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Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.

Off-topic discussion is allowed, but spam is not; please make sure all your messages are of substantial meaning that at least somebody would be interested in reading and responding to. That being said, obviously I appreciate comments relating to The Cave of Dragonflies, whether they are error reports, questions, suggestions or whatever else you might want to get across.

Messages

My own messages will be signed as Butterfree, with the Admin label below my name. If someone signs as Butterfree without that label, it's probably not me.

Mehw

It doesn't particularly bother me, but I just noticed that it's alot more cut off in Google Chrome than it is in Internet Explorer 8 or whatever I have. :l What exact font did you intend for it?

Butterfree
Admin

Only if you don't have the right font and it goes for a replacement font that doesn't quite fit.



Then again, that seems to happen for an irritating lot of people, so I should probably make it bigger.

Mehw

Butterfree, did you know the 'Enter' button on the splash page is cut off at the 'r' ?









Ho-oh Spammy :D sweet!

Butterfree
Admin

There was sort of going to be, but it never turned out right and I pretty much gave up on it.

Zetlian2
Website: Mewtwosgarden

Dammit, i wish that there would be a 3rd sequel to Chains and Shackles.

Mehw

Maybe when one accesses it, the one that writes it can't access it so it writes it somewhere undefined therefore resetting it? :l

Butterfree
Admin

The counter is a file. There is a function that reads the number in this file to display it on the page, and a function that reads the number in the file, increments it by one and puts it back in the file. What you see on the page is just the contents of that file. Basically something keeps going wrong in the function that writes to the file, most likely when two processes on the server try to access the file at the same time or something of the like, and it writes 0 or an empty string into it instead of the number of hits.



Funnily enough, as it is right now it is supposed to be taking special measures to prevent anything funny happening when two processes try to access it at the same time, but there must be something wrong with the handling of it. Or at least that's my best guess at what's going on.

Mehw

Hey, Butterfree, so the file writes the number to the counter each time it goes up?

Butterfree
Admin

Aaand I made yet another fix to the Ultimate Type Tool, this time from something I realized while lying in bed.

Butterfree
Admin

No, it's not getting too high. If that were the case, it would consistently reset when it hit a particular number (which would be a power of two, not just any odd number above a couple of million), as opposed to randomly resetting every now and then. Odds are the code that grabs the hit counter file, reads the number, increments it and writes it back into the file is buggy somehow, but I cannot for the life of me figure out just what is wrong with it.

Mehw

Maybe it's getting too high. maybe each million you get you can add a mark of some sort and start at 0: so now it would be(im using a random mark) approx… ©©© 800,000

Butterfree
Admin

…and now the hit counter reset itself again, only this time to an empty file instead of zero. I really, really don't get it.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: 12-14-09

Okay, now I fixed the Ultimate Type Tool for real.

Emerald Espeon

The first game I played was Ruby. But when I got Crystal, I liked it much better.

KyuuFox

HGSS Macrh 14! Can't wait.

Mew

Hello People!!!!!!! i havnt posted on here in a while…. GIMME HEARTGOLD WITH A TYPHLOSION!!!!!!!!



… wow. that was random.

anybody read the series of books called the alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal nicholas flamel? it iz awsum :D



Mwahahaha!!!

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: 12-10-09

I'm actually already more or less completely rewriting the custom type system again, heh. At least I'm pretty sure once I get this done it will be pretty foolproof.

Mehw

first pokemon I ever played was Green. :l That's hardcore for leik a three yr old. :/ Plus, I had NO idea ehat they were saying. I knew what the moves were though :DDDD

Pikachu
Website: Pikachu's Plaza
Commenting on: 12-10-09

I'm sorry to bother you, but I actuall found another problem.



Say I create the type Ji and the type Ku. Now I want to edit Ji, so I click on its name and change on one of its weakness to a resistance. (it doesn't matter what you change, as long as you change something). Say I don't want Ji anymore, so I delete it. I get this error:



"Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a138f'



'wruar.1' is null or not an object



/newtypetool.asp, line 184"



I think people would run into this error more.

Sangheili

The first Pokémon game I've ever played is Yellow Version. I remember when I was little, I simply loved how Pikachu followed me around everywhere… XD

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