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keep sensible names in the codeHuh? You either mean hard-coding a large part of the data-base, or "code" is more flexible than I thought. But I understand obfuscation and deobfuscation... to which I've thought of a great addition - store the database file in part-files, and only combine them together in RAM, to form a complete database, and then dehuffman it. !!!
I've never used any cats on computer.
Any file format is readable with a hex editor, so it doesn't really matter what format you chose.While I've never used a hex editor, I imagine that usefulness of what you've read from a file readable with a hex editor or a plain text editor varies. Of course, I won't be able to stop a hacker who breaks DRMs for breakfast every day; I just don't want to make the same mistake our teacher made when I was in high school - she placed a data file in text format in the same folder as the executable for our test. Not many, but some people figured it out and took the results out of the text file. Kind of recursion on a new level, if you think about it. Or lack of encapsulation.
Yes, but hex editors show ASCII characters only, they won't show decimal numbers. Some do have hex to decimal conversion, but it's not easy as just reading the file. If want to encrypt something, you can try compressing it with Huffman (which Java supports by default), and then just decompress before reading.I imagine it would decompress it into a file on the hard drive during execution? Or, er... it's in a java library, right? Or I need to write the compressor myself?... Ah, I guess it can be all done in RAM.
In this state I want to say, that with the level of experience displayed, the worst thing about this bit is that filiusenox wants to write a book. I suppose if he sticks to it, there'll be lots of improvement, but the fact that the work will have low-quality alongside with improved writing, is going to be a hindrance and a big demotivator. Writing short fiction would be much more useful.It appears as if I gave some, if I may, constructive advice.
Can you say how reliable argv[0] is? Google seems to think that it can be pretty random, depending on where and how the application was launched.Hm. That's great. So, to give access to the database to a user on a different computer, I'll need a way to put the ElementsData into their home directory...Getting the application's directory shouldn't be to hard. The full path to application is stored in argv[0], just save it as a string.Oh... Why? Does it need it? The math library required by "math.h"?It's kind of silly really. For some reason, you don't need the -lm flag on Windows, all you need to #include <math.h>. Seems to be a Linux thing.
He should try some short stories first. It's something that I did, I gave them to friends who reamed me for them (seriously, they tore everything apart) and it made me a far better writer. It's just one of those things that's necessary.At that, I'd just like to take this moment to complain that I once had a friend who was very dear to me, although in the end it turned into a long-distance friendship and then completely fell apart. Well, I sent him my writing regularly, and the first time, he said he had read it with his friend and had laughed the whole way through that's how ridiculous it was. He then promised to send me detailed critique, but never did. The times after that, he just said my writing was ridiculous. Well, how is one supposed to get good at writing with friends like this? Not to mention, that everyone else I ever showed my writing to, before I started Bay12 Writers Guild, said it was good and never cared to give any critique. I always had to work by intuition, which meant frequent restarting.
Life sucks.
I was half asleep at the time but what you guys were saying is what I thought I screwed up most at.I don't really understand what you're trying to say with that. That you wrote your post while falling asleep and now think that might not have been the best idea? In that case, congrats, nice trolling. You asked people to put effort into coming up with ways to make your writing better, while you didn't care to make it good enough yourself, even though you knew how you could.
Hm. That's great. So, to give access to the database to a user on a different computer, I'll need a way to put the ElementsData into their home directory...Hm. I might be wrong, but I believe GCC came with my Ubuntu distribution.That's fine then. Ubuntu's gcc works great.
I might have found the problem, you seem to be running everything from you're home directory. Open a terminal and type 'pwd' (Stands for print working directory), it should print something like /home/mikhail/. That's the directory you're in currently. Now type 'cd MyseriousConstructions/ChemicalLego'. You'll notice the prompt has changed, so has the output of 'pwd'. This means you are in a different directory. Most applications generate files in the directory the user is in (The output of pwd). Try compiling again from the project's directory, and then running it from it in there. It should work just fine.
Oh... Why? Does it need it? The math library required by "math.h"?What's -lm there?-lm tells the compiler to include the math library.
