dev-related questions

[Aerick]

I've re-written the options menus and added/enhanced some classes. All options menus are derived from "Menu_gump" class which handles pretty much everything for you. For menus where you wish to hide some buttons based on the state of one or more options, you can specify callbacks which are called when the button is pressed. Otherwise you really only have to add buttons in your constructor and the Menu_gump class handles everything else. I'll upload a massive number of DIFF files once I'm done cleaning up the code a little more. Hopefully some day I'll get SVN write access and avoid that hassle...

Anyway, my questions are these:

1. What about renaming "gamemenu.shp", "gameplayoptions.shp" and "videooptions.shp" to something like "menu_WxH.shp" where W and H are replaced by width and height. The reason for this being that these shapes are re-used by other menus, so modifying them can have unintended effects on other menus.

2. Where can I find the source for the GIMP plug-in? I'd very much like to port that to linux so I don't have to run XP in vmware just to modify a shape.

3. What's the deal with the PNG files exported by Studio when you use "Export Frame"? For some reason, when I view them with GIMP they show up strangely as if the image itself is outside the "canvas" area. If I create an image within the "canvas" area, then import it with studio I get no actual image.

[Dominus]

Gimp Plugin: /mapedit/u7shp.c

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[marzo]

Re: 2: Trying to "port" the Gimp plug-in to Linux would be wasted effort, as it is cross-platform already: just pass "--enable-gimp-plugin" to ./configure (along with any other options you normally use). Then, running "make && make install" will build it and install the plugin where it should be.

Re: 3: This is because ES-generated PNGs have layer offsets given that the shapes themselves do (on a per-frame basis even); doing otherwise would cause loss of information, resulting in shapes appearing in the wrong location.

[Aerick]

thanks for the infos, guys. I struggled with the GIMP plugin for a bit. I didn't have gimptool installed and configure didn't choke like it does if you try to enable studio without libglade. But I've got it going now! One less reason to use windows.

FYI, I've uploaded a couple more patches. One bug is kinda serious, it makes it impossible to create new multi-shape files.