Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
>> I know that registering an association with the .rails file extension
>> is very platform specific. We'll need to investigate if Java has a
>> platform agnostic way of doing this, or if we just need to figure out
>> how to do this on each platform we want to support.  In my mind, the
>> primary targets are Windows XP or better, OS X (10.4 or 10.5 and
>> beyond, I'd guess), and Linux (Gnome 2.25+ and KDE 4+).
>
> Brett,
>
> I have checked in some code in an attempt to get this feature implemented.
> There is a new class rails.util.RunGame to replace rails.util.GameTest.
> Mostly because of the more appropriate name and package, but also
> to add a filename pickup feature: the first argument passed into
> main() will be considered a filepath of a Rails saved file to be loaded
> (the .rails extension is currently not checked).
>
> This works to some extent, the file gets loaded and the windows get
> displayed,
> but when laying a tile the program runs into tile finding problems.
> I don't know if this is a code or a classpath problem.
>
> To sort this out I would ask you if you create a new executable jar file
> (let's call it 1.0.7 alpha), with the added feature that an
> argument can get passed into RunGame.main().
> In Windows, the Rails extension must then be bound to the script rails.bat
> that starts Rails and which must be updated to pass the filename to Rails.
>
>
> Other stuff I have checked in includes fixes to all recently reported bugs,
> and the much-wanted feature to draw bars over impassable hex sides.
>
> When this all works, I'd suggest to publish a beta 1.0.7 version first, to
> give
> people in this group a chance to find any remaining bugs (there is always
> something).
>
> Regards,
> Erik.
>


Works for me.  I'll get a 1.0.7-rc1 put together later tonight.

---Brett.