Gaming Solfix

[RoyalCardMan]

Solfix

Hi all!

As I was working on DS App Studio, I was asking myself 'Why can I just make a programming language for making windows applications?'

So, I started working on what I called Solfix. It is a programming language that simplifies code into smaller steps. This is C# code of a hello world project:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
ÂÂÂÂclass Program
ÂÂÂÂ{
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂstatic void Main(string[] args)
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ{
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂConsole.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂConsole.ReadLine();
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ}
ÂÂÂÂ}
}

Here is a sample project from Solfix:

csole.say("Hello, World!");
csole.read();

This language is still in progress, but so far, I have added:

~ Ways to convert strings to integers.

~ Ways to read text from a console.

~ Ways to create windows applications.

There is more that you can do, but these are the basic functions. It isn't much yet, but here is some code for a simple application:

csole.say("Enter a name:");
string number = csole.getlnval();
csole.say("" + number + "");
win32.newapp(640, 480, true, true, 0, number);
csole.read();

Hope you like how it is going.

 

[chyyran]

Wow, you really like making programming languages.

 

[toguro_max]

This is just nuts @_@
I can barely code on some languages, and this dude is creating another one!
Good luck on that, man.
As far I can see, Your lang will be able to render windows with some kind of switches, right?

win32.newapp(640, 480, true, true, 0, number);

Maybe these "true, true" are for the buttons (Close and Minimize)? Or resizing permitions?
Will there be any sintax book, once the lang is done? And guides?
What will it be able to do? Access databases? Connect to Internet? Use Dlls? Interact with other langs?

Again, good luck.

 

[RoyalCardMan]

This is just nuts @_@
I can barely code on some languages, and this dude is creating another one!
Good luck on that, man.
As far I can see, Your lang will be able to render windows with some kind of switches, right?

win32.newapp(640, 480, true, true, 0, number);

Maybe these "true, true" are for the buttons (Close and Minimize)? Or resizing permitions?
Will there be any sintax book, once the lang is done? And guides?
What will it be able to do? Access databases? Connect to Internet? Use Dlls? Interact with other langs?

Again, good luck.

The true or false arguments are for displaying the max and min buttons are not.
There will be documentation on the language.

 

[Slyakin]

Wow, good luck man.

 

[RoyalCardMan]

Wow, good luck man.

I have been developing programming languages for two years, so it won't be much of a problem.

Thanks anyways.

Here's the site for the download:

http://solfix.codeplex.com/

 

[FAST6191]

If you are making a simple language what sort of steps are you taking towards preventing operator overload?- most of the rookie mistakes I ever made with such things (or indeed some of the hardest to debug) is with such things (missing brackets leading to odd behaviour in a program that still compiles).

Either way a GUI oriented compiled language rather than an interpreter like autoIT is something I would be interested in seeing develop.

If it can wind binary abilities with some simple text + unicode reading (looking at something like CSV and maybe crude XML) I would try flogging it to rom hackers and those that fiddle around with simple hacks that need binary tweaks for things- having to learn a high level computing language well enough to build a table/text reading program (it is all about the game specific stuff these days it seems) does not sit well with some of the newer hackers and I can see where they are coming from.

 

[RoyalCardMan]

If you are making a simple language what sort of steps are you taking towards preventing operator overload?- most of the rookie mistakes I ever made with such things (or indeed some of the hardest to debug) is with such things (missing brackets leading to odd behaviour in a program that still compiles).

Either way a GUI oriented compiled language rather than an interpreter like autoIT is something I would be interested in seeing develop.

If it can wind binary abilities with some simple text + unicode reading (looking at something like CSV and maybe crude XML) I would try flogging it to rom hackers and those that fiddle around with simple hacks that need binary tweaks for things- having to learn a high level computing language well enough to build a table/text reading program (it is all about the game specific stuff these days it seems) does not sit well with some of the newer hackers and I can see where they are coming from.

Solfix could actually be used for ROM hacking.

I implemented methods that allow you to edit file content, such as the syst.addcontenttofile(string filetoedit, string texttoadd);

The method isn't in the first beta though.

Solfix was mainly meant for creating applications, but it can be used for ROM hacking.