TurtleCombat

[MasterOfDisaster]

this is because i measure the time between two bursts, not the frames. but there must be some bug, too because the steps a bullet makes should be larger on a slow pc which would mean that the time the bullet needs to fly should be the same on a fast and a slow pc.

update: just checked the code and found out that i had an upper limit for the delta time step of 30 milliseconds. this resulted in the behaviour you described. i raised the limit to 100 ms to compensate. this means that the movement speeds will be ok as long as your framerate is higher than 10fps.

[Jamison]

@MasterOfDisaster

@swpalmer

Mac OS X 10.4.4 Java 5 (very recent )

Can’t enter my email address for registration because it won’t accept an ‘@’ sign. (shift-2 on my keyboard)
I entered ‘X’ for my email instead and it was accepted.

that’s a known issue. btw, i wanted to ask you guys what could be the reason for that. maybe i’m doing something wrong with keychar/keycode…

if (e.getKeyCode() == 81) { // @
setText(getText() + “@”);
}

It should be this to catch the ‘@’ character (since I’m sure Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix all use differant key codes for almost every key):

if (e.getKeyChar() == '@') {
	setText(getText() + e.getKeyChar());
}

This code snippet will work for any character, simply change the ‘@’ to any other character.

EDIT: Not sure if this has already been resolved or not. If it has then I’ll really feel stupid here…

[MasterOfDisaster]

@Jamison

It should be this to catch the ‘@’ character (since I’m sure Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix all use differant key codes for almost every key):

if (e.getKeyChar() == '@') {
	setText(getText() + e.getKeyChar());
}

This code snippet will work for any character, simply change the ‘@’ to any other character.

EDIT: Not sure if this has already been resolved or not. If it has then I’ll really feel stupid here…

no i was never able to fix that, thanks for your comment. just had a look at the code again and found a copy/paste error in my do-it-yourself-keyInputListenerInterface. i’m so glad i could finally fix that. it would be nice if one of you mac users could do a quick test for me.

[swpalmer]

[quote=“MasterOfDisaster,post:43,topic:25983”]
It’s fixed for me. I can now type ‘@’ for my email. Mac OS X 10.4.5 Java 1.5.0_06 (latest beta from Apple)

[MasterOfDisaster]

great! thx for testing. there is another issue where i have absolutely no clue. a mac user in my company cannot type anything in the text boxes after clicking into the text box. it’s like key events are not fired anymore when a mouseclick has occured. has anyone seen a similar behaviour before?

[swpalmer]

I do not have that problem with the OS/Java version mentioned above. I suspect your coworker is not using the same Java version that I am. All indications from Apple hint that the Java 5 update will be released soon via software update.