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slinger wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

Does anyone know a free website hoting company that uses javascript?

Just use dropbox for testing and stuff 

Just use a local file.

SciTecCf wrote:

Platformer in JS.

Did you make that? 

JavaScript discussions should take place here.

Ya

TorbyFork234 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

JavaScript discussions should take place here.

Is that you being moderator or is that you suggesting us to a forum dedicated to discussions about Programming Languages? I'd prefer to keep it in MaC because I don't want to join twenty forums for each thing I would like to discuss and it's following the forum guidelines because in the description of MaC it says you can discuss other programming languages.

It's just a suggestion which by the way I agree with 

Last edited by slinger (2012-06-05 13:43:21)

scimonster wrote:

SciTecCf wrote:

Platformer in JS.

Did you make that? 

No, I did not. 

Does anyone know about a website that teaches javascript and a way to use it?

silvershine wrote:

shpeters wrote:

Does anyone know about a website that teaches javascript and a way to use it?

I've heard good things about Code Academy. 

Yeah, that's mostly where I learned the stuff I know (not much lol) from. And Coders' Shed. :3

Does anyone know how to calculate the distance between the mouse and an element in JavaScript?

trinary wrote:

Does anyone know how to calculate the distance between the mouse and an element in JavaScript?

There are many ways .. if you are doing that onclick and the position of the element is always going to remain constant then you can do

   var ele = document.getElementById('elem_da_refer');
   ele.addEventListener('mousedown',function(e){
      var dx = ele.offsetLeft - e.clientX,
            dy = ele.offsetTop - e.clientY,
            /* Now do the distance formula*/
            distance = Math.sqrt( dx*dx + dy*dy);
           /* Do the magic with distance */
   });

well the function is going to remain constant.

scimonster wrote:

TorbyFork234 wrote:

slinger wrote:

It's just a suggestion which by the way I agree with 

I would like to point out the description under the url for MaC in the forums index.

The Scratch Forums Index wrote:

Discuss things you are creating or exploring outside of Scratch, like art, music, programming languages, or crafts.

I know. Just trying to push Coders' Shed. 

Why ? .. I dont get coders' shed concept when there exists stackoverflow with a very vivid flavour or programmers and about a 100,000 pros over there? and not just pros but experienced pros

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

SciTecCf wrote:

Cool! Can't wait to try it!

I hope it's fast.

And iOS devices would be able to play it too! That would be awesome! 

Even android phones 

Another HTML5 player that's being made makes it so I can actually play Rhy's projects.

if they keep on using canvas that dream will be met in 2017 lol but if they move on to stuff like DOM it would be 100x faster


Its so simple when you render on canvas you do stuff like this

Canvas
code -> JS/C++ bridge -> Runs native code -> JS/C++ Bridge -> Output
// Canvas functions actually mostly occur inside C++ but because of the API they need to be parsed into a C++ executable form i found that out when i was reading v8's source code for a node.js extension

DOM
Code->Native Code->Output

This is actually faster because these functions are actually written natively and occur 10x faster .

http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obvious-choice-for-web-games/

Read above ^_^

and that message is not for you veggie rather to everybody who is going canvas way .

Oh btw veggie did you checked out google blocky ? its a google hosted code that is like aclone of scratch but allows native compiling to js

Last edited by fanofcena (2012-06-07 07:37:21)

fanofcena wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

alldaykade28471 wrote:

Does anyone know a free website hoting company that uses javascript?

All webhosting companies have javascript enabled.

Try 1freehosting.

Excuse me but you dont need to host javascript for testing you can run the file by double clicking it [ asssuming ur code is in a .html or linked init]

He specifically asked for a web host though, not how to run it

fanofcena wrote:

scimonster wrote:

TorbyFork234 wrote:

slinger wrote:

It's just a suggestion which by the way I agree with 

I would like to point out the description under the url for MaC in the forums index.

The Scratch Forums Index wrote:

Discuss things you are creating or exploring outside of Scratch, like art, music, programming languages, or crafts.

I know. Just trying to push Coders' Shed. 

Why ? .. I dont get coders' shed concept when there exists stackoverflow with a very vivid flavour or programmers and about a 100,000 pros over there? and not just pros but experienced pros

StackOverflow can sometimes be difficult to understand and doesn't have the fluidity and cohesiveness that Coders' Shed can have. It's also a smallish community, which makes it nice.

fanofcena wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

I hope it's fast.

And iOS devices would be able to play it too! That would be awesome! 

Even android phones 

Another HTML5 player that's being made makes it so I can actually play Rhy's projects.

[message]
and that message is not for you veggie rather to everybody who is going canvas way .

Oh btw veggie did you checked out google blocky ? its a google hosted code that is like aclone of scratch but allows native compiling to js

The player I mentioned is very far along and has a large amount of blocks working, as well as being fast.

And I did see that, but it wasn't all too interesting.

scimonster wrote:

fanofcena wrote:

silvershine wrote:

shpeters wrote:

Does anyone know about a website that teaches javascript and a way to use it?

I've heard good things about Code Academy. 

Dont go else where when there is the awesome mozilla documentation :-D , and you can always ask here or on stackoverflow .

Also in the stackoverflow developer room we talk about javascript that is a great resource for learning .

Or on Coders' Shed.

fanofcena wrote:

scimonster wrote:

I know. Just trying to push Coders' Shed. 

Why ? .. I dont get coders' shed concept when there exists stackoverflow with a very vivid flavour or programmers and about a 100,000 pros over there? and not just pros but experienced pros

Competition. 
We're just doing our own thing. We plan to have other features, too.

Are you trying to say you wanna compete with SO ? and btw i promote SO as the upper and high experienced developers sitting there will help you   


and by the way to all those for whom SO gets hard to understand you can ask the answering person in comment , can you please explain in brief ..

fanofcena wrote:

scimonster wrote:

TorbyFork234 wrote:

slinger wrote:

It's just a suggestion which by the way I agree with 

I would like to point out the description under the url for MaC in the forums index.

I know. Just trying to push Coders' Shed. 

Why ? .. I dont get coders' shed concept when there exists stackoverflow with a very vivid flavour or programmers and about a 100,000 pros over there? and not just pros but experienced pros

Let's just say I had no idea (Until quite a while into development) that Stackoverflow exists. It's also nice to have different sites out there to ask questions on.