Gideros Update 2015.10

ar2rsawseen

Here is belated release for 2015.10

we stumbled on some roadblocks releasing it, that's why it is late, but nonetheless, it is here

Touch pressure and type
Initial support for AppleTV
Gideros Studio themes
GMedia lib fixes
Gideros Studio uses gdrexport for exporting
Controller reverting back windows code
OSX sign and create package on export
Gideros Studio export allows providing bundle name, version and other needed fields
Microphone plugin added to build flow
iOS moved to latest XCode and iOS SDKs
iOS 9 allow http requests by default
iOS use assets catalog for icons
iOS 3D issue
IAB interface, updated amazon example
Android Studio replace gradle bundle on export
Lua macros for Gideros Studio
Fix Application:setKeepawake for desktop
Geolocation support for WinRT
MovieClip memory leak fixed
Added HTML5 export option
Fixed Facebook JNI errors

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/releases/tag/2015.10

keszegh

great news, thanks for all of you (calling it an october release is an euphemism).

SinisterSoft

There is a lot in this update, AppleTV and HTML5 support is great.

SinisterSoft

One important thing to note (this one got me!), when exporting make sure you update all your Android gideros libs (including plugin libs) - although they are the same size, they ARE actually different. Also the src/com/giderosmobile/android/[gamename]Activity.java file has been updated with touch pressure code, you should update that too. If you have modified it then export a blank project and check for new code, eg:

float[] pressure = new float[256]; . . . public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) { GiderosApplication app = GiderosApplication.getInstance(); if (app == null) return false;   int size = event.getPointerCount(); for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) { id[i] = event.getPointerId(i); x[i] = (int) event.getX(i); y[i] = (int) event.getY(i); pressure[i] = (float) event.getPressure(i); }   int actionMasked = event.getActionMasked(); boolean isPointer = (actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN || actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP); int actionIndex = isPointer ? event.getActionIndex() : 0;   if (actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN || actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN) { app.onTouchesBegin(size, id, x, y, pressure, actionIndex); } else if (actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) { app.onTouchesMove(size, id, x, y, pressure); } else if (actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP) { app.onTouchesEnd(size, id, x, y, pressure, actionIndex); } else if (actionMasked == MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL) { app.onTouchesCancel(size, id, x, y, pressure); }   return true; } . . . setEGLConfigChooser(8,8,8,0,16,8);

If you haven't modified that file then just do a full export then you won't have to worry about this.

keszegh

i did not find in the reference, can you tell me what is the final syntax to get pressure?
never mind, probably it's
event.touch.pressure
, but it returns nil for some reason, probably i'm using mouse event and not touch. i will check my code and hopefully it will work.

billydb

Super duper! Can't wait to test. I just got an apple tv as a present so this is obviously meant to be

ar2rsawseen

Added it now.
Also noticed a problem with touch pressure, that it would be in incorrect scale. But it should appear though

keszegh

so on my lenovo thinkpad tablet with pressure sensitive pen
the event.touch.pressure in the giderosandroidplayer is 0 except if i press it awfully hard (probably damaging the screen as it looks) then it becomes 0.0001.
what should be the range it is in? in any case this seems to be overkill.

btw in my previous android pressure plugin in the activity java file i had:

float press_float=100*event.getPressure(); int press=(int) press_float; Plugin.setPress(press); //the 3 lines of code that passes pressure info

and this correctly returned an integer between 0-100 for me, and it indeed ranged between 0-100 depending on how much i pressed.

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen, the wrong scale ruins it all as it returns
0 or 0.0001
if it would return 0.000034 etc. values too then it would be indeed just a matter of multiplication, but this way i cannot use it properly.

keszegh

typo(?): in the reference, "penTabler" wanted to be "penTablet", i guess.

ar2rsawseen

yes already fixed it to penTablet

and yes there was incorrect mutliplication in code, making all values too small. Don't know how it got here, but basically all values are mutliplied with 0.0001.

I already fixed it internally, just noticed it now, but it will only be available for next version now. If we add some more stuff, we could probably make 2015.11 quite soon.

keszegh

thanks for the fix. if possible, please make a bugfix release in november, i've been waiting for this pressure addition for months. i just want to get rid of my plugin (and android ndk) from my workflow.

SinisterSoft

I think there is something to test that Nico is adding then that should be enough for a November release, What do you think Arturs ?

billydb

Memory leak is gone!!! Big shout out to hgy29, you da man! Thanks a lot guys

hgy29

@billydb, you can thank @john26 too, he somehow forced me to fix it for 2015.10

ar2rsawseen

Yes, that was also one of the many delays, why 10 release was so late

john26

Yes, I did rather apply the thumbscrews to @hgy29 to get the MovieClip bug fixed! :-) I always think fixing bugs is more critical than adding new features so I stressed the importance of that.

SinisterSoft

Yes, John is the voice of sanity, the rest of us are just obsessed with new toys!

yubaro

Hi all, how do I submit my application for iOS only, not appletv?

yubaro

When exporting, I have two folders(the normal folder y of apple tv)

ar2rsawseen

Yes, and there is sinlge project. Just open it and select Your app name iOS as a target, and build it, and archive it, etc.

Xman

@ar2rsawseen
I wonder whether the exported lua code should be compiled for platforms other than iOS and mac os?
But if I do not select the encrypt code option then, just the plain lua code was exported.

ar2rsawseen

Yes, it should be compiled I think for all platforms except ios and osx.
For iOS it was because of 64bit binaries
and for OSX because, many users create and export on Windows and then transfer to OSX

I don't remember the exact details, but @SinisterSoft is suggesting lua compilation for specific platform targets using luajit. Although I don't know if/when we would move to that, as nobody seem to want to work on it

Xman

I have no special requirement for the luajit, lua is just good enough for me at the moment.
I checked the gdrexport code, and it seems lua code should be compiled first for some platforms,and since the encryption is simple, compiled code make the app more security.

Xman

I tried the very old 2012.09.10 release, it compiled all the lua files.

ar2rsawseen

Yes, as I said, we stopped compiling lua code for ios when they started require 64 bit binaries. Before that is was also compiled, of course

Xman

I mean is it a bug that platforms like android are not compiled？

SinisterSoft

it might be possible to make a version of ios lua for x64 that runs the x32 bytecode.

osx should be able to run lua code compiled on x86 windows, unless possibly the osx version is x64?

i think someone got luajit working on ios didn't they? it works on android, windows desktop, windows win32, osx.

ar2rsawseen

@Xman yes that sounds like a bug. Or misplaced luac program.
From which os do you export?

Xman

@ar2rsawseen
OS X EI Capitan 10.11.1

MobAmuse

Noob to Apple TV here...

When I export an iOS project from Gideros and run the code in the Apple TV simulator all is good it seems. But when I target the real Apple TV device I get...

'...AppleTV/Plugins/libluasocket.a(mime.o), building for tvOS, but linking in object file built for iOS, for architecture arm64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)'