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    Deploying to Facebook Instant Games - Load Spinner

    perrochonperrochon Member
    in General questions
    Still learning the ropes with my first game (based on the amazing rogue on gideros tutorial), and now am stuck on deploying to Facebook Instant Games... As mentioned in another post, Gideros is an amazing platform and works 99% out of the box, but now I am stuck, and can't unstuck myself.

    I export HTML, check the Facebook box, generate a zip, add the below json file, upload, and turn it on (I also did a ton of configuration on Facebook, it's almost as bad as Google Play). At this point I can load my game when logged in (it's not approved yet, so nobody else can load it as of now). The game seems to load - the background is my first scene - but I can't get rid of the loading spinner



    I have this code in my main which I was hoping to solve the problem, but it didn't do the job
    pcall(function() FBInstant=require "FBInstant" end)
if FBInstant then
	FBInstant.startGameAsync(function() 
		print("Loading screen removed")
		FBInstantAPI=true
	end)
else
	print("FBInstant not loaded")
end
    I have one low priority suggestions on improving Facebook export (for first timers):
    -Facebook requires a file fbapp-config.json. The minimal seems to be below. I figured it out after a while, but we could document this, or generate a minimal sample file upon export, but likely there is a way to keep this in the Gideros folder and have it bundled for Facebook only. I put it here in case someone else searches
    {
  "instant_games": {
    "orientation": "LANDSCAPE",
    "navigation_menu_version": "NAV_FLOATING",
  }
}
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      edited April 2020
      Ok, maybe I can self-unstuck... Thought of looking at the browser console and found the following:
      FBInstant.lua Not found in archive
gidloader.js:241 FBInstant/init.lua Not found in archive
      Not really sure how to include this the correct way
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      If FB instant was ticked during export, then that should work. Can you post your export log, to see if Gideros actually included the FBInstant.lua file ?
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      edited April 2020
      It seems to
      Exporting FBInstant.lua
Exporting _LuaPlugins_/FBInstant.lua
      Whole log is attached

      txt
      txt
      Log.txt
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      edited April 2020
      Wait, I made some progress... I can't see the load error anymore. The moment you get involved problems go away :-) I think it might be that I added FBInstant.lua to the project directory. Is this the best practices way?



      It gets to "loading screen removed" in the log file. But the spinner is still not gone :-(
      addedFile.png
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      No, you don’t need to add FBInstant.lua to the project, gideros adds it automatically on its own in a specific sub folder where lua libs are looked for. It ends up in the .GApp file. Can you confirm the file was searched in that special folder and not found ?
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      edited April 2020
      I made two separate copies of my project, #1 and #2. The only difference is whether they link to FBInstant.lua

      #1 doesn't link to FBInstant.lua and the export looks like
      Exporting _LuaPlugins_/FBInstant.lua
      #2 does link to FBInstant.lua and the export looks like
      Exporting FBInstant.lua
Exporting _LuaPlugins_/FBInstant.lua
      I also attached the gproj files. Looks like gproj attachments are not allowed (why? because they may contain passwords and keys?) so I renamed them to txt

      txt
      txt
      BushidoBattle1.gproj.txt
      5K
      txt
      txt
      ExportLog1.txt
      4K
      txt
      txt
      BushidoBattle2.gproj.txt
      5K
      txt
      txt
      ExportLog2.txt
      4K
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    • jimlevjimlev Member
      @perrochon did you achieve to make it work ? I am trying to push a game on the FB instant games platform and I'm stuck with the loading screen too...
      My meditation plan :
      SinisterSoft: “ I don't create classes that much - classes are good for making things simpler but imho for frame rate they are also death by a thousand cuts.”
      Totebo: “ Best quote ever.”
      🤔
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      edited May 2020
      @jimlev, @perrochon, since both of you had trouble with instants I decided to have another go myself this afternoon and yes there is a problem! Looks like a recent change to gideros broke it. The fix is easy: in the generated index.html (or in the template itself), move the
      <script src=gidloader.js></script>
      line after the block about FBINSTANT, so that facebook library is loaded first!

      EDIT: GitHub commit: https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/7d02093d0bed7343e1a6a5525f69e6f292de9a2b

      Likes: jimlev, SinisterSoft

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    • jimlevjimlev Member
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      hgy29 said:

      The fix is easy: in the generated index.html (or in the template itself), move the

      <script src=gidloader.js></script>
      line after the block about FBINSTANT, so that facebook library is loaded first!
      Hourra ! I will give it a try this evening or tomorrow !

      My meditation plan :
      SinisterSoft: “ I don't create classes that much - classes are good for making things simpler but imho for frame rate they are also death by a thousand cuts.”
      Totebo: “ Best quote ever.”
      🤔
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      I can't push to HTML right now, but I'll try this as soon as I can do HTML again.
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    • perrochonperrochon Member
      I can confirm that it gets past the loading screen. (There is another issue later which prevents me from sharing the URL just yet)
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    • jimlevjimlev Member
      perrochon said:

      I can confirm that it gets past the loading screen. (There is another issue later which prevents me from sharing the URL just yet)

      Same here. The loading screen problem is, now, a bad memory !

      @hgy29 : sorry if I am abusing, but could you take a moment on the index.html file of the html5 version of gideros player. I always have the problem with the loading on it. The html file is a lot different so I didn't achieved to adapt on it the solution you gave us for our 'standard' project.
      My meditation plan :
      SinisterSoft: “ I don't create classes that much - classes are good for making things simpler but imho for frame rate they are also death by a thousand cuts.”
      Totebo: “ Best quote ever.”
      🤔
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Hmm you are right and it is a problem! Looks like the bundled player doesn't contain all required files, so those files are kept from previous installation! Don't use it as it is broken, I am fixing the build scripts right now for next release.

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