I'm trying to make a patcher/launcher for a game. I want it to happen like this. When the user press's the PLAY button, I want it to check if the files are up to date. If they are, then it will run the exe (it will be in the same directory). If I updated a file, say Sound.x, I want it to download it with a progress bar showing. But the thing is, I looked around and I have no idea how to check if the file is up to date or not.
View 11 Repliesive tried playing with the code, references, settings, resources but cannot get this code to work Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Startgame.Click Dim ss As String = Startgame("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREblizzard entertainmentworld of warcraft",
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Alright, well im making a launcher for a game i play. and i want to make it so it says how many users are online. and im not sure how to code that out??
View 25 Repliesim making a game launcher for a runescape private server. and well when i run the .jar file plain without the launcher it works, but when i run with the launcher, it give me an error on the game.Here is all the
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
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Uhm, I am making a Launcher for a Game Called Cabal, and it will be for Private Servers. The thing is, that it is so easy to Hack/cheat on Pservers, and because the files for Cabal we use are old, we dont have good protection against hackers. One of the things is, that when a player presses CTRL+***+*** or something, they acivate a GM command, which is only allowed for GM's. I need to prevent that, and I also need to prevent people from using Cheat Engine. I am also planning on using Update Funcion, so if a player tries to change the CabalMain, so the Version will change (Which must not happen. If they change it to a specifik version, they can use GM commands)If there is any Anti-Hack out there, which is free, please link it. I have google'd for 1 hour. And more, and just did not find anything.
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I have this question. I am making an game launcher kind of thingy for my pc. I want to show all the games i own, and when you press it, it launches. But there is this admin pannel to add games,
but how should i save the data? Since i must be able to add as mutch games as i want. How should i do that?
how do I make a patcher like for example. I make a listbox, textbox, and a button. The listbox has nothing yet and someone who downloaded has nothing too. I add "Hi" and click the button. My listbox will now have "Hi". How do I make it when someone who downloaded has the word "Hi" without downloading again?
View 10 RepliesI would create a launcher for a game that is located in \folder\executable.exe I tried using the command shell, but the game does not start because it needs all the files found in folder.
View 9 RepliesHow do I make a program Launcher? There is 2 items. There is a textbox and a button. The textbox is for the program location and file and the button is to launch it.
View 4 RepliesI want to make an application launcher that looks for the .exe file by itself. Instead of writing:
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I am making a customizable launcher for a game.I have already made the launcher. now I want to make a program that can edit stuff on my launcher. A method that Im thinking is make the editor produce a file that the launcher can read.Are you getting what I mean?
There are 2 buttons in the launcher,1 webbrowser and 1 progress bar.The 2 button are links for the users personal website the webbrowser is for the news panel where they can put there news about the game and 1 progress bar for auto updating of the game.
I am using VB 2008,I am trying to make a launcher my private server but, I failed it always say 'This exe can't execute independent" I tried these method
Shell ("Game.Exe") And System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Game.exe")
I am currently working on a launcher, and it must consist of the following:
- one main routine being called, NO WINDOW may be created at any times after or before this main routine.
- one small form called by the main routine if a certain command was sent through the Command (shortcut).
At this point I use a Windows Form, but it seems a little useless to create and initialize a form if you won't even use it. Any way to make a routine run when my program starts without showing any window? But still make it possible to show that small dialog?
I did this at first but it seems a bit dangerous:
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer 'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer. 'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> _
Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Main()
End Sub
Sub Main()
'Code to run here
End Sub
It starts another program (process) which has a GUI, so I do not want to display a console window.
I`m making a program.I`d like to know how to make a code which will navigate to my website and find if there's a newer version of my launcher..I`ll search some codes now, If I find some interesting codes i`ll post here so u can upgrade or tell me how to correctly use them for my auto-update.I cannot publish my Launcher unless I`ve an Auto-Update in my Launcher.
View 1 Repliesim trying to make a game in visual basic in which your character can move around, jump, and kill things. I can get the picture box with the character to move and everything is fine. but i did run into one problem. when the character moves over a tree (or something) you can see the gray backround of the character as i made in paint. how do i make the backround of the picturebox transparent?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to make a game which basiclly lets you shoot ducks. i have a picture as a background (set as form image) i then have picturebox's with ducks flying flying around you shoot them the disapear etc.
My problem is the image. i have a picture of a duck and a blue square round it. and i would liketo make it transparant because birds dont fly with blue squares.
Below is an image to illistrate my problem
I have tried adding transparent background, transparant key etc
I'm doing a project for school. I'm trying to make a game similar to the Impossible game. I need a square (picturebox) to jump but I want gravity to effect it.
