Re: [TuxKart-devel] Some notes

[James G. <jam...@bt...>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 01:41, Matze Braun wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, James Gregory wrote:
> 
> > 1. The new loading code means that the game only works if the exe is run
> > from the game's root directory. I've changed some of the loading stuff
> > to use the Loader class to fix this, but not all of it.
> Huh? I added several searchpaths in start_tuxkart.cxx, so tuxkart should 
> also run from other directories. I'm planing to do add some code that 
> determines the directory of the executable (/proc/self...) so that it is 
> even more smart than just adding . and TUXKART_DATADIR.

It can't find the image files.

> > 2. In tuxkart.cxx there are lines like "loader ->
> > setCreateStateCallback  ( getAppState ) ;", which made sense before but
> > I don't think it does now that "loader" is something entirely different?
> No, the loader is still a subclass of ssgLoaderOptions, so the plib 
> related stuff is still valid and correct.

Oh, OK, sorry.

> > 
> > 3. there's no chance it will compile now as I don't know how to change
> > the autoconf stuff to make it make a makefile that includes my new
> > files. It also now needs to link to SDLimage and SDL_ttf
> 
> Are you talking about the GUI code?
> 

Yup, though grumbel changed the make stuff so it will compile now (and
has done for some hours)...if you have the right libraries installed.

	James