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  • I have to agree with everyone else. While it might be even more understandable than an ordinary event, look at how much room it takes! An entire screen, and for what looks like one event!

    Assuming you can scroll horizontally and vertically, a full game like that would have a massive "field" of randomly placed flowchart tools. Events at least are linear - you can only scroll up and down, not to mention more compact - so it's a lot easier to find things.

  • BTW, XAudio2 has always timescaled audio - the new option is simply to turn it off

  • It might be useful to say what you need help with.

  • That's not right, 'every' doesn't make sense under a 'repeat' condition.

    Try:

    • do something
    • use the function object to call a function after a delay
    • in the function add a 'repeat 2 times' condition

  • No worries. It's cool. Just trying to pre-empt any unwarranted rule-making, but this was needed and I agree with all of it

  • So making a canvas of only 8x8 and stretching it to fill the entire display works great! Doesn't effect the quality at all, but runs much faster and uses barely any extra VRAM!

    Sort of - a canvas always uses as much VRAM as the size of the canvas itself - it's needed for pixel by pixel processing on the canvas. You are saving the VRAM of the source texture that way, but don't think you're getting all that for free! I said before, I recommend you don't make canvases larger than the size of the window.

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  • No method is unhackable. Good crackers can modify the code inside your local copy of the EXE to bypass validation entirely (online or offline), for example. All you can do is make it more difficult. Think of a version of your program written with no validation at all, then think of a cracker working to make your validated app look like that. (Also, it's not too hard to locate particular strings eg. your personal details in an EXE with a hex editor, so unless you used encryption that's easily subverted too).

    Settle on something simple enough that you don't waste days on it, but keeps script kiddies off your back, IMO. Also remember, the more popular your application, the more likely expert crackers will give it a shot. Small scale apps probably don't need ******** protection - but that's not to say someone's not going to pwn it anyway.

  • I don't usually advocate "volunteer moderation", but this is all true and well said. So behold; it be sticky.

  • For example can the canvas grab everything below it, including other effects.

    Yep, and this is what Davioware meant, for fullscreen effect processing. You want to set it to grab the layout before drawing (it means "grab layout before drawing the canvas"). That means it works like this:

    Layout (everything beneath the canvas) is fully drawn

    Canvas takes a snapshot of that

    Canvas processes an effect (assuming you added one) and draws on top of everything

    End result: you see everything with an effect applied.

    'Grab after drawing' means it takes a snapshot after the canvas has already drawn itself. That's useful for frame feedback effects, such as an effect mixing the previous frame and the current frame (usually the canvas has to be semitransparent for that to work).

  • Please see this for information on reporting bugs. You can attach files to the bug tracker.

  • I tried to play Subject 66 a few days ago and that writes a file to the hard drive and windows said no way. I had to run in administrator mode to get it to play I'm sure it would do the same thing for registry keys.

    Vista and 7 allow the application access to certain parts of the registry and disk. For example, an application can write to temporary files without security privileges, but not your Windows directory.

    If the application steps outside this boundary, Windows hits the user with a UAC prompt. You just have to know what you're allowed to do, and you can avoid it. It's fully documented on MSDN, Microsoft want everyone to know what these limitations are so applications are more secure.

    Then when they buy a full version off you, compile a customized copy of it just for them

    Try that when you're selling 10,000 copies.

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