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Well, I was trying to be clever with the advanced vis box, and it's come back to bite me on the ass. I wanted to be able to retain the last configured layer set when the user clicked OK in the form, so I figured I'd just hide the form when they clicked ok or cancel, and then re-show it when the clicked the adv vis button in the main form. Essentially, I was treating the form as if it was modeless, and doing that allowed me to not worry about the layer set between invocations. Well, fixing the problem you reported caused me to repeatedly bring up the form and eventually, it stops showing (even though the code is being hit). I therefore have to refactor the mechanism...

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

I fixed it, and will be uploading a new version after I get home from work this evening.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Pretty awesome!

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I'm curious to see how everyone does without any supporting documentation (which I'm currently working on), and to see if anything weird happens.

I could figure it out almost instantly (may not mean anything, who are the intended users?)
You could change "select image" to "select background", but isn't a big issue.

A few minor points
* Make jpg the default extension (have to change it every time)
* How do you save? Is that unimplemented, or am I blind?
* A list would be nice, for the images (show everything in the backgrounds folder, maybe?)
* Allow resizing the advanced visualization form.

The crash in the message above happens for me too. Also, changing to the saved objects tab after closing advanced visualization also crashes it (I'll send the exception details if needed)

intended users - the only thing I know about them is that they own guns and computers.

Saving objects is planned, but not currently available to the users.

Resizing in the advanced visualization form - to what purpose? The only thing they're doing there is building the weapon image. Resizing doesn't apply.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

modified 3-Oct-11 8:50am.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Resizing in the advanced visualization form - to what purpose? The only thing they're doing there is building the weapon image. Resizing doesn't apply.

Some weapon images were clipped, I thought it would be nice to see the entire thing.
(or scale the weapon, that would make more sense I suppose)

Yeah, that's probably the pistol, right?

~~I'll think on that a bit...~~ Fixed.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

modified 3-Oct-11 10:18am.

Another possible bug

* Pick a background
* Select only some of the colors in it
* Open advanced visualization form

Result - all colors are used in the camo pattern

The selected colors on the main form are only for the simple visualization. The advanced visualization attempts to fill all the available layers for the selected pattern. That's why the simple render differs from the initial render in the advanced form.

It looks like I may have to re-organize the main form a bit.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

BTW, I added a label on the Saved Objects tab that says it will be implemented in a future release.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Good stuff John. I will download it tonight and go over it with a fine toothed comb. Big Grin | :-D

Thanks for sharing this project of yours with us.

Just along for the ride.

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I'll be uploading an update between 4 and 5pm this evening. I fixed the crash issue reported above.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

New version available:

Download link is at the bottom of the page[^]

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Would anyone here that's already setup to compile under Linux/mono be willing to try compiling an app of mine to see if it will a) compile and then b) run?

It's .Net 4, and according to the mono page, I'm not using anything that mono pukes on.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Sure, will post a screenshot of it running on OpenSUSE if it runs, a list of errors if it doesn't compile. Where can I download the source?

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

I'll make it available and give you a link.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

Aight

Link to source or to binary?

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

You've got mail. Smile | :)

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

I'm on GMail, refreshing regularly. No mail yet, even though those from CP seem to arrive instantly. Can you post a download link?

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

Well, I wasn't ready for *everybody* to get it yet, but okay.

http://www.paddedwall.org/programming/downloads/camopicker.zip[^]

Let me know as soon as you download it.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Well, I wasn't ready for *everybody* to get it yet, but okay.

Blame your mailcompany, I was impatient.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Let me know as soon as you download it.

Sorry, already built it. Runs successfully[^] Smile | :)

What do I do now?

If you want to test it yourself, it installs a dandy bootloader. Only thing that could go wrong is when building a path by hand and using the wrong directory-separator. No problem if you use Path.Combine.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

Well, I'm impressed. I didn't expect it to run. Smile | :)

Just follow the steps (indicated by the group box titles). There are a number of landscape images in the root solution folder that you can use for step 1.

".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-----
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-----
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Well, I'm impressed. I didn't expect it to run.

Mono is reasonably compatible[^]. I haven't digged into your code, but when I load a picture and ask for a visualization, the runtime reports an exception;

Mono says
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: /home/eddy/Downloads/CamoPicker/CamoPicker/bin/Debug/weapons/CPAR15NoOptics_overlay.png

Which looks like a decent unix-path. I'll be looking into it tomorrow.

You can download Suse and put it and a VM for playing, but there's also the option to put it next to Windows - a dandy bootloader is included. The IDE[^] doesn't have a WinForms designer, but your projects run the same.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
What do I do now?

Go order some paint, and while you wait, start looking for the cat that is hidden somewhere.

Smile | :)

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