test gui (source + binaries available)

nicfer · Post by **nicfer** » 24 Oct 2005 22:02

When I use the second binary and the data files I get a error that says not founded msvcr71d.dll or something (I have WinXp in spanish and I unknow the exact English message).

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 24 Oct 2005 22:06

For completeness sake, since I already explained it on IRC.

lucaspiller wrote:I have a couple of questions about your patch though DV (ok one):
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-						x2 = (screen->w - x - 10) / 40;
+						x2 = 4 - (screen->w - x - 10) 
Firstly, where did this 4 come from?

You enumerate your 5 'tiles' from the right corner based on their size. Now we know there are 5 'tiles' so if we take your first tile (which is the right-most one) and subtract that from 4 (indeces start with zero of course) we end up with tile 5, which we want exactly. Just flipping the order.

lucaspiller wrote:
DV wrote:Didn't bother deleting it, I'll leave that up to the person that wants to put this product into production ;P
Deleting what now?

Also I can't believe I forgot to add fclose and closedir.

As you can see from the diff _tile_image[...].name = dir_name where dir_name is created with a new(). This should be deleted when not needed anymore to have nice coding. This whole new/delete code is needed because otherwise name points to the directory's name-buffer which is probably not there anymore after you close the directory or loop, or whatever given any odds. It results in inconsistent behaviour; that's why the value is copied somewhere else we know will stay.

He, release compiled as debug

See attached binary files for proper listing. Also updated the source with proper VS.NET 2003 project settings.

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 26 Oct 2005 23:31

Alrighty people, not much has really happened, except we now have an SVN repository (provided by good ol' Peter

). You can access it at svn://svn.bucks.net/projects/tiletool/. You should note that there is no websvn, so you will have to use your favourite SVN tool.

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 28 Oct 2005 03:38

ok tested it.

very nice, works well. just curious on two things.

could the grid in the top right corner be made isometric and/or overlayed over the final mockup? (i dunno how hard coding is so if its hard its not important)

would thumbnails be possible (fom the smallest zoom level i would imagine) for loading images. it might get messy with millions of sprites with similar names.

the whole back to front grid is funny, you have already noticed that though so i will say no more

one more suggestion is a "screenshot" option which will output just the mockup area as an image (.png i would imagine)

did the x&y offsets when moving upwards get fixed? my version (i think its the most recent) still moves the tiles left when trying to move them upwards.

looks good though, works nice, and will be very helpfull for me and other artists.

Alltaken

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 28 Oct 2005 23:04

Changinge the mini grid: It is rather complicated, and I have had no experience with isometric grids before so I have no idea of how to do that, but if anyone does give me a shout. It is also no longer back to front, but still a bit wierd.

Thumbnails: Should be easy.

Screenshots: See below. BMP format for now though, because SDL has a built in function for this.

Offsets should be fixed if you have the version with Darkvater's patch, if not they are fixed here.

Version 3

What is in this release
Brand spanking new Makefile (thanks to Bjarni). Now just by typing make (assuming you system has make) it should compile. If not submit a patch to fix it.

Fix multikey press prevention, which was broken with Darkvater's patch. (tut tut)

Dynamically allocated tiles and chaning of the grid size - should eventually allow more than one tile per location.

You can now take screenshots, only outputted to bitmap for now.

Dev C++ and Visual Studio / C++ project files.

New error handler thingy, code cleanups, more bug fixes, and other random stuff to look like I am actually doing something.

Todo
Thumbnails, changing offsets in program, layering, some other stuff.

[EDIT] - added mac binary - Bjarni

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 29 Oct 2005 09:45

lucaspiller wrote:Fix multikey press prevention, which was broken with Darkvater's patch. (tut tut)

Interesting; what broke it? If I look at my patch all I see in the way of kay-changes is initializing kDown, etc. to false.

