The You Game!

[Hunchman801]

< is thinking that we're gonna need a screenshot for the wiki too.

[PluMGMK]

< just watched the film adaptation of Catch-22. It was 140 minutes, yet < felt it just scratched the surface of the source material. < enjoyed it anyway!

[Steo]

<'s been trying to mess about with python since < is interested in learning programming. < isn't sure what < will do with it if < learns it, but it seems interesting either way.

[PluMGMK]

< didn't really fancy Python until < was forced by circumstances to learn it. It can be quite cool, though the lack of strong typing can bite you if you're doing anything complicated (or maybe I just suck ).

< managed to make Rayman 2 segfault this morning. :teufou:

[Steo]

< didn't really fancy Python until < was forced by circumstances to learn it. It can be quite cool, though the lack of strong typing can bite you if you're doing anything complicated (or maybe I just suck ).

< thinks it is really different since it uses indenting instead of { and }. < doesn't mind what < learns, most programming languages have similarities anyway so if you learn one you should be able to adapt. Most people use C# but that's Windows.

[Elite Piranha]

< found out that there is a new season of Rick and Morty.

[Steo]

< heard about the new season a couple of weeks ago. < wants to see the new episodes.

[PluMGMK]

< can't help feeling targetted by the latest xkcd. Looks like < last used "okay" last October (Hamilton day), while <'s usage of "OK" has been on the rise since last March. Wow, xkcd has made < feel < is getting old, and it's not even one of "wanna feel old" issues!

[Steo]

<'s been working on a simple program with a GUI that will install the dependencies needed for Rayman Control Panel on Linux, including adding the registry entries for winecfg for the DLL overrides, so it can all be done in one click. < knows a bash script would be able to do it, or alternatively you could just install the dependencies yourself, but this way < is learning about python.

< might add the games to it eventually when < can be sure everything works, like maybe just have a buttons for them that will install the dependencies and DLL overrides. < might have to implement a way to choose a different wine prefix though, as it can currently only use the default one, though the entries for Rayman Control Panel and its updater are added specifically for those programs anyway.

[Fifo]

< wishes you luck

[Steo]

< has it working, but the GUI updates are a pain, as they only update once per task. This wouldn't be a problem, except switching from the window then switching back will render it blank until it finishes its current task and updates. < will work on resolving this, but for now, it performs the main task, it installs the wine dependencies and DLL overrides for Rayman Control Panel, and Rayman Control Panel runs successfully once it's done.

Another thing is that it requires wine and winetricks to be already installed to work. < would like to implement a way to install them, but that would need root permissions in order to work.

For now though, the first test manages to do its job as a standalone executable.

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[supmachin]

< is feeling quite happy because his favorite esports game starcraft 2 will have another 3 years of esport guaranteed, which wasn't expected because there were a lot of budget cuts at Activision/Blizzard lately

[The Jonster]

< says ^^ is doing great, keep up the good work!

< is still organizing <‘s files on <‘s laptop before < can start on anything. And there are a LOT of files to be sorted out.

[Fifo]

< says howdy to y’all

< has finally got a replacement AirPod.

[Steo]

<'s glad ^ was able to get a replacement.

< has been playing Final Fantasy VII. < thinks it's a fun game.

[Fifo]

< sees you’re really enjoying the game

[PluMGMK]

< is impressed with ^^'s tool. < wonders if you used Tkinter or something else for the GUI.

< is also happy that the government finally seems to be up and running again in Northern Ireland, though < can't help wondering how long it'll last…

[Steo]

< indeed used tkinter. < is just trying to get it to update the GUI so switching windows doesn't hang it on a blank window until it finishes its current task. < sees that multithreading is the solution, since it can only perform one task at a time otherwise.

< will share it if < gets that working properly since it could help others that don't know how to set it up, and < might implement game dll overrides too as another option. < could just make it add the game overrides by default, but not everyone would want that.

[PluMGMK]

< thinks the game DLL overrides would indeed be a good idea.

< sees GCC has finally migrated to Git.

[Steo]

< managed to figure out how to make multithreading work and also fixed the GUI. < will need to figure out how to make exceptions work, though < assumes all that can go wrong is wine or winetricks not being installed. < could probably manage to make it install those too, but that would mean it would need sudo permissions, along with having to try different package managers. That would probably get a bit messy.