anima-devel

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag added to the repository

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag added to the repository
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Submitted by: thorsten-k
Date: Mon Sep  3 04:15:08 PDT 2007
Update of /cvsroot/anima/animag
In directory sc8-pr-cvs11.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv1720/animag

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/test added to the repository

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/test added to the repository
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Submitted by: thorsten-k
Date: Mon Sep  3 05:23:28 PDT 2007
Update of /cvsroot/anima/animag/test
In directory sc8-pr-cvs11.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7355/test

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/src added to the repository

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/src added to the repository
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Submitted by: thorsten-k
Date: Mon Sep  3 04:16:04 PDT 2007
Update of /cvsroot/anima/animag/src
In directory sc8-pr-cvs11.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv2145/src

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Initial commit

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Initial commit
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Submitted by: thorsten-k
Date: Mon Sep  3 04:16:08 PDT 2007
Update of /cvsroot/anima/animag/resources
In directory sc8-pr-cvs11.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv2460/resources

Added Files:
	Anima.xml 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/resources added to the repository

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Directory /cvsroot/anima/animag/resources added to the repository
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Submitted by: thorsten-k
Date: Mon Sep  3 04:16:02 PDT 2007
Update of /cvsroot/anima/animag/resources
In directory sc8-pr-cvs11.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv2145/resources

[Anima-devel] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

_______________________________________________________________________

Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
_______________________________________________________________________

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Checked in old changes. Fixed so it doesn't crash.

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.


Checked in old changes.
Fixed so it doesn't crash.
Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Tue Oct 10 20:10:31 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima/xbf
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15181/anima/xbf

Added Files:
	Makefile.am xbf.h xbfparser.cpp xbfparser.h xbfwriter.cpp 
	xbfwriter.h 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Checked in old changes. Fixed so it doesn't crash.

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.


Checked in old changes.
Fixed so it doesn't crash.
Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Tue Oct 10 20:10:30 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15181/anima

Modified Files:
	Makefile.am anima.cpp animaimageset.cpp animaimageset.h 
	animaview.cpp animaview.h colorpalette.cpp 
	projectdefinition.cpp projectdefinition.h thumbnail.h 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Checked in old changes. Fixed so it doesn't crash.

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.


Checked in old changes.
Fixed so it doesn't crash.
Added XBF directory, but not hooked up yet.

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Tue Oct 10 20:10:29 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15181

Modified Files:
	COPYING TODO anima.kdevprj configure.in 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Directory /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima/xbf added to the repository

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Directory /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima/xbf added to the repository
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Submitted by: talin
Date: Mon Oct  9 20:15:48 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima/xbf
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv32155/xbf

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Fixed crash bug in determineImageExtent where drawing on the bottom pixel would go out-of-bounds in ...

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Fixed crash bug in determineImageExtent where drawing on the bottom pixel would go out-of-bounds in QImage.
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Submitted by: sawdust
Date: Tue Aug 15 15:26:44 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv23465

Modified Files:
	drawingview.cpp 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Minor update to handle zoom and resize.

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

Minor update to handle zoom and resize.
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Submitted by: sawdust
Date: Tue Aug 15 03:57:40 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv1015

Modified Files:
	drawingview.cpp 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: License change to "modified GPL"

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

License change to "modified GPL"

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Sat Jun 17 13:42:02 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv17624

Modified Files:
	COPYING README 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: First implementation of thumbnails First implementation of drag and drop

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

First implementation of thumbnails
First implementation of drag and drop

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Sun May  7 19:43:33 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima/api
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27344/anima/api

Modified Files:
	AnimaApp.html AnimaDoc.html AnimaView.html all-globals.html 
	anima_h.html animadoc_h.html animaview_h.html 
	full-list-AnimaApp.html full-list-AnimaDoc.html 
	full-list-AnimaView.html header-list.html hier.html 
	index-long.html index.html resource_h.html 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: First implementation of thumbnails First implementation of drag and drop

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

First implementation of thumbnails
First implementation of drag and drop

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Sun May  7 19:43:32 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27344/anima

