Online Editor or Traditional?

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Emera

Obviously...
It tells me nothing. If it helped, I wouldn't be asking here.

Welcome to Linux.

1. Learn to install dependencies using apt-get or aptitude.
2. Install the dependencies the project needs.
3. Clone the source from Git to your machine.
4. Change to source directory.
5. Compile using instructions.
6. Run the binary that's compiled afterward.

[Fry]

There's obviously a bunch of problems with Gonstruct, but the main issue would be the terrible GTK+OpenGL widget it is using right now:

Basically there are two "working" GTK OpenGL widgets, gtkglarea and gtkglext. The latter is the one we tried first, since it is actively maintained and has C++ bindings available. Unfortunately quite a few people had problems with it on Windows, where it did not properly refresh the screen so the level display became unusable.

It took me ages to reproduce it on my system, but unfortunately I did not figure out the reason for it, so we gave gtkglarea a try. This ended up working relatively reliably on Windows and other systems, but that OpenGL widget sadly hasn't been maintained for a while and does not work with the most recent GTK version anymore (at least on Windows, Linux/Mac are fine as far as I remember).

The way to deal with that would probably be to give gtkglext another try, since it is the de-facto OpenGL widget for GTK and actively maintained. Maybe things are working now, or if not maybe it is possible to figure out the reason for the problems.

In retrospect we should probably have used Qt though. While GTK is much nicer to work with in setting up widgets and windows, even after all these years it still has very fragile cross-platform support.

[Fry]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

3. Clone the source from Git to your machine.

Make sure to use the 0.2.3 tag linked on the main page (https://github.com/fry/graal-gonstruct/tree/0.2.3 or `git checkout 0.2.3`), since the master HEAD currently contains some fixes for the newest boost library version which cleverly changed its filesystem:ath signature. Last time I checked that version is not in the stable Ubuntu/Debian repositories, so if you'd want to develop with it on Linux you would need to compile boost yourself.

[Zexon]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

I'm going to neg rep you for double posting.

ima just neg rep you for the hell of it

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Zexon

ima just neg rep you for the hell of it

Pretty much what he does anyway.

[Crono]

let's keep this train goin in the right direction k?

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by Fry

In retrospect we should probably have used Qt though.

How could you.

[Admins]

Well the best would to do it directly in graal, and if there is stuff missing then it can be added

[ff7chocoboknight]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Well the best would to do it directly in graal, and if there is stuff missing then it can be added

It'd be best if it could be directly in Graal because you wouldn't have to do anything.