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Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

Well, I was really bored yesterday, and felt like doing in something in AHK, so I whipped up an AHK port of Snake. Dunno if it's been done before, but anyway,
Snake for AHK
Relies on three standard libraries:
SimpleArray by infogulch
Gdip by tic
Common Dialogs by majkinetor

Screenshots

Edit:
[8/27/09 1:27PM] - Post Change
-Added the libraries it relies on.

[8/27/09 2:37PM] - Feature Update
-Added pause button, and added space to the pause hotkeys.
-Added a screenshot.

[8/27/09 8:26PM]
-Made settings able to change during a game without ending it; they get applied next new game
-Settings are now saved in an ini file
-Added support for hotkey customization
-Added a new hotkey for "New Game"
-Fixed a glitch where if the head moved to the same position the last body part was leaving from, the head would first get drawn—then deleted again.

[8/28/09 4:31PM]
-Improved the MsgBox you get upon exiting settings
-Fixed a bug when using Space or Launch_App2 as a hotkey
-Made it possible to have the New Game / Start Game hotkeys the same, or the Pause / Start Game hotkeys the same
-Fixed a problem where the pause graphic would be drawn the wrong color after changing the background color
-Fixed a bug where opening Settings would not pause the game unless it had been paused once before
-(Hopefully) fixed a bug where the window would move a bit on startup

[8/29/09 10:00PM]
-Added a custom built Color Picker window. Still needs a couple of improvements, but it's good enough for now.

[12/1/09 9:05PM]
-Changed my custom Color Picker window to the Common Dialog for windows, utilized through majkinetor's Common Dialog functions. Works much smoother, and with much less code, although I dislike that the picker has a Luminance slider instead of a Hue slider ): Maybe I'm just too used to Photoshop.
-Embedded the two bitmaps in the script, so that external files are no longer necessary.

SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

tidbit · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 1807 Location: Minnesota, USA

same.
and omg! Infogulch! see?!!? I'm not the only one to have issues with your SA library!
now i don't feel so retarded. thanks SoggyDog
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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

Oh... Standard library;
Guess I should get that in to my lib folder;
That clears it right up and I'm happy again. Very Happy

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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

Got to 26 on my first run;
I could have gotten further, but I'm at work and couldn't find a pause button so I could answer the phone!
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Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

Whoops, sorry, I forgot that I had used infogulch's SimpleArray library Mad

Sorry about that.

@SoggyDog:
P or the Pause button to pause. I'll make it into a graphic button later.

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SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

If you change Settings in the middle of a game, the game ends (which is reasonable) but it says your score was '0' regardless of actual score.

Instead of a 'Game Over' message, might consider simply pausing the game with a message that the new settings will take effect on the next new game, then give the player the option to continue or start new game.

For simplicity of gameplay, I've actually changed the hotkeys such that Space starts new games as well as pausing/unpausing.

Perhaps allow the player to establish their own key bindings under Settings.

Funny how such a mindless little game can be so addicting;
I love it. Thanks.
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Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

Updated it; changelog in first post.

The hotkey customization isn't done very well though... The AHK Hotkey control doesn't accept keys like Space or Enter, so I made it an edit control with a button next to it to display a (very poorly formatted) key list.

I've seen two different threads about improved hotkey controls, but both of them are much more difficult to implement than would make it worth the effort. One of the posters, here, said he was working on a way to make it into functions that could be used for any GUI easily, but that was back in February and no word yet. Anyhow, I'm open to suggestions. I might make each hotkey input a ComboBox or something like that instead. Not sure yet.

Edit: Changed it to use ComboBoxes. I like it this way better, although a better hotkey control would still be preferable...

SoggyDog · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 783 Location: Greeley, CO

It just keeps getting better, so here are some more things to consider;

1) Your post sounds like Sapce wasn't working, but then after making changes did work; Did I misread this? My Space still isn't working under the current configuration.

2) As it stands now, if the same hotkey is defined for multiple tasks, it doesn't know which task to perform; i.e. I have mine set to do all three. In the midst of a game, the hotkey ends the game (acting as NewGameHotKey). Should probably check for game-state so it knows what function to perform.

3) After changing colors (background color, specifically), the right-most vertical bar in the pause graphic ( i.e. || ) becomes the same as the background color (but reverts back to white after executing an actual pause).

4) Maybe add one of the many color pickers here on the AHK forum for selecting colors.

5) When I first start the game, it draws the screen, then a split second later it drops down and to the right a couple pixels.

6) Tell me to quit making suggestions at any time Wink

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Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

Krogdor · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: The Interwebs

There is now a color picker included! I didn't really like any of the ones I found on the forum, so I made my own. It's based on the Photoshop one, except much crappier <3 It takes up about as much code as the entire rest of the game... But it was pretty fun to write, although it took me a LONG time, trying about three different functions, and finally writing my own, to get the RGB to HSV and vice-versa conversions right... Yikes. That was a bit painful.

There was also a bit of trouble making the Edit controls update each other without getting stuck in an infinite loop... Help-thread found here. I based my solution off of what SKAN posted.