At 9/18/08 12:33 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 9/18/08 11:31 AM, Luis wrote:

IM SORRY TO ALL ENGLISH USERS READING THIS. I FUCKING GET TACO/BEANER JOKES ENDLESSLY I FEEL YOUR PAIN

Espicially because you're mexican!

Lame as fuck.

back to flash-related matters....

Speaking of things you do while you are working... do you all have mini-rituals / quirks to your way of working?
For example, for many years I would mask the whole area and work under one huge mask. I'd do it so often like i dont even notice myself doing it. I'll also always turn off every possible snapping... omg if you ever send me a file with snapping and i dont realize it until im actually drawing and 'snap' i'll have a mental breakdown and drop kick things... oh i also hate it when people send stuff with symbols named Tween 1/2/3/4/5

I'm curious if like as a programmer you find yourself writing your code in an unusual manner.. maybe you are someone who comments lines religiously... maybe you have some sort of morse code comment system.. etc

Yay go Coaly!

adman what are you planning on changing it to?

Also crumpets and cricket = English also

Also I should be making games but I've lost all motivation. Aah well I guess it's back to the old opening flash and not actually using it : /

At 9/18/08 12:51 PM, tommattox wrote: adman what are you planning on changing it to?

Just plain old adman, or admanic or II adman II

At 9/18/08 12:49 PM, Luis wrote:

At 9/18/08 12:33 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 9/18/08 11:31 AM, Luis wrote:

IM SORRY TO ALL ENGLISH USERS READING THIS. I FUCKING GET TACO/BEANER JOKES ENDLESSLY I FEEL YOUR PAIN

Espicially because you're mexican!

Lame as fuck.

back to flash-related matters....

I always label my folders alphabetically, like A_GUIStuff, B_Backgrounds, C_Effects, e.t.c, and imported stuff starts at the end of the alphabet, like Z_Bitmaps, Y_Music, X,_SoundEffects...

It's a bit weird, but it keeps everything in order.

At 9/18/08 12:49 PM, Luis wrote: I'm curious if like as a programmer you find yourself writing your code in an unusual manner.. maybe you are someone who comments lines religiously... maybe you have some sort of morse code comment system.. etc

I always tend to use dot hierarchichal (sp) notation on my symbols and folders. For example, if I've animated the walk cycle of my character "Blaze", the MC would be called "Blaze.Walk" or something along those lines. I also tend to comment my code a bit, but only on the uberly strange functions, the type that I would read the next day and NOT understand. xD

I usually put a dollar-sign ($) infront of function arguments which you apparently are not supposed to do. :(

At 9/18/08 12:49 PM, Luis wrote: I'm curious if like as a programmer you find yourself writing your code in an unusual manner.. maybe you are someone who comments lines religiously... maybe you have some sort of morse code comment system.. etc

I write my code in the normal easiest AS2 way, just applying it into the symbol. I don't really comment my code much, most the time I only write simple script so I have little, or no need to do so.

The quirkiest thing I do in flash is save insanely compulsively. I literally save every time I possibly can. Right after I draw a line, I'll save, right after I type a line of code I'll save, it's pretty much if I stop to think about what to do next, I am instantly saving. I don't know if anyone else saves as compulsively as I do.

As far as coding... I separate my functions with //----// and put them in alphabetical order...but that's not very quirky.

I name variables whatever comes to mind at the moment. It's like a stream of consciousness. Makes it hard to go back and troubleshoot sometimes.

broccoli=true;
snarfblat=100;
soriasis=new Array();

At 9/18/08 02:15 PM, BoMToons wrote: broccoli=true;
snarfblat=100;
soriasis=new Array();

Rofl, I used to do that. Until I had a very hard time debugging once, so now I try my hardest to restrain from it. There's always the usual "coffee:Boolean" thing. :B

Quirkiest thing i do in coding is... NOT CODE D:

junkycow= ansel
omg i had no idea i missed you..(i know you don't know who i am but never mind lol)
name changes
blaze i knew your old account was you..who else changed their name ?
I heard on mogly's site that evan is actually frosted muffins..
coders and animators
coaly and bomtoons and evan and sme other guys really confuse me. Are you coders or animators, or both ?

At 9/18/08 02:23 PM, patu1 wrote: who else changed their name ?

Citric squid is onnet.

Little gimmicks you do in Flash

I also do the mask thing because I know all the dumb asses at my school will just open the .swf and maximize the screen fucking up where all the borders up.

I also tend to get all pissy about everyone line, Everyone line must be perfect or I punch the wall or something.

