scroll source code while playing

[squeaks182]

hi, i was wondering if there was any way of showing the source code while playing the game? i'm trying to get a bunch of high school kids into computers/coding/information systems, and i think showing them the game would be a great way to get their attention, but i think displaying the source code would really help push the idea that there's just a bunch of code behind this thing. i've tried searching around, but couldn't find any answers. any help would really be appreciated!

great community, btw! keep up the good work.

[lordhardware]

hi, i was wondering if there was any way of showing the source code while playing the game? i'm trying to get a bunch of high school kids into computers/coding/information systems, and i think showing them the game would be a great way to get their attention, but i think displaying the source code would really help push the idea that there's just a bunch of code behind this thing. i've tried searching around, but couldn't find any answers. any help would really be appreciated!

great community, btw! keep up the good work.

you could copy and paste most of it into Windows Movie Maker as a "Credits title" then export it as a movie and convert it to a supported video file... then use that as a background

[squeaks182]

yeah, i was thinking about doing that, but i'd like to do some sort of dual monitor setup where as their playing on one screen, it has another monitor on the side scrolling the text. i want to make them disoriented

[lordhardware]

well the source isnt accessed in that kind of fashion, once all the calls are made and the files loaded their arnt many checks being made while the songs are playing so the video option will be the most viable i think.

[acrox999]

I'm not sure if this helps but try this:

Toggling the Debug Layer

In FoFiX's main menu, pressing ALT + D will toggle the Debug Layer on and off. This layer provides real-time information on the inner workings of FoFiX, and could be of use to some advanced developers.
This should be togglable anywhere; except that further layers of menus and UIs have their own keyListeners and the ALT-D doesn't seem to make it all the way out to the FretsOnFire.py code. It does, however, work during gameplay (if you are not using "D" for any gameplay key) - you can toggle the debug layer on and off while playing the game.
Although this is probably simple to fix (passing ALT-Ds back to the main keyListener, for example), it is not necessary... toggle it on in the Main Menu and then go play and watch it. Restart the game or exit out to the main menu if you've seen enough.

[lordhardware]

I'm not sure if this helps but try this: Toggling the Debug Layer

I thought of that but i think he wants the WHOLE code, not just access calls, the debug wouldnt show much while the song was playing

[jstump91]

I'm not sure if this helps but try this:

Toggling the Debug Layer

In FoFiX's main menu, pressing ALT + D will toggle the Debug Layer on and off. This layer provides real-time information on the inner workings of FoFiX, and could be of use to some advanced developers.
This should be togglable anywhere; except that further layers of menus and UIs have their own keyListeners and the ALT-D doesn't seem to make it all the way out to the FretsOnFire.py code. It does, however, work during gameplay (if you are not using "D" for any gameplay key) - you can toggle the debug layer on and off while playing the game.
Although this is probably simple to fix (passing ALT-Ds back to the main keyListener, for example), it is not necessary... toggle it on in the Main Menu and then go play and watch it. Restart the game or exit out to the main menu if you've seen enough.

That's not quite what the OP wanted, but that is an invaluable way to see what is going on at a given moment - what classes to look in for the appropriate code, etc.

OP: Like in any big program, the flow of control is of course all over the place, but for showing that everything corresponds to specific chunks of code, picking out representative snippets of, say, the rendering methods will probably do the right thing.

(Note that in anything but vanilla FoF there do exist some places where the code quality is atrocious, though, and not something that you would want your students to see, lest they then write some of their own code in a similar way. One of our goals for the next major stable release of FoFiX is to iron out these areas and impose decent standards on how we code in the future.)

[squeaks182]

you guys are awesome! lots of great info here. if i have time, i think what i'm going to do is pop the code into final cut studio, animate it the way it would be called, then camtasia studio some game play. i'll split screen / re-size the two windows next to each other, and loop the playback. i'll display that on a separate monitor while they're playing on another PC... that should still do that trick

thanks again!

[lordhardware]

No problem :)