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    Gideros Wax Plugin Alive Again

    troysandaltroysandal Member
    edited September 4 in Plugins
    I'm trying to bring back an old game I wrote that relied very heavily on wax. Wax hasn't been supported in a long time so I took it upon myself to get it working again in Gideros. It's now compiling and running against both Lua 5.1 and Gideros Luau. There's still going to be some bugs but I'm happy to open it up for testing.

    To get Wax running in Gideros start at my BhGideros repo (name will probably change, sorry).

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    • MoKaLuxMoKaLux Member
      edited September 5
      added to the wiki ;)
      https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Plugins

      PS: sorry if I missed something!

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      my growING GIDEROS github repositories: https://github.com/mokalux?tab=repositories
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    • troysandaltroysandal Member
      Thank you.

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    • vitalitymobilevitalitymobile Member
      I have built the player, but when I run it, I get the following error. Do you have any suggestions?
      ```
      METAL:Apple A18 Pro GPU

      [gideros] starting render thread.
      *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[FBSScene touch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1261fc0a0'
      *** First throw call stack:
      (0x1947800c0 0x191c19abc 0x1947ea4c0 0x1946948bc 0x194694940 0x101ac6940 0x1006f1794 0x1004d5170 0x1004d5238 0x100714ea0 0x100714df0 0x193354804 0x21eb23344 0x21eb20ab8)
      libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException
      *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[FBSScene touch]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1261fc0a0'
      *** First throw call stack:
      (0x1947800c0 0x191c19abc 0x1947ea4c0 0x1946948bc 0x194694940 0x101ac6940 0x1006f1794 0x1004d5170 0x1004d5238 0x100714ea0 0x100714df0 0x193354804 0x21eb23344 0x21eb20ab8)
      terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException
      Can't show file for stack frame : - stackNumber:14 - name:metalShaderEngine::present. The file path does not exist on the file system: /Users/nico/git/gideros/2dsg/gfxbackends/metal/metalShaderEngine.mm
      ```
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    • troysandaltroysandal Member
      edited September 9
      Can you upload the lua code you are trying to run? Or did this happen just building and running a brand new Player? If so, did you turn off ARC for Wax (or the inverse) per my instructions in the README?
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    • troysandaltroysandal Member
      Ok I see the issue - you added the -fno-objc-arc to everything. Take it off main.m, AppDelegate.m, EAGLView.m and ViewController.m, that's causing the issue.

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    • vitalitymobilevitalitymobile Member
      Awesome, thank you! Please update the README of Gideros Player with Wax to include the names of these 4 example files as well!

      I was able to test with BhWaxDemo.new().
      With the example BhWaxAutocomplete.new() I’m encountering an error.

      Thank you so much! The project is really running and the result feels like magic!
      ```
      visit(TimerEvent* v)* stack NOT ok begin:0 end:16 delta:0
      *CppLuaBridge::luaEvent* stack NOT ok begin:0 end:16 delta:0
      *enterFrame* stack NOT ok begin:0 end:16 delta:0
      Autocomplete.lua:44: attempt to call a nil value
      stack traceback:
      Autocomplete.lua:44: in function getClassNamesMatching
      Autocomplete.lua:58: in function generateAutocompleteListForClassesMatching
      Autocomplete.lua:164: in function init
      [string "luabinding/property.lua"]:75: in function __new
      [string "luabinding/property.lua"]:82: in function new
      BhWaxAutoComplete.lua:70: in function
      [string "luabinding/compatibility.lua"]:32: in function delayedCallWrapper
      METAL:Apple A18 Pro GPU
      ```

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    • troysandaltroysandal Member
      edited September 11
      I’ll take a look today. Might have forgotten to check something in, I did have that working though it doesn’t write to disk for some reason. Thanks for testing.

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    • troysandaltroysandal Member
      I just checked out a clean repo, built the plugin, built the Player and ran the BhWaxDemo.gproj and was able to get every demo to run.

      What version of Gideros are you running?
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