I've followed a specific course by Aidan (as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkFHHNp0-Q&list=PLwG2Q399ulV3TyEWodJYrje3KsxvIxBv1) for my Gamemaker Studio 2 video game, and I didn't have any issues until I realized when I reentered a room my character disappeared? My character normally transitions from Room1 to Room2 pretty easily, but when I want to go back to Room 2 from Room 1, the character isn't there. I tried rewatching videos where he explains "warp points" as well as his other videos, and the solution to my issue doesn't seem to come up.
I set my character to "persistent" by setting it in the creation code to be true, as well as check-marking the box on the actual object, but it still doesn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: I realize there is a similar question another user asked(Gamemaker Studio 2: My character won’t transition through rooms), and I tried doing what they suggested but it still doesn't seem to be working. I don't think the issue is that the character won't transition through the rooms, I believe that it can't transition multiple times without something going wrong.
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I have searched for a setting within the mvbasic extension within VSCode but I may have hit a dead end. I am new to using VSCode with the rocket mvbasic extension and still in the learning process, so please bear with me.
Our development for the most part has always been directly on the server using the editor within it to code and develop on a Unix/Aix platform with Unidata. Some of our code has array assignments with CHAR(253)/CHAR(254) characters within them. See the link to the image that shows how its done. Now I didn't do this code, the original software developer did this many many years ago and we just aren't going to go and change it all.
How code looks on actual server
The issue is when pulling the code to edit in VSCode, the extension is changing it, and I uploaded it back and didn't pay attention and it was implemented in our production incorrectly, which created a few bugs.
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How code looks in VSCode
How code looks after uploaded back to server from VSCode
Easy to fix, no biggie, but now to my question.
Does anyone have this issue, or has a direction to point me into that maybe I need to create a setting to keep the characters in the correct ASCII format so that this doesn't happen again by mistake?
VSCode defaults to the sane choice for character encoding in 2022: utf-8, but sometimes you have to deal with legacy stuff.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_file-encoding-support
If you click on the UTF-8 in the bottom right corner you can choose "Reopen with Encoding":
After that, you can select a different encoding. I chose DOS (CP437) at a guess and literal MV characters are displayed as superscript 2 (²), and for me I can save to the server and confirm those characters remain as #VM after a round trip (though for my terminal emulator they appear as } which is useful).
You can edit preferences and set "files.encoding": "cp437". One other thing that can be helpful if your programs don't have a standard extension (like .bas) as most don't is to set the default mode to basic so most of what you're editing will identify as MVbasic, and you can do a quick CTRL-K M to switch to any other modes if you're just pasting in something else like SQL.
Some useful links - the Rocket forums are helpful and the folks there are always super nice
https://community.rocketsoftware.com/forums/multivalue?CommunityKey=521bce2e-71d5-4d32-b560-dfa95e950eb5
The MV Extensions Community extension is a good group and always has been helpful when I've had issues. I've made some small contributions - they're very open. I prefer this extension, but honestly haven't done a deep comparison.
https://github.com/mvextensions
I've read many pages that point out that many office applications allow for this by typing the code followed by Alt + X, but frequently, I want to insert a symbol when I'm not in one of those applications. Is there a universal way to achieve this?
The character map is useless, unless you have time to manually search through all the characters available.
I posted the question at Super User, and basically, the response I got there was to use Alt codes for the symbols. However, I discovered that, on the whole, these only work for the first 256 Alt codes. So basically, the answer to my question is "No, there's not a good way."
I spent at least an hour trying to figure out how to change the number of spaces RStudio uses for a tab. To me using only 2 makes it extremely difficult to read the code. So after finally figuring it out, I decided to post this to save others the headache.
I've seen this question asked many times with various round about and strange answers but it turns out the answer is simple.
First go to "Tools">"Global Options"> on the side bar select "Code" and change "Tab Width"
THEN next is the step everyone is missing. The option above will be overwritten if you've already started the file. So next go to "Tools">"Project Options"> on the side bar select "Code Editing" and change "Tab Width" again. I'm not actually for sure the first step was needed but it may be because that's what I did.
Finally, you simply delete all the code and paste it, and it magically has the new number of spaces! Took me a long time to figure that out and was unable to find anything with such an easy solution, so I wrote this.
I posted this question on another website but no one was able to help me there until a user suggested I posted this question here. So...
