Gideros Update 2015.03.05

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

Published new release:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/releases/tag/2015.03.05

Fixed issues in previous releases like
PNG crash
Zooming crash
Black screen fixed

Improved xcode template and player:
to be compatible with 64 bits,
modules enabled by default
ios8 orientation fix for landscapes

Let us know if you find any issues

SinisterSoft · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen What does this bit mean?

"modules enabled by default"

MikeHart · March 2015

Will test it tonight. Thanks for looking into the player crash.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@SinisterSoft in xcode 6 some frameworks are now defined as modules (as for example updated Admob in AdsInterface), the only difference I've found is that they load the dependency frameworks automatically, but you needed to enable them in the xcode template for them to work, so they are enabled now and you all can use modules in xcode

@MikeHart sure, I hope it works for you

MobAmuse · March 2015

Gideros Player works great on MacBookPro 'Retina' now

MobAmuse · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen I downloaded 2015.03.05 .dmg again just to be sure, but the internal revision numbers in the player and the studio app on mac still show as 2015.02 not 2015.03.05 ...perhaps you forgot to update those on this latest build release?

MobAmuse · March 2015

...and no working lua/assets encryption yet either of course just in case anybody thinks there is.

SinisterSoft · March 2015

@mobamuse Does just asset encryption work?

Encyption needs to be beefed up before next proper release anyhow maybe?

imho moving to the edge version of LuaJIT (rather than plain lua) might be the best option as the bytecode for that is working on 32 and 64 bit arm apparently (in interpreted mode) and still works in 32b bit mode JIT for Android - it also makes interfacing with external C libs less 'complicated'...

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

yeah I have been already pointed to the fact I forgot to change version number

Will need to implement some easier mechanism

marcelojunior · March 2015

Amazing

MikeHart · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen: Thanks, the desktop player now runs fine. No crash so far.

uzubari · March 2015

Hello,
I might be a bit confused regarding the 64bit issue,
is it possible to produce 64bit ios applications with this release?

john26 · March 2015

Yes, 64 bit should work fine. You should be able to submit to the app store with no problems!

@Mobamuse, what happens when you try to export and encrypted project?

uzubari · March 2015

Great!, Thanks.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@uzubari yes one of my apps was already approved just today

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/build-it-up-!/id962720281?ls=1&mt=8

alexzheng · March 2015

Terrible, in resolutions above 320x480 will just show a part of the contents in the player.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@alexzheng if it is on desktop, then drag the border of player to make it bigger

keszegh · March 2015

i also noticed some inconsistencies with the new player.
i attached two pics showing the difference. i use noscale and i adjust the card sizes in a 8x8board so that they fit the width of the screen and that there is exactly 1 pixel space between them. so far it worked well but with the new player it behaves strangely, the 1 pixel gaps are missing from some rows. (on the android player it's still good i think)

keszegh · March 2015

so probably something like this happens:
take a NONINTEGER x, then placing a sprite at coord x or coord x+1 should be different places on the screen, shifted by 1, as expected (independent of x). but now these two positions are sometimes drawn at the same place.

SinisterSoft · March 2015

The texture rescale might be rough (fast) and not aliased (slow) - with the fast method you will see one pixel replacing another - with the second you will see a merge of the pixels.

marcelojunior · March 2015

@keszegh your new player is on 100% zoom factor on first picture?

The zoom factor is calc by a rounded float and only 100% zoom have an accurate render!

SinisterSoft · March 2015

or 200%, 300%, etc...

marcelojunior · March 2015

Yes

!

keszegh · March 2015

on both screenshots the giderosplayer is on 100% view, so i still don't see the solution to my problem.

EDIT: it was not on 100%, shame on me.

keszegh · March 2015

@Sinistersoft,
what you said, "The texture rescale might be rough (fast) and not aliased (slow)" can be set from my app?

marcelojunior · March 2015

@keszegh in my test it works! O.O

Texture.new(filename, filtering)
filtering: (boolean, default = false) Whether or not the texture is filtered (antialiasing).

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Texture/new

keszegh · March 2015

I will try to write a small test code where it fails for me, meanwhile i need to antialias my textures so setting that to false is not an option. also, your example @marcelojunior is with integer values, i don't know if it makes any difference.

keszegh · March 2015

thanks @marcelojunior for checking that, as it turns out somehow the zoom was indeed not set to 100%. the many new features of the player got mixed up somehow (in my head). so shamefully i admit that it was a false alert, sorry for wasting your time, especially after you pointed out that this is the probable cause and i still did not notice that it's not on 100%.

SinisterSoft · March 2015

@keszegh it's too small - set it to 200% or 300% if it's too small at 100%

@marcelojunior - it might be handy to have 100%, 200%, 300% set as quick buttons or shortcut keys?

Mells · March 2015

Hey everyone,

I think I have forgotten most of what I knew about using Gideros

I don't know if it's me but :

a) is there an option to "lock" the player's window so that the app's screen doesn't get cropped when resizing the window too much (like it used to be). For instance : the window could be much bigger than the app's screen with a background color (used to be grey), but not smaller.

b) did anything change with the text editor? I can't seem to use keyboard shortcuts to jump to the beginning, end of lines (quick selections)

It could be me, but I thought I'd rather ask.

keszegh · March 2015

i just played around with the many options in the new player and somehow it stayed on something not 100%, so it's my fault. although the zoom settings are a bit hidden i agree.

@marcelojunior, on the other hand, if i set the player for my (gideros noscale) app to autoscale and then immediately i turn off autoscale then it does not go back to the previous resolution, i.e., it remains in a big window (and the info shows that the 'hardware resolution' is still the same as for the autoscale) until i set manually again the resolution back to the previous setting (say 320x200 or whatever).
i can understand that this may be also a logical behaviour but i would prefer a way to turn off autoscale and set the resolution back to the previous/original one. like a 'restore resolution before autoscale' button/shortcut somewhere.

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