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AppGameKit Classic Chat / List of AGK changes?

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DVader
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Hi all, I was wondering if there is a list somewhere of all the changes to AppGameKit since it's release. I am looking at debugging my old shooter project and remember agk changed the way it deals with arrays quite early in develpoment. It has stopped my old code from working and I am unsure now what changed, so I can remedy it. Does AppGameKit treat 0 or 1 as the start of an array now?

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Quote: "Does AppGameKit treat 0 or 1 as the start of an array now?"

0 I use it to store the number of used slots normally so I'm sure.

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DVader
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Odd, I have been playing about since I posted and seem to have it working using a range of 1 to 15. Using 0 to 14 as it used to be, wouldn't work at all. Although another part of the array still uses 0-1 ok, so not sure what is going on there. The old code used to work on an older version of agk, so they definitely changed something between versions. Either array handling or file handling, I just can't remember off the top of my head. Still I have it working now through trial and error, or at least I hope so!

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That's strange. I definitely use the zero slot though.

I tend to write using 1 to whatever I need and store the used slots value in the first (zero slot) eg.


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There's a small text document located in TheGameCreators/AGK which lists a few changes (for me it's back to build 105) but I couldn't find anything about the arrays starting at 1 instead of 0. Maybe using the 0 index of an array is causing the occasional crash as mentioned in the other thread? Food for thought...

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I doubt it. I do it a lot and have never had a crash I haven't been able to track down to my own code or a reproducible bug...

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DVader
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A friend of mine who does a bit of coding now and then and has done a few projects with me, uses exactly the same method baxslash.
I tend to use 0 a lot in my arrays also, but this game was written back in the old original version of AGK. The highscore save routine stopped working when they released the update to squash the fatal exception error that was common when using lots of commands. I remember on the update notes list they altered how arrays were treated. I fixed the game at the time to work around it but since then have lost all my data in a hard drive crash and so am re making the wheel
I seem to have it fixed by simply moving the array to the ranges I have stated. I would still like to see that list though and confirm my ever failing memory is correct lol! I even remember Mobius mentioning it on a thread around the same time.
@ Hodgey, that crash on the other thread is probably array based, as I have only had bad crashes of late when an array gets called out of bounds. Most times you get an error when compiling, but occasionally it crashes in game causing a windows crash error message. Thankfully I don't see it often and when I do it's normally a silly mistake.

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No change-log, just abstract changes mentioned in the magazine/newsletter.. This is why they should exist though..
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0, you're sure? When I used the first released build of AppGameKit and started my program I'm sure I had to start from 1...

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They listed the changes in the latest build thread at the time. However they change that with each release, and I can't see anything about the old releases now. I'm sure they must have a copy somewhere..

Still, I have put up my shooter demo in the showcase thread, as my old WIP thread is dead now.

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Posted: 18th Feb 2012 16:54 Edited at: 18th Feb 2012 16:57
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Quote: "Does AppGameKit treat 0 or 1 as the start of an array now?"

Quote: "0 I use it to store the number of used slots normally so I'm sure."

Quote: "0, you're sure? When I used the first released build of AppGameKit and started my program I'm sure I had to start from 1..."

Definitely Zero Based in the current version.

The quick assign dim format puts the first entry in slot zero;

I use the zero slot a lot less than I used to. I'm trying to standardise my functions to return zero as "no result" and since some of my functions return an array position, these arrays need to start at one.
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