[Archived] AppGameKit Classic Chat->Documentation
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Mike Johnson Joined: 13th Sep 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 15th Aug 2011 11:42
All of the documentation for AppGameKit is now available to view online:

http://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/home.html
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MobileCreator Joined: 1st Jun 2011
Location: Ottawa - Canada
Posted: 16th Aug 2011 18:32
Awesome! Thanks!

Paulo
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darzon Joined: 23rd Oct 2010
Location: Italy
Posted: 16th Aug 2011 18:34
Hi Mike,

in example SnakeSnaker there is a test:

if GetMultiTouchExists()=1
touch=1
endif


but in documentation "GetMultiTouchExists" command don't exists.
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jbarberoj Joined: 15th Aug 2011
Location: Madrid - Spain
Posted: 16th Aug 2011 19:00
Same happens with the command:

GetOrientation ( )

that appears in the example "General - Core" and it doesn't appear in the documentation.

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bjadams Joined: 29th Mar 2008
Location:
Posted: 16th Aug 2011 20:18
and what about vsync? Does it exist in Tier 2?
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Paul Johnston Joined: 16th Nov 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 16th Aug 2011 21:49
and what about vsync? Does it exist in Tier 2?


Nope, it got replaced with SetSyncRate() since vsync produced a horrible frame skipping effect.
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Rampage Joined: 4th Feb 2008
Location: New Zealand
Posted: 17th Aug 2011 7:32
I got Tier 2 running fine.
But I can see where a guide might be handy to help set up the development environment.
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Rich Dersheimer Joined: 1st Jul 2009
Location: Inside the box
Posted: 21st Aug 2011 14:01
Would it be possible to change the help file code so that the HOME/BACK/PRINT button group is always in the same place? I use the BACK button a lot and it's inconvenient to have that button group jumping around depending on if there's a LANGUAGE/BASIC/C++ button showing. Maybe just put an invisible spacer if there's no LANGUAGE/BASIC/C++ button?
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MobileCreator Joined: 1st Jun 2011
Location: Ottawa - Canada
Posted: 21st Aug 2011 17:21
It would be great if you could make a PDF version of the documentation. It's better to read on tablet, and in sequence.

Talking about sequence, for the Guide section, having a Next button would be great, too.

Thanks
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dijster Joined: 16th Aug 2011
Location: Sheffield, UK
Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 14:00
There do seem to be a lot of commands missing from the documents.
Global, Select, Case, Function, End, Dim are just a few
I know most of these will be basic commands, but they would still help a new person to programming.
Is there anywhere I can get a full list of all the keywords AGP understands?
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Rich Dersheimer Joined: 1st Jul 2009
Location: Inside the box
Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 14:56
Dijster - http://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/language.html has those commands, except for GLOBAL, which is covered elsewhere.
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dijster Joined: 16th Aug 2011
Location: Sheffield, UK
Posted: 22nd Aug 2011 16:48
Sorry.
I was looking at the page http://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Index.htm
I thought that included all commands, my mistake.
Cheers
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DMXtra Joined: 28th Aug 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 23rd Aug 2011 1:39
Elseif is missing from the documentation for sure.
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Rich Dersheimer Joined: 1st Jul 2009
Location: Inside the box
Posted: 23rd Aug 2011 11:01
@DMXtra - http://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/principles/3_common.htm towards the bottom of the page.

Agreed that the help is kind of scattered here and there and sometimes you have to dig around to find what you are looking for.
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DMXtra Joined: 28th Aug 2002
Location: United States
Posted: 23rd Aug 2011 13:15
Thanks Rich. When I was looking at the IF statements there was a list and it wasn't in that list. At least from I remember.

But there it is here. hmmm
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Bursar Joined: 17th Sep 2008
Location:
Posted: 24th Aug 2011 17:43
There's an error on the page relating to Custom Text: http://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/examples/text/1_custom.htm

It says:
"

The ASCII code for the letter A is missing. The extract should read:
? 65:76:126:25:42
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Rich Dersheimer Joined: 1st Jul 2009
Location: Inside the box
Posted: 2nd Sep 2011 23:51
Bumpity Bump Bump
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LeeBamber Joined: 21st Jan 2000
Location: England
Posted: 5th Sep 2011 5:11
Hi Guys,

If you find an error in the documentation, we consider this a bug. If you find one, we would be very grateful if you could post it as a bug report in our new issues board here:

http://code.google.com/p/agk/issues/list

The bug report should be detailed enough to show Mike exactly where the error is, and what remedy you feel is required to fix it.
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Rich Dersheimer Joined: 1st Jul 2009
Location: Inside the box
Posted: 5th Sep 2011 6:25
Lee, do you want each documentation error in a seperate bug report? Or is it okay to put a bunch of them in one report?
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LeeBamber Joined: 21st Jan 2000
Location: England
Posted: 6th Sep 2011 3:50
You can bunch them up in the case of documentation errors, as Mike is pretty quick off the mark when it comes to fixing them in batches