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Sep 9, 2005, 10:07pm

Does such an animal exist, say in .pdf or html format? If so, I'd be
grateful for a link to it. Thanks.

Sep 9, 2005, 10:43pm

Preston help is available in the program itself by clicking "Help" in the main screen and then clicking on the part of the interface that you need help with.

[View Quote] > Does such an animal exist, say in .pdf or html format? If so, I'd be grateful for a link to it. Thanks.

Sep 9, 2005, 11:15pm

Thanks, sorry I did not mention I found that. But I'm looking for something
that Ican print out and put under my pillow and study in the middle of the
night and without my computer.


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Sep 10, 2005, 1:39am

Preston is kinda out of date; Ima is working on a new one I think; but with
4.1 if he doesnt upgrade it existing prestons will become obsolite.

--
- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov

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Sep 13, 2005, 10:09am

Do you mean just out of date, or do you mean rendered useless by major
changes in the new protocol, causing all previous versions unusable?

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Sep 13, 2005, 11:47am

As far as I know, 4.1 will render all bots not compiled using the 4.1 SDK
absolutely unusable.

--
- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov

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Sep 13, 2005, 11:48am

Sidenote: in 4.1 that is

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- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov

Sep 13, 2005, 12:33pm

Any plans for backward compatibility? There are some useful bots out
there that the owners won't ever update anymore

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Sep 13, 2005, 1:51pm

As far as I am aware 4.1 and 3.6 are COMPLETELY incompatable.

This is due to a complete world, universe and protocol rewrite.

--
- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov
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Sep 14, 2005, 6:18pm

noooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MY STUDIOS!!! :'-(

-=LtB=-

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Sep 14, 2005, 7:27pm

Actually, I think Ima IS working on it 4.1, so I doubt its going to
dissapear.

--
- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov

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Sep 14, 2005, 11:16pm

So am I with xelagot, but continuation of xelagot in 4.1 is not
garanteed in ANY way. If we manage to overcome the obstacles, which
are not few or easy, great; if not, bad luck. And take into account
that a LOT of older bots (including HamFon's if not updated) will
cease to be operational. New programmers will come with new bots, I
guess, welcome :)

Alex

On 14 Sep 2005 17:27:24 -0400, "Strike Rapier" <markyr at gmail.com>
[View Quote] >Actually, I think Ima IS working on it 4.1, so I doubt its going to
>dissapear.

Sep 15, 2005, 3:02pm

Yep, Preston will be updated for 4.1, and I'm working on a new release which
should be out before 4.1 :)
- Ima

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Sep 15, 2005, 3:04pm

I'm not sure how many old bots still work in any case, since older SDK
builds are disabled in the current universe. I'm not sure what the oldest
build enabled is.
- Ima

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Sep 16, 2005, 5:15am

None, protocols imcompatable.

--
- Mark Randall
http://zetech.swehli.com

"Those people that think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do"
Isaac Asimov

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Sep 16, 2005, 7:21am

*breathes huge sigh of relief*

And will the preston.ini files be compatible with the new preston? (please
please please please please say yes)

-=LtB=-

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Sep 16, 2005, 7:47am

Of course :)
- Ima

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Sep 16, 2005, 7:50am

Well, I mean using bots compiled ages ago in the current 3.6 universe. I
know that a lot of old SDK builds were disabled to phase out the older
encryption used in earlier versions. The protocol in use in 3.6 is
compatible with older versions, but some really old versions are disabled to
be more secure.
- Ima

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Sep 16, 2005, 9:52am

Poor newbie VB programmers who cannot program with the SDK wrapper.. They
will be really out of date with the OCX now.

Sep 16, 2005, 11:54am

Like phew. *wipes brow*

-=LtB=-

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Sep 16, 2005, 6:20pm

So what kind of new features are being planned for the new preston?

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Sep 16, 2005, 8:25pm

Amazing! So many posts generated by such a simple question. Guess there is
no Preston Manual after all (like Xelagot X1-now, there's a manual {online
help files})! Actually, I'm glad I asked. My simple dumb question
flushed out a lot of good posts about AW SDK 4.1, Preston upgrade, etc., for
which I'm grateful! Now equin0x, why can't newbie VB programmers use the
"SDK wrapper?" Won't a new one accompany AW 4.1? The reason I ask is that
I was recently advised that VB is the best way for newbies to work with the
SDK (Is it too obvious yet that I'm no programmer)?

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Sep 16, 2005, 11:03pm

I ment, I've met a lot of users in AW who are new to Visual Basic itself,
and they've always used the OCX, as they find it easier.

Even thought the OCX became obselete, the users still sacrificed the minor
cloud features which were the only change in one upgrade, and other minor
additions to the other DLL wrappers.

So, if they are still using the OCX, when 4.1 comes along, they will be
forced to use the DLL wrapper.

However, yes, VisualBasic is a good way for new bot programmers to learn. I
won't say that they should start instantly on C++ or anything, as some
people may say.

I learnt VB itself through my bot programming in AW, then moved onto C++.

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Sep 17, 2005, 3:11pm

And in thsi new version tyhere is going to be a data if clause? and
supprot for decimals rather than integerial values RIGHT?

On event; %a.health=0;

misc/say; JOO ARE TEH DED!!!!1111one

PLEASE add that....

also we had a problem with arrays :)

we where working on a donkey hunting game...but the bot takes its data
from the description tag in soem situations and in others from the
create name...

uits very weird like that :(

Sep 17, 2005, 6:03pm

I'm planning to add branching support, but that probably won't be in the
very next build :) Please e-mail me any information you have about the data
problem.
Thanks,
- Ima

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