Re: [Pipmak-Users] File IO with Pipmak and image manipulation.

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Here there is a very early development stage of the Autocubic project

Wow, that's cool! Impressive how well that works. Reminds me of the
semi-3D games on my TI calculator... A great example of creative misuse
of Pipmak, too :) - it would never have occurred to me to use Pipmak for
such a thing. I'm eager to see how far you can push this before hitting 
the limits of Pipmak...

On to your questions:

> Therefore I need to write a map editor (always using Pipmak), 
> for this reason I need the possibility to write and to read a text file.

OK. How do you imagine locating the files? You'd need functions to 
display open/save dialogs, right? Thinking out loud, we could probably 
completely short-circuit the handling of paths by connecting file 
writing and reading directly to these dialogs via some opaque "file" 
objects. That would still disallow a script to read or write files 
without the user's permission, and it would also avoid stupid things 
like a developer working on Windows hardcoding paths with backslashes 
that don't work anywhere else.

Another idea: Maybe you could store the world created using your system 
in the "state" table (conceptually considering it as a state of the 
Autocubic project) and load and save it using Pipmak's existing saved 
game functionality?

> You understand also the the possibility to distort patch is very important to
> this project...

Yeah, obviously being able to place the corners of a patch arbitrarily 
in 3D would be very useful here. There would still be no depth testing, 
however, so you'd still have to create the patches ordered from back to 
front.

  -Christian