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sovr
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Posted: 14th Jan 2012 06:50
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Hello, I have been pondering about the include command built into agk. Is this command made for adding additional files to your application? If so how do you use it? Thanks a lot

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Hodgey
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Posted: 14th Jan 2012 08:18 Edited at: 14th Jan 2012 08:19
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Quote: "Is this command made for adding additional files to your application?"

Certainly is. It allows you to 'include' multiple source code files into your project.

Quote: "If so how do you use it?"

Best done with an example. Say this is your 'main' file.



Then you have this in a separate file (which we will call 'functions'):


The #include allows the contents of the 'functions' file to be used in the 'main' file. So this will compile and run as expected.

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Posted: 14th Jan 2012 09:13
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You can also declare types and globals in included files. But not constants at moment.

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Posted: 14th Jan 2012 19:24
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@Digial Awakening:
I'm using constants in an included file and haven't had any problems with them so far.

I just tested it, in my system.agc file, I declare true and false as constants. Then in the main file, I simply printed out the value of true on screen in a loop.

It returned 1 as expected.


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sovr
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thanks this has really helped!

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A word of warning declaring types in included files, I have had problems where types stop being recognised after a project gets to a certain size. The only solution I have found is moving all UDT declaration into the main file.

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@Baxslash:
Thats what I'm doing. When u say "a certain size", how big are we talking?

I've not experienced this yet either.


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Quote: "Thats what I'm doing. When u say "a certain size", how big are we talking?

I've not experienced this yet either."

I haven't pinned that down yet. If I could replicate it easily I would post the bug. For now it's easier in the time I have (which isn't much) to just get on with my game.

My game is getting rather large (about 6500 lines so far). I think the problem started about 3000 lines ago. I am using 7 included files to organise my code a little.

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@Baxslash:
Ok, my current AppGameKit project is about 1500 lines over 7 files. I'll keep an eye out for if/when I start having issues.


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