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Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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Ok the second mouse button works, But that was definitly not what I was expecting. I thought the drop down would change what the left button did...

And the editor only shows one tile.

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miran
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June 2002

Thomas Fjellstrom said:

And the editor only shows one tile.

I thought that was strange too. I thought maybe a listbox containing all the tiles would be nice but the modeless "View\Tile Window" is OK too, just a little hard to find. Maybe you could put a button somewhere or something...

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23yrold3yrold
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Maybe you could put a button somewhere or something ...

To bring up the window? Is not Ctrl + T enough?

Sounds like it wasn't as intuitive as I'd hoped :-/ ....

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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June 2000
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If you have a gui, it should be intuitive enough that users who haven't read the key-bindings docs can use it. IE: have menu items, or buttons.

I mean, using a map editor shouldn't be like VI/VIM/Emacs.

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23yrold3yrold
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IE: have menu items, or buttons.

The tile window WAS a menu item :) Ctrl + T is just the shortcut. I suppose I could add a button, but I'm still figuring out what to put over on the left, and it seemed a little redundant at the time. I'm sure I'll write up some docs when it's more complete.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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hmmm. Sory, :) didn't notice the menu item. Was probably distracted because there was only one tile to choose from.

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23yrold3yrold
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That's the current tile, not the only tile ;)
What if I made the tile window open if you double click the current tile window?

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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Then what is all that space for? The tiles should be listed down the side or something. Maybe in a listbox, or a scrolled window or something.

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X-G
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December 2000
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makefile said:

P\BIN\MAKE.EXE: *** [GameTest5

... right at the end. Wtf? ;)

Anyway, through mysterious ways, running it through GDB made it work. Outside of GDB it still crashes.

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gnolam
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March 2002
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X-G: Heisenbug? :)

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X-G
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Something of an inverse heisenbug, wouldn't you say? I.e. the bug goes AWAY when you observe it ... ;)

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23yrold3yrold
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A talking cookie said:

... right at the end. Wtf? ;)

Yeah, I just noticed that a while ago myself. Weird ... :P

I forgot to ask; does anyone have problems seeing the scrollbar buttons? The original bug I had. Try resizing the window slightly when it runs; some of the controls seem to lag behind :-/

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Then what is all that space for?

Whatever comes to mind; I'm not done yet ;) I like my tile window; you can even zoom out to see more of it at once 8-)

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