Day and Night

ID:984975
 
Sep 22 2012, 5:56 am
Keywords: and, day, night
(See the best response by LordAndrew.)
Code:
area
    DNight
        name=""
        layer=10
        New()
            Change()
        proc
            Change()
                sleep(72)
                overlays+='Night.dmi'
                world<<"<center><FONT SIZE=+1><FONT COLOR=#008080>T</FONT><FONT COLOR=#168b8d>h</FONT><FONT COLOR=#2c969a>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#41a1a7> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#57adb4>S</FONT><FONT COLOR=#6db8c0>u</FONT><FONT COLOR=#83c3cd>n</FONT><FONT COLOR=#98ceda> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#add8e6>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#b3dae8>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#badbeb>t</FONT><FONT COLOR=#c0dded>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#c7dfef> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#cde0f2>a</FONT><FONT COLOR=#d4e2f4>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#dae4f6> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#e1e5f9>i</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e6e6fa>t</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e1e5f9> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#dae4f6>b</FONT><FONT COLOR=#d4e2f4>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#cde0f2>c</FONT><FONT COLOR=#c7dfef>o</FONT><FONT COLOR=#c0dded>m</FONT><FONT COLOR=#badbeb>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#b3dae8>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#add8e6> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#9bcfdc>N</FONT><FONT COLOR=#87c5d0>i</FONT><FONT COLOR=#74bbc5>g</FONT><FONT COLOR=#61b1b9>h</FONT><FONT COLOR=#4da8ae>t</FONT><FONT COLOR=#3a9ea2>.</FONT><FONT COLOR=#279497>.</FONT><FONT COLOR=#138a8b>.</FONT><FONT COLOR=#008080>.</FONT></FONT><center>"
                sleep(7200)
                luminosity=1
                overlays-='Night.dmi'
                world<<"<center><FONT SIZE=+1><FONT COLOR=#ff4500>T</FONT><FONT COLOR=#fa5506>h</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f3650b>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#ed7611> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#e78616>S</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e0961c>u</FONT><FONT COLOR=#daa520>n</FONT><FONT COLOR=#dfb21c> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#e5bf18>r</FONT><FONT COLOR=#eacc13>i</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f0d90e>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f5e609>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#fbf305>s</FONT><FONT COLOR=#ffff00> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#fbf305>b</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f5e609>e</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f0d90e>c</FONT><FONT COLOR=#eacc13>o</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e5bf18>m</FONT><FONT COLOR=#dfb21c>i</FONT><FONT COLOR=#daa520>n</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e0961c>g</FONT><FONT COLOR=#e78616> </FONT><FONT COLOR=#ed7611>D</FONT><FONT COLOR=#f3650b>a</FONT><FONT COLOR=#fa5506>y</FONT><FONT COLOR=#ff4500>!</FONT></FONT> <center>"
                Change()


Problem description: Ignoring the "world<<"It's day, It's night in HTML"" part, the problem is I thought I made a good day and night system, but night messes with Click proc, any idea how to fix it?

Sep 22 2012, 6:00 am
Best response
Set area to mouse_opacity = 0 and it'll be ignored by the mouse.
Sep 22 2012, 8:28 am
What LordAndrew said, plus, you should be using a while() loop instead of calling Change() again (it'll crash eventually because you aren't spawning that call, too). Also, you aren't setting luminosity to 0 for night.
Sep 22 2012, 11:38 am
Galactic Soldier wrote:
Mind you. It'll eventually crash if you create an infinite while() loop too. Use spawn() instead.

No it won't, assuming he doesn't leave the call to Change() at the end of the while() loop. It'll crash now because the recursion isn't being spawn()ed, which overflows the call stack.
Sep 22 2012, 11:42 am
That has to be if there's no delay. I've never had a while() loop crash on me because it iterated too many times.
Sep 22 2012, 12:06 pm
Yes, the documentation is misleading. This test suggests that any loop with a delay (here, the minimum of 0) won't be crashed:

proc/InfiniteLoop()
    world.log = null
    if(fexists("testlog.txt"))
        fdel("testlog.txt")
    world.log = "testlog.txt"
    
    var/started = world.timeofday
    var/counter = 0
    
    var/test = 100
    while(TRUE)
        counter++
        if(!(--test))
            test = 100
            if(length(file("testlog.txt")) > 0)
                break
    
    world<<"Loop switched to background after [num2text(counter, 10)] (+/-100) iterations (Realtime: [world.timeofday - started])"

proc/DelayedLoop()
    world.log = null
    if(fexists("testlog.txt"))
        fdel("testlog.txt")
    world.log = "testlog.txt"
    
    var/started = world.timeofday
    var/counter = 0
    
    var/test = 10000
    var/display = 1000000
    while(TRUE)
        counter++
        if(!(--test))
            test = 10000
            sleep(0)
            if(length(file("testlog.txt")) > 0)
                break
        
        if(!(--display))
            display = 1000000
            world<<"Loop passed [num2text(counter, 10)] iterations"
    
    world<<"Loop switched to background after [num2text(counter, 10)] (+/-10000) iterations (Realtime: [world.timeofday - started])"

mob/verb/TestMaximumInfinite()
    spawn()
        InfiniteLoop()

mob/verb/TestMaximumDelayed()
    spawn()
        DelayedLoop()


The delayed loop runs out of number precision before being crashed, and I doubt BYOND uses a double to track loop iterations, so it probably never crashes a loop with any delay.