New version: Gideros Studio 2012.09.7 and 2012.09.9

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @Suricate - you're welcome Here, Sprite:getBounds() is the solution:

  x, y, width, height = text1:getBounds(text1) text1:setPosition(320 - x - width, 100)

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @unlying you're right.
  
  @SinisterSoft @unlying Currently, does the deleting the project from eclipse and reexporting solve your problem?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @Atilim I think the encryption key would be better if it could be pointed to or set in the gideros project file. I have a normal version of a project and a free version. They share the same dir - but as I export them they have two different exports so they won't work encrypted.
  
  eg, I could make a common excryption key for all my projects.
  
  The problem was solved for the first project - but not for the next one I tried.

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• Suricate Member

  January 2013

  @atilim: 'Sprite:getBounds()' works perfectly, thanks! =D>

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @SinisterSoft yes, your idea is better. I'll improve the encryption with the next version.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  @atilim Will that be a quick update (day or so) or should I revert to the previous version?
  
  btw: I could only get one project to export and work - the others all failed.

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @SinisterSoft even if you delete the projects within Eclipse, do they still fail? Currently I'm not sure about the release day.
  
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  @atilim yes.
  
  I've reverted back to the older version (had to copy the old libs across), but all working fine now on previous version.
  
  You might want to warn people as it's a bit of a nightmare using the latest version to generate a apk...

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  hmm.. I still cannot understand if there is a problem/bug with the encryption or it's a problem of caching of Eclipse.
  
  I'll improve it but if there is a bug, I should handle it also.
  

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• Mells Guru

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  Can somebody explain a little the release notes?
  Lua file encryption ok this is automatic.
  But what is Font kerning? TTfont caching?
  
  What problem it solves, what benefits and how can we take advantage of this?
  
  @atilim
  Thank you for the hard work.
  Do you have plans to add your test files somewhere so we can download and explore?
  You could even just drop zip files to a public dropbox folder.
  I know I have been asking for ages and for each new release, but I never got an answer from you

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @atilim I don't know which one is incorrect.
  
  Maybe this could help figure it out:
  When you export a project (just assets) then the libs don't get updated do they? When you export everything then the android manifest and other files need re-editing (a real pain). Maybe when you export the assets it should also export the libs - but not any of the user configurable files?
  
  btw, it would be handy (in the future) to specify an icon in the gideros project and it be exported and resized when exporting assets.

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• MobAmuse Member

  January 2013

  I'm reverting back to .6 for now then.

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• john26 Maintainer

  January 2013

  I'm confused by this feature:
  
  * Feature: Native BMFonts
  
  Hasn't Gideros always had bitmap fonts? Is this a new feature? Should BM fonts be described as "native", they are just bitmaps surely...? My understanding is Gideros does not use native fonts...

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @Mells http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2563/new-version-gideros-studio-2012.09.7-and-2012.09.8#Item_2

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• john26 Maintainer

  January 2013

  Hmm the reference you give shows the example
  
  local font = Font.new("font.txt", "font.png")
  
  But is this doesn't seem to be a new feature of version 2012.09.7. What's new?

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @john26 BMFont is a file format which originally used (created) by http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ And then other font creator tools (like Glyph Designer and Hiero) also use the same format.
  
  Previously, Gideros had its own (and awkward) font format and you needed to use external Lua code to load and display BMFonts (https://github.com/gideros/BMFont). Now Gideros Font Creator also exports in BMFont format and Gideros natively supports it. You can look at the Fonts example coming with the new installation.

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @SinisterSoft @unlying @MobAmuse I've released a new version (2012.09.8). Now you have choice of encrypt or not encrypt. And when you select "Export assets only", libraries are exported also. This solves the Eclipse's caching problem.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  Thanks.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  @atilim Are those two libs the only ones need to be updated between gideros versions? What about gideros.jar?
  
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  @atilim On the new version (without exporting and reloading a new project) I get loads of linker errors on the latest version.
  
  If however I add these updated files (see attachement) the linker errors go away and all works ok. Maybe you need to copy across more files with assets?

  zip

  zip

  needs_these.zip

  512K

  needs_these.zip 512.4K

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @atilim Are those two libs the only ones need to be updated between gideros versions? What about gideros.jar?
  

  Whenever we release a new version, there is a probability that any file can change (gideros.jar, AndroidManifest.xml, *.so, *.java, etc) Therefore after installing a new Gideros version, export your project once with deselecting "Export assets only" so that all these files are replaced with the new ones. After then you can continue to export/update your project with "Export assets only".

  @atilim On the new version (without exporting and reloading a new project) I get loads of linker errors on the latest version.
  
  If however I add these updated files (see attachement) the linker errors go away and all works ok. Maybe you need to copy across more files with assets?

  Most probably you've exported with "Export assets only" selected to an empty directory. Therefore these files are missing. First export with deselecting "Export assets only".
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  Problem is that by having to do that if you have added things like version numbers, etc to the manifest or added admob etc to the startup files. You have to redo them.
  
  There needs to be a way around having to do this - like a patch system or something. If the project system in gideros gets more dynamic that will help I think.

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• MobAmuse Member

  January 2013

  I just tried .8 but had to go back to .6 as couldn't deploy to iOS device over wifi to test? Went back to .6 and it worked again 100% so I'm sticking on .6 for a bit

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  January 2013

  You need to remake the player using the xcode project in the .8 player.

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• techdojo Guru

  January 2013

  Hello @MobAmuse - welcome to the party! (It's not my fault! )

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• MobAmuse Member

  January 2013

  I did build the new .8 iOS player of course but after trying several things GiderOS would not upload data to it... swapping back to .6 fixed it tho. Odd really as never had that before on any previous version. I always match (and double check) the current player app revision to the latest GiderOS download SDK.

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013

  @MobAmuse It was my fault while packaging. I've uploaded 2012.09.9. Sorry for the trouble.
  

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• OZApps Guru

  January 2013

  @Atilim, just confused, is the latest 2012.09.9 or 2012.09.8? You refer to it as 2012.09.9 but the release notes refer to it as 2012.09.8 and the download page refers to it as 2012.09.9 also, so where has 2012.09.9 really gone?
  
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/Release_notes
  http://www.giderosmobile.com/download/
  

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• atilim Maintainer

  January 2013 edited January 2013

  @OZApps you're right. 2012.09.8 was a victim of wrong packaging. Therefore, I've removed the link from the downloads page. (Nobody should download it by mistake). Also I've updated the release notes (renamed .8 -> .9).
  
  edit: Also I've renamed the title of this discussion.

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• MobAmuse Member

  January 2013

  OK cool and thanks, just in time as I have another app to publish Friday to multiple store fronts and would like to use latest version. Will report here back Friday if I have any more problems.

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