But did anyone actually wrote plugins for it? I know like two plugins for LGM. One is ENIGMA and one is that allows compiling to GM (by adding the runner to data).

I frequently wrote my own since I'm a Java programmer, but they were never really suitable for public use.

the second for material surfaces like Unity3D.

You mean substances?

The atom-based logo looks terrible.
Rocket looking one is okay for an SVG, can't disagree with it too much.

IDEs don't bother me too much these days, all I ask for is proper plugin support. LGM gave me an accessible way to write plugins for the IDE which adds a sick layer of customisability.

they all look terrible

Awesome news, I got sick of literally being able to fetch a beverage whilst waiting for a page to load.
Ta for paying for the site, guys ^_^

Just a quick question regarding having a server that extracts user information from / writes information to a database.
Should I practice:
1) Opening a connection when the server starts, close the connection when the server closes
2) Open a connection only when the database needs to be used (possibly frequently) and close it immediately

I'm not really aware of the raw behind a connection with a SQL database, so I'm not sure of the security consequences etc etc
I would assume 1) is a lot faster also.

Note: If you are offering a suggestion, could you offer it for two different situations: where the database is local to the server and where the database is hosted online?

Thanks yy0y0y0 xoxoxo

I wish I was clever enough to do these things

Anyway those are some really neat statistics TGMG, and show that ENIGMA is really progressing ^_^V

I vote for forced segregation because in my mind, it appears to be simpler.

I believe the Announcements needs a new thread. After two months of nothing being posted on the main page of the website, newcomers will be like NAH PROJECT'S DEAD LATEERZZZRDS

I'm still around, just busy organising university stuff
You only hear from me most when there's a problem with ENIGMA or a new major release needs to be tested

Particularly because the game will mostly external resources in order to update it without needing to provide a new executable. So a function for automatically deciphering these strings for me is pretty necessary.

edit: It's also helpful because I have a window manager that you are able to resize at will (chat, quest logs etc), and it's always good to have the text line-break etc accordingly to the window

Okay. So I have a function here that I made by myself, but I have a feeling it is unhealthily inefficient.
Basically, It is a function that takes the string you give it and the maximum length of characters allowed on a line, and breaks the message up into segments that will fit into two lines. If it goes over two lines of text, it creates another portion of it that will carry over to the next "message".
Example:
Max allowed characters: 10
String = "Here is a typical message."
This will output:
string1: "Here is a#typical"
string2: "message."

Typical was placed on the second line because although 10 characters had not been reached on the first line, it was a whole word in itself (makes sense obviously)

ANYWAY, here is the script I'm using (feel free to optimise it and/or write your own in replacement :p)

Code (GML) Select Expand

///scr_text_filter_word(string text, real character_line_limit)
text = argument0;
var maxlength, textlength, usestring, usetext, i, currentpos, endword, newline, attemptbreak;
maxlength = argument1;
usetext = text;
usestring = "";
done = 0;
ii = 0;
currentpos = 1;
endword = 0;
newline = 1;
attemptbreak=0;

while (done == 0) {
    attemptbreak=0;
    if(string_length(usetext) > maxlength) {
        for (i = 1; i <= string_length(usetext); i += 1) {
            if(attemptbreak == 1) break;
            currentpos = i;
            if(string_char_at(usetext,i) == " ") {
                for (iii = 1; iii < string_length(usetext)-currentpos; i+=1) {
                    if(string_char_at(usetext,i+iii) == " ") {
                        endword = iii;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if(currentpos + endword > maxlength) {
                    var newtext;
                    newtext = string_copy(usetext,1,currentpos);
                    if(newline == 1) {
                        global.g_showmessage[ii+1] = newtext;
                        ii+=1;
                        newline=0;
                    }
                    else {
                        newtext = string_insert("#",newtext,1);
                        global.g_showmessage[ii] = global.g_showmessage[ii]+newtext;
                        newline=1;
                    }
                    usetext = string_copy(usetext,currentpos+1,string_length(usetext)-currentpos);
                    attemptbreak = 1;
                }
            }
                               
        }
    }
    else {
        if(newline == 1) {
            global.g_showmessage[ii+1] = usetext;
            ii+=1;
        }
        else {
            usetext = string_insert("#",usetext,1);
            global.g_showmessage[ii] = global.g_showmessage[ii]+usetext;
        }
                       
        done = 1;
        global.g_msgtot = ii;
    }
}

As far as I'm aware, Josh is still making sure that the installer version is running smoothly.
That, and school

MrGriggs, I know how to copy text from cmd, it's just that it wasnt bringing up anything upon right-click. I got that sorted out though (just closed LGM which ended the cmd session). It's all already been discussed with Josh anywh0000000

Okay!
I decided to update my SVN copy of ENIGMA. Upon finishing the update, I ran enigma.exe.
First off, it gave this error message: http://enigma.pastebin.com/BxB0nMk7
So I got a new enigma.exe and replaced the current one. It gave me the "I'VE ALREADY FOUND MINGW LOL, USE DIS?" I select yes. The console then proceeds to do more g++ shit, but then fails.
Because the piece of shit won't let me highlight for some reason, I had to take a screenshot, hopefully it's enough info: http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9272/enigmaerror.png

Note: The installer-version works fine :S

Extracted. Ran enigma.exe, it found the original MinGW folder that the old installation installed fine, and I selected yes to use that.
It then was like DUN HAVE THE LIBARIES BRAH, so I selected "Stable" and let it do it's thing, which it then updated to r641 and exited.
When I started it up again, it did a whole lot of shit concerning g++, but once that finished it all worked fine.

Win7 x64