Re: [Tuxmath-devel] New Tuxmath commit (Re: New icons for tuxmath)

[David B. <db...@ta...>]

Hi Tim,

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:13, Tim Holy wrote:

>
> I updated my sources & recompiled without trouble. But executing tuxmath, I
> ran into a couple of issues:
> 1. Until I changed titlescreen.c so that the reference to main_bkg.jpg was
> turned into main_bkg.png, I got a segfault just after Loading... was
> complete.

Try it now - I had changed the backgrounds from .png to .jpg (much smaller 
files) but forgot to change the code in one place and had left the old .png 
file in the data dir - should be fixed.

> 2. After recompiling, I got farther: past the tux4kids logo, with the
> main_bkg loaded and showing, but as soon as the "Tux of Math Command" text
> reached the left edge of the screen, another segfault. I noticed a lot of
> failures to load images that are nominally in data/images/menu---however,
> in my checkout, there is no data/images/menu. Might that directory not have
> been added to the svn tree? Or is this still a work in progress?

For some reason, svn kept telling me that data/images/menu was already under 
source control, even though it wasn't.  I have renamed it to  
data/images/sprites and added it successfully.  I just did a clean checkout 
in a test directory on my Debian box and it works OK. 
>
> I notice that game.c has not changed in a while; presumably your work with
> the menu code does not affect this? Thus, unless you disagree, I'd be happy
> to hack on game.c to incorporate the new icons/effects, since that
> shouldn't conflict with the work you're doing.

That would be fine.  For what it's worth, my daughter is very adamant that we 
keep the "city" graphics as an option, at least.

> I can submit my patches to you; I never did get a response about getting an 
SVN account.

I don't exactly know who administers the svn site - I think Holger knows. 

Also, one issue will be whether to bundle any fonts.  I understand that 
tuxtype went through some sort of issue with this in the past - for now, it 
just has a hard-coded path to where the desired font is located in Debian, 
and the tuxtype-derived code now in tuxmath does the same thing.  I would 
favor bundling a single default/fallback font with the program, and 
eventually putting in some smarter code to search for system fonts (this 
seems to be what TuxPaint does).

-- 
David Bruce