YAY!!!
Putting everything onto cd was a big success.
I actually tracked down a combination install of the new JAVA 1.1.4 and the newest FORTE for linux.
All it was was a .sh file that unpacked everything into 2 directories in you current directories.
So I uninstalled all previous versions of JAVA and Forte, and unpacked the new ones, I set up the JAVA PATHS, and as simple as that, it all worked.
So I made my very first Java Swing forms application. With mouse over event changing a label, and some button clicked and pressed events, changing the label when the mouse is held down and when it's just clicked.
It all worked fine.
Thats all I have really done though, it compiled and debugged fine. I haven't looked yet at what is required for a standalone Java application or anything. (People will need to download the JAVA runtime environment...? But there are probably lots of options so that they may not have to do so?)
So anyway, most of the software is setup, and we still need to plan the game code, design... etc.
We have already mentioned game engine, and GUI setup.
I am hoping there will be a shape object, with a mouse events. We can then inherit that, and make it our primary game object, we can then create movement and static objects from that.
In that way it shouldn't take long to make as many different objects as we need for the game.
I only thought of using the shape after I had closed down the computer, so I don't know yet it one exists.
But I am sure something exists that will make it easier, otherwise we will have to create one.
Anyway, we should probably start thinking about the functions for the game engine, The front probably doesn't really need to be planned at the moment, as it will grow while testing the game engine. And we can then re-design it or something when we are finished.
-Aaron
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YAY!!!
Putting everything onto cd was a big success.
I actually tracked down a combination install of the new JAVA 1.1.4 and the newest FORTE for linux.
All it was was a .sh file that unpacked everything into 2 directories in you current directories.
So I uninstalled all previous versions of JAVA and Forte, and unpacked the new ones, I set up the JAVA PATHS, and as simple as that, it all worked.
So I made my very first Java Swing forms application. With mouse over event changing a label, and some button clicked and pressed events, changing the label when the mouse is held down and when it's just clicked.
It all worked fine.
Thats all I have really done though, it compiled and debugged fine. I haven't looked yet at what is required for a standalone Java application or anything. (People will need to download the JAVA runtime environment...? But there are probably lots of options so that they may not have to do so?)
So anyway, most of the software is setup, and we still need to plan the game code, design... etc.
We have already mentioned game engine, and GUI setup.
I am hoping there will be a shape object, with a mouse events. We can then inherit that, and make it our primary game object, we can then create movement and static objects from that.
In that way it shouldn't take long to make as many different objects as we need for the game.
I only thought of using the shape after I had closed down the computer, so I don't know yet it one exists.
But I am sure something exists that will make it easier, otherwise we will have to create one.
Anyway, we should probably start thinking about the functions for the game engine, The front probably doesn't really need to be planned at the moment, as it will grow while testing the game engine. And we can then re-design it or something when we are finished.
-Aaron