Gideros Update 2015.03.22

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

And new update is ready, here are current additions:

Making window to fit app [Alt+F]
Bringing player to front on launch
Passing all key events to Gideros with event->realCode, event->keyCode works as previously
Opening Gideros documents/resources/temp directory from player
Opening previously launched projects from player on desktop (use menu), android and ios (hold finger on screen for more than 5 seconds and release)
Note: you need to relaunch project with this new player to be able to open it later
Receiving touch events (including multi touch) on desktop
Restart player's project [Ctrl+R]
Added Event.APPLICATION_RESIZE event for when window is resized, get new dimensions using respective application class method
Implemented Application:isPlayerMode() method returning true if project is running on player and false if as an app
Android player using immersive view by default
IOS fixing crash when only landscape supported in Gideros Player
Implemented Sprite setAnchorPosition/getAnchorPosition which changes Sprites relative anchor position in Sprite's internal coordinates. Meaning Sprite with dimensions 100x100 and anchor position of 50x50 would rotate around its center
Included plugin building in build workflow, each new build should include updated plugins now

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/releases/tag/2015.03.22

keszegh · March 2015

what a great set of additions, makes me smile.

keszegh · March 2015

you should update the reference manual too (add realcode, etc) sooner (or later). thanks

keszegh · March 2015

if every shortcut is alt-* in the player, perhaps ctrl-r should be alt-r too, but of course that's not an important thing.

SinisterSoft · March 2015

I couldn't see the media plugin in the list of plugins, has it been discontinued?

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@keszegh the key combinations were actually implemented by submitted issues/ideas, someone suggested Ctrl+R

@SinisterSoft previous media plugin was using OpenCV, as now we are using QT5 it has similar capabilities without the 3rd party code, so I started rewriting plugin to QT5, but did not finish yet

But I wanted to make a release in yesterday, because I will be busy couple of next weeks and probably won't be able to make a build in that time.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

BTW if you want stuff to be included in the build, please start making issues on github. When we have a time to sit and do something, don't want to waste it on going through forum to find ideas of features, but rather look at one place and implement what we can in that timespan

SinisterSoft · March 2015

One last suggestion then is to remove the suggestions and requests section of the forum.

talis · March 2015

In my opinion lets not remove from the forum "Suggestions and Requests". We can discuss and make brainstorming together, and the ideas requests worth for can be added to Github, we can not discuss in Github txt file

amin13a · March 2015

Thanks ar2rsawseen.

keszegh · March 2015

@talis, it's best as you suggest, SinisterSoft was joking surely.

SinisterSoft · March 2015

I wasn't joking, or was I?

btw, Talis's idea is a great idea - I think we should go with that.

totebo · March 2015

Added Event.APPLICATION_RESIZE event for when window is resized, get new dimensions using respective application class method

Implemented Application:isPlayerMode() method returning true if project is running on player and false if as an app

Implemented Sprite setAnchorPosition/getAnchorPosition which changes Sprites relative anchor position in Sprite's internal coordinates. Meaning Sprite with dimensions 100x100 and anchor position of 50x50 would rotate around its center

It would be great to have these type of permanent features documented in the reference manual (http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/). I use it regularly and treat it as the "official" guide to gideros.

Niclas

uncleking · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen

great to see this release.. I have a question regarding Sprite:setAnchorPosition/getAnchorPosition.. Earlier this functionality was implemented using GCE .. is that deprecated ? or should i comment relevant portions of that code to use the new API ?

needless to say i use it heavily

uncleking · March 2015

Is there a way to clear the output window ? earlier it would clear screen when i did build again .. now it doesn't work..

keszegh · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen,
the new feature:
"Opening previously launched projects from player on desktop (use menu), android and ios (hold finger on screen for more than 5 seconds and release)"

is really getting on my nerves as it applies during the game too and in my game long touches are regular, so it always pops up.
on the other hand when no project is started yet, the previous projects chooser menu could be always shown, why not?
so all in all the 5sec feature is annoying ingame and unnecessary offgame (as the menu could be always shown and then no need to touch and wait 5 sec).

whatever you choose, could you make some reasonable solution so that it does not mess up the game's behavior?

thanks

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@totebo currently we are thinking about storing docs in some editable format in github and importing it regularly back to database. Unfortunately not yet ready

@uncleking the functionality is actually a little different, (as the name says) as it takes position, not the relative point between 0 and 1 as in setAnchorPoint. The only clash I think is, that they both use anchorX and anchorY names in set and get functions.

