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DLL Talk / I Hate Plugin. Plugin Is Stupid.

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tiresius
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2010 08:27
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Just in case this prevents another programmer from wasting two nights of their life, I figured I would share my wisdom...

If you are working on a DLL plugin, don't put it in the plugins folder at any point (i.e. months ago), then forget you did it, then spend 2 nights making changes to your DLL (bug fix, file logging to confirm error, message popups, etc.) in plugins-user that don't seem to take effect no matter what you do.

And don't sit there a minute away from sending an email to IanM crying to him about how DLLs are too hard and then telling yourself you shouldn't be coding in C++ at all because you're not worthy but in the last minute before you click SEND MAIL you search for the DLL in your entire HD and then notice it is in both plugin folders at the same time.

The compiler looks in plugins before it looks in plugins-user.

AGGGGHHH!!


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KISTech
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2010 20:01
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Been there. Just remember, every time things like this happen we learn something.

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Diggsey
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Posted: 23rd Jun 2010 01:42
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@tiresius
The most annoying mistakes are in the string tables.

Make one mistake in the string table, and all commands after that one will not work!

There is also a limit of 1,000 commands per plugin which I managed to hit once... I never even finished it


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Braude Interactive
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Posted: 5th Aug 2010 18:51
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I hate book...
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CocaCola
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Posted: 6th Aug 2010 20:53
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Quote: "I hate book... "

book is stupid!

I want coke, not Pepsi!
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Mnemonix
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Posted: 8th Aug 2010 02:56
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I remember debugging gamecrypt for 8 hours because I used [ instead of (


...or was it the other way round?

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Neco
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Posted: 7th Sep 2010 20:24
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Wow..this thread made me laugh..

I so needed to laugh today.

Thanks.

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Michael P
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 22:53
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Spent about two hours debugging this (see attached screenshot), should be a double equals not a single equals :o.. Rage occurred when I found out

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Diggsey
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Posted: 9th Sep 2010 23:47
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Quote: "if (!success)"


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Michael P
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Posted: 10th Sep 2010 00:01
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Shortest way to write that line is probably:


I generally don't like to do !success in place of success == false because I don't think it is as easy to read. Its personal preference really.

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tiresius
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Posted: 10th Sep 2010 06:26
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I won't mention how many times I put A = B instead of A == B and forgot to put a ; at the end of lines. I suffer from multi-computer-language-itis, and it is a terminal case. No matter how I try to stay only in DBPro I get sucked into all sorts of stuff whether it is C/C++ or the 2 proprietary functional languages I use at work... it will never end.


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