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Window / Re: Not clearing window

« on: March 25, 2023, 03:04:03 am »

what is happening is that you're actually not optimizing it 
modern video cards are able (and made to) handle constant clearing/drawing, so don't be afraid to do that. SFML is built with this concept in mind, but unfortunately I personally don't know the exact techical reasons.

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General / Re: Whats wrong with my collision detection?

« on: March 24, 2023, 08:59:37 pm »

what do you mean by "its not working"? what happens?
where do you handle collision? what should be colliding?

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General / Re: White square issue

« on: March 19, 2023, 07:48:07 pm »

this piece of code is too small to know for sure the problem, but my guess is that you are executing it from inside a function, right? if so, the texture is deleted when the function ends, and the sprite loses reference to it.
you need to keep the texture alive. maybe show a bit more of this class code can help

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General / Re: Jittery movement

« on: March 18, 2023, 11:06:06 pm »

ops, I forgot to tell you to move that line outside the event loop. but you did it yourdelf, so i'm glad it worked 

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Graphics / Re: Changing vertices

« on: March 17, 2023, 03:01:21 pm »

'line' is an array, so you access its elements by using its indexes. line[0] and line[1], in this case.
inside each element, you made a sf::Vertex. you can access its 'position' and then its 'x' and 'y' values.
so, to change them, you should use something like this:

line[0].position.x = 100;

or, if you want to change the vertex position in one line:

line[0].position = sf::Vector2f(100, 100);

You can create function that takes two vectors as parameters which are start and end of the line.
Then simply pass sf::Vertex array with vertices constructed from provided start and end positions to window's draw method

void draw_line(const sf::Vector2f& a, const sf::Vector2f&b)
{
    sf::Vertex line[]=
        {
            sf::Vertex(a),
            sf::Vertex(b)
        };

    window.draw(line ... )
}
draw_line(sf::Vector2f(0, 0), sf::Vector2f(10, 10));
 

the problem in this case is that you would be creating the line every iteration. may not be much for lines, but for most cases you create shapes and/or sprites just once and then, each iteration, just draw them.
and also the function is missing a reference to the window 

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Graphics / Re: Keeping the sf::View inside of the map

« on: March 09, 2023, 11:43:55 am »

If I understand correctly what you want, you just need to check if the view corners are outside your map coordinates. we don't have a function to get view corners, so you can use the view center minus (or plus) half of its size, both in the X and in the Y coordinates.

//after this line:
player_view.setCenter(position);
//add:
sf::Vector2f map_start(0, 0); //here im setting the map to start at the (0,0) coord
sf::Vector2f map_end(100, 100); //and to end at the (100, 100) coord

//first, in the X axis:

//you check if the view center minus half of the view size is a number smaller than the map default coordinates. if it is, set it to said coordinate.
if (player_view.getCenter().x - player_view.getSize().x/2 < map_start.x) {
  player_view.setCenter(map_start.x +player_view.getSize().x/2 , player_view.getCenter().y);
}
//if its not below the minimum, it could be above the maximum:
else if (player_view.getCenter().x + player_view.getSize().x/2 > map_end.x) {
  player_view.setCenter(map_end.x - player_view.getSize().x/2, player_view.getCenter().y);
}

//then you do the same for the Y axis.
 

EDIT: there are other ways to do it. you could check if the player is in the correct bounds for the view to follow him, and only then use player_view.setCenter(position);
but the way above should work well.

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 27, 2023, 12:43:31 pm »

thats it, we're officially in linker errors now.
first you could try setting SFML_STATIC, as in the tutorials (I believe its the standard for Windows users)

EDIT: oh wait, did it work then?   

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 09:05:49 pm »

wow, i see one thing that is wrong. in your search directories, remove the trailing backslash
i.e. change C:\SFML\2.5.1\include\ for C:\SFML\2.5.1\include
(do it for linker and include)

in your linker settings, keep just this:

sfml-graphics-d
sfml-window-d
sfml-system-d

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 08:42:55 pm »

it seems right to me... are you using SFML_STATIC?

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 07:21:24 pm »

hmm... have you tried building SFML from source?

which SFML version did you download?

and what CodeBlocks version did you download? is it the one that includes MinGW for default?

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 06:19:43 pm »

yes, it may be related to incompatible compiled sfml and the compiler you are using.
lets see what G++ compiler you have. open the Windows prompt (cmd) and type g++ -v or g++ --version

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 06:01:49 pm »

try removing the audio libs from the linker settings for now. they are not in the right order anyway (the sfml-audio should be on top of window and system; order matters in this case). remove sfml-audio and the openall.dll and testing it again.

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 05:33:35 pm »

when that happens, in the tabs in the bottom of Code Blocks you have one called 'build messages'. what is in it?

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 05:07:21 pm »

your code is getting to the point it returns 0. i cant be sure in the video, but didn't you typed

while (window.isOpen())}

instead of

while (window.isOpen()){

?
EDIT: NVM, its right. the video quality was confusing me about it.


try changing libsfml-graphics-d for sfml-graphics-d (and also do it for window, audio, and system) in linker settings.

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General / Re: Fresh Start II / Application Window Doesn't Launch

« on: February 26, 2023, 01:06:21 pm »

doesn't seems to be a big deal. take some printscreens to help finding the problem:
1- your folder containing the lib files
2- in project Build Options, print of "compiler settings", "linker settings", and "search directories"