What I think needs to be done is to rewrite GCE to provide setAnchorPoint based on this new function setAnchorPosition. But till then I want to let setAnchorPosition to sunk in a little more and have feedback about how it works, etc

@keszegh I was thinking a lot on how to implement the menu without messing the game, and 5 second long click was the only bearable solution I could come up with.

Can't really show the menu by default, as it would overlay ip and other data.

But what we probably could do, is to display the menu on simple tap on the screen when app is not running?

Any better solutions?

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@keszegh I tried the approach of showing projects only when player is not running game, but then there is no way to turn of current game and get to the project list to switch to another game.

So there must be some kind of gesture to do that while game is running, question is which one, that it won't be obtrusive to game testing

keszegh · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen, i think in most cases it's imlemented in the game to quit from it, so if when quitting from a game, the player would not stop, instead we would go back to the 'main screen' of the player, then we would not need this messing with gestures.

another (not exclusive) option would be to put a tickbox to the main screen to enable/disable the 5sec longtouch gesture option.

btw the list of previous projects could start below the ip address etc and then they could be shown always. but that's more minor issue, as you said, a short touch could already open the list of previous projects in the player main screen.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

There is a problem with quiting.
1) I can't intercept exit/quit, there could be no modification, the app in player should run exactly as it runs standalone

2) on ios, there is no "quit"

So there must be a gesture or something like that

keszegh · March 2015

ok, then what about the tickbox at least? i need a player without the gesture interception, as it interplays with my app. and two different players with and without this feature would be a bit silly.

keszegh · March 2015

actually i don't mind closing the player and restarting when i want run a different project, usually one does not juggle between projects anyway. so the shorttouch to get the previous projects at the beginning is just enough, i don't need the ingame longtouch feature.
most of the times anyway we send+run the project from the desktop, aren't we.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

yes but in that case you could also replay the project using send and run.

So the feature is actually for the case, when you are not at your computer and you want to test game, that you were previously launching on device.

Let me try the closing and reopening app thing, if it kills app, it could work

SinisterSoft · March 2015

How about press volume up whilst pressing the screen for 5 seconds?

SinisterSoft · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen I built a new Android version of my game with the latest version of Gideros - it might be a coincidence, but the volume up/dn buttons no longer control the volume (they did before). I've tested on other games and a previous build they do control the volume.

Has anyone else noticed this?

vyh77 · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen when we export for Android, the export is still an Eclipse project isn't it? will we be able to export to Android Studio at some point?

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

I think I've updated the docs now guys, will try to keep them up to date from now

@vyh77 at some point yes.

It would help a lot if someone would provide working Android Studio project of Gideros game, so I could make a template out of it

keszegh · March 2015

@ar2rsawseen, i don't see the realcode in the docs.

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@keszegh
How so?
http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/gideros/Sprite/Event.KEY_DOWN#Event.KEY_DOWN

keszegh · March 2015

i see, thanks, i did not notice.i was looking for it in the main list, like keycode.
more questions then:
is this realcode triggered for every key, like space etc and can it distinguish between lower and upper case letters etc?

ar2rsawseen · March 2015

@keszegh basically what keyCode do, was that @atilim mapped specific keys to be cross platform, so if same key uses different keycodes on different platforms (like Windows and Mac) then they would appear under same KeyCode constant

but realCode just passes what its platform passed it, so yes all keys will work including space, and whether it differs upper case or lower case purely depends on platform

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