Forum confusion...

[MrPlow]

I did a search on the forum for some animation code...

And turned up some pure out-of-date stuff...maybe deprecated code should be filed away or removed...if better method or newer commands exist ?

I know Gernot is very busy, but a couple of the more experienced guys could moderate and cleanup the forum - code-wise..?

Just a suggestion...

[Ian Price]

The forum search function here isn't too good. However, I don't think even old code should be archived, as even if some of it doesn't work due to GLBasic being updated, it generally shouldn't take much work to get it to function as originally intended. Even old, non-working code can form the basis of understanding as to how something should work.

Going through all the old code on the forums and fixing/updating would be like painting the Forth bridge - a new GLB update may bugger up what you've just fixed, so it would be never-ending.

If you have a specific example of a piece of non-functioning code, then by all means mention it to the Mod team. Maybe they'll fix it.

[Hark0]

Hi Ian, about forum...

The PM notifications don't arrive by mail...

Please check-it!


TIA, Hark0

[Ian Price]

Hi Ian, about forum...

The PM notifications don't arrive by mail...

Please check-it!


TIA, Hark0

Schranzor is probably the best person to ask for this - I wouldn't dare go tinkering with any back-end stuff! I don't think I have access to it anyway.

[Schranz0r]

 

Have to check it... 

[Ian Price]

Looks like it's working, as I received an email about a PM.

[Schranz0r]

hehe, that was only for testing 

[mentalthink]

I think the seerver goes to exploids, here we have a toons of info and each time it's more dificult find somthing, I don't know what search the another day and appears 200 and more answers...

I don't know if it's better delete some very old things, or make GLbasic 2.0 web or really between a group of voluntaires (I'm the first obviously), put some ordner in examples, C++ code and all this 3er party codes...

[Moru]

When you search it's very important that you are in the correct place for your search. If you were just reading the spanish forum and suddenly you want to search for a code snippet and just type it in the searchbox, the forum will only search the spanish forum. Click the logo before you do a search and the forum will search the whole forum.

[mentalthink]

When you search it's very important that you are in the correct place for your search. If you were just reading the spanish forum and suddenly you want to search for a code snippet and just type it in the searchbox, the forum will only search the spanish forum.

Thanks a lot Moru, I don't know about this... 

[MrPlow]

I think my main gripe was just with the obsolete and deprecated commands...I found a piece of code with "SPRITE" as a command - which i assume is an old version of Drawsprite...

Perhaps a tidy is up is all that is required - but it very awkward for beginners to get past a certain level without going through a lot of unnecessary posts...

[kanonet]

GLB is very careful with modifying old features, almost every update is fully backwards compatible, so there arent much depreciated commands at all. LET, SPRITE, BLACKSCREEN, can remember more atm. Too bad a few of them are still in the tutorials...

Btw you can use the advanced search, just select that you only want result that are not older then 1000 days e.g. so you dont find old, maybe outdated posts.

[fuzzy70]

75673 Posts in 8472 Topics by 749 Members.

That is a serious amount of checking required for cleaning up. Sure a lot of posts can be skimmed through which contain no code but the ones that do would require reading the full code or downloading/compiling it to see what errors or obsolete commands are present.

I agree it is confusing for a beginner & I suffered the same problems when I started out with GLB, but while a few old posts may contain the odd outdated command the logic or process behind the code should still work fine. I used that to my advantage in learning GLB & unless I got really stuck then I posted on the forum for help.

If you do come across a post that has issues with the current version of GLB then have a go at getting it to work & post the working code back in the same place so others benefit, or is you can't get the code to work just place a post in the same subject asking for help & I'm sure someone will lend a hand. That way all of us can help keep the code in the forum more up to date on an ad-hoc basis without the need of someone having to trawl through the whole forum.

Lee

[Ian Price]

I think my main gripe was just with the obsolete and deprecated commands...I found a piece of code with "SPRITE" as a command - which i assume is an old version of Drawsprite...

Perhaps a tidy is up is all that is required - but it very awkward for beginners to get past a certain level without going through a lot of unnecessary posts...

Don't just tell us you found something that was out of date - give us the link and then the Mods/Admin may update it. Nobody has time to trawl the forums looking for deprecated code, but if you find some then let us know!

[MrPlow]

Thanks Ian,

I will do that in future...

G