Site problems

[purpleflayer]

Sorry to be the person who creates the "site problems" thread.   I successfully placed a comment on the 7DRL review of "DDRogue".  But if I try to place a comment on the review for chickhack, it disappears!  First I thought "ok it is a comment system where you must be approved", but the DDRogue one appears...  Hope this is solvable, as I would like to comment there to thank you for posting the review (i am chickhack's author by the way )

[Cymon]

For some reason your comments got dumped into my spam group, and I don't know why. It's been fixed in those cases, but I don't know how to prevent it from happening again.

My turn to list the next problem, for some folks using firefox the sidebar sometimes overlaps the text in the middle, or more accurately the text in the middle is too wide. I think this is from the insistence of using ems and px in the CSS that I borrowed. The fix? I'm gonna have to re-write the blasted CSS myself.

Dang it, that was what I didn't want to do in the first place.

Thanks for starting this thread purpleflayer.

[purpleflayer]

A "site problems" thread is how you know your site has become a success!

[jrodkey]

In the Allegro installation tutorial in

http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/getting-started-2/#allegro

I get through this message:

 Reading specs from c:/CodeBlocks/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5/configure ?with-gcc ?with-gnu-ld ?with-gnu-as ?host=mingw32 ?target=mingw32 ?prefix=/mingw ?enable-threads ?disable-nls ?enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java ?disable-win32-registry ?disable-shared ?enable-sjlj-exceptions ?enable-libgcj ?disable-java-awt ?without-x ?enable-java-gc=boehm ?disable-libgcj-debug ?enable-interpreter ?enable-hash-synchronization ?enable-libstdcxx-debug Thread model: win32 gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special)

The next step in the instructions is:
 in the command prompt type: cd CodeBlocksMinGWAllegro set MINGDIR=c:CodeBlocksMinGW fix mingw32 mingw32-make

 (This will be a few minutes)

 mingw32-make install exit

Shouldn't the directory in the above statement be  MINGDIR=c:\CodeBlocks\MinGW ?
I keep getting this from command prompt.

The filename,directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.



Do you type  cd CodeBlocksMinGWAllegro set MINGDIR=c:CodeBlocksMinGW fix mingw32 mingw32-make 
press enter, and then  mingw32-make install and then exit?

Please help

[Cymon]

type 
cd \CodeBlocks\MinGW\Allegro\
set MINGDIR=c:\CodeBlocks\MinGW\
fix mingw32 mingw32-make 
[enter]
mingw32-make install
exit

All the slashes got dumped when the site crashed a while back. Try it that way.

I'll get that page all fixed up sooner or later, I promise. EDIT, it's fixed.

[jrodkey]

When I get to

fix mingw32 mingw32-make

Command Prompt tells me 'fix' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I know I'm getting everything else right from the directories C:\CodeBlocks\MinGW\allegro that I get when I type in the instructions.

Any suggestions?

[Cymon]

Hmm, that should be 2 lines and if "fix" isn't recognized I wonder if I'm doing something wrong with the path command.

Either way I guess I can't avoid it any longer. I have to load up the VMs and re-do my tutorials.

[jrodkey]

I've typed

fix mingw32
[enter]

and then command prompt says fix is not an internal or external command.

I meant to say fix mingw32 and mingw32-make are on 2 different lines.

[Mindless Automaton]

How does the comments section for the type-ins work?

I thought that each type-in had its own comments, but then I noticed "Hello"
and "TAWS6" had the same comments.. (unless its just me..)

Although it is a bit amusing that GernotFrisch cannot get to level 13 of Hello..

Thanks!

Mindless Automaton

[Cymon]

How does the comments section for the type-ins work?

I thought that each type-in had its own comments, but then I noticed "Hello"
and "TAWS6" had the same comments.. (unless its just me..)

Although it is a bit amusing that GernotFrisch cannot get to level 13 of Hello..

Thanks!

Mindless Automaton

Um, I don't see that. Are you using some screwy browser like Chrome or something?

[Mindless Automaton]

I will try another computer..  I've used both Firefox & IE on this one.

I attached the "hello" screenshot I took though.

Nope, I remote to my home system and it does the same.

Is there a user setting for the forums or something that just
displays all messages?

[Cymon]

That's correct. That first comment was a joke. Check the date stamp. TAWS4 wasn't even on the site in 2008.

[Cymon]

Mindless, I appologize. This is indeed a problem. The problem is under different web browsers. Under Firefox (which I use) it's fine. In IE it's what you see, comments bleeding over. In Chrome it shows the comments as disabled. I've contacted the Wordpress forums, maybe someone there has an idea how to fix it. If not I'll try editing the comments.php and see what I can come up with.

[NatDSIdonse]

Im having problems with the site, I tried to log in with my password and it said it was incorrect. I had to e-mail myself a new password and I was able to log in. But now, I cant change the password when I go to the Profile page. It says the current password isnt in the database.

[Mindless Automaton]

Mindless, I appologize. This is indeed a problem.

Yay!  I'm not crazy! ;P

Well.. maybe..