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This is my question: How to remote desktop?

I understand it's not a fully qualified question, and I haven't included any information about either PC, but I just assume anyone who will know the answer will be able to remotely hack into my computers anyway in order to obtain all necessary information. Thanks.

Chicky you sexy beast..let me love you. LET ME LOVE YOU!! :'(

A bit late for most of you (22:09 GMT-6) but Happy Easter anyway. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Twenty-two it is then.

Awesome day at my friends' house..and a busy week ahead (and by "busy" I mean "eventful", in a good way) so..I should probably get some sleep while I can.

Urgh my foolish plan has been discovered.

Anywhere from the east coast (GMT-5) or later it's already 4 April. So thanks..

Considering I was born in West Germany I guess that means that I didn't really have to wait till midnight anyway.

Happy birfday @Zor, Blue, Laukku, and Scarab.

But mostly Zor.

If you can't recognize that my post was meant in satire of Dual's absurdity then you must live with a bag over your head..:

Because Andrew now people know what your children look like and will be sure to act pedophilically toward them..unless of course you appease their child-oriented minds with new graphic-based modules with bright shiny colors.

Yes, he looks exactly the same, just different!!

Technocat..that is one of the most disturbing images I've seen..

Just when I thought I couldn't be disturbed by the internet any more than I already have..BAM! AGS forums win again.

Touche Techno..touche.

Can I have that monitor? You're obviously not using it. And whatever's in those boxes. Could be useful I'm sure.

@Haddas, do you know to "how"? :

Either performing surgery on the laptop...or suffering from an acute case of the Dickie Roberts syndrome... :

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Okay. As for the brackets that's a matter of preference and is one common style. I just prefer people to pick one and use it consistently instead of not using one at all or mixing it up.

You've changed the title of the thread but haven't changed your question at all...You've mentioned using a DrawingSurface but there is a problem with that which is that DrawingSurface.DrawImage makes use of alpha channels in images, but does not copy the alpha channel. Practically this means that if you draw a sprite with an alpha channel onto a blank sprite (cleared out to COLOR_TRANSPARENT) then the resulting sprite will actually appear flattened against a magenta (RGB 255, 0, 255) background. IIRC even using the transparency setting of DrawImage will produce the same effect as no alpha channel is created by the function.

So unless your fog effect is using entirely solid colored pixels (no partial transparency) then a DrawingSurface wouldn't work for you. You could use solid colored pixels and then use GUI.Transparency or Object.Transparency but if you understand alpha channels then you understand that for such an effect as this having varying levels of transparency would be much preferable.

To sum it up, you most likely would not want to use a DrawingSurface for this type of effect (unless using options 3, 4, or 5 as described above, none of which I would recommend over options 1 or 2).

Well seeing as graphical overlays don't support partial transparency (alpha channels) you would have 5 options:

1. Use a GUI. Possibly slow for a full-screen effect.
2. Use objects. Could be slow, probably not as impacting as a full-screen GUI, and more versatile.
3. Apply the fog only to the background. This would look silly as all the characters and objects in the room would be drawn on top of the fog.
4. Use an overlay after all, using a screenshot as the base of the drawing. This would probably be slightly slower than using a GUI because you have the additional step of capturing a screenshot every loop. It would also look silly to have the fog drawn on top of the mouse cursor.
5. Again, use an overlay, but rebuild the entire screen to avoid the cursor being behind the effect. This would definitely be slower than using a GUI because you have to manually redraw the entire screen from scratch. Also there's currently no way for this method to support walkbehind areas so that could look silly too if the effect could be turned on and off dynamically.

So the best two options are either objects (as Calin said) or a GUI (like you've already thought about). I've never actually conducted a speed test against two such methods myself, but I imagine objects would probably be slightly faster than a full-screen GUI. Also as Calin says, that provides for a much more versatile effect.

One question though...is there a reason people hate indenting their code? Even if it's pseudo-code...this is still a big peeve of mine. Ah well... :

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Tuomas you have the longest hands in the universe.

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There was a period where before taking a picture, she would try really hard to make peace signs, but be unable, so we have lots of pictures of not-quite-peace-signs.

Your "cute" daughter is trying to shoot force lightning at everyone!

Honestly Vince, what've you been teaching that kid? You're training her in the Dark Side of the Force. ADMIT IT!

And then, after admitting it, could you give me a few pointers? Y'know I've been trying to explain to my sister that "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" is just a formality and the true title of the game is "Star Wars: Go to the Dark Side"... :

Edit: Also she is flying (levitating). :o

Edit also: I used a simple photographic enhancement program to determine that the original photo was clearly modified. You can't hide anything from me Vince:

This can actually be seen in movies like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (at least one of the two has it anyway) and is accompanied (in the movie) with a comical raspberry.

IIRC Dave Gilbert made a comment on this when he gave the "reverse" peace sign during a Mittens Photo Shoot and later found out he was giving everyone the British equivalent of flipping the bird.

Cut the blue wire! The blue one!


...wait, no, I meant the RE--

Use "adventure game 'creativity-with-inventory' skills" with engraving machine.

Problem solved!

And yes Dom, you look exactly like your avatar. Just like I look like mine...sometimes.

[WARNING: slightly gory]

This is so going to be a classic (WARNING: slightly gory):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig
What makes this awesome is that it's real http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381512/

It's too bad you posted this. I was just about to. I've known about it for probably about 2 months when my roommate showed me the video. We can't get enough of the way that the narrator has such a hard time making sound. It actually sounds painful for air to pass over his vocal cords!

Kheyshuh chranshfhoarm....Rrrhoahboh-kheyshuh!