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Ratcliffe at 04:38, 12 May 2023

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Ratcliffe at 03:54, 12 May 2023

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Ratcliffe at 03:23, 8 May 2023

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Ratcliffe at 03:13, 8 May 2023

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Ratcliffe: Correct casing for "WOWCube"

2023-05-06T06:02:01Z

Correct casing for "WOWCube"

Ratcliffe: Correct casing for "WOWCube"

2023-05-06T06:01:07Z

Correct casing for "WOWCube"

Ratcliffe at 05:50, 6 May 2023

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Ratcliffe at 05:37, 6 May 2023

2023-05-06T05:37:49Z

Ratcliffe: New root page for the Pawn Programming Notes

2023-05-05T03:29:21Z

New root page for the Pawn Programming Notes

New page

This "sub wiki" is being written (initially, at least) by me, ratcliffe. I have been doing software development for 30+ years in VB.NET, C#, C++ and Objective C. This is my first experience with Pawn and of course with programming the WOWCUBE. Feel free to drop me a DM in the WOWCUBE Discord if I've gotten anything wrong, or you can suggest a better way to do something, or want me to try to cover a specific topic. I'm going to be making notes here as I build a basic RPG for the WOWCUBE.

This is just a scaffolding for the moment, I will be fleshing out the listed items over the next few days.

I also need to work to keep some terminology straight so I may change these terms a bit soon

; cubelet or module
: one of the eight physical small cubes, each with three screens, in the WOWCUBE
; screen
: one of the three screens on a cubelet
; messaging
: the technique supported in the API to send a small packet of information to one or more other cubelets
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Here are the current topics in place or coming soon!

* A few Pawn Language "gotchas"/reminders
* A few Visual Studio Code "gotchas"/reminders
* Remembering that the WOWCUBE is "eight processors all running the same code"
* ON_Tick() vs ON_Render()
* You have to render everything on a screen at once!
* Physical cubelets and "virtual" mapping to them
* Dealing with differing orientation of the screens
* Putting text on a screen
* Basics of developing a simple map with tunnels
* The magic of TOPOLOGY_getAdjacentFacelet()
* How to handle moving from one screen to another (on the same or a different cubelet)
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* Tricks when using the Emulator

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 ** Declare variables with "new" (not "var", etc.)
 ** You can use the built in words "true" and "false" to represent a boolean value and test for it with "if (x) { }" which will execute the code in braces if x is true
-** Arrays can be up to three dimensions and indexes start at 0
+** Arrays can be up to three dimensions and indexes start at 0, e.g. new x[8] defines a new array with 8 elements indexed 0..7 inclusive
 ** Use "==" (not "=") to check for equivalence in an "if" statement
 ** Use "!=" instead of "<>" for "not equal to"

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 * [[Dealing with multiple Modules and Screens#Orientation|Dealing with differing orientation of the screens]]
 * Putting text on a screen
-* Basics of developing a simple map with tunnels
+* [[Basics of developing a simple map with tunnels]]
 * [[Dealing with multiple Modules and Screens#AdjacencyDetermination|The magic of TOPOLOGY_getAdjacentFacelet()]]
 * [[Dealing with multiple Modules and Screens#AdjacencyMovement|How to handle moving from one screen to another (on the same or a different cubelet)]]
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 * Tricks when using the Emulator

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 ** you can begin a comment on a line by itself or at the end of a line with "//". Use "/* .... */" for block comments ... block comments CANNOT be nested
 * A few Visual Studio Code "gotchas"/reminders
 * [[The basic concepts of running code on eight cubelets|Remembering that the WOWCube is "eight processors all running the same code"]]
 * ON_Tick() vs ON_Render()
 * [[Rendering Text and Graphics#AllAtOnce|You have to render everything on a screen at once!]]
 * Physical cubelets and "virtual" mapping to them

@@ Line 26: / Line 26: @@
 ** you can begin a comment on a line by itself or at the end of a line with "//". Use "/* .... */" for block comments ... block comments CANNOT be nested
 * A few Visual Studio Code "gotchas"/reminders
-* [[The basic concepts of running code on eight cubelets|Remembering that the WOWCUBE is "eight processors all running the same code"]]
+* [[The basic concepts of running code on eight cubelets|Remembering that the WOWCube is "eight processors all running the same code"]]
 * ON_Tick() vs ON_Render()
 * [[Rendering Text and Graphics#AllAtOnce|You have to render everything on a screen at once!]]

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 ** you can begin a comment on a line by itself or at the end of a line with "//". Use "/* .... */" for block comments ... block comments CANNOT be nested
 * A few Visual Studio Code "gotchas"/reminders
-* Remembering that the WOWCUBE is "eight processors all running the same code"
+* [[The basic concepts of running code on eight cubelets|Remembering that the WOWCUBE is "eight processors all running the same code"]]
 * ON_Tick() vs ON_Render()
 * [[Rendering Text and Graphics#AllAtOnce|You have to render everything on a screen at once!]]

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-This "sub wiki" is being written (initially, at least) by me, ratcliffe. I have been doing software development for 30+ years in VB.NET, C#, C++ and Objective C.  This is my first experience with Pawn and of course with programming the WOWCUBE.  Feel free to drop me a DM in the WOWCUBE Discord if I've gotten anything wrong, or you can suggest a better way to do something, or want me to try to cover a specific topic.  I'm going to be making notes here as I build a basic RPG for the WOWCUBE.
+This "sub wiki" is being written (initially, at least) by me, ratcliffe. I have been doing software development for 30+ years in VB.NET, C#, C++ and Objective C.  This is my first experience with Pawn and of course with programming the WOWCube.  Feel free to drop me a DM in the WOWCube Discord if I've gotten anything wrong, or you can suggest a better way to do something, or want me to try to cover a specific topic.  I'm going to be making notes here as I build a basic RPG for the WOWCube.
 This is just a scaffolding for the moment, I will be fleshing out the listed items over the next few days.
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 ; cubelet or module
-: one of the eight physical small cubes, each with three screens, in the WOWCUBE
+: one of the eight physical small cubes, each with three screens, in the WOWCube
 ; screen
 : one of the three screens on a cubelet