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The Chronogears engine has a new home page with the latest download link. There is also the beginning of a high level authoring tool which uses Chronogears. Check out the screen shots...

I am the new administrator of Chronogears. J-F is pursuing a new interest and has kindly allowed me to adopt this project.

Expect some rapid development over the new few weeks and months. I am using Chronogears as the sprite engine in project called Freeplay (but that is another story), and will add features as I need them. Already implemented but not yet released is a mouse event handler and a low level sprite editor panel. ... read more

Alright! With the latest release (a2), there is a functional applet demonstrating a scrolling tilemap.

To execute the demo, run the appletviewer with the file /classes/imagetest.html. Note that you need Java 2. This is why I recommend the applet viewer for now.

Enjoy!

J-F

A new update has been posted.

Please note that I'm aiming towards completing the property APIs asap so I can activly start with the scripting APIs.

Enjoy!

J-F

The first upload of the Chronogears source code is complete. The source code has not yet been cleaned up. However, there is a small test demonstating a scrolling tile map with a text sprite.

J-F

Welcome to the Chronogears project!

Within the next few days, the available code for Chronogears will be uploaded, and shared with the community.

In the meanwhile, please be patient as I familiarize myself with SourceForge!

Regards,

J-F