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 29 Oct 2005 10:55

Well the problem was that they keys were originally defined inside the loop, then you added the thing to reset them, again while they were in the loop - so really the bug was already there, but you brought it into the light.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 29 Oct 2005 12:00

lucaspiller wrote:Well the problem was that they keys were originally defined inside the loop, then you added the thing to reset them, again while they were in the loop - so really the bug was already there, but you brought it into the light.

Then don't blame it on me

dmh_mac · Post by **dmh_mac** » 29 Oct 2005 12:46

Great, now if you guys could add some moving vehicles and industries and a larger map...

Purely for testing tiles ofcourse

nicfer · Post by **nicfer** » 29 Oct 2005 16:06

The new version gives me a error that says wrong config and that reinstalling application may solve the trouble or something. What am I doing bad? I have the data folder and the files inside.

Bjarni · Post by **Bjarni** » 29 Oct 2005 16:24

SLaY3r wrote:The new version gives me a error that says wrong config and that reinstalling application may solve the trouble or something. What am I doing bad? I have the data folder and the files inside.

it would be nice to know stuff like what OS and did you try to compile yourself. Also the current and future releases are standalone. They should not update anything. Just unstuff them, copy your own work (only your own work, not anything from the last release) and run it. That way you will not mix versions and generally nothing good comes from mixing versions

nicfer · Post by **nicfer** » 29 Oct 2005 16:32

Well, it seems that I have to wait until next release because I don't know how to compile in C, and I'm not interested in know how.

lucaspiller · Post by **lucaspiller** » 29 Oct 2005 22:11

The closest error message to that inside the program is "Failed to load `data/ets.png` -- have you actually got the data files?", but this is completely different. Can you post the exact error message, it sounds as if it could be SDL related. Also as Bjarni asked, what OS are you running?

P.S. This is a C++ app.

dmh_mac wrote:Great, now if you guys could add some moving vehicles and industries and a larger map...

Purely for testing tiles ofcourse

Don't forget network support.

nicfer · Post by **nicfer** » 29 Oct 2005 22:21

I'm using WinXpSp2 and the error is 'cannot execute file because of wrong config. Reinstalling the application may solve the trouble.' or something.

Zuu · Post by **Zuu** » 29 Oct 2005 23:24

lucaspiller wrote:Changinge the mini grid: It is rather complicated, and I have had no experience with isometric grids before so I have no idea of how to do that, but if anyone does give me a shout.

Well either you can do it in a mathematical way aka linear algebra by making a function that can translate a screen cordinate to a iso-map cordinate. Or you can use a programming method that I have used in my Iso engine that I wrote 2 years ago when I did not know about that math.

My iso engine works simply like this:

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for each map.tiles as tile
  draw_tile(tile);

  if is_in_box(pointer, tile.box) then
    if is_on_non_transparent_pixel(pointer, tile) then
      pointer_on_tile = tile;
    end if;
  end if;
end loop;

Then if you want to know which tile the pointer is on you'll just have to eximinate the pointer_on_tile variable.

This method is not the fastest but it works.

Killer 11 · Post by **Killer 11** » 01 Nov 2005 12:24

SLaY3r wrote:I'm using WinXpSp2 and the error is 'cannot execute file because of wrong config. Reinstalling the application may solve the trouble.' or something.

i got the same problem when using win XP Mui Proffesional without sp1 or sp2
here it is:

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 01 Nov 2005 14:52

Same here.

qball · Post by **qball** » 01 Nov 2005 16:18

can next time make sure it unpacks in a subdir... you don't half know how irritating it is having it extract in the same dir........

webfreakz.nl · Post by **webfreakz.nl** » 01 Nov 2005 17:38

qball wrote:can next time make sure it unpacks in a subdir... you don't half know how irritating it is having it extract in the same dir........

because?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 01 Nov 2005 17:51

qball wrote:can next time make sure it unpacks in a subdir... you don't half know how irritating it is having it extract in the same dir........

Thats extremely annoying, seeing as most people would MAKE a sub directory.

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