Modified Files:
	Makefile.am anima.cpp anima.h animadoc.cpp animadoc.h 
	animaimage.h animaview.cpp animaview.h drawingview.cpp 
	drawingview.h projectdefinition.cpp resource.h 
	sequencetreeview.cpp 
Added Files:
	animaimage.cpp animaimageset.cpp animaimageset.h 
	default-image.xpm thumbnail.cpp thumbnail.h 
Removed Files:
	imagerowheaderitem.cpp imagerowheaderitem.h imagerowitem.cpp 
	imagerowitem.h 

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: First implementation of thumbnails First implementation of drag and drop

[cvs-anima <ta...@us...>]

First implementation of thumbnails
First implementation of drag and drop

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Submitted by: talin
Date: Sun May  7 19:43:32 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27344

Modified Files:
	TODO anima.kdevprj 

[Anima-devel] Areas of work...

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

I'm going to be focusing on the document structure for a while, and the
main window. I'm not planning on touching the drawing window, the color
palette window, or the sequence window for a few weeks.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander

[Anima-devel] cvs commit: Minor changes to TODO file

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Minor changes to TODO file
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Submitted by: talin
Date: Tue Apr 25 00:43:59 PDT 2000
Update of /cvsroot/anima/anima
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv13376

Modified Files:
	TODO 

[Anima-devel] This is a test, please ignore.

[<ta...@us...>]

This is a test, please ignore it.

[Anima-devel] Mail sent to Anima-devel

[<ani...@li...>]

Your mail to 'Anima-devel' with the subject:

    cvs commit: A minor change to the TODO file, and also a test for
the cvs mail notification script.

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

    Implicit destination

Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision.

[Anima-devel] New CVS check-in script

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

I have added a perl script to the CVSROOT which causes a mail message to
be automatically posted to the mailing list whenever anyone does a
commit. I'm going to be testing this, so please ignore the next few
messages.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander

[Anima-devel] Many changes checked in.

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

I finally fixed that long-standing "crash on exit" bug (Yay!). I've also
made a bunch of other changes, see the ChangeLog for details.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander

[Anima-devel] Anima now ported to KDE 2.0

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

I have checked into CVS a version of Anima which compiles and runs as a
KDE 2.0 application. It is pretty much exactly the same functionality,
bugs and all. :-(

In order to do such a massive change, I have checked in the new source
as an entirely new sub-project, named "anima". The old code is still
available under the name "Anima" (note the case difference). This may be
confusing, but since I plan to eventually delete the old code base, the
confusion will be only temporary.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander

Re: [Anima-devel] Current Anima Objectives

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

Chris Harris wrote:

> > Note that I would like the loading and saving of
> > files to be via a
> > plugin (I assume there's some sort of standard way
> > of doing plugins in
> > KDE).
> 
> I'm not sure on this. I'll check it out though, as I
> need to write some other plugins for it too.

Of course, in KDE 2.0 it's blindingly obvious how to do this, since the
whole "KParts" system is designed to be able to facilitate the easy
creation of plugins.

The more I look at it, the more stuff I see in KDE2 which we would need
to write ourselves if we wanted this thing to work under KDE1. For
example, KDE 2 has an XML parser, which would make it trivial to parse
the project configuration file.

I've spent the last week experimenting with KDE2 (instead of working on
Anima). I've managed to download, compile, and install it in a way that
allows me to run both KDE1 and KDE2 together at the same time, with only
slight interference between one another. In fact, at the moment I'm
actually running under the KDE2 KWin/Kicker environment, and it seems
pretty stable, although many of the actual applications have great
gaping holes at the moment (for example, the KDE2 version of KDevelop is
useless and buggy, but the KDE1 version works fine.) At the moment, I'm
trying to figure out how to coerce the KDE1 version of Kdevelop into
displaying the KDE2 API documentation; It shows some of it, but not all.

