Will plugins be able to act on sprites in the future?

MikeHart

@Atilim,

are you planing on opening up the gideros api/data structures to plugins so they could deal with sprites for an example?

Michael

atilim

Yes, it'll be possible. I'm planning to extend the plugin system so that anybody can develop his/her own sprite classes directly using OpenGL.

gorkem

@atilim what kind of possibilities will this feature open up for developers?

techdojo

I would have thought the biggest benefit would have been for adding shaders to sprites, as well as being able to render primitives directly and potentially working with pre-calculated geometry.

Interesting times ahead

atilim

@techdojo exactly

ar2rsawseen

It seems that there will (or maybe already is) a need for a central repository with all classes, plugins, extensions, examples, etc.
Right now there is no centralised system for that, and many developers may start developing same components, instead of saving time by reusing other's components.
It would be even better if this kind of repository could be browsed through IDE and automatically download/install user (and I emphasize word USER, not only Atilim ) submitted classes, plugins, etc.
Any future thoughts on that?

atilim

Hi @ar2rsawseen,

I totally agree. We're talking about automatic installation of plugins from a centralized repo within IDE from time to time. But I think IDE still needs more features before this issue.

gorkem

@ar2rsawseen you are right, this was also raised before. I have yet to find a method to easily subscribe and then publish code snippets. It's currently handled inside the forum, but it's definitely not enough - there's no way to tag, group or list examples.

ar2rsawseen

Yes, I know it was raised before about plugins, my point was exactly about classes and templates into IDE. Will that be possible?
And yes, atleast centralzied system would be required, I wonder if there are any available solutions.
:-?

gorkem

@ar2rsawseen yes, as Atilim said, we have been talking about it internally for some time, but didn't find time to have a look.