New version: Gideros Studio 2012.09.6

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• MikeHart Guru

  January 2013

  Thank you.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  Thanks.
  

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• yvz5 Member

  January 2013

  Great job. When are we going to see some changes on the IDE ?

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @yvz5 - Not very soon. Unfortunately IDE usually remains low priority compared to other features.
  

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• Javi Member

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @atilim thanks for adding APK expansion files support! Is there any doc of how to use it in Gideros?

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @Javi Currently, I'm writing the doc about it. But basically it contains these steps:
  - Export the project
  - Open assets directory
  - Create a zip file from big asset files (but use store not compress)
  - Delete these big asset files
  - Create apk
  - Upload apk + big zip expansion file to Google Play
  
  You can also create the optional patch file. The priority of loading an asset is: patch file > main expansion file > .apk file
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• evs Member

  January 2013

  Hello,
  
  @yvz5 I use Lua Glider IDE now, it's really nice, there's a free trial and a new version is in beta, so coming soon!
  
  @atilim any chance of something like Bitmap:getMask("image.png", alphaLevel)
  which would return an array / table of 0's and 1's depending on the alphaLevel
  (default 0).
  
  cheers
  
  evs
  
  

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• Javi Member

  January 2013

  @atilim great! that's perfect!

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• moopf Guru

  January 2013

  @atilim - is the fix for the Mac OS desktop player crashing a lot in this release as well?

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @moopf yes.

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @evs if your alphaLevel is constant, I can offer you a way with ImageMagick :-\"

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• evs Member

  January 2013

  @atilim yes my alpha is zero, and I have ImageMagick, but I need enlightening ^:)^
  
  
  cheers
  
  evs

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @evs - You can use this command to threshold and separate the alpha channel and save as another grayscale .png file:

  convert in.png -channel alpha -threshold 0 -separate out.png

  Also if you convert to GRAY (Raw gray samples) format instead of PNG, you can easily read the resulting image from Lua:

  convert in.png -channel alpha -threshold 0 -separate out.gray

  the resulting out.gray file will be exactly width*height bytes.
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• evs Member

  January 2013

  Thanks @atilim that's great!
  
  
  cheers
  
  evs

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• OZApps Guru

  January 2013

  Thanks @Atilim, I was right on the other thread when I thought a new build is coming. It is always the silence before the new release

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  January 2013

  Thank You

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• tkhnoman Member

  January 2013

  Ow, thanks.
  
  On the previous version, i asked about mp3 files. But seems the problem is on my code.
  It is funny that this return error:
  Sound.new("music".. number .. ".mp3")
  And this is not:
  Sound.new("music".. tostring(number) .. ".mp3")

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• soy_ismael Member

  January 2013

  Thank great job!

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• omer Member

  January 2013

  @atilim, a minor feature request.
  Whenever I tried to export an project, all files in images directory is exported. In fact, some files are out of project concept, not related and they are not included in project defintion xx.gproj file. Whenever we export, we are deleting unrelated files manual. Can you consider gproj main defintion file for export progress?

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• petec Member

  January 2013

  @omer - I put all the files needed for my app in one directory (with subdirectories) on my computer and all other files outside that directory but still within an overarching project directory. Sort of:
  projectDir{
  appFiles{
  appGraphics{}
  appSounds{}
  luaFiles
  }
  originalGraphics{
  e.g. photoshop/inkscape files
  }
  originalSoundFiles{}
  other junk!
  }
  
  As long as I keep everything in the appFiles directory to the things I want in the export, then it's OK. It took me a while to sort myself like that, but now it's what I do every time.
  
  Agreed, your suggestion would save all that bother, but for now it might help.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2013

  @omer are you sure that happens? Is is on IOS or Android?
  I have lot's of unrelated images in the Gideros project folder, for testing, experimenting etc, but now I've rechecked exported projects and none of them have those.
  Maybe that's because I've used export assets only?

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• Tom2012 Guru

  January 2013

  Good job - love an update, me

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• nat12 Member

  January 2013

  Thanks Atilim, APK expansion files support is a greath bonus for Gideros.
  
  Just a question while we wait fo the complete documentation:
  what folder structure we must use in the zip archive?
  just assets/ ? assets/assets/ as the eclipse project?
  I tried both, neither worked... the console show a FileNotFoundException for each file in the obb

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• fxone Member

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @Atilim, after exporting apk under newest Gideros version 2012.09.6, AVAST says that exported apllication is "potentially unwanted program (Android AndAgent-R|PUP|" and allows to run for 15 minutes but it crashes immediately after running.
  @all Have you noticed such behaviours at your apps? This morning I found such issue also at Mathboxing new game made by Gideros...
  On earlier versions of Gideros SDK I don't have any such problems with exported apk.

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  https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=My+name+is+Originality
  
  

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  I've installed Avast for Android (I haven't known there is an antivirus for Android) and after that I can see the same behavour. Avast reports as "Android:AndrAgent - Q [Trj]" and allows to run it only for 15 minutes.
  
  But I think it's false positive. I'll investigate more and will report as false positive to Avast.
  
  @fxone btw, what is your android device?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• fxone Member

  January 2013

  @Atilim Alcatel OT-908 (T-mobile move) rooted Froyo and armv6.

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• Scouser Guru

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  Silly question but why isn't this version 2013.01.1?

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• phongtt Guru

  January 2013

  Good point )

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  probably because its not a main release with big features, but a small release with small fixes

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• achimeno Member

  January 2013

  My game is not working with this version on Android devices. I downgrade it to version 2012.09.05 and now it runs ok.
  I attach the log file with the error.

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  Andoid? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cat.acb.savemytoys

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