New version: Gideros Studio 2012.8.1 release - Discussions

Mells

I thought it was good to have a place to discuss the last version of Gideros Studio 2012.8.x
This place will be used temporarily to discuss features, "how to use", give links when the docs will be updated.

[ 2012.08.20 Update ] Gideros 2012.8.1 is available
A bug fix release is available : Download Gideros 2012.8.1

The announcement
Download Gideros 2012.8.1
Release Notes

[ 2012.08.17] Gideros 2012.8 is available.
The announcement
Release Notes
Reference Manual

zakkwylde

Hi,

Great release!!!!

First question is the commandline options as I would like to use sublime text 2.

Cheers

chipster123

Yeah!!!! Just integrated the TextInputDialog in just a few minutes (Android).

talis

Yeah want to use 3rd party editor too. I love that feature only don't know how to do it yet;)

MikeHart

Any news on the command line tools (for OSX) would be great as I want to implement it into my editor IndeED.

MikeHart

On the windows side, you will find an exe called gdrbridge inside the tools folder. I think that is the tool you have to call: If you start it by yourself, it will show some command line parameters.

GregBUG

wow! nice release !!! (start using from now!!! i have a "code break" from some days...)

@MikeHart do you think to support Gideros in your Ide... ? wow!!! can't wait...

MikeHart

@GregBUG: Yes, I do want to add support for Gideros. Once I find out how to do it in OSX and Windows. I don't like to waist my time with trial and error so I will wait till the Cetin's provide some information.

GregBUG

@MikeHart

ok. keep us informed!
There will be a public release?

MikeHart

@GregBug. Yes, it will be. Surprisingly there are still people, who use it to this date.

techdojo

And @OZApps said I'd be the first one to get the new version...

MikeHart

You did, we all waited till you downloaded it. I guess )

techdojo

Well I can confirm the iOS Player (and the UIKit Plugin + my extra bit) all compile and run perfectly well on XCode 4.4.1 / Mountain Lion
Not tried exporting a project yet - but I will do soon.

OZApps

And @OZApps said I'd be the first one to get the new version...

I know ... No wonder I never play the lottery.

@atilim, I am finding 2 warnings while compiling one related to sqllite and one to lfs, but the player crashes almost everytime I run it on the device. Any suggestions?

xCode version 4.4
OS : Lion 10.7.4
iOS : 5.1
in case that would help to debug the issue.

OZApps

@Atilim, can we also have the text box without having a dialog? To create a custom Dialog with multiple text boxes, say like a form. (Not urgent, but would be helpful)

techdojo

@OZApps I'm also seeing the same warnings but the player doesn't crash - what code are you running to make it crash?

OZApps

Just some simple code to test the AlertBox and the TextBox Dialog,

plus some code that I was working on...

I have narrowed it down to the TTFont and TextField objects used. This code causes a silent crash.

local _font = TTFont.new("arial.ttf", 24) local _text = TextField.new(_font, "Hello and welcome") _text:setPosition(10,30) stage:addChild(_text)

I have the arial.ttf file added to the project. However if the first line is

local _font = nil

then it works perfectly fine.

MikeHart

@gorkem. You write on twitter that using the command line tools is mostly intuitive and you would explain it in the blog. Were you talking about another blog entry besides the one you just posted?

techdojo

@OZApps - daft question I know, but have you tried a different TTF font?

OZApps

@Atilim, you might also want to update/correct the documentation to display TextInputDialog instead of TextField.

TextInputDialog:setInputType(type)   Sets the input (keyboard) type associated with the text field. The options are:   TextField.TEXT: Default keyboard type TextField.NUMBER: Numeric keypad TextField.PHONE: Keypad designed for entering telephone numbers TextField.EMAIL: Keyboard optimized for specifying email addresses TextField.URL: Keyboard optimized for URL entry   Parameters:   type: (string) Tnput type associated with the text field.

OZApps

@OZApps - daft question I know, but have you tried a different TTF font?

Not a daft question, logical, but I have tried several fonts and found that if I use nil, it works, the moment I create a TTFont.new object, it crashes.

techdojo

I'll try it out - as I'm doing a project using TTF Fonts.

As a side note - I have noticed one difference in the new version.

Whenever I add an event listener I always add in the final data parameter (usually a reference to self) as in the following code

local frame = 0 local timer = os.timer() local qFloor = math.floor local fps   local function updateFPS(self,e)   frame = frame + 1 if frame == 60 then   print(self,e)   local currentTimer = os.timer() fps:setText(""..qFloor(60 / (currentTimer - timer)))   -- print(qFloor(60 / (currentTimer - timer)))   local width = fps:getWidth() fps:setPosition(WIDTH-(width+10), 28) --HEIGHT-10) frame = 0; timer = currentTimer end end     local function initFPS(group) fps = TextField.new(nil," ") fps:setTextColor(0x00FFFF) fps:setScale(3,3) fps:addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,updateFPS,nil) group:addChild(fps) end

This just add's a simple FPS counter in the top right - however the ENTER_FRAME event listener isn't being called - if I remove the nil from the fps:addEventLister() call then it does - although in that case then the update function is only called with ONE parameter so that in the function "self" would then equal "e" and "e" equals nil. Previously it should have been "self" equals nil (the last parameter to the addEventListener call) and "e" would have equalled the table representing the event.

In the above case it's not relevant as I'm not using either "self" or "e" but I noticed it and thought it a bit weird.

techdojo

UPDATE : I can confirm @OZApps bug - accessing TTF fonts is an immediate crash to the player on iOS

Not good - I was hoping to show a demo on Monday on a device using the latest version

@OZApps - have you tried rolling back to the previous player?

ar2rsawseen

Just FYI

One fix/feature that is not mentioned in Release notes is that Core.class function is changed and now parent classes and inherited classes have the same self reference.
http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/8017#Comment_8017

Mells

@ar2sawseen Mmmmmmm great

techdojo

Any update on the font crash bug - given the usual high standards I'm a little surprised that one sneaked past the unit tests...

OZApps

UPDATE : I can confirm @OZApps bug - accessing TTF fonts is an immediate crash to the player on iOS

Not good - I was hoping to show a demo on Monday on a device using the latest version

@OZApps - have you tried rolling back to the previous player?

I have the two Players and Studio versions, but I wanted the new one to add the Alert Dialog and TextInput now added to the Compatibility Layer and wroks like a charm, sans the TTF

OZApps

@Atilim, when you might get around to creating a fix for this, could we also get GLScissor or a similar function to mask out areas. Do you think something like that would be possible.

zakkwylde

OSX command line information please. I have been trying but cannot identify the switches? :-((

OZApps

@Atilim,
Now Event.MOUSE_xx events also work on the device with touch, so do we still need to have TOUCHES_BEGIN, TOUCHES_MOVE and TOUCHES_END or MOUSE events would suffice for most of the things, unless multi-touch was required?

atilim

Hi,

After some long investigation, I understand that TTFont bug is because of GCC-LLVM compiler. It only occurs on iOS devices and only when compiled with GCC-LLVM shipped with Xcode 4.2.

I'm upgrading my system to Mountain Lion/Xcode 4.4.1 to build the libraries with the latest Clang compiler. At least I can post a recompiled libgideros.a here as soon as possible so that you can use TTFont without a problem.