MasterGy is looking for ideas to implement ("i suffer")

[MasterGy]

Hello ! I'm bored.
This program is like grabbing a pencil and scratching the paper. Idiocy, no sense. There is a lack of ideas

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. RANDOMIZE TIMER
2. monx = 600 'window size
3. mony = 400
4.  
5. mon = _NEWIMAGE(monx, mony, 32): SCREEN mon
6.  
7.  
8. actx = monx / 2 'start draw to middle
9. acty = mony / 2
10. add_zoom = .01 'the amount to be added to the position
11. radius = 20 'how many degrees can you go?
12. ang_min = -1 'how many degrees can there be a difference between the current and the new direction?
13. ang_max = -ang_min
14. cyc_min = 30 'how long do you do a new direction? (min)
15. cyc_max = 100 ' (max)
16.  
17.  
18. DO: _LIMIT 3000
19.     DO
20.         PSET (actx, acty)
21.         IF cyc_counter <= 0 THEN
22.             add_ang = (ang_min + (ang_max - ang_min) * RND(1)) * (forced_ang_max_up + 1)
23.             cyc_counter = cyc_min + (cyc_max - cyc_min) * RND(1)
24.         END IF
25.  
26.         try_act_ang = act_ang + add_ang
27.         xang_norad = try_act_ang * (_PI / 180)
28.         try_x = actx + SIN(xang_norad) * radius * add_zoom
29.         try_y = acty + COS(xang_norad) * radius * add_zoom
30.  
31.         IF try_x < 0 OR try_x > monx - 1 OR try_y < 0 OR try_y > mony - 1 THEN cyc_counter = -1: forced_ang_max_up = forced_ang_max_up + 1
32.  
33.         IF cyc_counter > 0 THEN
34.             forced_ang_max_up = 0
35.             actx = try_x
36.             acty = try_y
37.             act_ang = try_act_ang
38.         END IF
39.  
40.         cyc_counter = cyc_counter - 1
41.  
42.     LOOP WHILE forced_ang_max_up
43. LOOP

[MasterGy]

I deal with night watch. there are road constructions in Hungary. highways, overpasses, such. my privacy sucks, so i bought a van, it has a bed, table, heating, I have a lot of time. The bland game, and everything was born here. I have a lack of ideas lately. I'm suffering. I would do something so much !!!! I drank wine and made this nonsense in embarrassment. What should I do? Give me an idea! :)

[FellippeHeitor]

the code is pretty cool tho.

[bplus]

Yeah reminds me of Curlie Borealis or Guts :)

[bplus]

I have a lack of ideas lately. I'm suffering. I would do something so much !!!! I drank wine and made this nonsense in embarrassment. What should I do? Give me an idea! :)

https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=3713.0

TYPE elements are always* initialised to 0. This includes when REDIMming an array of them.

* There's an elusive bug that sometimes causes elements to not be initialised to 0, but this is only for TYPEs that have an AS STRING element.

Find the elusive bug and make as simple example as possible that can be replicated by us to show what bad things  happens  when one assumes all is zero or "" in freshly minted UDT. Maybe we could Kill the bug for good if we have an example that can be replicated.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

@bplus I think as long as we get in the habit of initializing variables and then setting them to zero then we should be ok. Or, using that ZeroMemory function and getting it cleared out for sure without needing a loop.

[bplus]

@bplus I think as long as we get in the habit of initializing variables and then setting them to zero then we should be ok. Or, using that ZeroMemory function and getting it cleared out for sure without needing a loop.

I would like to feel safe to assume all is 0 or "" without extraordinary efforts from a new variable or UDT.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

@bplus
It really isn't safe to assume zero or "" for any variable. Think about C/C++, for instance. In code examples they almost always declare a variable and then immediately set it to zero or an empty string.

[bplus]

@SpriggsySpriggs

Think of the founders of BASIC and their mission to get a PL for non professional programmers or computer scientists.

Besides I am merely suggesting an idea for a challenging problem, you don't have to like it ;-))

MasterGy is extremely clever fellow, hate to see good mind wasted by wine.

[Dimster]

@MasterGy - not sure if you can access TED TALKS or maybe it's just TED, but they apparently have some discussions on Where Ideas originate. Glass of Wine, feet up on the table in the van, laptop blaring out a good Ted Talk.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

@SpriggsySpriggs
Besides I am merely suggesting an idea for a challenging problem, you don't have to like it ;-))

@bplus I'm not saying I don't like it. I was suggesting ways of getting around it for now and suggesting using more modern code practices. There's nothing wrong with wanting it to already be zero. If we can guarantee it to always be zero then that's neat and saves some trouble. I don't expect we'll get to a point of guaranteeing that anytime soon, though. The main thing now would be to make them zero or assign them a value immediately.

[bplus]

I don't expect we'll get to a point of guaranteeing that anytime soon, though. The main thing now would be to make them zero or assign them a value immediately.

Yes we know the fix, why do we have to fix?

I don't expect we'll get to a point of guaranteeing that anytime soon

That because people blow off this problem, can't fix anything anytime soon if you merely wish it wasn't there and use the fix that works sure enough. Let someone else figure it out, someone who has time to kill, someone say, who is bored out of their gourd and drinks wine and doodles "shamefully"  ;-))

[SpriggsySpriggs]

@bplus

Sounds like we've found your next project!

[bplus]

@bplus

Sounds like we've found your next project!

Yeah busted! I am on it at the moment but I wish MasterGy would take it off my hands ;)

[bplus]

You know this is a Nessie problem, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Yeti of Qb64

People have had sightings but nobody can catch it or even bring back a creditable picture that isn't grainy as hell.