Official DeCorEd Thread!

Post by **Caligari87** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:29 pm

Me too

insertwackynamehere · Post by **insertwackynamehere** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:28 pm

Heh dont worry its still being worked on. There are a lot of bugs though, and I'm afraid that I was to urgent to release the beta, so I'm working with some of the code to fix some bugs. However its a lot harder since I'm back at school too, but dont worry its not dead. Complex actors will probably be added last; I'll probably fix the bugs, add the pickups, projectiles, etc, and then add complex actors. From there I'll take votes on new features (we will hopefully be in the "official" 1.x releases by then). Dont worry its still alive

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:59 pm

Phew, that makes me actually very happy

LK873 · Post by **LK873** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:54 pm

How goes DeCorEd anyway? Progress update?

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:27 pm

DecorED is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 can't wait for the next release

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:21 pm

Indeed it is, just not as powerful as it could be

@wacky - Work HARDER!

Mr. Tee · Post by **Mr. Tee** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:34 pm

@insertwackynamehere: Why don't you add the address of your DeCorEd website to your profile? That way people don't have to keep digging up this thread in order to find it.

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:39 pm

i dont know what i want more, this second relese or DECORATE weapons

insertwackynamehere · Post by **insertwackynamehere** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:41 pm

Thanks for all the positive replies

It makes me feel better knowing I'm not wasting my time. btw, its http://decored.wackyhq.com but I'll change my profile anyway

insertwackynamehere · Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:30 pm

ok before you guys read this I AM NOT MAKING ANY PROMISES. I am a junior in HS right now and I dont have a lot of free time. But I have started working on DeCorEd again, I think.

I am rewriting the parsing engine in Java. It will be much more dynamic (all Decoration data is loaded in through definition files so no more hardcoded variables). Why Java? Because it's multiplatform for starters, and because its so much neater than Visual Basic. Visual Basic will still be used for the frontend (I don't know Java's Swing), but the fact the parser is a separate entity should make it so anyone can create thier own custom DeCorEd frontends in whatever language they want! I have already started designing the definition file styles and I've gotten pretty far. It's able to load a list of variable types (I have a file which defines variable types so even variables that properties take are dynamic).

Hopefully this gets somewhere. But like I said I'm a junior, and I also tend to forget about projects as you may have noticed

I like to think of myself as a Conceptual Programmer, sort of a dadaist of code, and Marcel Duchamp of algorithms (haha

). It's not the program that counts but the thought behind it! jk

but with any luck this will get somewhere. I really feel good about this, using Java feels so clean compared to Visual Basic for parsing. Hopefully after Decorate I can make this into what I planned, a full ZDoom text lump editor! But first things first

For anyone who wants to know how I PLAN to make the frontend communicate with the parser, I plan to convert DECORATE code into a simpler, more "split by line and by space" code which should be much easier to pull data from. Maybe I'll make it so you can choose custom deliminators. The frontend will simply run the parser feeding the cmdline parameters into it, and loading the file it creates. In theory the parser could be run from the commandline without a frontend, but all it would do is produce a simpler decorate code. Unless you ran it with "-checkerrors" or some parameter which would check for errors which I plan to add, in which case it would dump a deliminated error file onto your comp. Anyways, yeah, hopefully I can get somewhere with this. Its pretty big, but at the same time, if I think about it, I really just have to write a DECORATE parser and a few minor def parsers (one is already done) and then design a front end in Visual Basic. So looking at it that way, it seems more easier to take on.

Anyway, the above is mostly speculation. But I HAVE started, so its not like this is just in my head completly. I just dont know where it will go. But yeah. So heres what I hope to have:

-Parser in Java is separate from (default) Visual Basic frontend
-Frontends are user creatable if they know a language and have a basic idea of how to interact with the parser
-DECORATE error checking

So maybe this will happen. Anyway just thought I'd post this, I'm getting really into this, and maybe something will come of it

Doomguy0505 · Post by **Doomguy0505** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:17 pm

insertwackynamehere wrote: -DECORATE error checking

Finally someone who puts in decent features

Post by **Caligari87** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:16 pm

*bump* This is an almost pointless bump, but I have a question: Where did the name DeCorEd come from? Because I searched the forums, and the earliest occurance of that name was uttered by yours truly in April 2004, whereas this thread was started in September 2004.

Was my idea for a name stolen? I'm not mad, just curious.

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:04 pm

It's a combination of DeHackEd and DECORATE, IIRC.

Post by **Caligari87** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:19 pm

Yeah, but I said it first

Aw, well. Twisted minds think alike.

insertwackynamehere · Post by **insertwackynamehere** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:41 pm

Caligari_87 wrote:*bump* This is an almost pointless bump, but I have a question: Where did the name DeCorEd come from? Because I searched the forums, and the earliest occurance of that name was uttered by yours truly in April 2004, whereas this thread was started in September 2004.

Was my idea for a name stolen? I'm not mad, just curious.

heh I thought of it, then searched the forums. I believe I mentioned you in the text file a while back, and I still plan to for the future

http://www.wackyhq.com/global/downloads ... ta_001.zip