Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Late entry from Hamcha, votes got reset!

  • Yeah, your school project could be along the lines of "Is it feasible to extend a C++ application using JNI?" Even if you conclude "no", you might get an interesting report and a good mark.

    The problem with JVMs (and .NET frameworks) I think is that you're caught between two difficult choices: either use an old framework everybody has, but then that doesn't have all the latest, greatest features. Or, use the latest framework - but then it's less likely everyone has it. I know this is true of the .NET framework, but I don't know about JVM. Plus, I wouldn't assume everybody has it installed in the first place - it's a lot of work to go to, to then find (say) 20% of people can't run it. Someone should look in to the actual stats first!

  • As per the original thread there have been a few entries for StackOverflow ads - I want to keep this moving so time to vote! I'll close voting on Thursday evening and submit it.

    Apologies to HennyH - your ad wasn't 220x200px, and I'm afraid StackOverflow require one that size.

    Here are the entries, vote above:

    (Edit: late entry from Hamcha!)

    Blackmack

    <img src="http://www.impactdesignsuk.net/image_hosting/images/1283614834scirra5.png">

    Mary Jane

    <img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2qa74g6.jpg">

    The Bespectacled One

    <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10859034/scirra_ad.png">

    Hamcha

    <img src="http://piczasso.com/i/aaf6l.png">

  • Thanks everyone - I want to get a move on with this so I'm going to start the vote now!

  • I don't know much about JNI. Does it require end-users to have the Java framework installed? If so, I'd decline because it'd cause really complicated dependencies for end-users. If we enable plugins to be written in Java, the .NET framework, Python etc, then end users could end up having to install all three of those separately to run a game - which they most likely won't bother with.

    C++ compiles to native code with essentially no dependencies, so it just works for everybody, generally.

  • Everyone will sound frightfully British now, chaps!

  • I think it's always been there. Just to discourage crude language. We can be civil

  • You can try, but there's no guarantee the patch will be merged in to the main source - if it's an obscure feature then the core plugins and behaviors probably should be kept at just a basic set of features (otherwise they end up incredibly complicated). It's best to first plan out what you want to do, then get in touch with the original plugin developer (if they're still around) and agree it with them. In the case of ignoring input by default... it's a single action in a start of layout event, it's hard to see a strong case why that's so necessary...

  • Mary Jane submitted this one by email:

    <img src="http://i54.tinypic.com/2qa74g6.jpg">

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  • In between sounds about right. But up to you.

  • Nice one, congrats

  • A popular programming website, http://www.stackoverflow.com, are running a project where open source projects can put up adverts to try and get developers for free.

    This isn't generally advertising Construct - it's a programmer's website, so the aim would be to get coders interested in developing for Construct (eg. plugins, behaviors, submitting IDE/runtime patches and the like), as they say in the linked post (emphasis theirs):

    [quote:3dizpine]It must be an advertisement soliciting the participation and contribution of programmers writing actual source code.

    Their requirements (from the thread) are:

    • The image that you create must be 220px by 220px
    • Can be hosted anywhere (tinypic, twitpic, your blog); we will mirror the image locally when we serve it.
    • Must be GIF or PNG
    • No animated GIFs
    • Absolute limit on file size of 150kb

    See the thread for more details and other examples. I'm not much of an artist so I thought I'd ask the community, we can vote on the best one, and submit it for some coder publicity

    Please don't submit directly to the linked thread - post your ads below and we'll vote on the final submission to StackOverflow!

  • There will always be present known bugs, the difficulty is in choosing when to push new builds out through the autoupdater. The important thing is not to break existing .caps - if bugs which have always existed are still there, that's not as bad as breaking everyone's files when they upgrade to a supposedly "stable" release. So in that regard, I'm pretty happy this is a stable build. I think I'll wait a day or two just to be sure, then put it out through the autoupdate system.

  • I'm aware of the layer zoom/offset mixup, but I want to mark this stable anyway so the memory leak fix in 0.99.92 and other fixes propagate out. Thoughts?