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i3egohan · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 403

is it Possible to make pacman? with ahk

SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 8688

i3egohan · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 403

kk thanks

i do that in my spare time so its all cool ;]

polyethene · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5248 Location: UK

Don't forget to send me a copy. I soo can't wait Wink

jtbalogh · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 35

I miss pacman. Go for it !!!

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10716

In case it's of interest, I enjoyed playing niwi's Tetris, which was written in AutoHotkey.

PhiLho · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

Someday in the far future, I might do what Chris seems to want: a canvas component, were you can draw inside with some easy commands.
If it can be animated, that would be cool, too... Wink

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

slomz · Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 601 Location: Iowa, U.S.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10716

PhiLho · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

Yes, at least, you are not against such thing, if kept reasonably small of course... That's enough to make me think about it, even if right now it is pure vaporware...
Would be pure GDI, ie. a bit slow (slower than DirectX or OpenGL) but probably fast enough for most need with a modern computer.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10716

With my limited knowledge of such things, I would think it could be done either as:

1) A static/pic control containing an bitmap whose contents are alterered by the script (i.e. pixels inside are permanently changed each time the script draws a new line or shape).

2) The script stores lines and shapes as abstract objects (just their properties and dimensions). Every time the control does an erase-background and/or repaint, the program draws all of its shapes sequentially directly into the control. This would probably perform more slowly and be more difficult to implement, but would allow the script to alter/delete individual shapes without having to erase everything and start over.

Maybe someone knows a better approach.

PhiLho · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:11 am Post subject:

You are right.

I would choose the first solution, with double-buffering for animation, leveraging GDI (poor) capability to draw shapes. Not high quality, but simple and small.

The second option is great (we go closer to SVG!), but will eat memory, will be slow, will be quite hard to get right (more or less what you wrote!), and it would be easier to get an external (big!) library like Cairo (pure C) or the high quality Anti-Grain Geometry - (high level C++ with heavy use of templates...).
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")