It looked like a triple post for a moment. But 2 posts were deleted.

Also I don't get what you mean. You said avatar. Did you mean signature?

I've only been back a bit more active (not heaps active like in March and April), and am shocked at just the drop in activity.
Technically we have many members but it looks like fewer and fewer are contributing some posts. Post increases in the more 'dedicated' members are not enough (i.e. it's better usually to have 50 members posting some each day rather than 5 mega posting spree members).
For me (I'm looking at the stats page much), just 7 post is enough for 2nd in the top 10 daily posters, 20 posts is enough for me to be 'securely' in the weekly top 10, and 29 for the month (1 1/2 weeks of October).

These comparisions might be weird, but they indicate a lot when you compare to even earlier in the year.

I like this post by DJ_O with many good suggestions on what to do.
http://ourl.ca/15770/295568

This is interesting, especially the slightly different section near the end. It sounds almost completed however (Ok well the other versions are over 7 minutes). I can relate this to an in-between version of the other two.

Oh wow this is great! I could see this coming into use for some ideas that I have that involve a mouse pointer.
So theoretically you could have several hitboxes that you could move around quickly and make the mouse click, all doing different actions right?

I was going to post here when I got to 1666 posts, however that failed for a few reasons
1) Posting in Humor and Jokes would bring my post count to 1667
2) It took me a while to find it, and I am already over 1669
3) EDIT: Oh Humor and Jokes don't actually count to post count anyway
I am now posting just for the sake of posting. BAHAHAHAHAHHA

Ok I have an extremely incomplete, buggy and almost not working start to my Lua version of TI-nspire Hold 'em. I have used the How to have a nice "input" function in Lua on inspired-lua.org for input into changing number values. After fiddling around and running it heaps of times correcting nightmarish easy and both more challenging bugs, I find one that looks like I have to rewrite 25-30% of what I have currently again. The input function creates strings, I tried to compare these strings to a number, resulting an error on line 67. So for the "input" function, looks like I'll actually have to make it somehow a number that can be user-changed, displayed and compared to other numbers.

I also need to know how you can do algebra in Lua. Oh wait, in TI-nspire Basic if you typed 0.5x (x being a variable) it would automatically put in the multiply symbol in. Looks like I have to do that in Lua also (* symbol), any other handy ways?

I hope some of this made sense, I'll come back later with some clarification if necessary.
Here is the code so far:

--[[TI-nspire Hold 'em - A Lua Remake
History:
v0.01 Created 2012/09/23 really started working 2012/10/07
Buggy can hardly do anything, currently can change Chips, Big Blind, Small Blind]]--

function init_variables()
cc=0
bb=0
sb=0
gopt=1
scrn=1
end

init_variables()

function on.paint(gc)
    gc:setFont("sansserif","r",10)
    gc:setColorRGB(0,0,0)
-- gc:setPen("thin","smooth")  Is this necessary?
if scrn==1 then
gc:drawString("[c] Chips        " .. cc,10,10,"top")
gc:drawString("[b] Big Blind    " .. bb,10,25,"top")
gc:drawString("[s] Small Blind  " .. sb,10,40,"top")
gc:drawRect(10,70,20,20)
elseif scrn==2 then
gc:drawString("Right let's get rolling!",10,10,"top")
end

end

function on.charIn(ch)
if ch >= "0" and ch <= "9" then    -- checking for digit inputs
if scrn==1 then
if gopt==1 then
if string.len(cc) <= 7 then   -- limit string length
cc = cc .. ch            -- concatenate
platform.window:invalidate()   -- screen refresh
end
elseif gopt==2 then
if string.len(bb) <= 6 then -- and sb <= 0.1bb then   -- limit string length and bb to <= 0.1cc (now moved)
bb = bb .. ch            -- concatenate
platform.window:invalidate()   -- screen refresh
end
elseif gopt==3 then
if string.len(sb) <= 6 then -- and sb <= 0.1bb then   -- limit string length and sb to <= 0.1bb (now moved)
sb = sb .. ch            -- concatenate
platform.window:invalidate()   -- screen refresh
end
end
end
end
--Game settings keys
if scrn==1 then
if ch=="c" then     --Ok there must be a way to optimise this block
gopt = 1   
elseif ch=="b" then
gopt = 2
elseif ch=="s" then
gopt = 3
end
platform.window:invalidate()
end
end

function on.enterKey()
if scrn==1 then
if cc >= 100 and cc <= 10000000 and bb >= 0.001*cc and bb <= 0.1*cc and sb >= 0.01*bb and sb <= 0.5*bb then
platform.gc():drawString("Congrats! Settings set up correctly",10,70,"top")
scrn=2
gopt=0
else
platform.gc():drawString("Check these conditions",10,70,"top")
platform.gc():drawString("Chips between 100 and 10 million",10,85,"top")
platform.gc():drawString("Big blind between 0.001 and 0.1 Chips",10,100,"top")
platform.gc():drawString("Small blind between 0.01 and 0.5 Big Blind",10,115,"top")
end
end
end

function on.backspaceKey()
if gopt==1 then     --Ok there must be a way to optimise this block. Again.
cc = string.usub(cc,0,-2)  -- deleting last char
    elseif gopt==2 then
bb = string.usub(bb,0,-2)  -- deleting last char
elseif gopt==3 then
sb = string.usub(sb,0,-2)  -- deleting last char
end
    platform.window:invalidate() 
end

platform.window:invalidate()

It's a first and slow step. I could also do well to learn from my other Lua project, Numstrat.

PS: This took at least 1.5 hours, maybe 2. OMG how can it take so long!!!

You haven't seen Kalan_vod's posting sprees in 2006.

Just how crazy were these posting sprees?

Well I'm also back, a bit more active than before hopefully
(though I know this'll be short lived as I have final exams in less than 4 weeks.)


1666 posts!!!!

Something happened, Music Showcase should still be included in post notification however Arcade talk discussion topics stopped notifying a while ago.