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[TobiasW]

Is there a way to get the "projects" to live outside of the workspace directory so that I can check them into source control?

Why can't you check them into source control while being inside the workspace directory? And, even better, maybe with Subclipse or another Eclipse source control plugin?

But if you really want to have it outside the workspace directory, just
a) while creating it from scratch, choose another directiony than the workspace directory or
b) while creating it "from an existing directory", just use Import->Existing Projects into Workspace with an unchecked "Copy projects into workspace".

Or did I misunderstand you?

[mcc]

Is there a way to get the "projects" to live outside of the workspace directory so that I can check them into source control?

Why can't you check them into source control while being inside the workspace directory? And, even better, maybe with Subclipse or another Eclipse source control plugin?

My Android project is a subdirectory of a larger project... I have general code at the top level and android, iphone, windows etc makefiles/projects in subdirectories.

But if you really want to have it outside the workspace directory, just
a) while creating it from scratch, choose another directiony than the workspace directory or
b) while creating it "from an existing directory", just use Import->Existing Projects into Workspace with an unchecked "Copy projects into workspace".

Or did I misunderstand you?

Hm, I'm not sure. This is what I see when I try to start a new project. I choose "Create project from an existing source" and for "Location" I pick my android sub-directory in my project. So that works fine (ASSUMING I've set Eclipse to auto-refresh external directories).

However, there seems to be a certain amount of information that lives "inside" of eclipse. Now that I look, it's NOT in the workspace; what happens is I have this "package explorer":



There's this list of things there that's the list of "new projects" I made by using the dialog I link above. And I can right click on these things, and there are options associated with each one, and there's this "Make Native Project" incantation I have to use on each one to make it work with the Android NDK, and there are these "run configurations" that I have to set up carefully. So that is like four or five steps that I have to follow exactly every time I start a new project, or even move a project from one location to another. And when I distribute my code I have to leave highly detailed instructions that read like "now right click on this word in the package manager, and choose "run as" and then "run configurations", and then go to the second tab and...". I can't figure out where all this information lives, and that's what I want in source control, if it's possible, so I don't have to set it up anew each time I check a new thing out from source control.

[TobiasW]

Okay, that's reasonable.

I can't figure out where all this information lives, and that's what I want in source control, if it's possible, so I don't have to set it up anew each time I check a new thing out from source control.

You can choose where it should live:

For each Run Configuration, select it in the "Run Configurations" window after creating it. Under the tab "Common" choose "Save as" "Shared file" and enter something like "\Jumpcore\.settings" (with "Jumpcore" being the project name).

[Average Software]

I have a warning I want to get rid of, and every attempt to do so crashes the compiler.

[mcc]

TobiasW, that's fantastic, thanks.

[TobiasW]

You're welcome. What I forgot to mention: You can save all of your run configurations to "projectname\.settings" or whatever you name it, as you don't really specify a FILE, but a FOLDER.

[BlueSweatshirt]

I wrote some code.

It didn't work. *sigh* Typical.

I tried a new method, it also didn't work.

I reverted to the same exact old method.(Note: CTRL+Z spam)

It worked.


...................... 

[teomat]

I can't really do much on my craptop with löve so I guess I'll start programming in c++ again.
I already know that I'll be grumpy by the end of the week.

[Player 3]

Code:

pointer.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE);

function customCursor(event:MouseEvent) {
	pointer.x = Mouse.cursor.x;
	pointer.y = Mouse.cursor.y; }

This is not giving me the proper results of a custom cursor. Its instance name is pointer and refuses to be followed by the mouse. The only custom cursor tutorials I can find in AS3 is just the dragging, which I have been told is not efficient. Hiding it is not as important for now. NOTE: I am using the Flash CS4 IDE, so if anyone has experience with that can help me, they will be hailed as a hero in lore.

[Nix]

Code:

pointer.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE);

function customCursor(event:MouseEvent) {
	pointer.x = Mouse.cursor.x;
	pointer.y = Mouse.cursor.y; }

This is not giving me the proper results of a custom cursor. Its instance name is pointer and refuses to be followed by the mouse. The only custom cursor tutorials I can find in AS3 is just the dragging, which I have been told is not efficient. Hiding it is not as important for now. NOTE: I am using the Flash CS4 IDE, so if anyone has experience with that can help me, they will be hailed as a hero in lore.

http://asgamer.com/2009/creating-an-as3-object-oriented-custom-cursor
That site is a treasure trove of good information for getting started with AS3 game programming. Read everything

[eclectocrat]

 


WHY!?! WHYYYYYYYY!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I didn't even touch that code for weeks!?!?? WHY NOW?! AAAAARGGHHH!!!!!


 

[bateleur]

Good grief Kongregate's commenters annoy me... just uploaded Lots of Tanks and within five minutes there's a guy boasting about having rated it one star after two seconds. I wouldn't be surprised if in the first 24h we don't have a single comment that shows evidence of having actually played the game!

[Eraser]

Good grief Kongregate's commenters annoy me... just uploaded Lots of Tanks and within five minutes there's a guy boasting about having rated it one star after two seconds. I wouldn't be surprised if in the first 24h we don't have a single comment that shows evidence of having actually played the game!

Well your game is lacking a lot of polish, don't be surprised with just how demeaning people will be about it.

[Triplefox]

I'm setting up Box2D again - in a different engine from the last time I used it - and I'm apparently doing one tiny little thing wrong somewhere in the integration that's making collisions not happen, and I can't figure out what. Just have to compare it with the examples and my old code a few dozen more times, I guess...

[Triplefox]

Integrated and ready to start on the gameplay and fine-tuning, but man did it take a while. It was a combination of some shapes having the wrong winding, scale settings, timestep settings, and elasticity settings.

[Player 3]

Code:

pointer.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE);

function customCursor(event:MouseEvent) {
	pointer.x = Mouse.cursor.x;
	pointer.y = Mouse.cursor.y; }

This is not giving me the proper results of a custom cursor. Its instance name is pointer and refuses to be followed by the mouse. The only custom cursor tutorials I can find in AS3 is just the dragging, which I have been told is not efficient. Hiding it is not as important for now. NOTE: I am using the Flash CS4 IDE, so if anyone has experience with that can help me, they will be hailed as a hero in lore.

http://asgamer.com/2009/creating-an-as3-object-oriented-custom-cursor
That site is a treasure trove of good information for getting started with AS3 game programming. Read everything

After some fiddling with it, I realize the "com" folder needs to be in the same directory as the *.FLA, not the *.FLA in the "com" folder. I thank you for showing me this. Now for lessons on ActionScript and linking classes and stuff like that!

E: I stand corrected. This could be one of the best starters' sites for Flash I ever heard of!

[st33d]

I think I'm going to have to drop AS3 Vectors. They're just too buggy to actually use.

[Geti]

So mad right now. I've had to call my app back for rework because the events I was listening for (touch events) were handled differently on the device to the simulator, leading to game-breaking bugs. Ugh.

I think I'm going to have to drop AS3 Vectors. They're just too buggy to actually use.

Amen.

[SirEel]

C++ const abuse.

Code:

const foo operator+(const & foo f) const;

SO READABLE :<

[ThemsAllTook]

I think I'm going to have to drop AS3 Vectors. They're just too buggy to actually use.

Been working perfectly for me, what sort of trouble have you run into?