I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about my mods. I'm not that great with PA mods but I play around with it when I get the time.
First: XHTML Video Tutorials Second: JavaScript Video Tutorials Then open up the UI code files, like "live" files, in notepad+, which lays out the entire webpage html code in front of you, letting you see every box and field and action link, and every javascript code in front of you, showing you all the variables and functions. You will notice the places where the UI references what happens on clicks or with buttons, and what information is fetched in certain instances. Then open and read some mods as references. You will notice how they use a lot of the same code, some replaced, or some with added fields, as the UI. If you want, and can actually graphic edit, you can also open all the folders containing the graphics for the UI, the icons and the build buttons and even the shaded boxes behind the buttons and along the border. You can make any colored UI theme, or a very fitting Gundam themed UI (because it's PA, robot fights in space fit that theme). Then you can watch this tutorial for how to celebrate afterwards.
On topic.. Javascript: The good parts.pdf After you learn the basic's of javascript this book is a good read. It's free on it-ebooks, i linked directly to the pdf download.
"The only language that people feel that they don't need to learn it before they start using it." Uuuh. Errr.. Weeeell. Actually. Yeah. I indeed just started writing some PA mods and they somehow seemed to work. Damn he got me. It indeed looked familiar. When I wrote some basics if's and for's they worked like they should. He is so right xD
cruise or Alaska then. International waters is only 100 miles away from me really. My brother is in Dutch harbor Alaska atm too, on his way home now also, good luck learning program at that age. Def try a personalized anime themed UI first, then some desktop widgets embedded into game next (yes, you can put weather channel wiguts in your UI), then try something bigger.
I think i have discovered why a lot of my stuff is failing... I didn't realize putting the curly bracket on the next line causes silent fails And why oh why does javascript do it's own semicolon insertion ????
No idea. Fortunately I am part of the "curly braces on the right is the only right way!" faction. So I never had issues with that in JS.
Another nice crockford one, slightly OT but hope you enjoy. My way of saying thanks for a great thread. I just started trying to understand javascript and it has helped a lot.
Please do not recommend w3schools for learning(Here's why). Instead use Mozilla's references and other tutorials.
Thank you, I always thought they were affiliated with w3c but that's not the case. Really bad behavior on the w3schools part.
So i've been having a hard time getting anywhere with my attempt at learning javascript so i took a step back and looked around for more ways to learn. I found out that there are a quite a few good programming introduction courses around. I just started watching the MIT one and it really helps someone like me with no coding experience at all. Just a heads up to anyone else out there who is curious of coding but has no background in it.
