Post What's on Your Mind

[Xilef]

Oh right, standard practise is to just write the number of bytes into an int before the start of the string's bytes.
So your packet would look like:

{ String.getBytes().length, String.getBytes() }

nextInt() now tells you how many bytes you need to read for the incoming string.

Alternatively, if you're able to read each UTF8 character at a time from the stream then you can do a C style string and read until you hit a zero terminating character, which is a single starting byte of 0 in UTF-8. A bit more complicated, but saves 3 bytes of packet space.

 

[ZenVirZan]

Oh right, standard practise is to just write the number of bytes into an int before the start of the string's bytes.
So your packet would look like:

{ String.getBytes().length, String.getBytes() }

nextInt() now tells you how many bytes you need to read for the incoming string.

Alternatively, if you're able to read each UTF8 character at a time from the stream then you can do a C style string and read until you hit a zero terminating character, which is a single starting byte of 0 in UTF-8. A bit more complicated, but saves 3 bytes of packet space.

put the length before the string holy shit im a retard thankyou

 

[coyotecraft]

The days are just flying by.

 

[bogey]

The fuck do you people even do on this website?

 

[united washcloth express]

Yeah, what do you people do?

 

[Jason]

Masturbate over your pictures...

 

[Byron]

Oh, I got facebook for that...

 

[Ellie]

I'm in your chat touching stuff

 

[Xilef]

Finally got "Google Sign In", "Facebook Log In" and "Twitter Log In" finished for my game, so you can use any account you have with those 3 services to log in.

Google was piss-easy to do. Dead simple, nothing complicated.
Facebook took multiple attempts and sucked all the way through.
Twitter is the absolute worst. It's a miracle developers even use Twitter. It's so horseshit, I can't believe Twitter gets away with it. Their stupid API "helpful" service could never detect my app (Fabric, which is actually pretty good when it works and you want to use it; I don't want to use it, but it's a requirement for Twitter as they own it...) so I had to dig around in their shit looking at old database websites and tracking down how their API evolved and eventually I found their hidden repo URLs, so I sneakily hooked into that and that was about 90% of the journey. The last 10% is a piece of trash nightmare in itself.

Also, Facebook Log In doesn't let you resize the button? And Twitter's Log In button is a fucking picture and the rounded rectangular border loses its shape if you resize it even slightly. Ended up applying a 0.6 scale to Twitter so it's the same size as Facebook's button and now they're sitting at the bottom of the log in options as "By the way we support these". Google is way better, no wonder Pokemon Go only supports Google.

EDIT: Like wow it's 20 past midnight here and I was up since 9am getting Facebook and Twitter log in to work.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Are bogey and UWE the same person?

 

[united washcloth express]

Everyone is bogey

 

[Jason]

Are bogey and UWE the same person?

Nah bogey is one of Hybrida's alt accounts, he made it when he got banned some time...

 

[Xilef]

I think UWE and Jason are the same person, Juan is their transgender daughter -> son and Hybrida is a bot. A really, really good bot.

 

[Ellie]

Sounds like hbgames.

 

[Xilef]

Go to bed it's 1am. Your last screenshot actually looked really good by the way, it feels like a hint at how big the game's scope is going to be

 

[Jason]

Need more people on the discord chat, stop being faggots.

That is all.

 

[Ellie]

I'll put links about the place tomorrow.

Also

quotes thread now bitches

 

[Xilef]

Threads is a 1984 BAFTA award-winning British television drama, produced jointly by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a docudrama account of nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.

 

[Dr. Funk]

Absolutely livid with Microsoft. LIVID.

For the past three weeks when I boot my PC, Windows 10 has been attempting to update only to fail at the last moment of installation, revert all changes and restore the previous build before finally starting Windows. All that combined it takes me about 30-45 minutes to boot up.

 

[Jason]

Windows 10 is wank lol