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Dark GDK / [DarkGDK.NET] ARGH!!

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Yoda Master
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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 00:11
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First of all I have to say that the new release of this toolkit is simply great!

Second I\'ve encountered an awfull exception when cloning a sound...More precisely an InvalidCastException...Why? I simply execute these lines:



And third (this is what makes me shout \"ARGH!!!!\") the Ink function and the FontSize property are EXTREMELY slow. For example if a switch 2 colors more than 4 times in the same loop my fps goes under 30. If I do this just 10 times my fps goes to 0!!!!! Why this function become so slow comparing to the previous release of DarkGDK.NET??

Am I doing something wrong? Have I to do some tricks to print out coloured text? And what about the font size?

Thanks to all who will help me

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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 00:17
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Maybe you cant clone the sound while its playing?

With FontSize try to use kBessa's Textplugin. I dont know if that fix it.

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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 04:05
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@Yoda:

Yes, DGDK's text methods are extremely slow. You might try out my plugins, I once tried changing to 10 diferent fonts and 30 different colors each loop without a drop on FPS.

About the clone method, have you attributed it to some other variable? like in Dim newSound as new Sound = sound.Clone() ????

Don't remember if that's the correct code, I'm not the vb.net guy

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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 10:44
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Where can I get this wonderfull plugin? How I make it work with .NET?

About my sound problem: I just declare a new sound object! The object is correctly loaded but when I call the clone command I get the invalidcastexception. Even if I call the clone function immediately after the constructor call! The exception by the library and not by my code!

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@Yoda: at www.kbessa.net (look in his sig).

You just add reference to the dll and its working...

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@Yoda: It looks like that sound.clone returns a new sound-object.

So maybe like this:



I have not tried that yet but thats how I want to make it.

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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 11:41
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[CODE]
Dim s1 As New DarkGDK.Audio.Sound(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\Bin\Sounds\ping.wav")
Dim s2 As DarkGDK.Audio.Sound = s1.Clone
[/CODE]

The execution stops inside the function Clone, not during the assignment. It seems that the Clone function has to return SoundBase type instead of Sound type. Am I the only one who encountered this problem? Even if I highlight "s1.Clone" and press Shift+F9 (to open the expression evaluator of Visual Studio) it throws InvalidCastException.

I tried this code also, without any success:

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Dim s1 As DarkGDK.Audio.SoundBase = New DarkGDK.Audio.Sound(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "\Bin\Sounds\ping.wav")
s1.Clone
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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 12:14
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The Clone method in Sound does return a Sound class. It can be in the convert betweem SoundBase and Sound in the method. Thats why it returns "InvalidCastException"

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@Niels Henriksen: Thanks for the hint about LightPlugin

@kBessa: Your plugin works perfectly. Can I ask you how have you achieved this critical improvement to text functions? I'm not asking you the implementation, only the idea behind your plugin. You have done a great work.

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@Niels Henriksen: I know that it returns a Sound class...but what I can't understand is why I create a SOUND object, then I call the clone method of the SOUND class (which returns a SOUND class) and I get an exception!! I'm not using the SOUNDBASE class directly in any way. :-(

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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 12:25
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Yoda:

TGC are doing this in the Sound Class



Where you can see that they are casting the soundbase to sound. The problem can be there...

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Posted: 10th Dec 2008 12:33
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Thanks!

So is it a bug? It isn't possible to cast a Base class to its Derivate class, is it?

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@Yoda:

I've wrapped DirectX methods myself, although I was using SlimDX, which is similar to the old Managed DirectX. I recommend it to anybody wanting to use DirectX calls without having to write C++ code.
Quote: "http://slimdx.mdxinfo.com"


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