I'm sitting here wondering a bit... is it possible (in a performance-wise somewhat reasonable way) to manipulate the user's keyboard input? Basically, the thing I want to do is a little gimmick application that lets the lights & indicators of a users car flash in a certain way, which is meant to be used for pacecars. To achieve that, I'd need to simulate to LFS that the user has pressed the 7, 8, 9, 0 or L button on the keyboard.
I'd like to use it since (for me) it adds a tiny little bit to the realism if a car which is skinned and driven as a pacecar actually has flashing lights instead of the plain hazard lights going on-off-on-off ever so slowly. I totally know that this program might not be needed in any way at all, but it's also a learning thingie.
Any help or link to a site worth reading is much appreciated. Thanks in advance
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what about a little excuse for nearly two months of blaming the lfs team for your problems?
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glad you finally found the solution. This one was really hard to find. Why, oh why am I not at all surprised it was a problem on the microscrap side again...
...especially if you have a S2 licensed account and want to keep it a bit longer. The guys that are using this "mod" are cheaters, and they generally will very soon get banned from servers.
I think as a 15-year-old, you should DAMN be smart enough to calculate from mm to inches and back. If not, you should at least be smart enough to google for a converter. Look at AndroidXP's drawing and check out the measurements yourself.
no, that's not cheating, since server and client need to have exactly the same tweak file to play online, so it is restricted to private, "tweaked" servers.
I'm using zend framework, and zend framework only.
you have to understand that zend framework is MEANT to have a use-at-will architecture. that means, if you want to use the zend framework MVC component, use it. that means you will have a complete MVC-Environment right at your hands (no Scaffolding happens tho, so you have to create your models / data gateways by hand). If you don't want to use that, but like the Zend_Db component, use it.
you are not bound to use the ZF components together, but they nicely use the features of each other. For example, for Zend_Auth, there is a adapter called Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable. Quite obvious that this one accepts and uses a Zend_Db_Table object to handle authentication.
BTW: I don't know when you tried Zend Framework, but an awesome lot has been done since, for example, version 0.7. It is currently out in version 1.0.2, Version 1.1 is currently under development. That one will contain some VERY nice additions, like partial- and controller-call-viewhelpers, a layout- and a form-component. Be sure to have it on your list
Zend_View is the right component for you. and also, you have my full support on the opinion that smarty is purely useless
BTW: I know that zend framework lacks a decent Application-creation script like Cake's bake.php (yet).
try the following: REMOVE any LFS-related entry from your windows firewall settings.
then run LFS in windowed mode and connect to the master server by fetching the server list. if everything is right, a Windows Firewall window should pop up stating that LFS is trying to connect to teh intarweb . tell windows not to block it anymore and you are fine.
and if that still does not work, get a decent anti-virus and firewall solution. I personally recommend BitDefender Internet Security.