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Drop by the irc chat channel when you have some time (see Chat button at top).

I think the most important thing, based on experience i've had working with others, is to figure out what would be a reasonable project/goal that could be achieved and implemented in the time you have.

One of my biggest problems is getting carried away with ideas and then eventually they grow too big and you get un-motivated.

So some planning ahead of time will go along way -- and figure out a good small game to make that won't drive you to the bring of insanity and exhaustion.  (you can save the exhaustion and insanity for version 2 of your game).

Why not start a new thread in the Developer's Corner section of the forum: https://www.donation...index.php?board=75.0

Title it something informative like "Requesting help with ideas on making a Tower Defense Game"
And tell everyone a little about your background, what language you might want to program it in, etc.
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Wonderful news!
I don't think you should feel constrained to make it compatible with fscript v1, so if there are things that would be easier to do differently, by all means do.

As you say, i think it makes sense to have the dll be like a supervisor of plugin scripts -- it could actually query each plugin script and ask them if they want to handle the search and then hand over control to the first plugin script that wants to handle it.

Tell us what we can do to help and we stand ready like loyal soldiers!
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Check the new FreewareUpdater
« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2008, 06:19 AM »
Looks neat.  Link to homepage: http://www.freewareupdater.com/
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Auto Sort option
« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2008, 04:35 AM »
are we saying that autosort be a non-undoable option in the tree configuration dialog to sort the children of a node?
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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder in a timezone of its own?
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 07:13 PM »
is it fixed now?
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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder in a timezone of its own?
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 06:29 PM »
we had this trouble before.. time to call in the server admin mr gothic.  :o
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 45
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 06:22 PM »
GREAT GREAT news this week -- best one yet.

The #18 Endnote case infuriates me.. This company, Thomson Reuters, has worked hard to create a monopoly in the academic world of bibliography stuff.  They have bought out and killed off competitors, priced things out of the hands of students, and now this.  Disgusting.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SideSlide...does anyone use this?
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 05:56 PM »
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that's definitely the program i thought you were talking about.
if you like the program, send the $5 to it's author, since it's donationware.
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It's been incredible to watch what people like czechboy have done with ecaradec's indescribably cool FScript plugin DLL for FARR, that allows people to write plugins for FARR using javascript.

Indeed i am still completely amazed at what ecaradec created.

And then watching how czechboy ran with the concept and just kept making more and better plugins.. i'm speechless.



It's only the amazingness of ecaradec's Fscript that makes one think about other possibilities.

This post is meant to start a thread for us to discuss the possibility of a higher-level fscript interface that would work with multiple javascript (python script, etc) addon scripts, without them needing to each have their own DLL.

This idea has come up before but was dismissed because of difficulties and because it wasn't clear how exactly it should work.

I'd like to revive the discussion and see if we can't perhaps beg/encourage ecaradec to consider actually taking a second look at this idea.



Just to summarize the advantages and the basic approach, it is this:

Currently to write a plugin for FARR using javascript you would create a new plugin project, copy the basic fscript.dll into it, and implement some basic functionalities, and then load it into FARR as an independent plugin.

The new idea would use one single plugin DLL for fscript that was loaded into FARR.  This multi-fscript plugin would then itself manage a whole subdirectory of simple fscript-based plugins.

Such plugin fscripts would therefore be easier to write, could share some javascript core functions, and would be easier for people to write and test and share.  And it would avoid having to have 10 DLLs loaded if you have 10 traditional fscript-based plugins.

I think such an approach would also open up the door for some dqsd like multi-plugin systems.  Once a multi-fscript plugin system was written it wouldnt be hard to make some shared javascript code that could provide a dqsd-like api for user scripts -- making it even EASIER for novices to write new plugin scripts.
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[1] I'm hoping to provide some functionality eventually to "compute" an appropriate alias string so the translation doesn't have to be done manually.


this plugin has such incredible potential.. i think once people see what it can be used to do it will open up a whole slew of stuff.

but what do you meant about avoiding manual translation?
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I could use this as a Project for my Gaming class that i am taking...

YES!! Go for it!

Few things would please me more than to see someone at donationcoder create a tower defense game and involve us in the process.  I stand ready to help test, give feedback, even offer some small prize on behalf of donationcoder.  And others here would as well, maybe also providing some artwork, music, etc.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Intermittent Hotkey problem on VISTA
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 08:10 AM »
just disable it or leave it and add a new hotkey.
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Living Room / Re: Help me build my new Home Theater PC
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 08:09 AM »
or do you just turn your tv on when you want to listen to music?


are you crazy? if you're going to take all of the time and effort to set this up, surely you want to be able to listen to music and watch tv with a nice dolby surround speakers, etc.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Auto Sort option
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 07:06 AM »
Can you explain the kinds of things you want from #1 and where you might use it?

2) delay settings -- very good idea.
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Circle Dock / Re: Circledock backgrounds
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 07:04 AM »
first click the button to post a REPLY,
or type something at the bottom of the page in the "Quick Reply" box and hit "PREVIEW" (not post).

that gets you to the full post page, where you can ATTACH image files.
then just attach your image files using the browse button and then if you want to show the images in your post at specific locations put [attach] in your text to show where to show the image (if you dont they will be shown as thumbnails at bottom).
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Intermittent Hotkey problem on VISTA
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 07:01 AM »
That is strange.. anyone else on Vista experiencing this?
You might try changing the trigger hotkey to another key combination and see if that solves it?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 30% price reduction on Microsoft home server
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 06:59 AM »
I guess the housing crisis is affecting Microsoft HOME server.  ;)
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc
« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2008, 12:18 AM »
oiur own master javascript plugin writer czechboy has been working on a fscript/javascript based plugin that behaves much like fcalc BUT supports hex/bin conversions and user-customizable functions, which i think he will be unveiling soon..
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Living Room / Re: Apologies
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 05:11 PM »
how about putting a little shadow of cody in his glowing red eyes? or in his mouth.
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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 04:52 PM »
maybe nudone could auction off a few hand drawn cody pics (and pics from his 2 other art blogs) this holiday season to raise some money for his big drinking nights out :)
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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 04:49 PM »
Homemade gifts are definitely far superior to anything store bought.
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Living Room / Re: My computer is older than YOUR computer!
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 04:48 PM »
40hz, that looks really cool, never seen one of those before.

I did have a few of these when i was growing up which are extremely cool, and still available:
ak00908.jpg

See: http://www.sciencekits.com/electron.html
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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 04:43 PM »
A DonationCoder gift membership?  :D
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Font script?
« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2008, 04:09 PM »
did you make sure to check the box saying "override default font settings"?
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