My SSD has some trouble POSTING on my old GA-P35-DS3 motherboard if I try to use the Intel controller.
Apparently (after much googling) I found this is a bug on the BIOS that can be fixed by some quick editing of the MBR. The trouble is, I have no idea how I can go about doing this. I tried 010 Editor and HxD but I'm completely overwhelmed and, although I am able to open the disk, I can't find that particular "offset" (0x1C3).
If you are curious this post describes my issue (scenario 1) and the required steps to fix it: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8585.0
So, if someone could help me figure what an "offset" is and how I can find it with 010 Editor (or any other program you see fit) so I could fix these byes I would very much appreciate it! :)
EDIT: I've been looking around and I'm a bit confused if I should change these bytes:
http://i.imgur.com/Ys0gU3O.png
Or these bytes:
j59ypS5.png (I need more rep to post the second like so you can just copy-paste this into the imgur URL)
Judging by its content the first option doesn't seem to make sense. But since the second option is only "00 00 00" for I don't know if it makes any sense either...
If someone could please help me I'd be forever grateful.
Well.. I was able to figure it out by myself so I'll leave the answer here in case someone faces the same issue in the future.
1) I was opening a logical drive instead of a physical unit. That's why what I was seeing wasn't meeting my expectations.
2) I thought the "offset" was only referenced by the column by the left but no. Ox1C3 actually includes the column number as well. So I had to change the three bytes including 0x1C3 (0x1C4 and 0x1C5).
That was pretty much it. After that I saved the changes and rebooted my machine and after changing the SATA port everything was working as expected.
This question involves bending Microsoft Word 2013 to one's will.
I have been asked to help fix a problem with Word 2013's autocorrect.
We are working on a spell checker for my native language (Afrikaans), and many Afrikaans words contain a diacritical/umlaut (ë, ö, Ü, etc).
The spell checker consists of a .dic file which is basically just a text file that contains about 508 000 words, and an autocorrect list (.acl) file that is used to automatically replace text as you type.
The spell checker works very well for the most part. It replaces the text as you type, which is the desired effect. The problem is that autocorrect doesn't work with all words.
For example, if I want to type the Afrikaans word 'pêrels' (which means 'pearls'), I should only have to type 'perels' (without the ^ character on the 'e'), and autocorrect should automatically change it to the correct form.
Same with 'reën' (rain). If I type 'reen' (without the umlaut), it is supposed to automatically correct it.
However, in both of the above cases, the words remain unchanged. A red line appears under the words, and when you right-click, you can select the correct word from the pop-up autocorrect menu as shown in the image below.
As you can see, the correct form of the word is the first one in the context menu. I need autocorrect to automatically change the wrong word into the first word that appears in said menu. It should completely ignore the other menu items, and just go with the first word.
My initial instinct was to manually add the words to the *.acl file using a text editor, but the file is encrypted and not readable (I used Notepad++).
I then tried adding them inside Word's autocorrect options menu. However, Word 2013 has a maximum autocorrect memory of 64KB, and the size of the file is already at that maximum. Whenever I add more words, it bombs out and basically wipes the file contents. This doesn't seem like the most efficient strategy anyway, since I would need to manually enter hundreds, if not thousands of autocorrect cases. Ain't nobody got time for that!
What makes this even more complicated (ironically), is that there is no real "program". In other words, this isn't a C# program with source code that I can manipulate. I have the two files mentioned above, and Word's built-in options (which I have already explored). That's it. Nothing else.
I'm stuck. Does anyone have any ideas?
Is it perhaps possible for me to hack Word to increase the autocorrect memory to, let's say, 128 KB? Google hasn't turned up anything of use.
Or, is there a way to set Word to not give the autocorrect context menu, and instead default to the first matching word in the dictionary, as mentioned above?
I can probably write a batch script, C# program, or edit the registry if need be. I just need to know where to start.
Thanks for any help!
In case you are still looking for a solution, you might consider using AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com). It is a very powerful free open-source utility, and can handle substitutions similar to AutoCorrect. Whenever the built-in program features of Word and others fail to handle my needs, I use AutoHotkey. It has the added benefit of not being tied to any specific program (e.g., Word), so the substitutions can occur anywhere needed. I hope it helps you. I have used and depended on AutoHotkey for years of new Windows versions, new Office versions, and highly recommend having a look. You might even get new ideas about time-saving automation with AutoHotkey. Good luck!