Decal Development Forums

[Hazridi]

I figure I'll start a thread in which people can add Decal Development tips once in a while.


Here is today's:

Decal has a plugin container. You can get it at http://discord.anarchs.com/DecalContainer.exe, and it gives you an environment in which you have a GUI and click events work fine. There are more things it can do as well, which I will go over in tomorrow's tip.
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[Hazridi]

Note that anyone is free to add tips here whenever they want. If the discussion gets too chatty I'll spin off a discussion thread for it and keep just the tips here.
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[Flipo]

First Tip: d/l DecalContainer.exe and put into your Program Files\Decal 3.0.

Wonder if i can convince anyone that I have really bad lag with this..
Gonna be hard to work the V off this toon.

[Pip]

This was compiled on a very new version of DirectX.

The last RELEASED version of Decal checks for

D3DX Libraries (Only d3dx9_27 is required)
[d3dx9_24.dll] : Installed (9.5.132.0)
[d3dx9_25.dll] : Installed (9.6.168.0)
[d3dx9_26.dll] : Installed (9.7.239.0)
[d3dx9_27.dll] : Installed (9.8.299.0)


DecalContainer.exe needs d3dx9_30.dll to run

Worked fine once I got updated.
I wish I would of had this years ago

[Hazridi]

It will be an optionally installed component in the next Release build.

If you place a DWORD registry value in HKLM\Software\Decal called "PacketDump" and set it to a value > 0, Decal will log all your packets into a folder called PacketDump and make a log file that links them all together.

If you press F1 or F2 in DecalContainer an open file dialog pops up and you can select a .log file made by Decal and it will play these packets back through Decal. With F1, the packets are played back with the time data intact (IE, if you open a trade window 10 seconds after logging in, the data will be received 10 seconds after selecting the log file). With F2, the packet stream is fed much faster, so it takes about 1 second to play about 200 packets.
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[paradox]

Since it's come up a few times, System.Timers.Timer is the devil!!! Use System.Windows.Forms.Timer instead.
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[Gouru]

Do you need a Form to use that timer?
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[Drakier]

no.. you can use the class without ever creating the actual visible element, unlike VB6.

just create an instance of the object, and sink the proper event of the object... then it just works.
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[Gouru]

Thats probly easier than what i'm currently doing, creating a system timer that sets a global flag, and checking the value of that flag everytime a new message comes in....
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[losado]

Don't assume that in event shutdown/terminate all your variables are initialized
and needs to clean up or unsubscribe from events.

When you log on to fast, initialized is called then shutdown directly after it
and of course login completed is never reached..