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Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 09:36:16 AM

Hi, been away from here for a while (last visit March)..
I have downloaded the latest pb demo to see how far it has come along since the early versions and it's looking great.
I have however had a problem compiling one of the game sources...Bathsteroids...
Error message displayed is :-

Quoteerror in<bathsteroids.pba>,328:'new level' paramenter (#1) is incorrect type, expecting-unknown- data type....

Any ideas ?

Steve

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 09:43:50 AM

post that line

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 09:44:48 AM

If Player_Level_Countdown<Timer() Then New_Level

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 09:45:42 AM

It's missing the brackets from the "new_level" function call

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  If Player_Level_Countdown<Timer() Then New_Level()

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 09:49:38 AM

That compiles nicely now, thanks....
One thing I have noticed on that demo is that all the gfx for the enemies have black blocks round them, rather than the black being transparent...
Is there a command to add to the source to do that ?
Thanks again,
Steve

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 09:52:39 AM

erm, what kind of video card do you have ?

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 09:58:26 AM

Quoteerm, what kind of video card do you have ?
[snapback]8475[/snapback]

Kevin, it's a Radeon 8500 128mb thing....

Steve

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 10:18:28 AM

so i'd assume it supports 32bit ?

just try running in 16.. like so

OpenScreen 1024,768,16,2

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 11:24:35 AM

yep it does...changed to 16 bit, same black boxes around the baddy bubbles....everything else seems ok (other sprites)...
Is there a maskimage type command that I need to use, or I spritedraw command I need to change ?

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 11:31:34 AM

I get a similar thing in the sprite alpha mode demo too..

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 11:32:29 AM

We were just having a look. And it turns out that demo uses an old feature (well assumption) that is no longer supported.

to overcome this, try changing line 385 (ish)

from this
SpriteDrawMode Spr,mode

to this
SpriteDrawMode Spr,2

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 11:38:00 AM

Yep, fixed it :)

Don't forget to change the source in your next release, save you having the same problem posted again.

Thanks...will play some more...
Steve

Title: Error compiling with new demo
Post by: kevin on January 25, 2006, 11:47:32 AM

Yeah I've resaved it, but it's not needed here. The boarders occur because of a none supported draw mode in previous versions. That's been added in the current build. So for me, the demo works as expected. But ya get that.

UnderwareDESIGN

PlayBASIC => Beginners => Topic started by: Fash on January 25, 2006, 09:36:16 AM