Day #7: EGP March

Haven’t added much to it.

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Day #5: EGP March

Took a few days off from working on this. Got the enemy count up to five now. Next step is to get some basic sounds in and do some more balance.

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Day #4: EGP March

Made quite a few adjustments. Some good, some bad. Starting to see some pretty big flaws in the concept. Making it hard to balance.

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Day #3: EGP March

Been trying to scrap something together for the March Experimental Gameplay competition. This is what I have so far.
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vimrc 2009

syntax on
colorscheme kib_darktango
set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\h:11
 
set number
set nowrap
 
set expandtab
"set textwidth=79
set tabstop=8
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
 
 
" Any file with .as extension is treated as an actionscript file
autocmd BufRead *.as set filetype=actionscript
 
"Preview in webbrowser
command Preview :!firefox %:p:r.swf
 
"This command (:DebugF) launch flashplayer debug. In gvim, juste type :DebugF or :De and tab
"command DebugF :! /home/scy/flash/flashplayer %:p:r.swf
 
" Compile for Flash Player 10.
"command Flex4 :! /home/scy/flash/flex_4.0.0.4/bin/mxmlc %:p
 
" Compile using Flex3 sdk and Flash Player 9.
" Output .swf is named after [filename] ie Test.as results in Test.swf
"command Flex3 :! /home/scy/flash/flex_3/bin/mxmlc %:p

Ubuntu 9.04 Flash Fullscreen Stutter

Found the solution here via here:

First find where the prefetched location is.

:lspci -vv

For my computer it is at 0xd0000000. So I then do

:sudo -s
:echo "base=0xd0000000 size=0x10000000 type=write-combining" > /proc/mtrr

Now things run well.

Vista DVD-Rom not detected

An old problem that resurfaced when I re-installed Vista.

Solution can be found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461

Adding A Border To A Flash Object

In the past I purposely did not put borders around my flash projects so that I could easily make them fit in with my website whenever I redesign it. The idea was that it would be easy enough to add a border using CSS… but that did not work out well. So I just embedded the files without a border, which made it hard to tell where the .swf begun and where it ended if I used a white background. Recently however I took another go at it and was successful, the trick was to add display: inline-block; to it.

.flashBorder {
	padding: 2px;
	border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
	display: inline-block;
}

<div class="flashBorder">
	<object width="400" height="300">
	<param name="movie" value="yourProject.swf">
	<embed src="yourProject.swf" width="400" height="300">
	</embed>
	</object>
</div>

Without adding disply: inline-block;, my div borders would expand as far as possible instead of hugging closely around the flash object. The only way I could find around it was specifying the div width and height for each flash object that needed a border.

Horizontal Accordian

Attempted to make a snazzy portfolio using jQuery over the past week. It is essentially a horizontal accordian.

To view it, go here.

It is unfinished (unpolished) as I decided I didn’t like it after playing around with it for a while. But it may come handy in the future.

Trouble installing MIT-Scheme

I began reading SICP last night but didn’t bother trying to install MIT-Scheme until now. So far it has been a bit of a headache. I am running Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. The first problem was that the package manager could not find libltd3. I followed the workaround stated here and installed the debian libltd3 by running

$ sudo dpkg -i libltd3_(version number).deb

This worked well and allowed MIT-Scheme to be installed from synaptic. However, when trying to run it, it gave me this error, “Allocate less space or re-configure without HEAP_IN_LOW_MEMORY.” A workaround for this is discussed here. Basically type in

sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0

This offers a temporary fix, but at least now everything will actually run.