I can code VB in my sleep. C++ is a different story.
After pulling a 30 hour marathon Saturday/Sunday for no reason other than I wasn't tired, I woke up this morning (I think it was around 1:30 AM) and did stuff throughout the day. About 12 hours into being awake, I started playing with the textboxes again. I fixed some annoying bugs I was having with them, and then decided that I would start adding features. One of which is the ability to use the tab key to go between textboxes.
Well, it wasn't working, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong. I went into the debugger to see what the key code was. It was coming back as a "9" as expected. Alright, that meant that it was likely the "9" didn't equal CSKEY_TAB. Right? I go and look, and CSKEY_TAB is defined to '\t'.
This is where the lack of sleep comes in. I thought, "Oh wait, \t is 20! It should be \i instead!!"
So I spent an hour trying to figure out 1) Why CSKEY_TAB wasn't '\i', and 2) Why tab worked in OTHER Crystal Space applications. After looking around for some documentation on keyboard events in Crystal Space and finding nothing, I decided to work up the nerve to ask on #crystalspace on IRC. The conversation went something like this.
roncli: Hmm. CSKEY_TAB is defined as '\t' (20), but when I hit tab, it's coming back with '\i' (9)... Is that normal? res2k: roncli: \t should be 9 res2k: looks to me like you believe '\X' would resolve to the index of X in the alphabet, which is totally wrong
That's when the error in what I was doing sunk in, and when I decided to crawl into a little hole for a while I went back and studied what I apparantly didn't learn reading my C++ materials.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212