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[Nabeshin]

Nabeshin

Silly or useless things you've coded

I haven't picked up Game Maker in a while, but there's really no excuse for this. I sat down today and said, "Alright, I need a script that will count out an amount of time before a key will be able to be re-pressed," and got to work.

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/* timer()
Depends on: timer_set(seconds)

timer checks to see if the extra amount of time has passed by comparing
global.timeout to the current time. */

time = date_current_time();
if (time >= global.timeout) { return true; }
else { return false; }

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/* timer_set(seconds)
Depends on: none

timer_set sets global.timeout as the current time with an amount in seconds added to it. */

var amount;
amount = argument0 * 0.00001182; //approximately one second

global.timeout = date_current_time() + amount;
Of course, right after that I remembered that alarms exist.

So basically, this is a topic for stupid coding stories. Let's hear 'em.

[Colbydude]

Colbydude

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

Nothing really silly about it, but I made this bank script because I was bored one day at school:

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// First off, make sure the bank is not active
if (global.bank == 0)
{
    // Make the bank active and show the 3 options: Deposit, Withdraw, Leave.
    global.bank = 1;
    switch (show_message_ext("Welcome to the bank, what would you like to do?", "Deposit", "Withdraw", "Leave"))
    {
    case 1:
        // If Deposit is chosen, we'll get the amount of money we want to deposit.
        global.money_transaction = get_integer("You have " + string(global.money) + " money on hand. How much would you like to Deposit?", 0000);
        // Make sure the transaction isn't higher than the money you have in your pocket.
        if (global.money_transaction > global.money)
        {
            show_message("You do not have that much money.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
        // Also to make sure you're not putting in nothing, or negative numbers.
        else if (global.money_transaction < 1)
        {
            show_message("You're not depositing anything? Ok, come again soon.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
        // And if it all works out, we put the money in the bank, and subtract the amount from your pocket.
        else
        {
            global.money -= global.money_transaction;
            global.money_banked += global.money_transaction;
            show_message("You now have " + string(global.money_banked) + " money in the bank.");
            show_message("Thank you for visiting the bank.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
    break;
   
    case 2:
        // Pretty much the same as above, except we're taking money from the bank.
        global.money_transaction = get_integer("You have " + string(global.money_banked) + " money in the bank. How much would you like to Withdraw?", 0000);
        if (global.money_transaction > global.money_banked)
        {
            show_message("You do not have that much money in your bank account.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
        else if (global.money_transaction < 1)
        {
            show_message("You're not withdrawing anything? Ok, come again soon.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
        else
        {
            global.money += global.money_transaction;
            global.money_banked -= global.money_transaction;
            show_message("You now have " + string(global.money_banked) + " money in the bank.");
            show_message("Thank you for visiting the bank.");
            global.bank = 0;
            exit;
        }
    break;
   
    case 3:
        // Choosing to leave, so we end our bank script.
        global.bank = 0;
        exit;
    break;
    }
}

I also made this RIN Cheat Editor which is a simple program to create .cht files for use with the RIN Gameboy Emulator for the PSP.
http://www.zfgc.com/index.php#?action=games&sa=view&id=133

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[Mamoruanime]

Mamoruanime

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

I can't really say it's useless, but I once coded a program that would finish out my equations and "show the work" so I could cheat on my tests at school.

I figured that in itself deserved an A.

[Mirby]

Mirby

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

It is kinda silly though...

Mirby Studios | Share & Enjoy now available! (Links above!) | Games I've Beaten

I like-like it

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[Colbydude]

Colbydude

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

I can't really say it's useless, but I once coded a program that would finish out my equations and "show the work" so I could cheat on my tests at school.

I figured that in itself deserved an A.

Ah that also reminds me. I made a program that does that for quadratic formula related problems. And it worked beautifully.

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[TheDarkJay]

TheDarkJay

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

A program that goes full-screen, completely disables the keyboard and prints to the screen:
Keyboard not found.
Press any key to continue.

[Xiphirx]

Xiphirx

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

The matrix effect for PSP.

Well, It was one of my first applications for the PSP lol, I was just dicking around.

For The Swarm (StarCraft II Zerg strategy)

I whip my hair back n forth

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[Zaeranos]

Zaeranos

Re: Silly or useless things you've coded

A java application that generated a StackOverFlowError. It would continuously add an integer to a vector, print that integer and index to the console. This would continue until a StackOverFlowError was generated. I just wanted to see if I could.