[Pipmak-Users] Re: Pipmak-Users digest, Vol 1 #37 - 2 msgs

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Ahhhhhhh!

The sound of angels singing fills the room.

(Much better than the sound of Grues.)

Must sleep now but I tried this and it WORKS! I can now see what is  
going on. SO happy.

Thanks,

Liam

On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:24 PM, pipmak-users- 
re...@li... wrote:

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> Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:26:53 +0100
> Subject: [Pipmak-Users] Re: Pipmak-Users digest, Vol 1 #34 - 4 msgs
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> Hi
>
> Liam Shannon wrote:
>
>> Now, if one double clicks or tries to open the "main.lua"  or any of
>> the node.lua files in order to see what is written in them or to
>> modify what is written so as to create your own world,  it says there
>> is no default application set to open the document. If one specifies
>> that the file should be opened in Pipmak that just launches the
>> Pipmak Game Engine window. If one then clicks on open project, it
>> just launches the Pipmak Game Demo game.
>>
>> So how is one to see what is written in the lua node files so as to
>> change it?
>>
>
> The .lua-files are text files. This means, you can open them in a text
> editor. With text editor, I don't mean something like Microsoft  
> Word or
> similar. I mean an editor, that handles simple .txt-files. I don't  
> know
> any text files for the mac. For GNU/Linux-users there are vi, emacs,
> kate and many many more. For windows, you can also download vi or
> emacs, but for simple tasks, you can use notepad which is shipped with
> windows itself.
>
> Does this help?
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> From:  Christian Walther <cwa...@gm...>
> Date:  Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:09:29 +0100
> Subject: [Pipmak-Users] Re: Basic Mac help
> Reply-To: pip...@li...
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> Hello Liam
>
> Two little technicalities first:
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> On to the important stuff: :)
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> Liam Shannon wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the best way to move forward would be to ask a question and
>> then go off with the answer and work until the next problem is
>> encountered.
>>
>
> That's what I had in mind. It's actually the very purpose of this
> mailing list.
>
>
>> Not fast but...
>>
>
> I think it's actually faster (or at least more time efficient for me)
> than if I wrote a full tutorial, because this way I don't have to
> explain the steps that you do figure out yourself.
>
>
>> Now, if one double clicks or tries to open the "main.lua"  or any  
>> of the
>> node.lua files in order to see what is written in them or to  
>> modify what
>> is written so as to create your own world,  it says there is no  
>> default
>> application set to open the document.
>> ...
>> So how is one to see what is written in the lua node files so as to
>> change it?
>>
>
> Good point. That's one of the issues that I would never have  
> thought of,
> even though I guess it's a natural obstacle for non-technical  
> users. (To
> be perfectly clear, that's *my* fault, not yours.)
>
> Anyway, the Lua files are ordinary plain text files that you can open
> with any text editor. TextEdit that comes with Mac OS X (in the
> Applications folder) does the job, if you want more comfort such as
> syntax coloring or more sophisticated search features you can try
> SubEthaEdit (<http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/index.html>,
> version 2.2 is free) or TextWrangler
> <http://www.bbedit.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml>. Don't use
> word processors like Word or Pages, they will mess up the text with
> their formatting data (and in TextEdit, make sure that you keep the
> files as "Plain Text", not "Rich Text").
>
> Select a Lua file in the Finder, choose "Get Info" from the File menu,
> open the "Open with" compartment, choose "Other Application..."  
> from the
> popup menu and select TextEdit (or whatever text editor you want to
> use), then click the button below to apply the change to all Lua  
> files.
> You should then be able to double click the files to open them.
>
>
>> Again, thanks for any help. And by the way, I will be more than  
>> happy to
>> write up this process for new users as soon as I understand it  
>> myself.
>>
>
> That would be very much appreciated.
>
> Good luck in your proceeding!
>
>   -Christian
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