Re: [Super-tux-devel] Leveleditor first release

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

(the dumb kmail was replying only to the person that send the mail to the=20
list, so i am resending this mail to the all list)

Hey all,

Em Domingo, 28 de Dezembro de 2003 16:20, o Duong-Khang NGUYEN escreveu:
> Le Dimanche 28 D=E9cembre 2003 12:46, vous avez =E9crit :
> >  This game will be played by very little children, so a built-in editor
> > would be much easier to use for those.
>
> By stand-alone I mean there's the game "supertux" and another executable
> file "supertuxle" or something like that. It's as easy to use as the
> builtin editor I believe
>

 As Tobias mentioned, it would be cool to have a test option. Could be easi=
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implemented in an internal editor.
 Futhermore, different executables could be easy to use for us, but not for=
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child.

> >  Did you find the code to be too straight? If you didn't like this, you
> > probabily had an heart attack when looking at the old gameloop function.
> > ;P I could put the key events in a different function, I just didn't
> > because I don't like global variables that much.
>
> I don't like the way you use the global variables and the way you call the
> function from gameloop.c. I think that functions from gameloop.c are not
> for external use. And last but not least, the way you manipulate pointers
> don't fit me much.
>

 I would like to know more about what you find wrong in my pointers=20
manipulation... Really, I am not an experienced programmer and I am comited=
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to improve my coding.
 Anyway, about the =ABfunctions from gameloop.c are not for external use=BB.

 Tobias said:
> Moreover maintaining the level-editor seperate would be a bad idea IMHO,
> because both could share some code. (remember encapsulation)
> Give it a chance. If you still think it is that bad, when I've commited
> it, then we can still create a seperate level-editor.

 What do you guys think it would be better, that the level editor called=20
gameloop functions or not?
 Currently, 6 gameloop funcs are called and 2 were forked. I had to fork th=
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because they have some stuff that had to be different, but these two could =
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easily changed in gameloop, in order to level editor call them from there.

 Anyway, I think a level editor should be internal, since it wouldn't spend=
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much code (2 files) and integration is very cool.
 Now, should it use gameloop functions or not? Using them would lead to=20
simpler code in the leveleditors files, at the same time, it would lead to=
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harder code to debug and a change in gameloop could break or, even worse,=20
create nasty and not right way visible bugs in the level editor.

Regards,
 Ricardo

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