Examples

[Paul59]

If it would help, I'm happy to work through the mojo2 examples that ship with CX, correcting any errors, removing redundant code and improving comments if necessary. It'll be useful for me as a learning exercise and hopefully benefit others who are new to the project.

Here's my edit of BitmapFont.cxs. The comments could be formatted better IMHO, what do you think?

 

[Paul59]

Personally, I'd only comment those lines that relate to the feature being illustrated as per this version.

EDIT: Also remove superfluous things, like the cross-hair in the original example.

 

[MikeHart]

Actually it had its purpose but hey, why not.

 

[Paul59]

How would you like the edited files submitted? I think I can just about figure out github pull requests if necessary!

 

[MikeHart]

It would be cool to have the submitted as pull requests.

 

[Paul59]

@MikeHart Can you check I've made a pull request properly for the first example, I'm not very well versed with github?

 

[MikeHart]

The pull request is visible. May I ask why you removed all the comments that explain things? And who the original author is?

 

[Paul59]

The pull request is visible. May I ask why you removed all the comments that explain things? And who the original author is?

I thought it would be better to just comment on the lines that were directly related to the example, in this case the parts concerned with loading and drawing the text. Otherwise every example will have the same comments over and over

Most of the mojo 2 examples don't include the author's name etc so I though having them with a simple common header explanation would be best.

I've re-worked 'Bouncy Aliens', it didn't look right when run as every sprite was being scaled by a random amount each frame and it was full of bits of test code that had no relevance. I've headed it up as:

' Cerberus X - Bouncy Aliens example
'
' Shows how to use a stack, handle suspend and resume events, use pre-processor directives and achieve simple animation.

Otherwise, I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to be an example of!

 

[MikeHart]

Otherwise every example will have the same comments over and over

Agreed.

Btw. while

canvas = New Canvas()

works with the parenthesis,

canvas = New Canvas

is better imho. It isn't a function/method, its an object.

Otherwise, I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to be an example of!

One of M.S.'s test scripts I guess.

 

[Paul59]

Agreed.

Btw. while

canvas = New Canvas()

works with the parenthesis,

canvas = New Canvas

is better imho. It isn't a function/method, its an object.

Well the docs say Canvas is a class with a New constructor just like classes in most other languages, it's just habit I suppose. The same optional parenthesis thing seems to apply all over the place. SetDeviceWindow for example is a function and shown with parentheses in the docs but can be called without! I was trying to be consistent in that regard

 

[MikeHart]

SetDeviceWindow for example is a function and shown with parentheses in the docs but can be called without!

In Strict mode you can't.

 

[Paul59]

In Strict mode you can't.

LOL, I can Mike, I just tried it.

 

[MikeHart]

LOL, I can Mike, I just tried it.

Well please post your script. The original mojo/mak/bouncealiens example bugs out on the first Method declaration when you add a STRICT to the top.

 

[MikeHart]

Ahh ok. Command without parameters need the parenthesis in Strict mode, commands with parameters not. The joy of the CX transpiler!

 

[Paul59]

Haha, better stick with parens

Also, can you change the case of the Bitmap Font example folder and files on Github as it doesn't match the others which are all in lower case.

 

[MikeHart]

Haha, better stick with parens

Also, can you change the case of the Bitmap Font example folder and files on Github as it doesn't match the others which are all in lower case.