I'd like to see people making dif launchers :P It'll be really nice..
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I'd like to see people making dif launchers :P It'll be really nice..
lol, i just started codeing one in c++ last night, it downloads a text file off the site that has the files to update then updates them. you can also choose what folder to put the downloads in. still working out a couple bugs then have to make a better interface but as of now it works fine.
I disabled the browse dir feature in mine, its supposed to be in your gunz folder to begin with............................
Right now I just have it running off of an ini file, Going to add options for which updates to download later (example: personal patches like bgm, and priority patches like the updated dependent files for gunz)
I don't know about releasing This source code, but I might release the one I made befor this (freezes when reading the script, if you can fix it you can use it, I got pissed off and quit)
the reason i made it so you can browser for the folder is some people(like me) make backup copys of there gunz folder for pservers so i can still play on the official servers. i wouldn't use a downloader that wouldn't let me chooser where the files where to go.
Right now I'm trying to learn more VB.NET to attempt my own launcher.
I'm taking it at school right now, and I don't think we cover any web-based functions like that, so I have to learn this stuff on my own.
Ah well, it's good practice I guess.
Thats why I just put the files for Mine in a separate folder
vb is to easy, working with sockets in vb is like writhing a note in notepad. socets in c++ isn't much harder but the code for evething else is more tricky.
i just decided to scratch the one i started lastnight(used mfc to start it) and am wrighting one from scratch, custom layout making it look more like an official launcher and this one will actually launch the game not just update.
i'm also going to incuse a custom site to go with it so that people can register right from the launcher(good idea for anyone else making one). depending on how much free time i have i might add a couple other nice things to it.
Thanks for the idea. I'm gonna see about adding a register thing to mine too I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by lutchius
Thanks :P
Almost done with the site, can already launch the game with mine (I wish I could add command line perimeters to Gunz.exe so it can only be launched from my launcher)
i think delphi is the most hard of these languages...
Id have to go with asm, I think so at least :-S
im working now on my launcher too,using vb 6...
your joking right? delphi is based off of c++ so that its easyer to work with but dosn't have all of the benefits.Quote:
Originally Posted by mts
delphi is alot easyer to use the c++ but it is more dificult then vb. vb is the starting point for people that want to learn how to do real programing. but learning vb can made you develop some bad habits when you start doing more advancec programing like c++,c#,c#.net or even just basic c.
yea know i never looked into it, what is the command line argument to launch gunz.exe(i've always just made runnables)
Not sure? Guess would could put a packet sniffer on gunzlauncher and see what it returns? I'll do that tomorrow
I got Visual Basic now (6.0 Enterprise Edition) but I dont understand shit. I got like 10 programs >< all called something with Visual Basic
(C++, 6.0, 6.0 Enterprise, FoxPro, Interdev, blabla)
I tried em all but I dont understand shyt T_T how to import gunzlauncher into it?
you dont import gunzlauncher we are making it from scratch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centrix
oh >.> do u got msn? gimme some tuts or whatever :P never did this kinda crap before. :D wanna learn
How did you do this ? I'm interrestedQuote:
Dont run Gunz.exe if you dont open Gunzlauncher first (moded Gunz.exe)
...It's an entire programming language, not something you edit existing executables with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centrix
If you're in it purely for the sake of making a launcher, then stop now. There's absolutely no point in learning an entire language just to make a launcher when someone will prolly release theirs anyway.
I've been reading up on sockets and web-based functions in VB this past day (I take VB.NET at school and we never go over that sort of thing, so I'm doing it on my own). It seems simple enough. I'll prolly be done with my launcher later today.
if someone releases theirs.... they put in their name in big fat letters -.- no thanx
Astra, The best way to do it would be inet control or a third party ocx file....
and cen, As I said earlier in this topic you shouldnt even try, Once I finish the site (Its all messed up) I'll work on my other launcher and release that source code.
I am currently making mine based on the original (but not a total copy of it).
Here is a screenshot :
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/9...enshot8vm9.png
I will release it and maybe the source code when i'll finish some things
The wallpaper is inf rnehc but if someone could make me a better english one i will take it.
I'm making one in VB.NET right now. I'm not that experienced by any stretch of the word, but it's coming along nicely I guess.
I'm still reading up on how to use wininet.dll for the actual downloading. It seems like it should be simple enough though.
All mine does right now is launch the game and display updates and events from a .txt file in my webserver. But I'm coding right now so it actually downloads the patches.
And since it's all from scratch, mine won't look like the official one does as far as a progress bar and all that for the downloads.
This is what I have so far, nothing special:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...auncherplz.jpg
I already had a launcher that's just like the official ones, but I'd rather make my own since I don't want it to use torrenting, plus I like the wy mine displays events and stuff (thanks for the layout idea Lambda :P I'm gonna change the background pic though, I'm not terribly fond of the woman and man picture).
lol, good job http://www.hl2spain.com/foro/style_e...fault/good.gif
Im now working in a AntiCheat system, developed in VB
Holy shit, this coding has me so fucking confused.
It probably wouldn't be so hard if I was actually good at VB.NET. The last thing we did in my class was learn how to create/call functions and procedures. Then I jumped into this.
I'm so fucking confused x_x