll find the tutorial for this in the forums ;)? And yes, the additional layers tutorial is in the tutorials sect... |
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Forum: Visual Basic 6 Topic: Background panorama |
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:21 am
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To make a background would be the same, in theory, as adding a fringe layer per say. Instead, you would draw the layer UNDER the ground level instead of over top of it  that would give the background effect.
Try that and see what you can figure out. |
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Forum: Tutorials Topic: [Optimization] Optimized DoEvents |
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:21 pm
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| From what I know, sleep stops the ENTIRE thread, not just the loop its in. Unless you multi thread VB, the main thread that everything is running through (including DirectInput and others) will be frozen as well. For a game in Visual Basic, the MS form controls are just fine. In fact, even many [C, ... |
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Forum: Tutorials Topic: [Optimization] Optimized DoEvents |
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:19 pm
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| Hilariously, Joke is right. DoEvents are a non-blocking way to use the "sleep" function in essence. The problems only occur when DoEvents is over used or misused. To properly use it is not easy, but in small apllications it has such a small effect on program flow. Mainly, if it is a GUI pr... |
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Forum: General Topic: Jizzed my pants better |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:12 pm
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| Yeah, your minimap is nice. Spoons took blocked tiles and drew a rid box where they were, a white box where a player was and yellow for NPCs I believe. He later modeled it after Runescapes. It is pretty simple, just parse your map, and if you have a surrounding map system, them as well, and draw acc... |
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Forum: Help Wanted Topic: Looking for experience programmer |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:00 pm
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Replies: 16
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| btw the website is empty. Could we get some info? |
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Forum: General Topic: TREKZ IS BACK! |
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:25 pm
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Replies: 283
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yay Trekz! haha
the onlypeople that completely disappeared are like NaMz, Misunderstood and Verrigan. Anyone know what happened to them O_o.
I still talk to chased, GSD, duex, xentar and such on a less than regular basis. |
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Forum: Bugs Reports Topic: The download of version 3.79 from this website doesn't... |
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:15 pm
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| Posting links is generally considered not to be against the law. Hosting is. But yeah, most forums have this rule, we'll have to live with it. The recent Pirate Bay trial came out with a guilty verdict despite them not hosting the files, just posting links. Admittedly, the judge didn't have a clue ... |
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Forum: Mirage Source 4 (Visual Basic 6) Topic: Windows 7 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:56 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I also use Windows 7, Vista and XP. It is volatile at best on Vista and on Windows 7, not all copies support it. You need to think that a situation you have is no always the same for everyone. |
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Forum: Mirage Source 4 (Visual Basic 6) Topic: Windows 7 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:34 pm
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| So download dx7vb.dll and add it in.. Then register it. If only the new versions of windows made it that easy for backwards compatability. They do. You just have to disable UAC first. Actually, they do not. Windows is trying to phase out vb6, most of the DLLs are blocked, and if not, poorly support... |
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Forum: Game Design Topic: My "RPS Main Quest" System |
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:12 pm
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You will not have to save data like that with a part system in place. Each quest can be one slot and the number gets incremented for each completed part.
Inis can hold huge amounts of data without a problem, they are just slow - especially when they get larger. |
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Forum: Mirage Source 4 (Visual Basic 6) Topic: Windows 7 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:07 pm
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Beres wrote: So download dx7vb.dll and add it in.. Then register it.
If only the new versions of windows made it that easy for backwards compatability. |
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Forum: General Topic: What is this? - Split |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:52 pm
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Replies: 45
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| I resent that, as I did not learn any such "horrible methods." I could go endlessly into what Mirage Source, Konfuze and all did for me, but I do not wish to make you feel attacked or down on how little credit you give it. In all honesty, Konfuze followed the natural pattern of the world a... |
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Forum: .NET Topic: Mirage Converted to VB.NET 2008 |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:45 pm
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It does support threading, that was one of microsofts big hits for .NET, besides OO that is.
VB6 also supports threading in a work-a-round sort of way. |
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Forum: General Topic: What is this? - Split |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:44 pm
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| To start, this seems to have gone very offtopic. Not to make any enemies after just coming back and browsing for a little nostalgia, but Liam is completely correct here. It got me more interested in computers than I already was, it gave me people skills and project mnaagement skills that most kids m... |
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Forum: Mirage Source 4 (Visual Basic 6) Topic: MS4 Dx8 Convert |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:21 pm
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That may be an earlier version that we used then, I did a lot of work after I lost touch with Oscar, and most of the MSN world.
We removed all forms from MS if I remember correctly - all forms buttons and dialogs were generated through DirectX. |
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Forum: Related Products Topic: Mirage Realms going Open Source [Merged] |
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:19 pm
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Replies: 282
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I would assume as long as the site says "The site is under heavy construction" it is
you'll know when you go to it and there is a link to download MirageRealms code most likely. |
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