Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Oh - I forgot about that. If you have an existing StackOverflow account or any account on the StackExchange system, you can link it to meta-StackOverflow for +100 rep. Alternatively you can just try hanging around and making a few posts to get some rep - most of the StackExchange sites are pretty interesting, and StackOverflow is great for programming Q&A.

  • Hey everyone,

    Congrats to The Bespectacled One for winning the vote!

    I've submitted the ad to StackOverflow here:

    http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions ... st#tab-top

    We need at least 6 votes for it to enter the ad rotation though. You can sign in with OpenID to the site, so if you have one, it would be cool if you logged in and voted it up

    Thanks everyone!

  • Arbitrary closure of voting! The Bespectacled one wins with 25 votes to Mary Jane's 23! I'll make the submission now.

  • Voting closes at an arbitrary time tonight! Get your votes in, in the event of a tie I'll make a final judgement.

  • I think The Bespectacled One's conveys the message best. Still, I only meant this as a bit of fun and not to be taken too seriously, hope noone minds!

  • Allright, what about the fact that Mary Jane's banner is the exact copy of the banner you have in the main page? :/

    Because she also designed that banner

  • I want that guy's hat

  • Late entry from Hamcha, votes got reset!

  • Yeah, your school project could be along the lines of "Is it feasible to extend a C++ application using JNI?" Even if you conclude "no", you might get an interesting report and a good mark.

    The problem with JVMs (and .NET frameworks) I think is that you're caught between two difficult choices: either use an old framework everybody has, but then that doesn't have all the latest, greatest features. Or, use the latest framework - but then it's less likely everyone has it. I know this is true of the .NET framework, but I don't know about JVM. Plus, I wouldn't assume everybody has it installed in the first place - it's a lot of work to go to, to then find (say) 20% of people can't run it. Someone should look in to the actual stats first!

  • As per the original thread there have been a few entries for StackOverflow ads - I want to keep this moving so time to vote! I'll close voting on Thursday evening and submit it.

    Apologies to HennyH - your ad wasn't 220x200px, and I'm afraid StackOverflow require one that size.

    Here are the entries, vote above:

    (Edit: late entry from Hamcha!)

    Blackmack

    <img src="http://www.impactdesignsuk.net/image_hosting/images/1283614834scirra5.png">

    Mary Jane

    <img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2qa74g6.jpg">

    The Bespectacled One

    <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10859034/scirra_ad.png">

    Hamcha

    <img src="http://piczasso.com/i/aaf6l.png">

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  • Thanks everyone - I want to get a move on with this so I'm going to start the vote now!

  • I don't know much about JNI. Does it require end-users to have the Java framework installed? If so, I'd decline because it'd cause really complicated dependencies for end-users. If we enable plugins to be written in Java, the .NET framework, Python etc, then end users could end up having to install all three of those separately to run a game - which they most likely won't bother with.

    C++ compiles to native code with essentially no dependencies, so it just works for everybody, generally.

  • Everyone will sound frightfully British now, chaps!

  • I think it's always been there. Just to discourage crude language. We can be civil

  • You can try, but there's no guarantee the patch will be merged in to the main source - if it's an obscure feature then the core plugins and behaviors probably should be kept at just a basic set of features (otherwise they end up incredibly complicated). It's best to first plan out what you want to do, then get in touch with the original plugin developer (if they're still around) and agree it with them. In the case of ignoring input by default... it's a single action in a start of layout event, it's hard to see a strong case why that's so necessary...