@ Twan Gabhala Thank You for your help too. Yes I came across terrain Party website and tried it out. It only allowed a maximum coverage of 60KM Sq So I skipped that and created my own map in paint shop pro 5 Its a very old software (1995) but supports RAW format image editing/saving. I create a 256 color bitmap (png/gif), then convert it greyscale then export as RAW. I used it to make a simple map (one I could learn lessons from) in unity, before making the final map. It all helped me understand the scaling of Z (vertical axis) to the game world.

@ Zurod Dev Thank you for the links to his books. I did see his books advertised when I did my research for the books to buy. I had thought to myself I would to buy them, Maybe one or two from his "Unity from Zero To Proficiency" range but not right now since I spent a lot on the books I bought. So maybe after a few months I will try to buy them and maybe. The books I bought for now are: Sams Teach Yourself - Unity Game Development in 24 Hrs - Mike Greig Game Development With Unity - Michelle Menard C# Game Programming Cookbook - for Unity 3D - Jeff Murray More Effective C# - 50 Specific Ways To Improve Your C# - Bill Wagner Essential c# - Mark Michaelis & Eric Lippert The first book I bought will be the last one to arrive Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping and Development - C# Unity- Jeremy Gibson Books

Thanks Again - I'll check it out now :)

@ Slacker007 Thank you for the links to resources on this site. The one titled "UNITY 3D - Game Programming Introduction..." looks superb so I will take a look at that one tonight or later. Thanks again.

@ Rick Zeeland Hiya and Thank you for the links to the videos. I've saved in it my browser favourites for future reading. Especially the tutorials. Iv'e already chosen Unity as the engine :)

@ Guy Thiebaut Hiya and Thank you for your advice too. That's not a bad idea at all, I'm okay with screen grabs and writing the steps I guess, but have never made any educational video's and I'm not sure about my voice hahaha :laugh:

@ Mike Barhold Hiya and Thank you for your advice too. Especially everything you wrote in the first paragraph. Yes I had figured on using C#, although I have not programmed in C# before, I see no problem in learning it. I do not learn well from video's. I learn better from traditional text books.

@ Code Wraith Hiya and Thank you for all the advice. I'm currently working on my data layer and building the map, it's far from finished and I do not intend to start coding straight away. I will worry about coding when I get to it, but have taken the step of investing in a few decent books. Cost me a pretty packet but what the hell, it's only money and you cannot take it with you lol...

I'm really interested in developing a game. I want it to be like age of empires style. looking like 3D But actually 2D but just not a birds eye view (more 3d looking) I would like to use Unity engine But have no skills in game design besides the concept of the game in my head. I would like to start with a game map and have a view port so as to be able to see only a portion of the map which scrolls as player moves left/right. Once I get to that stage then I would like to add the sprites. How do I go about creating map in Unity? I would ideally like to take a country map and have it 3 dimensions x,y and z but only z where there hills/mountains like The Alps in Switzerland for example Please can any members advise me the best route to take. My programming is okay, but about graphics and game dev I know nothing but am willing to learn each step as it comes along. I read some of the articles on the site and they kind of blew me away. But I'm sure if I go one step at a time then I can do it. So how do I go about creating a terrain map in Unity with contours? Thank You

What i meant was 1k space for personal notes for stuff related to THIS website so i dont have to save notes in a notepad file on the desktop. In those notes i would store info about who i have helped and wether they pursued the advice and gave feedback which would benefit other users in the future or wether they just copy pasted the code and moved onto the next homework assignment. With the general idea of weeding out the lazybone ones from the comitted ones.

Hello - Is it possible to have about 1K of space to make notes within our profiles?

Yes theres INSTR,

If INSTR(Look-in-this-string", "For-This-String") > 0 Then
'REM A Match Was Found
Else
'REM No_Match_Was_Found
End If

and if you assign the result to a variable then the variable will give you the position...

LocationId = INSTR(Look-in-this-string", "For-This-String")
If LocationId > 0 Then
'REM A Match Was Found
Else
'REM No_Match_Was_Found
End If

Did you try the code portion i added in my thread? I tested it and it works fine... obviously we can see the word AND is in the string JACK AND JILL..... It makes me wonder what the ACTUAL strings are that you are comparing. Maybe you could add them in a thread? Its highly unlikely that the IndexOf method/function isnot working! Its quite possible though that your installation of the development environment may have a corrupted file and possibly the next step would be to uninstall and re-install it again. Still though, maybe you could save some time by adding your strings which your using in the comparision or even to upload the ACTUAL code block which is causing the offence? Also, if your searching for a single character without specifying the number of consecutive characters to search, then the character must be in UNICODE, maybe that is of relavance? Finally IndexOf is Zero based, so the FIRST character is position 0 then increases upwards, meaning it does not start with 1 but with zero. Looking at the string "JACK AND JILL" and searching for a match of "AND" the code block I gave you states a match is found at charcter position 5, which taking it from a zero based index is ACTUALLY chracter 6 when starting from 1... So maybe as a last resort you could subtract one from your start point (or start at zero anyway) and look for a match you KNOW exists in your string.

I wonder what version of opera you guys are running as on my opera 12.12 its the same as in IE9 white screen.

OUTSIDE the environment running it from inside a folder inside mydocuments... the first warning notice is that active x restricted content wants to run. Clicked on allow it to run... Pops up an error on line 162 (access denied) enabled the debugger and the debugger shows its halted at...

request.open("GET", "treeofhope.xml", false);

looking at the request object properties it shows error number -2147483638 and just a white screen after that. I suspect that the XML file has not fully loaded and maybe thats what given me a white screen? Seems to run fine in the development environment on mine though, a completely different story here..... no problems what so ever. If anything there seems to be a pause of around 1.5 second when the christmas tree lights are doing nothing but thats about it. I'm running IE 9.0.8112 and Win 7 64bit

No doubt each employee has a username/name so you can use use compare the username/name of the logged in user to the username/name of the person for whom the holiday booking id for.

What about rounding your items count up from 7.2 to 8 ? And then calculating the height based on that?

Here is a sample for you...

Private Sub Button1\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Dim maintext As String
    Dim smalltext As String
    Dim foundpos As Integer
    Dim startpos As Integer
    'startpos = 6     'should test not found
    startpos = 0      'should test matched
    maintext = "Jack and Jill"
    smalltext = "and"
    foundpos = maintext.IndexOf(smalltext, startpos)
    If foundpos > 0 Then
        'found
        MsgBox("match found at character " & foundpos)
    Else
        'not found
        MsgBox("no match found")
    End If

End Sub

Hello Steve, I came across the WM_NOTIFY message and (inter?) windows messaging in the REBAR control (ribbon/taskbar) manipulation code sample on the microsoft website which also provided me with a sample implementation that i found understandable, during the time when i was learning microsoft VB5 CCE.

Taking a look at the documentation.... Documentation Shows us that the Tab Control notifies the PARENT object using WM_Notify messaging. So you need to look into WM_Notfication messages. A little more can be found here Look under Notification section