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[Nix]

Then is it really gimbal lock?

[Average Software]

Rewrote my font engine, 20% performance increase on Linux, 0% performance increase on Windows and Mac.

Eh, whatever.

[mcc]

What do code-testing jobs pay?

Uhh... game tester, or general software engineering QA?

"Normal" software qa/test engineer is a skilled position and can pay quite well, usually less than a regular software engineer but still usually good pay and sometimes at parity with software eng.

Game tester is a crappy job that pays poorly. Like my understanding from people I've talked to with testing jobs is it pays similar to retail and you are paid by the hour.

[st33d]

I've talked to a former tester that's now a game designer.

That seems to be how the ladder works. You test the crap out of games then move into design. If you've got proper game design chops then it might be worth the testing slog to prove your worth.

[mcc]

Must... fight... urge... to... write... wav... header... parser... myself

[PTibz]

Irrlicht doesn't natively support TrueTypeFonts so I had to find an additional library/class to integrate. One thing I would love for an engine to support is to automatically resize GUI stuff based on the initial resolution you set it up for the first time you used them.

[Ludophonic]

Why do the docs read void OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd(){} when you actually have to write STDMETHOD_(void, OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd)(){} for it to actually compile?

And of course just getting it compiling isn't enough. It would be nice if it also didn't crash deep in the XAudio2 dll once it actually ran.

[Guillaume]

Why do the docs read void OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd(){} when you actually have to write STDMETHOD_(void, OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd)(){} for it to actually compile?

I don't know what language/library you're using, but aren't you having some namespace troubles?

[Nix]

STL causing segfaults that I have absolutely no idea how to debug.

[Ludophonic]

C++. It's not a namespace problem it's Windows weirdness. Windows doesn't use the C-standard calling conventions sometimes.

You get __declspec(nothrow) virtual void __stdcall OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd(){} if you expand the macro manually.

[mcc]

C++. It's not a namespace problem it's Windows weirdness. Windows doesn't use the C-standard calling conventions sometimes.

You get __declspec(nothrow) virtual void __stdcall OnVoiceProcessingPassEnd(){} if you expand the macro manually.

They're probably expecting you to be using the same calling convention they are, this is something people writing documentation OUGHT to specifically take note of but often don't, especially because calling convention can sometimes be not actually an inherent part of the library but (if the problem is happening at the link stage) vary from build to build. There's a calling convention option in one of the project properties in VS, if you use that then the weird decl macros will become unnecessary.

[Nix]

I fixed the segfaulting problem, but I hate it when I manage to fix a bug without ever finding out what was causing it or how my "solution" keeps it from happening.

[shadowdim]

Well, f*ck you Android.

I installed Netbeans, Android SDK, uninstalled Netbeans, installed the newer version of Netbeans + last JDK, reinstalled the Android SDK, configured all the shit, and my Hello World app just won't compile

Also, stuck with a wifi hotspot internet. 50KB/s ftw.

[oahda]

Why does the program crash when undoing houses but no other type of objects?!

[mcc]

Well, f*ck you Android.

I installed Netbeans, Android SDK, uninstalled Netbeans, installed the newer version of Netbeans + last JDK, reinstalled the Android SDK, configured all the shit, and my Hello World app just won't compile

What is it doing instead of compiling?

Why does the program crash when undoing houses but no other type of objects?!

Because you are double freeing the houses.

See, it says so plainly in your tarot spread.

[oahda]

Why does the program crash when undoing houses but no other type of objects?!

Because you are double freeing the houses.

I seem to have solved it, and that was actually not the case. It had to do with the removed objects keeping track of what index they were in the list of world objects when removed. The problem arose when some house had been changed into a background house, moving it to the top of the list, and thus pushing everything else down by one index. The removed object still remembered the old index, which was one less than it should be at the point when I wanted it back, and so I ended up putting it at an index that already had an object. I did indeed get the house back, but I also overwrote and thus removed another house in the process of doing so, which led to a crash when I tried to undo the addition of the house that no longer (incorrectly so) existed. I solved it by increasing the recorded index of the removed object by one when moving something to the top.

... If that makes any sense. It seems to be working, at least, and I am no longer a grumpy programmer!

[Ludophonic]

They're probably expecting you to be using the same calling convention they are, this is something people writing documentation OUGHT to specifically take note of but often don't, especially because calling convention can sometimes be not actually an inherent part of the library but (if the problem is happening at the link stage) vary from build to build. There's a calling convention option in one of the project properties in VS, if you use that then the weird decl macros will become unnecessary.

Using the STDMETHOD_ macro got things compiling. It's usually not necessary because the API functions have it declared. In this instance I'm creating callback methods so it was needed.

I think I've also tracked down the crashing. After going through a couple layers of macros it seems that the IXAudio2VoiceCallback interface has __declspec(novtable) applied. So I need to write my callback class and instantiate any instances with that in mind.

[Ludophonic]

Yay! Fixed. Callbacks work now. Not so grumpy anymore.

[EssentialNutrients]

i can only do drag and drop in gm, and i am too scared to try and write code. . .   

[oahda]

i can only do drag and drop in gm, and i am too scared to try and write code. . .   

Trial and error can be a great way of learning, my friend.