Re: [Rails-devel] Tiles.xml, TileSet.xml, and svg files

[Rick W. <wes...@pu...>]

Erik Vos wrote:
>  
>               Thank you for the extensive reply.  Knowing that there 
> is the MakeGameTileSets program to autogenerate the per-game Tiles.xml 
> and to check the Map.xml file is   
>              a big help.  Although I do wonder why you don't simply 
> read in the global Tiles files and use that.  But, knowing XML, 
> perhaps that is too much of a strain on the program.
>  
> XML parsing is slow. I don't like wasting CPU time and memory.

  Once again I hesitate to make suggestions when I am not going to 
implement them and may not know what I am talking about ... however ... 
during the compile into a jar could the global Tiles file be converted 
into a Java-friendly format that is quick to read and parse?   That way 
when the program actually runs it just picks up the pre-formatted data 
and does not need to do XML parsing.

>
>        Anyway can you give this poor ol' non-Java programmer a short
>     hint on how to run MakeGameTileSets?  I am getting a
>     'NoClassDefError' on org/apache/log4j/logger when I try to run the
>     class directly.  I am probably doing something painfully obviously
>     wrong.
>
    Your suggestion works.  Thanks.  One of these days I'll have to sit 
down to actually learn Java and all about class paths.  Maybe 'rails' 
will be first, ah, victim.  :-)


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