Feature parity for win32 version

keszegh

i use the following plugins: imgui, json, lfs, require, midi, spout
as of now spout is less important so besides midi all others are supported by win32 i think. would it be possible to add the midi plugin for win32 export as well?
(similarly for the 'apple' export although before today i didn't know it exists)

hgy29

@keszegh, interesting, can you check if your file was actually exported ? what is the file name ?

keszegh

hgy29 said:

@keszegh, interesting, can you check if your file was actually exported ? what is the file name ?

message:
resources/images/fragmenter_splash.png: No such file or directory

whereas i have a file here:
..\assets\resources\images\fragmenter_splash.png

could it be the / vs \ having some effect? (qt export works fine)

hgy29

Assuming you are loading through Texture.new, Gideros takes care of translating / into \. I don’t understand that one…

hgy29

It should be easy to add midi plug-in to win32, since it uses pure win32 apis in the end. Not sure for osx

keszegh

hgy29 said:

It should be easy to add midi plug-in to win32, since it uses pure win32 apis in the end. Not sure for osx

thanks, would be great.

keszegh

hgy29 said:

Assuming you are loading through Texture.new, Gideros takes care of translating / into \. I don’t understand that one…

changing to \ causes errors, so only / is ok.
maybe the issue is related to assets being virtual? (my project was made in the past so every file is linked separately)

MoKaLux

@keszegh yes if you don't put your assets in the 'assets" folder you may encounter tons of issues (see oleg's older posts).
Afaik lower case is only important for android.

hgy29 I forgot this one, maybe somebody would need it: AlertDialog doesn't work, I haven't looked into it since instead I used the win32 console to display some messages. oh you already fixed it https://github.com/hgy29/gideros/commit/e25c3f73bbf0e101b2ff6a77a66998a3956dcec2

And thanks for looking into win32

keszegh does imgui works in win32? I haven't tried it yet but should do shortly! and most importantly does lfs work for you? I cannot get chdir working on my side and I tried so many things (fortunately I could use application:get() and application:set() to replace it )

keszegh

@Mokalux, then this is a bug and should be sorted out. can you give more specific details?

on my side: after commenting out the problematic call, i have the next issue:
../Common/imgui_src/imgui_draw.cpp: (0) && "Could not load font file!"

when calling:

local Roboto_font = FontAtlas:addFont("resources/Roboto-Regular.ttf",26, {
oversampleH = 2,
oversampleV = 2,
})

keszegh

btw it would be great if in win32 fatal error window i could select test to copy paste it into the forum. now i need to type them in which is fairly annoying.

keszegh

i've made a consolidated duplicate of my project and exporting from it i get the same errors, so the issue is not due to this.

MoKaLux

keszegh said:

btw it would be great if in win32 fatal error window i could select test to copy paste it into the forum. now i need to type them in which is fairly annoying.

left alt + print screen to capture only the box.

keszegh said:

@Mokalux, then this is a bug and should be sorted out. can you give more specific details?

see https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/comment/67369/#Comment_67369

imgui is a bit complex for me

keszegh said:

it would be great to have the relevant support icons next to the plugins on this page too:
https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Plugins
so one can quickly check if his needs are met using a win32 export or if qt is needed.
or some wiki page for differences would be nice (if there are main ones besides the plugins).
i'd like to move away from qt for a long time but i use some plugins that i think are not supported.

I will need to test the ones I haven't used yet and see if they work for win32 but I don't know about other platforms so I am not sure if I can put all the icons or not

PLUS: I have to test and wiki new hgy29 Gideros additions (gieros UI, 3D scene builder, ...) but this will take some time.

EDIT: I also forgot the issue with the mouse wheel thing, https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/comment/67591/#Comment_67591 you can test for yourselves https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Examples#ZOOM_SPRITE_TO_MOUSE_POSITION_.40hgy29.2C_.40keszegh

hgy29

keszegh said:

i've made a consolidated duplicate of my project and exporting from it i get the same errors, so the issue is not due to this.

Found it, it was caused by changing current directory with lfs, win32 was assuming current directory was the executable directory. I fixed it.

keszegh

@hgy29, that's great.
one more thing that i cannot test right now: in my initial post i write that "Screen" is not supported by win32 but on wiki there is the win32 icon next to it. so what is the truth as of now? (as i definitely need Screen for my app, besides the aforementioned midi plugin)
thanks again, nice to be able to count on you when bugs appear.

hgy29

Screen API is supported on win32, but is it fully functionnal ?

hgy29

Oh, and it seems that luamidi plugin is already built for win32

keszegh

hgy29 said:

Screen API is supported on win32, but is it fully functionnal ?

if you have a version fixing lfs you can try it with the code i've sent. when running my app, F10 should open an additional window which you can resize etc. in the top menu there is an option to set it to full-screen.

hgy29

Yes, will try that thanks

hgy29

So, Screen works, no title in the window but maybe you don't set it. However F10 doesn't work, I am checking that

keszegh

title setting is not yet in the latest gideros release.

hgy29

Yes sorry, I forgot

hgy29

F10 key fixed, as well as path / app naming issues: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/0047620177f04d07764a5daf4c66dbd8679197dc

hgy29

MoKaLux said:

see https://forum.gideros.rocks/discussion/comment/67369/#Comment_67369

I remeber I couldn't reproduce this one last time, but it may have been caused by an attempt to load a resource later in your code @MoKaLux, because win32 was using a relative path to load its resources. In that case, it is fixed now.

hgy29

@MoKaLux: anything else ? https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/cf05d22b5b812f76ee6e6fa3135b6c0d61927269

hgy29

And yes, imgui works fine (based on @keszegh project).

keszegh

sounds good. there is a good chance that i can publish a qt-free version soon then of my app, which is awesome. indeed it would be great to be able to do the same for mac, although i do not see how much work does it take (also i'd like to export it on a windows machine without having a mac in hand).

keszegh

you could even make a kickstarter (even local on the forum, i guess most people committing would surely send the money over the usual donation means) for having qt-free desktop exports on both platforms that are on par with the qt versions.
for me it would worth a few bucks surely, if e.g. spout plugin gets added too and so on.

hgy29

Also I guess you'll want tablet support too for win32, which is gonna be painful given that QT guys seem to have hard time with it too. I got a wacom tablet lent to me, but unfortunately the person who lent it to me forgot to bring the pen/stylus too. When I get it, I will see what I can do at win32 level to get some support for it. About spout plugin, it shouldn't be that hard to make it work in win32 I think.

keszegh

ah yes, tablet support is essential, i forgot/did not know that it is missing too. so yes, perhaps you can evaluate the effort needed and then let's get back to the topic.
meanwhile: thanks

(also for looking into the wacom hover issue)

ps: i've refreshed the initial post about what is DONE and what is todo, please let me know what else do i need to add there.

hgy29

And also, as a self note, there is the issue with exporting the app icon, like with QT.