Gideros Studio extensions written with Gideros

hgy29

Gideros Studio is a great tool, but somehow I fell it lacks some helper tools to get some tasks done quicker.
For example:
- A TileMap editor
- A graphical scene/animation editor (which could generate a MovieClip)
- A GUI editor (that is when Gideros will propose a GUI)

Such tools already exists, but are not integrated into Gideros so may be hard to find for beginners. I wonder if some of you could write tools like that in Gideros/Lua, then the Studio would be able to launch them in a dedicated player.
This would make Gideros studio easily extensible, and relieve people from learning C/C++ to write helpers tools.
Plus at some point those tools could also be used on your mobile phones/tablets...

Just launching the idea, what do you think ?

ar2rsawseen

But such tools would require a UI, which again Gideros's Lua does not provide.

It would be better, if we had a GUI lib or QT bridge

hgy29

Yes, we will need a UI (@SinisterSoft WIP) at some point, maybe not for all tools.
I like the idea that community members could contribute to Gideros with lua-based tools...

ar2rsawseen

the idea is definitely great

SinisterSoft

ok, ok, I get it...

I'll add a few widgets then release it.

antix

Great ideas hgy29 - The downfall with these editor type things is access to the underlying filesystems that the application will be running on. When just using the windows player you can access a few folders but there are no real file requesters or anything like that, unless you make your own *eek*

Currently I use my own tile based level editor written in VB.Net. It has a lot of features sofar but probably isn't really ready for public release (many little *features* that you need to know about).