Online Editor or Traditional?

[Emera]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Gonstruct runs fine on Ubuntu.

Are there any tutorials on how to install it?

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by Emera

Are there any tutorials on how to install it?

Did you even check the site? http://londeroth.org/~fry/gonstruct/

It says right under "Compiling" that there is a readme for instructions.

[Galdor]

I like to print out the tileset and cut and glue together parts on a piece of paper, it has a very traditional feel to it.

[Draenin]

With the files contained in the Github or whatever, would it be possible for other Graal developers to directly improve upon Gonstruct's functionality?

I notice you can open each file directly and look at its contents. Might be a good way to improve the editor when Ben and Fry don't have the time to devote to it.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Draenin

With the files contained in the Github or whatever, would it be possible for other Graal developers to directly improve upon Gonstruct's functionality?

I notice you can open each file directly and look at its contents. Might be a good way to improve the editor when Ben and Fry don't have the time to devote to it.

Anyone with knowledge in C++ could fork it, yes.

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Anyone with knowledge in C++ could fork it, yes.

We should find some way to make this happen, then. Maybe open a thread for new feature suggestions and submissions or something? Just an idea.

I know we have the feedback thread, but so far it's just been Ben and Fry working on it. With more people pitching in, we might be able to really get the ball rolling and perhaps even get extra features put in by Stefan. (Still keeping my fingers crossed for terrain support. )

[Matt]

traditional

[Emera]

Originally Posted by Emera

I would usually use offline editors for big projects, or large levels, but for making smaller creations and correcting tile issues, I always have a decent tile editor on hand. This is the online editor I always use, and I have never settled to use a GUI windowed editor. This version using showpoly (and some level lines I added in) is the best one I have ever used.

Somebody neg repped me for posting this. Why, and who? Can we leave a name next time???

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Did you even check the site? http://londeroth.org/~fry/gonstruct/

It says right under "Compiling" that there is a readme for instructions.

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

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by Emera

Somebody neg repped me for posting this. Why, and who? Can we leave a name next time???

Just ignore those cowards and continue to rock.

[ff7chocoboknight]

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

[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.