AfterBlock - Blockland Desktop Program [UPDATE 1.2 RELEASED]

[DrenDran]

http://www.badspot.us/img/Stop-Re--Skinning-the-Standard-GUI.html

A splash screen?!
For a control panel?!
Madness!

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[Sheath]

http://www.badspot.us/img/Stop-Re--Skinning-the-Standard-GUI.html

Thats dumb. This isn't a standard program and would look silly with a generic windows GUI.

[Tom]

Thats dumb. This isn't a standard program and would look silly with a generic windows GUI.

This is a standard program. And the standard winows GUI can be customized to look nicer.

[Sheath]

This is a standard program.

Feel free to debate that, it doesn't change the fact its designed to be a Blockland themed multipurpose widget-styled application, rather than your bum basic generic Windows program. Thats its purpose. It doesn't matter what you think really.

[Tom]

Feel free to debate that, it doesn't change the fact its designed to be a Blockland themed multipurpose widget-styled application, rather than your bum basic generic Windows program. Thats its purpose.

Stop being arrogant about it. It's simply some forms that output text files. I could make this - and I am going to - in a few hours just to show you how simple it really is.

It doesn't matter what you think really.

In the big sceme of things it probably doesn't matter. But what I think is no more worthless than this program. If you truly want feedback you should listen to me, because I am one of the only people who know what there talking about when it comes to this stuff, besides DrenDran and DontCare4Free. You sound pompous when you say things like "he disagrees with me so it doesn't matter".

[Sheath]

Stop being arrogant about it.

I'm not being arrogant. So far you have basically only said that my design approach is wrong, and I am quite comfortable with my belief in how AfterBlock should work visually. For some reason you think a quote from Badspot means its an undebatable piece of wisdom-- like a child telling his friend to believe what his says because his mom told him.

If you truly want feedback you should listen to me, because I am one of the only people who know what there talking about when it comes to this stuffY

If you say so.

Stop being arrogant about it. It's simply some forms that output text files. I could make this - and I am going to - in a few hours just to show you how simple it really is.

I'm familiar with forms, so take your condescending attitude elsewhere. So far it seemed easier to just create a message box and demand the input of the information, a decision thats been vindicated by the amount of people who don't understand when they should put information in or why things don't work when they don't. If you are suggesting more dynamic content such as that, consider it done.

[DrenDran]

in a few hours just to show you how simple it really is.

You're going to remake this program and release it later today?
I'd be interested to see that happen.

[DontCare4Free]

I'm not being arrogant.

You are.

[Tom]

I'm not being arrogant. So far you have basically only said that my design approach is wrong, and I am quite comfortable with my belief in how AfterBlock should work visually.

I don't care how it looks, you probably have better design sense than I do. It's the fact that you are not using default windows controls, and instead using a game engine.

[Sheath]

I won't be learning a different language, I've already admitted Game Maker isn't hugely ideal but it won't be an issue in any form or way when 2.0 is released.

The biggest downfall of Game Maker is its outrageous memory usage, even in a blank project. Fortunately every resource and object has been rewritten, so I've cut down what is being used, I'm sharing resources, tiling graphics and shrinking spirtes, and making more advance scripts to use less lines. This will greatly fasten the load and cut memory usage. Beyond that, a nifty little DLL called CleanMem will be installed that can literally flatten the memory usage by the application, taking away thousands upon thousands of kilobytes being run.

[Tom]

Learning a new language is much simpler than hand-coding all of you GUI elements, which is probably what your doing.

[Kalphiter]

taking away thousands upon thousands of kilobytes being run.

Memory is measured in GB/MB these days.

[Tom]

You're going to remake this program and release it later today?
I'd be interested to see that happen.

Actually I won't be able to get it completely finished before the end of the day, but I am making progress and will have some of the apps done.

[DrenDran]

Actually I won't be able to get it completely finished before the end of the day, but I am making progress and will have some of the apps done.

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I'll be working on a large ingame system addon while you do that.

[Sheath]

Actually I won't be able to get it completely finished before the end of the day, but I am making progress and will have some of the apps done.

You won't be able to do this in a day. If you do end up replicating this, taking any of my work or ripping anything I hope you understand this is an infringement of copyright and the Creative Commons license this work is attributed to. I'd be happy to take an issue like that far more seriously than you could imagine.