I'm trying it on an emulator at the moment because my current Clickpad is out of batteries (I really should get a CX), but how do you move the box outline that indicates where you place/break a block? I can only interact with blocks to the right of the player's head.

So I think I need a bit more explanation with Lua classes. I got interested in them when I was trying to understand the owllibrary code. http://ourl.ca/14610

It had all this syntax that I didn't quite understand and the ordering and many cross-references between functions got me confused. So I read a bit of stuff on wiki, inspired-lua tutorials, some omnimaga topics and compasstech (not intently though, I kinda got it, but maybe not enough to use it)

so from what I gathered, here's an example with code taken from owllibrary.

Coyote = class()

function Coyote:init(x, y, width, height, options)
    options = options or {}
    self.x = x
    self.y = y
    self.width = width
    self.height = height
    self.tiles = {}
    self.controls = options.controls or {up = "up",
                                         down = "down",
                                         left = "left",
                                         right = "right"}
    self.player = {}
    self.tileSize = options.tileSize or 16
    self.scrollThreshold = options.scrollThreshold or 1
    self.outOfBoundsColor = options.outOfBoundsColor or {0, 0, 0}
    self.tileCount = 0
end



Q1: This is more of a confirmation. Does self refers to the classname itself? So self.x would refer to Coyote.x in this case? Likewise for the others?

Q2: What does . refer to? From what I gather it would mean it would add it to a list/table so that if Coyote was called up, you'd get Coyote == {"x"==x, "y"==y, "tiles"=={} etc...}. Is this right?

Q3: How does or affect the variable assigning? in self.controls = options.controls or {up = "up", down = "down", left = "left", right = "right"}, does that mean self.controls becomes both possible values? This is one I'm stumped on

Q4: Also another one, I've never been very confident in what return means (even though I've encountered it in several languages such as JavaScript. I've known it to return a value if it refers to a variable but it seems that elsewhere in the code it can represent some other things too? Clarification?

Q5: Generally I don't understand classes enough, I don't think I finished reading through the inspired lua tutorial though. Might go back and read it

Thanks for your help in advance.

About the save load function, On first load of the document, I found out that the load option was greyed out. Going back to the home menu and coming back to the document worked though, and also showed my previously saved documents, which I couldn't access before.
I like the syntax colouring now, it's much more comprehensive. I tried a few commands (if, end, function) all nice blue font, and stuff in "quotes" was highlighted in purple.
It's really quite good and almost feature complete and I love the import via clipboard option. That makes things much easier for importing stuff from oclua

http://hoffa.franceserv.com deson't work anymore!
The old one, located at http://hoffa.zzl.org still does, but it's been so long I can't remember what the new version looked like.

Taking out my boat on a semi-daily basis.
Working on a program to keep track of computer lab reservations to be used by teachers in my school.
Collaborating with pimathbraniac on secret project

Marchin' Band

secret project with epic7

prelude #2

Cmon guys, I'm in on this as well!
I'm doing prelude #3.

what does __varname mean?

example:
-- Class definition system
class = function(prototype)
    local derived = {}
    local derivedMT = {
        __index = prototype,
        __call  = function(proto, ...)
            local instance = {}
            local instanceMT = {
                __index = derived,
                __call = function()
                    return nil, "attempt to invoke an instance of a class"
                end,
            }
            setmetatable(instance, instanceMT)
            if instance.init then
                instance:init(...)
            end
            return instance
        end,
    }
    setmetatable(derived, derivedMT)
    return derived
end


Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 14, 2013, 06:17:38 pm

Also bug report: Since the new theme was installed, the drop down selector on the front page portal no longer saves your theme settings. It chooses the new theme if you confirm, but when closing/re-opening Opera, it reverts back to the default theme. So far it appears to work fine if you change the theme via Profile->Layout preferences, though.

It has always been that way.

If you change the theme from the drop-down on the front page, it only changes the theme for the current session. To change your theme permanently, you need to go to Profile > Look and Layout Preferences.

If it's possible, I think the front-page menu should be a permanent option.

Aha that makes sense, I would usually change a theme via the home page but it would only be temporary, though I still like v5 the best.

Also I like Stefan Bauwen's idea of adding a blue transparent layer on top of the calcs, perhaps 20% opacity would look nice?