What's your opinion about developing for KDE2 vs. KDE1? If it was just
me and I didn't have to worry about anyone else, I'd go for the upgrade.
It's true that KDE2 will limit my potential market for a while, but I
_think_ it will save some coding time. And it's not like Anima is going
to be ready to ship tomorrow.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander

[Anima-devel] Current Anima Objectives

[Talin <Talin@ACM.org>]

OK, here's a summary of the major Anima issues. More details can be read
in the TODO file in the source tree.

I presume that Anima will be converted to a KDE 2.0 application
eventually. At the moment, KDE 2.0 is a little bit unstable and it's
sometimes hard to get it to compile. I imagine that it won't be too much
longer before it becomes usable. Frankly, there is a lot of stuff in KDE
2.0 that would make development quite a bit easier, like floating window
frames, better list views, etc.

There is a long-standing bug where the program segfaults on exit. This
seems to be a memory corruption error - the segfault occurs in the
destructor for the combo box in the color list window. I can make the
segfault go away by commenting out the bcopy statement which initializes
the undo buffer for the color palette window, but as far as I can tell,
this statement is valid, and the addresses it is using are also valid;
So I can only imagine that some erroneous pointer is also pointing to
that same location, but I haven't been able to track it down.

One decision that has not been made is how Anima is going to store
images on disk, that is what is Anima's native file format going to be?
I would prefer not to invent a new file format if possible. GIF would
really be nice, but can't be used because of patent issues. And
unfortunately, PNG doesn't support multiple images per file. There is a
sister format, MNG, but it has very little support, not even a library.

Note that I would like the loading and saving of files to be via a
plugin (I assume there's some sort of standard way of doing plugins in
KDE).

The sequence data (that is, the data that indicates which frames are to
be played in which order) will probably be saved as text comments within
the image file. I have come up with a pretty simple XML format for
representing this data. It's pretty clean, and can support alternative
structures for different projects.

Of course, the actual game is going to want to use a highly compressed,
optimized format for animations. (In fact, I am going to be developing a
file format for my own game, Strattica, which I'm going to work on after
Anima is complete.) This can be done in one of two ways: By writing an
Anima plugin, or by writing a command-line tool to do the conversion.
Anima's "default" file format should probably be designed to make
tool-writing easy, that is a file format which is easily parsed. That's
why I chose an XML-like format.

In Anima, there are two types of data being worked on: Image data and
sequence data. Image data is just a flat series of images - image #1,
image #2, etc. There will be a thumbnail window capable of displaying
the images side-by-side. One thing I've learned working with
professional game artists is that some artists like to "flip through"
images like a flip-book, while others prefer to see all images spread
out simultaneously. The thumbnail window is at the moment merely a blank
window with no content.

The sequence data is the list of which images are played in which order.
A single image can be re-used in many different action sequences, or
even used multiple times within the same sequence. The sequence window,
which I've been working on recently, will show a tree-like hierarchy of
animations and frames. A "cel" is the basic unit of an animation, which
represents a single "layer" of a still "frame". A "frame" is one single
moment in time in an animation, and can contain multiple "cels". Each
cel can be horizontally or vertically flipped, or offset from the
origin.

(Note to readers: The correct spelling for translucent layers of
animation is "cel" not "cell" because it comes from celuloid.)

I want to have the ability to re-arrange frames in a sequence using drag
& drop. This will require heavy overloading of the QListView class (or
perhaps we'll have to make our own tree view from scratch.)

Another Issue: Currently, when Anima starts up it opens 4 windows: The
image thumnail window, the drawing window, the sequence arrangement
window, and the color selector window. Unfortunately, KDE seems to have
relatively sparse support for multi-window apps (more precisely apps
with multiple heterogenous windows - it supports multi-document apps
just fine.) Unfortunately, I really can't think of a logical and
intuitive way to combine all of these functions into a single window.

There are lots of other issues which I haven't mentioned, but these are
some of the ones that have to be dealt with next.

-- 
Talin (Talin@ACM.org)       "I am life's flame. Respect my name.
www.sylvantech.com/~talin    My fire is red, my heart is gold.
www.hackertourist.com/talin  Thy dreams can be...believe in me,
                             If you will let my wings unfold..."
                               -- Heather Alexander