New version: Gideros Studio 2012.09.7 and 2012.09.9

atilim

Hi all,

We've released a new version, 2012.09.7: http://www.giderosmobile.com/download

Here's the release notes: http://www.giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/Release_notes

cheers ~O)

atilim

This release is mainly about improving the fonts API. You can look at Fonts chapter of Gideros Guide, updated Fonts example and reference manual.

pykaso

Thanks so much for the hard-work on the font measurement/api !!


I this still have a problem with TextField and TTFont rendering in this version

Any idea what may be the source of problem vidible on the image below?

Thanks

atilim

Just a guess but:

If you're putting your text field exactly at (some integer + 0.5) and the underlying OpenGL implementation has some precision problems (like Xcode simulator) you can get such problems.

Some solutions are:
1. adding/subtracting a small amount (e.g. 0.01) to/from your coordinates
2. using math.floor
3. ignoring the problem (hopefully it'll be displayed ok on real device)

btw, what is your font?

edit: for example open Fonts example, change all x-coordinates from 10 to 10.5 and test it on both real device and Xcode simulator.

pykaso

@atilim thank you for this tips.

I have this problem on real android device. I try to use the rounding for list scrolling and we'll see

pykaso

Yeah !

Problem was in this line (centering):

text:setPosition((w-text:getWidth())/2, (h+text:getHeight())/2)

This correction fixed my problem:

text:setPosition(math.floor((w-text:getWidth())/2), math.floor((h+text:getHeight())/2))

Nascode

Amazing! Thank you @atilim

The ultimate doc still missing some description about font metric like kerning etc, hopefully it will be added soon

OZApps

@Atilim, how does the encryption work? is it automatically embedded into the exported proejcts? Since it is available only for the paid versions.

It is nice that basic functionality is not crippled in the paid vs Free licenses.

alexzheng

Is TTFont caching shared with mutiple ttfont object?

If I call local font = TTFont.new(test.ttf, 12, '123') in dfferenct places, will all these font reference the same cache?

alexzheng

Is the new core.class also included?

hgvyas123

greta Thanks

zoolax

@atilim
Thanks for all the hard work.

SinisterSoft

Thanks.

paul_k_clark

Thanks

thanhquan1512

cool, thank you

GregBUG

thanks!

SinisterSoft

@Atilim On the new version I'm trying to run via eclipse (as the apk's wouldn't run!) and I get errors to do with bad characters when it's parsing the lua files (so the program doesn't run). is this to do with the encrypted lua files? Do I have to do anything to enable the decryption? The program works through the player.

atilim

@OZApps if you have a paid license, compiled Lua bytecodes are encrypted. If you have a free license, they aren't.

@alexzheng Each of TFont.new("test.ttf", 12, "123") will create different textures. And new Core.class is included (only postInit). Let me update the release notes.

@SinisterSoft Can you do a fresh export?

SinisterSoft

@atilim I've tried that (full export).

atilim

I still suspect from an old library or a file stored at cache. Can you do these steps:

1. In Eclipse, right click on the project and select "Delete". Also select "Delete project contents on disk (cannot be undone)"
2. If there are still some files in the export directory, delete them also.
3. Export from Gideros Studio, import from Eclipse, run.

If still no success, can you send me the exported project? (atilim@giderosm....com)

SinisterSoft

I had to completely delete the project from the eclipse area, reexport it, reimport into eclipse, etc... It worked after doing this.

Any ideas on how not to have to do this for every project?

atilim

Eclipse caches the files. I think first refresh and then cleaning the project should do the work.

SinisterSoft

I tried that before too.

unlying

Mobile Dungeons force closed at start with new version. Downgrade to previous version cure this problem.

SinisterSoft

That's what I'm having - if you fully delete and reexport/reimport then it works.

@atilim - looks like it's happening with my other projects too. Just tried bacteria and same problem reading a lua file.

atilim

@SinisterSoft I still don't know how eclipse caches the old files.

@unlying is your game working on android player? If so, do the steps http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/19607#Comment_19607

unlying

@atilim, yes.

SinisterSoft

@atilim I've been though all the files in the project dir and comparing a working version with a non-working version and they seem the same. Because the lua file seems corrupt I'm guessing it must be something to do with encryption?

atilim

@SinisterSoft I also think it's all about encryption.It seems there is a mismatch between encrypted Lua files and libgideros.so because of Eclipse caching.

When you export a project, a new 128-bit key is generated and Lua files are encrypted with it. Therefore you see different Lua files for each export. I think I should generate the key once and reuse it with each export.

Suricate

atilim, thanks for the update! :-)

Playing around with the Font classes, I hit a little problem. I'm currently trying to extend TextFields so that the text is right-aligned. So I thought that the following code should work:

myTextField:setPosition( x - myTextField:getWidth(), y )

But it seems that the function 'TextField:getWidth()' doesn't take into account the 'xoffset' of the font metrics, so the text field might be off by a few pixels. I tested this with a large bitmap font (created from Arial Black with size 48) when the difference in alignment can be several pixels. Is there a way around this?

I have attached a full project which demonstrates the problem.

unlying

And maybe we should have a choice? To encrypt or to not encrypt?