v1.8.2 Released February 25, 2008

[Guilect]

Here is the latest verison of Brutus2D.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade to this latest version.

Get your copy here (~4.02 Meg):
Brutus2D V1.8.2 Download

Here is the change log for V1.8.2

added -- Net(work) Multiplayer commands. Available to registered users
Example in examples\Network folder.
added -- Graphics.GetPixel to autocomplete

fixed -- .bjs files are now associated with Brutus2D
fixed -- limited the output for ArcCos to 0 and 3.14159265358979
And 1.5707964 to -1.5707964 for ArcSin.
Now if the input is > 1 or < -1 then the output of the function will not give error but rather
the 1 or -1 output.
fixed -- In BrutusMap, where if you open a file, then click new, it maintained the same filename

[u9]

Quick note: MSWINSCK.OCX is missing in the download. For those who cannot wait here's where you can download it:

www.ascentive.com/support/new/support_dll.phtml?dllname=MSWINSCK.OCX

copy the file into \windows\system32 and all should work fine.

[Guilect]

I thought every Windows install had this already installed on it.
I see that this is not the case.
So this is a problem.
Although U9's suggestion gets things going on your system, it does not guarantee that your end user will have this OCX installed.

I have an idea that I can use direct API calls to the winsock.dll and skip the OCX all togher.
So, its back to the drawing board on the Networking.

If you want you can still download and play with it.
The solutuion should not change how things look on your side of things.

[edited: for small spelling error]

[Guilect]

Got a good start at converting the OCX to API calls.
Would have had a lot more done but I got 2 phone calls.
Each lasted about an hour.
There went all my free time.

[u9]

hehe yeah i know how that is! ... some of my friends reaaaaally like talking on the phone, myself i hate talking on the phone. I don't even own a cell myself

But isn't it easier just to include the file along with brutus? Ah... or do the executables not work if they are run from another machine then?

[Guilect]

Including a file in the B2D install package is easy and would get the network commands working on your machine.
However, if you then give an exe to someone else, there is a chance that their system would not have that ocx installed and execution would fail.
By going this API route, exe's should run on every machine.

[Guilect]

Got B2D so that it no longer needs the OCX for the network functions.
Now I'm looking into some questions that U9 posed in another thread.

[Guilect]

Ok,

I believe that I got the reported errors.
If only I could find someone with 3 or 6 computers to test it out on.....

here are the updated files for B2D in a zip.

Back up existing files if you desire.
(Brutus2D.exe and comp.dat files).

Extract to your B2D install directory.

brutus.pewtersoftware.com/upload/files/Brutus2D_Net.zip