Gideros 2018.9 Sneak Peak blog post...

SinisterSoft

Just one of the new things coming in 2018.9...

http://blog.giderosmobile.com/2018/08/gideros-20189-sneak-peak.html

keszegh

a gui editor with some 'standard' xml/ json export option ( is there such?) would be a great addon.

totebo

Nice one! Without sounding like a n00b, is there a way to be notified of a new blog post now that Google Reader is well and truly buried?

PaulR

This is a great addition to Gideros, fantastic work on it hgy29!

SinisterSoft

@totebo No idea. I'll try look into it.

SinisterSoft

@totebo I think this link should do it:

https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Giderosmobile

Apollo14

Wow this is interesting! (though I didn't get whole idea)

p. s. pls include a quick tutorial after release, for noobs like me

simwhi

Great work!!

SinisterSoft

@Apollo14 Yes, a tutorial will be made available. Work is currently on going for a completely new documentation system, this will make it easy for us (and you) to add or edit the help.

A 'sneak peak' of that is here: http://gideros.sinistersoft.com/

Please don't use it as the main docs though as it's on a limited server and is just for testing before we move the data to a main server.

It's basically a Wiki that has been skinned a little. It's very easy for us to update. I've also added translation 'plugins' so people who are not native English can help translate the docs to their own language very easily too. @hgy29 has tested this by adding French translations to the main help menu.

oleg

SinisterSoft said:

It's basically a Wiki that has been skinned a little. It's very easy for us to update. I've also added translation 'plugins' so people who are not native English can help translate the docs to their own language very easily too. @hgy29 has tested this by adding French translations to the main help menu.

not enough menu
which will only show the languages ​​for which translations are available

SinisterSoft

I'm not sure what you mean. Is that a screenshot from our wiki or a different one?

oleg

SinisterSoft said:

I'm not sure what you mean. Is that a screenshot from our wiki or a different one?

This is a screenshot from another wiki

in our wikipedia we have to make the same option


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when there is no translation in my language
Wikipedia shows what languages ​​are translations

SinisterSoft

Ahh - I see what you mean. I'll look into it.

SinisterSoft

If, when a page has been completed and is being translated, someone adds this tag to the bottom of the page then it should display a box showing what languages that page is in:

<languages />

@hgy29 - Can you add that to your API export?

I've added it to the main page. @oleg - can you take a look?

oleg

@SinisterSoft I see , cool
you can do it from the top of the page?

SinisterSoft

Yes, but it looks odd - it may just be me though?

I'll set it on both and let me know what you think...

Apollo14

SinisterSoft said:

I've also added translation 'plugins' so people who are not native English can help translate the docs to their own language very easily too. @hgy29 has tested this by adding French translations to the main help menu.

That's great, I'll make russian translations!

oleg

@SinisterSoft I like it so much
For people who do not know English, and know several other languages, it is convenient

I can add a translation in Ukrainian

SinisterSoft

@Oleg - which is best - at the top or at the bottom?

oleg

SinisterSoft said:

@Oleg - which is best - at the top or at the bottom?

better either on the top or on the side

The bottom is bad, because the page should be scrolled when the article is large

SinisterSoft

Ok, changed to the top.

SinisterSoft

This page looks ok for translation now too:
http://gideros.sinistersoft.com/index.php?title=Helping_With_Documentation

keszegh

btw i vaguely remembered that there was some gui editor made for/in gideros and finally i've managed to find it:
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/6290/graphic-user-interfaces
made by @antix
perhaps this could be changed/improved (if needed) to work with gideros and make it the 'official' gideros gui editor on top of which anybody can implement any gui-render (a custom one or e.g. imgui) system as this obviously just stores properties of gui elements.

also i agree with @antix (https://antixsoftwareblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/02/got-ui/) that while gideros add-on system is nice it would be best if these addons could run separate of the studio as well (like texture packer) e.g. for people who use zerobrane studio as main lua editor.

hgy29

In fact they are designed as separate processes, and as such could be invoked from other tools. They will read up necessary context from environment variables and communauté back with the studio through a tcp channel. The way those other tools will be able to register them, launch them, and communicate with them is beyond our scope of course.

appymedia

Just digging through Gideros an stumbled on this, lovely idea. You guys are doing some fantastic work, surprised you don't hear more about Gideros to be honest. I will be banging my drum:)

antix

@keszegh, that old project was made in Visual Basic. While it does work somewhat.. it's kind of buggy and really I got tired of having 2 code bases. I'd rather just make one in Lua and be done with it

SinisterSoft

@antix Well now you can.

antix

@SinisterSoft I really hope so