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@Dave/Chris: The code in MainFrame::GetScriptFileName needs a major overhaul so best leave that job to me. My thinking is to just simplify the code in the following way: If a line starts with "--" or "local " then assume it's a Lua script, or if a line starts with "import " or "from " then assume i...

Copying each of the following RLEs into clipboard and doing "File -> Run Clipboard" causes the error message appended after that RLE. I think I've mentioned this before, but if you have an RLE in the clipboard and try to click Run Clipboard, it tells you that Perl scripting is no longer supported. ...

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 22nd, 2024, 5:13 pm

Well, when I tried the above test patterns, my expectations were that LifeViewer will search for a @RULE header in which the name does match the name specified in the RLE header.

LifeViewer now requires that the @RULE name matches the name specified in the RLE header.

LifeViewer appears to accept and ignore arbitrary text between the end of pattern data and the @RULE header. Is this intended? Yes. Anything after the end of pattern data is treated as comments and could contain LifeViewer script commands. If while processing the comments LifeViewer comes across an...

When running safeopenclip.lua, if the rulefile is not installed yet, the script shows a help page with a suggestion to download the rulefile. Clicking on that link triggers download, with a download progress indicator. Sometimes there is a message "Assertion failed" during download. Fixed in the ne...

#C [[ DEPTH 0.15 LAYERS 10 ZOOM 2 THEME LifeHistory ]] x = 34, y = 16, rule = R2,C80,S0,5,B2-3,5-7,P95,25,4:T512,512 .3A3.3A2.3A3.4A2.4A2.A2.A$A5.A5.A2.A2.A5.A5.2A.A$A5.A5.A2.A2.A5.A5.A. 2A$.2A3.A5.3A3.3A3.3A3.A2.A$3.A2.A5.A2.A2.A5.A5.A2.A$3.A2.A5.A2.A2.A5. A5.A2.A$3A4.3A2.A2.A2.4A2.4A2.A2.A3$4.3A3...

muzik wrote: ↑

March 30th, 2024, 7:24 am

Would it be possible to have living cells render on top of bounded cells, such that in cases like these, they aren't hidden when you zoom out beyond 1.0?

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x = 1, y = 2, rule = ModuloThreeTripleReplicator1D:T0,2
o$o!

Yes, done.

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 12th, 2024, 10:42 am

Additionally (also for custom neighbourhoods), in "Help -> Info -> Pattern -> N'hood", the middle cell is shown as included ("1"), even though it is not counted for survival (S1 does not cause survival of an isolated dot). Shouldn't the middle cell be shown as "0" instead?

Fixed, thanks!

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 10th, 2024, 11:48 am

I believe there is an inconsistency in handling asymmetric custom neighbourhoods.

Fixed. Thanks for reporting!

As a side note the issue in the 3rd party tool has been fixed by the author.

b-engine wrote: ↑

April 9th, 2024, 10:27 am

Realme C55
Google Chrome version 123.0.6312.99

I haven't any other mobile devices, so I don't know if anyone else suffering from this issue.

Thanks for the data. Let's see if anyone else has the issue.

There's a good chance that you can't use the pan function on mobile (maybe also happens in other touchscreen devices). When you tap somewhere in the viewer window, it seems to be like holding the "cursor". I can't reproduce this. What device are you using? Which browser and version? Anyone else see...

The only one I'm a little unhappy with is supporting whitespace between counts and verbs (and within counts). I don't think "12 o" should be legal, much less "1 2o", where the space is any sort of whitespace (newlines, tabs, spaces). I just don't see a reason that should be supported. Does anyone w...

A cleaner solution might be to make pattern comment rules transient (i.e. not saved). All of the valid comments in this thread above are handling the situation where we're trying to persist the rule and deal with name clashes and so on. When opening a pattern if it contains an @RULE section in the p...

Possible actions that a user could choose would be 1) replace Golly's stored rule with the rule from the pattern comments, and open the pattern; 2) ignore the rule in the comments and use Golly's stored rule, and open the pattern; 3a) cancel opening the pattern; 3b) pop up an HTML window showing th...

When I first added the capability to LifeViewer (build 470, December 2019) to have an @RULE definition appended to a pattern it was to create a self-contained single file with everything needed to view the pattern. Initially it was used to allow people to post patterns to the forum before the used r...

confocaloid wrote: ↑

April 7th, 2024, 11:31 am

May or may not be a bug: viewtopic.php?p=182009#p182009

Not a bug. See here.

All three attempts consistently tell that the pattern snippet is somehow broken, but I cannot see how/why the snippet is broken. Visually it seems to be valid RLE with pattern comments. What causes the problem here? It is not valid to have whitespace between a count and symbol in RLE (e.g. 3b ). Th...

muzik wrote: ↑

April 6th, 2024, 12:18 pm

Is PASTET supposed to create previously-alive dead cells in places where it's used to stop cells from being born naturally?

Yes. The pastes happen after the next generation is computed.

I may have discovered a new bug regarding Catagolue: Patterns in Generations hex rules don't load correctly, and the RLE is also wrong. Looks like there is a bug in rletools.js on line 163: if ( /^([1-9][0-9]*)$/.test(statestring)) { gstates = parseInt(statestring); } The code is attempting to read...

Side note: does Golly seriously not have support for isotropic non-totalistic hexagonal rules yet? This has been in lifelib and LifeViewer for literally more than half a decade, by this point . The rule support is already there via mapstrings - surely adding the notation on top shouldn't be too dif...

I think Hashlife should have the same detailed explanation of Non-totalistic, MAP, and Wolfram rulespaces as Quicklife in it's help page (And reword it a little). I personally don't like having to repeatedly set my algorithm to Quicklife just so I can make sure I understand the notations correctly....

try to set this to 50x speed. When I try it it either plays at 49x speed or 51x speed If the display is too small then there will be a few speeds that can't be selected. If you really want 50x you could use the script command [[ STEP 50 ]] in the pattern. #C [[ STEP 50 ]] x = 0, y = 0, rule = B/S01...

What does the white cells even do? The rule (Ignorance) has only 3 states and the white cells doesn't include in the cell states. Also you can switch the rule to Ignorance but the "SHOW PATTERN ERROR" says that Ignorance isn't supported rule name. Fixed, thanks. You'll now get an error message if y...