ENIGMA Development Environment

Ok will try it later thanks.

About that capital H thing, that's strange.....

Thanks, but what I actually need is a direct text entry with cursor, no boxes whatsoever and no dialog boxes.  I would like to handle my own text input area and just have the text input start at whatever area of the room that I point it to.

EXAMPLE, I have a sprite shape on my screen and want the text entry to be done on top of that (superposed), so it's simple, no dialog boxes, no boxes, just the getting keyboard entries input directly from a coordinate, with the flashing cursor.

get_string is implemented, along with get_color and all that Jazz. Darkstar2 if you have the latest version there is the Asynch extension you can enable and use get_string_async which is from Studio and allows the game to continue updating while the user inputs the string, then the Asynchronous Dialog event is triggered when they've entered their response. I can also make you an example that just uses script_thread.

However, I think you may be looking to custom render the input, if that is the case, use keyboard_string, I have written you an example for this.

Hit tab to open the input box, enter a string and then hit enter. This is a simple way of accepting input from a user for a while in GM.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0mnfzw10dsffvg/keyboardstring.gm81

There is currently a bug with keyboard_string though where backspace does not clear your last character but adds a new capital 'H' this little piece of code will resolve that until it is fixed, just add it at the very top of the step event.

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if (keyboard_check_pressed(vk_backspace)) {
keyboard_string = string_copy(keyboard_string, 0,
string_length(keyboard_string) - 2);
}


ohhhh I missed that one thanks a lot !

Now what happens if my game is made entirely in 1920x1080 16:9, but a user selects a display that is 4:3 or does not support my native game resolution, what will the results be ? dose ENIGMA handle this well ? as well as the drawGUI events and all ?

Strange I never saw this function before (testing resolutions), since when was this added in GM ?  I usually read all the updates as they are released by them.

Very old thread, hope it's not too late:

Glew
http://pastebin.com/efZ4EJHK

VisualInfo
http://pastebin.com/0T9xQAS7

DXDiag
http://pastebin.com/zh1Yvwcf

System specs: Intel Core i5 3570k 4Ghz OC
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3  16GB
EVGA GTX 660Ti SuperClocked
Windows 7 64bit
ASUS P8Z77-V Pro

There are some misleading info in the sound aspect as I have my soundcard panel settings to movie/music mode, otherwise if I were to select game mode, you would see all the EAX and extra goodies enabled such as EAX (all versions up to 5).

This actually goes back to why the issue isn't YoYoGames removing features. If they wanted to take GM in a fundamentally different direction, why the hell only go half way?

That's the million $ question, and the answer is simple.  They took the easy approach.  When the acquired the project they had something already made to work with as opposed to starting from scratch.  They were under attack at the time, it would have probably hurt them more had they completely changed game maker.  Well now people 100 years later,;) are paying the price. 

They've gone with a pseudo clone, they would be miles ahead of themselves right now had they done this since the beginning of their take over and with much better reward too.

Yeah but it would not have been the popular approach seeing as they were not too liked at first. 

You got to understand GM came out in the 90's, 1999 to be specific, though the actual original Game Maker, not GameMaker, came out in 1992 hence the reason why they've changed their name to avoid a lawsuit, and has not changed pretty much at all since then.

From what I recall the original project was an animation program that later became game maker.  I have known about game maker since version 5 and I remember all hell breaking loose when the project got taken over by YoYo. 

Here is GM 2, 3, 7, and Studio.

I'm speechless !   

games as well, this would be a positive for learning, instead of how it teaches bad habits that you need to unteach yourself when moving to other tools and real programming languages.

Yeah that's hard for some. I must admit I have bad habits sometimes with programming, GML, I know there are things I do in several lines of code I could do in a few, I can do the advanced stuff but take the long approach, I have lots to learn to do optimal GML coding / structure.
I did not spend as much time as most people in the GMC did......
Like you, time lacks !

Now that's a good sell : D I really like the one about creating your own GUI, so you could effectively use this program to make good apps and not just games, mind you, you can already do that but it's a pain in the ass

Removing drag & drop might not be a good idea, adding new D&D icons maybe good.  It is practical for those who are getting started and want to progress slowly. Besides in older versions of GM it was known that GML was faster, but it's a non issue non because of changes they made, whether you use D&D or GML.   I still think retaining some compatibility is good, at least creating a SMOOTH transition as opposed to suddenly dropping things, because that would rhyme too well with YoYo and I'm sure people don't want that ! 

But you can have your cake and eat it, I'm sure you can offer all those new changes for the better but keeping older functions ?

Not everyone learns quickly or is familiar with all the technical jargon and coding, I think that was the top selling point with GM, easy to use interface, fast learning curve, etc.

I must admit what throws me off using other programs is the steep learning curve and interface.

Moving forward is good but allowing backwards compatibility thrown in there is essential in some cases, if that were not true, then Microsoft would have been done with many things ages ago, so would many other software.

So if I am understanding correctly you are talking about the LGM aspect of the program right ?  If it becomes too different and unique it would certainly have to go through a name change....and discretely support GM functions (GML) etc, but have several new ones, new interface, etc.   Also wouldn't a significant change warrant LGm 2.x as opposed to 1.84/5. etc. ?

I know what you mean about motivation, all so well. 

As far as the GMC, over the years I was reading about people not being able to import large files into the IDE, and here as well, I'm sure I could pull those posts if I searched for them.  I use a program that converts video to GIF/PNG etc, and i recall experimenting a little by rendering a 3D animated logo and using this as intro.  After reading how it failed with some members I tried to emulate that, and it failed for me too.  When using import and picking the file, the IDE would crash, if not crash it would slow to a crawl.  Keep in mind I have an P8Z77-V Pro + Intel core i5-3570k OCed to 4.2, 16GB of RAM + EVGA GTX660Ti+SuperCLocked 2GB, handles all latest games just fine, so CPU/GPU/RAM is not an issue, besides GameMaker is still and probably will always remain a 32bit program   So the problem is the software itself, not the rig.  If I wanted to make a large game I too would not care about resources, but the program would have to let me make full use of my gear. 

I tried this a while back and yes it was with GM Studio, there have been several updates since, maybe I should go try it again, perhaps things were changed ?
Can you give me an example / spec of a PNG file you use so I can try it, what resolution, what's the frame rate, etc.

So are you using those MF PNGs as full screen cut scenes ?

Besides, isn't the PNG file stored uncompressed in RAM ? as opposed to a video file that is compressed and gets streamed from disk and not stored in RAM and as you know, uncompressed raw video frames @ a decent frame rate takes some serious disk space.  You would really have to compromise on the quality of the video (bit depth, frame rate and resolution).

Many have requested video functions in GM:S but they absolutely don't want nothing to do with that function they made it clear.  Kinda makes you wonder why ?  Why is it a function that is available in other programs and not in game maker..... If you search the bug mantis and forums you will find mention about importing or handling large files and asking yoyogames to implement some video playback function......You might find some of my posts in the mantis as well......and on the forums. These requests date back years and some are recent, all met with a categorical "NO!", they basically are telling people if they want added functionality to make it themselves.

How nice of them to say that to people who have spent hundreds of $ over the years supporting their software.

I've seen his hardware specs, they aren't glamorous but they are good, bout the same as mine. It really shouldn't be taking that long TKG.

Isn't Bryce slow by nature ? I never really liked the interface that much, never gotten used to it or had much time to use it. Spent money + purchasing add-ons I ended up never using.  I'd like to make these type of games, maybe I should dig back my Bryce.

What version are you using TKG ? Any add-on packs ?