On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 12:49:12 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 02/09/2018 12:37 AM, tide wrote:
On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:18:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 8/31/2018 7:28 PM, tide wrote:
I'm just wondering but how would you code an assert to
ensure the variable for a title bar is the correct color?
Just how many asserts are you going to have in your
real-time game that can be expected to run at 144+ fps ?
Experience will guide you on where to put the asserts.
But really, just apply common sense. It's not just for
software. If you're a physicist, and your calculations come
up with a negative mass, you screwed up. If you're a
mechanical engineer, and calculate a force of billion pounds
from dropping a piano, you screwed up. If you're an
accountant, and calculate that you owe a million dollars in
taxes on a thousand dollars of income, you screwed up. If you
build a diagnostic X-ray machine, and the control software
computes a lethal dose to administer, you screwed up.
Apply common sense and assert on unreasonable results,
because your code is broken.
That's what he, and apparently you don't get. How are you
going to use an assert to check that the color of a title bar
is valid? Try and implement that assert, and let me know what
you come up with.
If you have the ability to screenshot a window like I do, oh
one simple method call is all that required with a simple index
to get the color.
But that isn't something I'd go test... Too much system-y stuff
that can modify it.
And you're putting that into production code? Cause that's the
entire point of this topic :).
