A new Gideros Studio beta with plugin support is here!

MikeHart · December 2011

Do that. I removed the libs and even after a "clean build" I get the same errors.

atilim · December 2011

Can you try this project: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/684866/GiderosiPhonePlayer-with plugins.zip

MikeHart · December 2011

Mmmh, that works. Have to figure out why my version doesn't.

atilim · December 2011

Great. If you find out, can you tell the reason?

MikeHart · December 2011

Funny, before I just added the includes folder of the SDK and the gamekit.mm. For the device, it worked. For the simulator not.
Now I created a new player project, but there I created a new group called plugins like you did and added the files there. Voila, it worked on the device AND the simulator. I have no clue what is different now but it works.
Sorry for causing extra work for you.

atilim · December 2011

no problem. glad it works

MikeHart · December 2011

And for the ones who didn't see my twitter post:

http://bit.ly/sImkxy

atilim · December 2011

amazed

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MikeHart · December 2011

It is just a simle alert. Will be interesting to see, how it is done with other ui elements. Never did it before but hey, I am not to old to learn!

MikeHart · December 2011

Ok, found out now how to display a webview:

http://bit.ly/ruvi3H

Need to figure out how to interface with it. Means how to close it again, etc etc.

It is really interesting this UIKit stuff.

GregBUG · December 2011

@MikeHart
wow!!! cool!!!

SemihMasat · December 2011

i cant see the plugin section on studio?

atilim · December 2011

If you downloaded and installed beta7 from http://88.198.22.6/downloads/beta , there is a Plugins folder at the installation folder. You put or remove plugins there and they are automatically loaded when player starts.

On iOS side, things are different. iOS doesn't support loading of dynamic libraries (I would be really glad if so). Therefore, you need to put the plugin into the XCode project by yourself and deploy the player again.

MikeHart · December 2011

Atilim, as you know, I am working on a plugin atm. What I noticed is the following. In the simulator, the internal objects are removed and the scripts stop once you hit the stop button in the IDE. But objects that are created through a plugin still exist because the player is running.
Do you have an idea how this (stopping the script) could be detected inside a plugin?

atilim · December 2011

yes, g_deinitializePlugin is called when you press the stop button.

atilim · December 2011

(btw, I'm really excited about your progress, waiting impatiently

)

MikeHart · December 2011

Thanks, but you have to be patient. I am learning UIKit coding atm. totally new for me.

Another question. How can I parse and convert a boolean from LUA to ObjC?

MikeHart · December 2011

yes, g_deinitializePlugin is called when you press the stop button.

Next question, how do I interface inside a plugin with this function? Sorry, if it is a dumb question. Just need one sample.

atilim · December 2011

To convert a boolean from Lua to C (or ObjC), there is a function lua_toboolean(lua_State*). On the other hand, you should have a basic knowledge on Lua C API and Lua stack. Here is a great information about Lua C API: http://www.lua.org/pil/index.html#P4 Also, Lua C API is really fun to play with (I think

)

For g_deinitializePlugin function, for example, there a BitOp example in plugins. In bit_stub.cpp, there is an empty g_deinitializePlugin which is called when the user press the stop button.

MikeHart · December 2011

Thanks, that reminded me that I should use the FindInFiles functionality of my own editor more.
And thanks for the link. Won't bother you with LUA questions anymore.

Btw., do you have a link that shows how to implement the class approach Gideros is using? Or is it shown in the samples plugins too and just didn't understand it.
After all it would be better when plugins follow the methology of Gideros.

I would like to do something like this:

require "uikit"
myView = uikit.createView()         --   Or myView = New View()
myButton = uikit.createButton()   --   Or myButton = New Button()
myView:add(myButton)
myButton:setPos(30,200)

And how does Studio know these new commands? Via a plugin in the plugin folder?

atilim · December 2011

If it's ok you, let me create a skeleton UI plugin with comments in it. Your Lua code can be a great start about how this plugin will look like. What do you think?

Won't bother you with LUA questions anymore.

Please ask anytime

MikeHart · December 2011

Any help is appreciated. I just want to make my plugin consistant with the way Gideros is doing it's other classes. Please take your time. I know you guys are now fully working on the book. And the IDE. And Gideros. And whatever

Best wishes
Michael

atilim · December 2011

Then that's great

I think that will be a good example of showing Gideros way of doing classes.

GregBUG · January 2012

@atilim
i found a way that the ide crash everytime...

1 open a project with some lua file in (Gidhelix is now more than 10 .lua files)
2 open another project that have less file in (ex. 1 or 2 .lua files)
3 crash...

the ide crash in my Macbook pro with lion os 10.7.2 and my MacPro (hack*ntosh) with lion 10.7.2.

hope it helps.

atilim · January 2012

I've installed a fresh lion 10.7.2 to my MacBook and this scenario crashes on my side too. We'll fix it. (On windows, linux (also with valgrind), and snow leopard, this scenario doesn't crash)

Thank you

atilim · January 2012

We've fixed this issue. Thank you again.

Caroline · January 2012

If it's ok you, let me create a skeleton UI plugin with comments in it.

I've been looking through the GameKit plugin, and have got the login alert showing from a gideros project, so I kind of see how it works. But I'd like to experiment with something more simple.

Do you have a simple plugin example, please?

atilim · January 2012

Of course. I can send you in a couple of days.

atilim · January 2012

We have a skeleton UIKit code and thanks to @MikeHart we've matured it together. I can send you the code after working on it a little bit more.

DRS · January 2012

Please publish on this board.

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