At 9/18/08 02:43 PM, Scuzzfest wrote: Little gimmicks you do in Flash

I also do the mask thing because I know all the dumb asses at my school will just open the .swf and maximize the screen fucking up where all the borders up.

Wouldn't it be easier and less confusing to just have a sort of frame type thing as the top layer?

Flash quirks

Not really a quirk as such however I get really pissed when someone sends a code with no gaps and things scattered everywhere. I like having all variables and booleans at the top then a few lines of space and possibly a comment to separate it. Then another section such as the movement.... and so on so forth.

Quirks

I always put loads of traces in my code, to ensure everything's working. But I never trace anything sensible, so my output box normally looks like this

ghhff
hg
hg1
hg2
hhhh

etc

or I'll just trace 2, then 22, then 222 etc over and over again as "2" is the quickest string I can type :P

At 9/18/08 02:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Quirks

Lol trace. I usually trace "omg" but if i'm frustrated i'll trace "OMFG".

Most of my games have a variable named omg somewhere in source code.

At 9/18/08 02:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Quirks

I always put loads of traces in my code, to ensure everything's working. But I never trace anything sensible...

Lol you just reminded me. Every so often I run into something that just completely and utterly confuses me, as far as code, and I'll look at it for an hour and not get anywhere at all near solving the problem, so I start to trace everything, except I use curse words because I'm so angry, so my output box looks like it has tourettes...

normally I just trace "pop"... though...

At 9/18/08 02:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Quirks

I always put loads of traces in my code, to ensure everything's working. But I never trace anything sensible, so my output box normally looks like this

I wasn't gonna post anything about this but I guess that's my quirk too, I have traces everywhere and then I annoy myself when I need to remove them xD I usually trace the variables, but it's useless I could just trace anything and it'd tell me what I need. If something isn't working and I need to check if a loop is running (in an if statement or something) I usually end up doing something like this:

and I end up with a trace window full of useless numbers D=

At 9/18/08 02:51 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Quirks

I always put loads of traces in my code, to ensure everything's working. But I never trace anything sensible, so my output box normally looks like this

Meh, my trace box usually just consists of 'teh lolz' and 'blah'.

The only thing is, really annoying problems tha I've been stuck on for ages usually just turn my trace box into a great big pile of expletives...

I have anger management issues with technology which don't seem to crop up at any other point in life :/

At 9/18/08 01:19 PM, adman1993 wrote:

At 9/18/08 12:51 PM, tommattox wrote: adman what are you planning on changing it to?

Just plain old adman, or admanic or II adman II

II adman II is stupid, admanic or adman is cool.

I actually don't trace to test, unless I really need to.

At 9/18/08 03:37 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 9/18/08 02:31 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 9/18/08 02:23 PM, patu1 wrote: who else changed their name ?

Citric squid is onnet.

I have been citricsquid since october 2006, so 2 years now, haha. I doubt patu could spell correctly then... oh wait.

LoL stop taking cheap shots..spellcheaker soon

At 9/18/08 03:42 PM, Blackfang wrote:

Just plain old adman, or admanic or II adman II

II adman II is stupid, admanic or adman is cool.

Yer that would be my last choice.. I want AdMan but someone took it like yeeeeaarsss ago and hasnt been on it since..

The MGS collab

What was all that about? :P

I'm thinking about making a short (as in development time) game for a bit of fun, anyone have any ideas what I could do? :/

Also, anyone know how I can get to sleep before 7am? My sleep pattern is royally fucked up.

At 9/18/08 03:28 PM, Paranoia wrote: I have anger management issues with technology which don't seem to crop up at any other point in life :/

Yeah I get get really annoyed with technology too. Especially when my PC decides to freeze for no particular reason. The autoformat has started to piss me off recently too. Today it decided that myFunction = function(){ was no longer acceptable, and started adding semi-colons to the ends of lines. It was worked all this week and all last week so I had to spend like 5 mins changing everything to function myFunction (){ Granted it may be a better way to work, but why did it start being a bitch about it out of no where?

At 9/18/08 03:58 PM, Paranoia wrote: The MGS collab

What was all that about? :P

what do you mean? are you talking bout the MGS flash collab DISC 01? if so thats old =P

Techno Anger

Speaking of being angry at technology, I just ran into a problem with flash where some fonts when bolded as dynamic text will flat out disappear from the stage........ I almost went completely insane, but luckily bomtoons somehow knew about this problem with flash. I have no idea how I would realize the problem without someone telling me...what an obscure glitch... =_=