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Why are you coughing  ? Is there some reason I shouldn't put that in my sig then?

Look at Jens's project, Cluster, I think it is a good example that could help make the character hold together and have all of the parts rely on each other... if I worded that right. But you have to read all the project notes to get what I'm talking about.

metal509 wrote:

Look at Jens's project, Cluster, I think it is a good example that could help make the character hold together and have all of the parts rely on each other... if I worded that right. But you have to read all the project notes to get what I'm talking about.

We can look at his project to get a basic Idea, but we will need more stuff either way. Jens doesn't use velocity or obstacles, but they should be relatively easy to add. (The fact that one will stop moving when you go into a wall but come back out when you move away is a natural consequence of not being able to go off the stage. Right?) The rotating seems useful too.  If we can, I'd much rather make new code then use his, but it is a good project to get concept stuff from.

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-07-06 07:55:07)

metal509 wrote:

Spent a few more hours and just added a little X button for you and me only (liquidmetal).

If you click the x in the projects table, it'll go to the old table and vice versa.

EDIT: It appears that the timestamp is only recognizing the hour and is always thinking the minute is 07... I might remove timestamps if I can't fix that.

Also, sorry, I reuploaded everything on your account because I was making sure the admin controls would work for you and forgot to switch back to my account.

Good so far:
1) My name is LiquidMetal, not liquidmetal.
2) You could get different, separate images for moving to new from old projects
3) Why does it say not to refresh the page?
4) Could you make it allow us to edit project names? Also you didnt capitalize XScroll and Graphics.
Maybe the user interface for that could be similar to the way scratch does for project descriptions and project names? Or, maybe not, because it is PHP.

metal509 wrote:

You can find them, preferably 16x16 px images.

Ok, I'll try to do that.

metal509 wrote:

Done, do you want this feature available to everyone or just you and me (currently it's just you and me)?

Maybe each non-admin person can change the names on his own uploads?

metal509 wrote:

If I add project descriptions, they won't be preserved when you move projects to old (or vice versa), that's too much to ask of me. To be honest, adding the "old" category is just a pain in general.

I don't really know how much work goes behind all this stuff, as I'm not very experienced with PHP.

metal509 wrote:

EDIT: Added the password change feature.

Thanks!

25 hours? Wow!

Why do you think it would be hard to transfer project descriptions?

metal509 wrote:

LiquidMetal wrote:

25 hours? Wow!

Why do you think it would be hard to transfer project descriptions?

I'm using the "GET" method to transfer data between two tables in a database. It's not very efficient, but it's working for me.. LOL

Basically, when you move a project to the old section, it adds a bunch of crazy stuff at the end of the URL to send the project's name, uploader, and time then it reloads the page; when the program sees all the stuff in the URL, it uses it to add the project's name, uploader, and time to the table holding the "old" projects, and delete the project from the current projects. After it's done, it refreshes the page without the stuff at the end of the URL to avoid errors on refresh (that's why you couldn't refresh earlier).

It'd be hard because the amount of data you can send using the GET method is very limited, and project descriptions are long.

I do have an idea of how I could do it, though, but first I'm going to figure out how to allow people to rename files they uploaded.

I did notice that the page was reloading, and that seemed kind of strange to me.  What would be more efficient?

EDIT: Also, I noticed some ugly code snippets on the bottom of the page.  When you click on change your password, the main window changes to some javascript thing, and then the password changing window opens.  Also, it would be a little better if it looked like this:

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-07-08 00:14:24)

Thanks again, it looks great! I'm putting my original character into the XScroll project now, and we'll work from there.

I DID IT! I DID IT! Yay!!

I added project descriptions!! You (LiquidMetal) and I can change them 

or do you want that available for everyone to change?

Last edited by metal509 (2012-07-08 20:33:59)

LiquidMetal wrote:

Cool! I like what you did to the layout as well.  Nobody else needs to change those, but they should be able to type one up when they initially submit a project.  Or, you could make each person capable of changing his own uploads descriptions.

Do you think you could make a larger input area for the description (multi-lined, etc;)?

When editing something, could there be a default text of the previous name? That way, you don't have to type the whole thing over again.

EDIT: also, "© 2012 - Summer of Scratch project sharer created by metal509" is set to a certain y position on the page.  It should be reset to go below the table.

So here's what I finished today:

• I made the cancel button actually cancel when you're changing project names 
• Regular users can edit the description and project name of their own uploaded projects
• Made a whole new popup window for editing project descriptions with multilined textarea, woop woop
• Made the previous name appear in the textbox like you asked when editing project names, also in the textarea when editing descriptions
• Moved the "©" sub text to the top (above the header text) and added a link on my name 
• COOL LAYOUT.
• Fixed a glitch where the tables kept resizing... it was weird.
• Added a scrollbar to the descriptions if it overflows (to preserve space)

EDIT: I'm really not figuring out what's going on with the timestamp... It always thinks that the minute is 07... -_- if I don't figure out the problem I'm either going to remove the time and only display the date (which isn't as useful) or I'm going to remove the timestamp completely.

Anyway, now that the site is finished (thank goodness...or at least i think it is?) I'll try to start working on the colors tomorrow (my assignment)

Last edited by metal509 (2012-07-09 01:37:46)

Great work, so far!

metal509 wrote:

• Moved the "©" sub text to the top (above the header text) and added a link on my name 

You really couldn't get it to move on the bottom to under the table?  I'm sure its not impossible...

metal509 wrote:

EDIT: I'm really not figuring out what's going on with the timestamp... It always thinks that the minute is 07... -_- if I don't figure out the problem I'm either going to remove the time and only display the date (which isn't as useful) or I'm going to remove the timestamp completely.

I thought you were going to make it say the time relative to now?  Start by making it say X days ago, and you can play around with the hours and minutes after that.

metal509 wrote:

What's wrong with Locomule's project? I think he did a good job with v0.0.3

liquidmetal wrote:

locomule wrote:

Uploaded my assignment... Locomule_XScroll_v1.1.sb

Ok; again a good start.  A couple things:
1) You destroyed (or ignored) the scripts for my origional player
2) You messed up the color - I like the orange.  I can identify with not wanting the entire game to be orange on orange on orange, so what do you think we should do about it? Maybe we should use the blue tiles? (did you look at the graphics project?)
3) You added a background.  That will get changed later I hope, but for now, its fine.
4) He moves very, very, slowly.

Last edited by LiquidMetal (2012-07-09 08:33:19)