View 1 RepliesI am having some trouble with patching a file in Visual Basic 2008. The idea is like that.
1- Store File In The Program Using "Resources".
2- If The Program Is Runned. My Program Should Show This Message "Please Close The Program" Or Making My Program Close The Program That I want To Patch.
3- If The Program That I want to patch is closed. Then When you click the button. the file dialogue opened and give to user the ability to choose the file that i want to modify "Replace or patched" after that the file will copied from resource and replaced the old file "Patched" after when this operation finished.
4- show this message "Your Program Is Patched. Enjoy", and the resources file should be crypted Waiting The Solution.
Basically, the way it works is by comparing the client's version to the server's version.If the client's version is lower then the server's version, it starts updating. Right now I -think- I have it already downloading the file correctly, but am not sure.The source I have it set to currently doesn't have anything there, so if I am doing the downloading wrong, please say so.Then, it extracts the zip that it downloads using SharpZipLib.After that, it deletes the zip.Stuff at the top of the source that is used to update:
Imports System.Net
Imports ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib
Public Class Form1
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I want to make a Patcher, sort of like the one here (scroll down). My current method is something like:
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But to use this, I need to use "FC /B" on 2 files, and the output is WAY to big. (I used FC /B on 2 files about 50kb each and the output came out to be ~200kb. Used it on 2 files about 50MB, and the output came to be over 200MB) How does the Patcher above (link) generate patch files that are super small and so fast?
I need to make a matching card game in VB 2010. i have generated my cards but now need to show the cards for 10 secs then change the cards to (AppPath & "Cards ed.png"). then when a user clicks on the card the card will flip over.*How would i set a timer to turn all my cards into*(AppPath & "Cards ed.png") after 10 secsbut still have the values from the array and when i click the cards they flip over (from red card to numbered card)
Code:
Private Sub Place()
Dim Counter As Integer = 1
For Row As Integer = 1 To Int_Grid_Size
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I'm trying to make a 2D game in VB. As a first step I'm going to make a playing field (a form) on which I will put a character. The character should be able to move up, down, left, and right when you press the arrow keys. How do I start off with this and what should I start off with learning?
I already know the basics in how to make normal apps with buttons, text boxes, labels and so on but I don't quite get how I should start off with something like this.Also I wonder about XNA and VB.Net. Can you use them together or is XNA only for C#? I found some stuff while googling suggesting that XNA for VB.Net had been released.
When my picHero enter a room where a picEnemy exists I should make the picEnemy follows picHero no matter how it moves up, down, right, left and as picHero is moving 5 px i want to make the picEnemy moves 4 px. I've tried to do use a condition as
Code:
if(picEnemy.location.X <> picHero.location.X) then
location = new point (picEnemy.location.X+4, picEnemy.location.Y)
picEnemy.location = location
endif
Also for the Y axis, but it didn't work.
i'm trying to make a hangman game yet i'm getting errors in these parts:
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.ism...rgx, that it is not part of system .text ( more than
one case of this error) and also the rgx bit is claiming to need a '<' for an xml tag.those errors
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I am making a simple blackjack game for school.It involves using object arrays and for next loops.I have 5 labels for the player, and 5 labels for the dealer. I have both their totals displayed on the form. I also have a deal, hit and stand button. I also need to follow the rules of if the dealer >= to 17 they must stand and if the dealer is < 17 they must hit. Does anybody have any suggestions on how i can code the dealers turn.I already made it so the player clicks hit and when he/she is done clicks stand. This is my stand button so far:
lblTotalDealer.Show()
lblD1.Show()
Dim itemarray2() As Label = {lblD1, lblD2, lblD3, lblD4, lblD5}
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i have zero programming knowledge and wanting to learn programming from seeing people making bots for online games, i always seek the knowledge if things and wonder how they do them, even though its pretty useless motive lol i just want to know what knowledge needed to making bot for online game am learning know VB.net 2008 got visual basic step by step book for 2008, i was searching for online game hackers forums and hear them type things like hooks, packets sniffers , etc , so what things do i need to learn beside visual basic 2008 to make bots for online game? i wonder how can i connect my program to other programs
View 1 RepliesHow could I start making a Go game? I just need some logic for it, and maybe some code, and then I can do the rest. How can you tell if an area is enclosed, which areas on the board are full, etc.? I also need ideas on how to find infinite capture/retrieve cycles.
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View 1 RepliesI want to make an ingame menu. When you open a game a menu will pop up with a hotkey. I don't need you to do the work for me I just need a sample of a ingame menu with a hot toggle (ie: the menu doesnt need an interface, a black square that pops up with key).
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