What does this do

  • wolfy1339
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    What does this line in config.h do?

    #define IDENT_VERSION "G" //Change this if you're not Simon! It should be a single letter

  • techno156
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    It's the identification thingy... No idea beyond that. :P

  • cyberdragon
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    The famous thing that is said before a cliche disaster...

  • jacksonmj
    1st Aug 2013 Developer 0 Permalink

    Try changing it and see what happens.

     

    Also, https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=1762

  • wolfy1339
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacksonmj (View Post)

     the original purpose of it was to separate saves from different "mods"

     

    But... we can't upload saves from mod's....

    ok so if i change it, it wouldn't affect the game in anyway.

  • jacksonmj
    1st Aug 2013 Developer 0 Permalink

    ok so if i change it, it wouldn't affect the game in anyway.

     

    I don't know, the last time I tried changing it was several years ago but I seem to remember it made most of the saves disappear from the save browser.

     

    Try changing it and see what happens.

     

    Edit: actually, don't bother. I've just checked and it seems to be entirely unused in TPT++, it's a leftover from when the game was written in C. Changing it will do nothing.

    Edited 4 times by jacksonmj. Last: 1st Aug 2013
  • cyberdragon
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    It seems obvious....it can only view saves with that call letter. Default is "G".

  • Kikinicij
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Reads thread title... *thinks 'thats what she said...'*

  • jacob2
    1st Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    I tried changing this a long time ago for my mod, most saves dissappeared and the save browser was notvery usable. It seemed to fail at any save with a space in the name, nothing after that would show. LI asked Simon about it once and he said it wasn't even implemented. Ifits this unused I can remove it eventually, although I thought I removed allleftovers in configuration.h already.

    Itwould be nice if it wasput in, I wanted to use it long ago but then I found out itdidnt work at all.