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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:33 pm    Post subject: Java map editor???? Reply to topic Reply with quote

Anyone attempted a java map editor???

I understand that the image i/o is covered...

does anyone know:
does awt, swing, or swt support imageboxes(bitmap widgets)?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I'm sure there's a way, but since I've only been a JAVA DEVELOPER (oh yes, I can make a DOS prompt spit out specified lines of text) I couldn't tell you exactly how $

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

It would be very easy to do, I think. It would be too slow for some people's happyness, tho, and its a real pain to get it all the way to 100%.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

indeed... I'm taking java now, the label actually allows you to load images into it, add it into a scroll pane, and wallah ... but I'm not exactly sure how tiles would be accomplished :-/ ... and I'd learn to love how to read/write SS map files so if anyone knows how to do that should let me know icon_wink.gif

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:26 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

GUIs suck. Hmm.. I should make a CLI LVL editor.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Mine GO BOOM wrote:
I should make a CLI LVL editor.


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Have you ever had to edit a map with subspace v1.32's built in map editor? Ugh.

Back on topic: Java should do fine for making a map editor. As I code very little with Java, I cannot help too much, but support your efforts.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

The LVL IO code is very easy to do with Java. Get some way to display it and edit it, and you are all set.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

yeah, yeah. turns out i you can always render a Graphics object on the fly, but that's a pain in my ass... whoa...
just found this... ill try to hack it... (haven't taken a look at it yet)




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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

where could i find out the IO of the maps? :-/

Is there documentation on it somewhere? I'm interested in designing a map editor that will also help w/ LVZ's icon_smile.gif

but i dont know how to write/read maps like the design layout protocol w/e for the map file itself..

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

It would be great if, say, Bob Dole.. Bob Dole... Bob Dole...... bob dole.... bob... dole.... could incorporate his LIE into a map editor, so it'd be all in one. But I'm guessing LIE is C++...
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I think k0z codes almost exclusively in delphi

but, uh...why not just have the editor allow you to drag and drop your images around precisely and generate the .lvz itself? (it would of course be nice for people that know what they're doing to be able to mess with the organization before the lvz(s) are generated)

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Have you ever had to edit a map with subspace v1.32's built in map editor? Ugh.


awe ya biggrin.gif that thing is oldskool GOLD! lol

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It would be too slow for some people's happyness


well look at it this way...it will probably be faster than CLE, heh

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and its a real pain to get it all the way to 100%.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

no worries... yet
Will let you know if and when i get a decent basic map editor in java, then if the GPL hasn't been murdered by everyone's ex-favorite linux distributor, i'll release open source so MGB can make me feel inferior again

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Akai wrote:
well look at it this way...it will probably be faster than CLE, heh

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and its a real pain to get it all the way to 100%.

eh?


May not be much faster.

100% features. I usually don't get projects past 95% when I'm working on my own. That last 5% is a real haul.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

really - you couldn't get a Java map editor to work roughly at the speed of SSME?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Its possible, I suppose. But it would be crap on <500MHz.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I think I'll write a map editor using curses. Just to be different.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Lol.
Akai wrote:
(it would of course be nice for ...

Yeah, that's why I say incorporate LIE features. That way you could also put in non-image files too.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

i run a 400mhz machine... triple booting.
Java is nice in that i can run it off a shared drive.. with almost any OS.
Performance will eventually be a lesser concern... and the performance isn't THAT much of a concern if you hack down to the basic graphics classes. I'm looking into using java implementation of opengl to really get things moving... or not
Perhaps what i'll have is a nifty basis for a c++ or obj-c port...
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Hmm. How many types of tiles are there.
I could display 0-9 & A-Z & a-z = 62 types...
Perhaps I'd have to use colour.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

note on works:
i am building tests, and i've just finished redisigning the format to include just about any pixel or tile-width object imaginable...
assuming someone will implement when my patience runs out...
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

suggestions please:
i am currently using a Tool class to define painting of selected tiles to the map. Currently things like Pencil and Line extend it. However, i am wondering if that extensibility is worth the cost in tossing classes around and handling events and painting between 2+ classes at a time (IE to render lines being stretched/moved, etc) will kill performance. If there are effects they would mostly be sudden spikes in memory usage that fade once the calls have been made. I don't believe this will drag Windows boxes with 256mb of ram too much... below that, who knows?
should i make the tools built straight in as functions and enumerate... or keep things nice and OOP-happy???

PS: I am now officially performance paranoid in java (i am going to explode)
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

ya, I was about to learn Java, but it'd be slow... icon_sad.gif
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I will do it if someone will take over running my zone for a month or so. Lol, not that anyone could, but I'm just saying time is my issue.
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