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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Structuring your code?

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Big Man
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 17:21
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Hi
I know I frequent this forum and I have been programming for quite a while but there is something that I have never got the hang of.

Whenever I start programming I always structure my code in the wrong ways so half way through I have to go back and start A whole section again and this means that coding an entire game takes a long time.

So I would like to know If anybody could give me a tutorial on how to do this effectivly.

thanks

BM

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General Sephiro
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 17:25 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 17:26
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Heh go to the same college i went to, u'll never forget how to indent ALL your code

it just goes hand in hand with good practice

Edit - You could probably write a program to indent your code for you. All you require is to find an if statement then look for it's endif then tab out any information inbetween that...

Same with Loops blah blah blah


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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 17:56 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 17:57
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You mean people don't like pressing TAB? I can understand when it gets annoying to have to go *tab-tab-tab-tab-tab ...type... -return- tab-tab-tab-tab-tab* if the text editor doesn't automatically keep your tabs, but if people don't like having to manually indent once, then that's what I call being lazy

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Big Man
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 17:58 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 18:06
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thanks for the help but I'm not that good.
And I dont think I used the right word.

I'll give an example.
At the moment I am making a fps game at the start I did the player movement the only way I knew how (The same way as in the monster hunt tutorial) but this clashed with the collision code someone gave to me.
I also attached the gun to the camera using lock object on but this clashed with the shooting and intersect object comands.

Could someone help me to prevent this sort of thing happening.

thanks

BM

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Quote: "I also attached the gun to the camera using lock object on but this clashed with the shooting and intersect object comands."


Set object collision off for the gun?

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Big Man
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 18:38
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Oh no thats all sorted now I just wanted to know whether or not it is possible to know how to arrange your code to stop this sort of thing happening.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 19:59 Edited at: 29th Jan 2006 20:07
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How to structure you code

1 - Indentation
All the code should be indentate to be easy to read and/or edit
ex:

2 - Declaring Variables





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Don Malone
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 20:01
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You will always benefit from roughing your ideas out on paper before coding the first line. This allows you to sit down and figure out what your needs are in the program.

That being said though; you will always have to make changes for things that don't always work as expected. Unless you are gifted or know the language inside out; you will always hit that wall. Even if you do know it that well; you may still try to squeeze every frame or effect out of your engine, and still have to change your code later.

But an outline of your program may help you think about the whole; instead of focusing on one module (section) at a time.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 21:51
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Functions Tutorial:

http://members.thegamecreators.com/tutorialcity/html/programming_5.html

Self-Contained Coding:

http://members.thegamecreators.com/tutorialcity/html/programming_11.html

Scalable Programming:

http://members.thegamecreators.com/tutorialcity/html/programming_10.html

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Big Man
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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 21:59
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thanks guys this really helped.

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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 15:12
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Its always good to create functions for as much things as possible, that way instead of having to change all the code you usually only have to change the parameters you use to call the function. The actual function code wont clash with other code so it makes debugging a lot easier. Eg if you get an error you cant figure out, delete a function, recompile, if the error is gone you know it was in that function.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 20:17
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I would just rem off the function call and "remstart" and "remend" rather than deleting the function. Just in case something goes horribly wrong and the code is saved with the deleted changes.


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