How can I work with the function (√)?

Benjamin_m5

Hey there everybody
I've a little question for my new game i'v been working on

How can I calculate the diagonal of a square?!

my constrain attribute:

max((0+(( self.Size.Width */2)),min((320-( self.Size.Width /2)), game.Mouse.Position.X ))

Now my problem is...I want replace the "self.Size.Width" with "((√2)*self.Size.Width)" but this did'nt work
How can I calculate the diagonal of a square in the GS creator?!

I hope someone can help me
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Benjamin

AppTek

No problem, ill just tell you what I did. I just made a new attribute and called in diagonal. Then I made a new actor then dragged it onto the scene. I made sure the sides were the same. Then in the new actor, create a constrain attribute and constrain the attribute diagonal to self.width*sqrt(2).
If you need more help, email me at support@apptekgames.com

AppTek

http://www.mathopenref.com/squarediagonals.html
Check that out, you should be able to modify the equation there to make it work.

Benjamin_m5

Thanks...but I don't want to write a number for the diagonal...I want to make it dependent from the actors size that it calculates the new nuber automatically when i change the actor size
Does anyone other know how this would work?!
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Benjamin

AppTek

http://www.apptekgames.com/Diagnal.gameproj.zip
Here is a quick project I made for you.

Benjamin_m5

Hehe...thanks much.
But I can't open that because i've got the GS-version 0.9.0
But thanks much
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Benjamin

Benjamin_m5

Wow...thanks very much!!! That function works
I wrote the "((√2)*self.Size.Width)" as "(self.Size.Width*sqrt(2))" and it works.

Thanks much
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Benjamin

AppTek

No problem.