Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU Tile number overlaps

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Erik Vos wrote:

> John, my version of TileDesigner (1.3.1 of 4 April 2004) cannot read your
> 18EU.18t.
> Lines starting with # or with CategoryCoord give error messages.
> Do you use a different version?

As I mentioned, I modified the format to include things I needed.  One of 
the things I added was #-lines for comments.  I added a number of fields 
and values that I needed to render the tiles properly.

I don't actually use TileDesigner to render the tiles, but my custom perl 
code which reads the modified TileDesigner format and generates 
Postscript. The perl internals were derived from the original Delphi code, 
but a number of rendering primitives were added and a Posctscript renderer 
was added to generate print-quality tile.  I sent the PS rendering code 
back to Marco, and I think he was working to integrate it into his Delphi 
code, but I haven't followed that closely.  Since then, I loaded the 
TileDesigner data into an Informix database which is my authoritive copy, 
and I have import/export tools to my modified .18t format.  The 
in-database version has additional data that was calculated on the fly by 
the layout code, so I could tweak it manually and mark it as no longer 
automatically generated.

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