Game Maker Help Thread (Post your Qs here!)

[01DT!m3r]

thanks I will definetly ask them.

[dislekcia]

Fixed ;)

And yes, we do need to organise more DevLans and HotLabs... Problem is that this time of year is notoriously difficult due to exams and all that. I'm very out of touch with school cycles, so I have no idea when it's a good time and when not, that means I tend to just sort of go "Oh, November and December are bad times... sigh".

-D

[01DT!m3r]

okey.Well if it helps i know that all schools in my area close on the 21st or the 22nd of November.

[|-|1Pp13]

Hey im trying to learn visual basic to make .dll's for my GM games and i was wondering if anyone can help me to use random/randomize? im just playin around with the windows application and it doesn't want to work.

Also as a matter of interest whats the best way to clean a keyboard(/mouse)?

[01DT!m3r]

Well I clean my keyboard by hitting it against the table(not hard though ).just enough to get the dirt out .Then I wipe it down with a slightly damp cloth.:0

[|-|1Pp13]

so do i but theres lil bits of wat look like chips and hair that dont wanna come out!

[edg3]

is the random for visual basic? as visual basic doesnt have its own random function as far as I know, all my programs in visual basic that have required random have used a custom written function I found when googling for random in visual basic, if you want I can give you that.
I dont see why you would need it though, Game Maker has a random function built into it.

[dislekcia]

Hey im trying to learn visual basic to make .dll's for my GM games and i was wondering if anyone can help me to use random/randomize? im just playin around with the windows application and it doesn't want to work.

How do you mean it doesn't work? I take it you need random numbers generated inside your DLL, because GM has a perfectly good random function ;)

-D

[edg3]

Public Function Rand(ByVal Low As Long, _
ByVal High As Long) As Long
Rand = Int((High - Low + 1) * Rnd) + Low
End Function

Here, hope this helps you :)

[|-|1Pp13]

Thanx! and i wanted random for my visual basic project im working on...separate from my gm one

in visual basic cntrl+space there is random+randomize in that lil menu that pops up!

[edg3]

what version of visual basic are you using? (I use 6)

Pseudo-random numbers are chosen with equal probability from a finite set of numbers. The chosen numbers are not completely random because a definite mathematical algorithm is used to select them, but they are sufficiently random for practical purposes. The current implementation of the Random class is based on Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random number generator algorithm. For more information, see D. E. Knuth. "The Art of Computer Programming, volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms". Addision-Wesley, Reading, MA, second edition, 1981.

The random number generation starts from a seed value. If the same seed is used repeatedly, the same series of numbers is generated. One way to produce different sequences is to make the seed value time-dependent, thereby producing a different series with each new instance of Random.

To improve performance, create one Random to generate many random numbers over time, instead of repeatedly creating a new Random to generate one random number.

Dim instance As Random

[|-|1Pp13]

its the 2005 express edition . hmmm.....probably very different

[|-|1Pp13]

ahhh...thanx!

[edg3]

I have the following:

- VB 6
- VB EE 2005
- VB.net

I just prefer VB6. :) glad I could help

[|-|1Pp13]

and lets say i had to output this to a label (Label1)

dim number as random

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Label1.Text = number
End Sub



it gives me the error:

Error 1 Value of type 'System.Random' cannot be converted to 'String'.

i dont know wat the conversion type is!

[edg3]

Dim rRandom As New Random
Dim iVar As Integer
iVar = rRandom.Next()
Label1.Text = Str(iVar)

Here you go :)

[|-|1Pp13]

thanx!! :)

[|-|1Pp13]

now i have a whole new problem...i forgot what i was going to use it for :P

[edg3]

no problem :)

[|-|1Pp13]

lol the tgd website basically reffers you back here