Gideros 2020.9 is out

hgy29

Hi Giderians,

September release of Gideros is a bit early this year, mostly because I have been working harder on my own Gideros made games/apps recently (Covid holidays!) and I added more features to ease my life and yours, as well as a set of fixes/updates with platform requirements.

With Gideros supporting Xbox, we had to add support for IAP to UWP. That's done now, and at the same time the store review plugin has been updated to support UWP and Android (it was iOS only until now).

Some more work has been done on lua shaders: I switched one of my apps to use them instead of GLSL only, and had to improve lua shaders. They now support sub function calls, more complex code sequences and the code translater is able to 'guess' some things you had to tell it before in your own code. It is still far from being perfect, some code sequences don't work yet, such as repeat/until, while, and even 'else' after 'if'. Boolean ops aren't fully avaibale either. Still I was able to write pretty complex environment shaders in lua (rain, snow, fire), and they work on all platforms, even UWP (DirectX) and Metal (iOS).

Also, Gideros now has some built-in math helpers for vector and geometry operations. See them in documentation I am sure you'll find them handy.

See the full list of changes below.

New features
[core] Add vector/game specific math functions
[plugin/iab] UWP support
[plugin/storereview] files for android and uwp
[plugin/imgui] ImGui bindings by @Rraptor

Improvements
[core/layout] Add offset and origin constraints
[core/textlayout] Add 'singleline' option, compute minimum size
[gfx] Add Particles:getNearestParticle call
[library/luashader] Support nested functions and more code constructs

Fixes
[ios] Make APNS code disabled by default, to avoid appstore warning about APNS not enabled
[html5] Fix test in JS code for UI, call hide after event is dispatched
[plugin/share] share_path files was missing
[library/3dbase] Check for proper GLSL extension before enabling shadows
[textlayout] fix minimum size computing
[backend] Using SYS_CONST_TIME was leading to crashes
[export/android] Min target SDK is now 29

As usual, you can get the latest version here:
http://giderosmobile.com/download

keszegh

and don't forget to mention the ImGui bindings which are even themeable and so are fully capable of making business apps, a great addition!

hgy29

Yes, it is a really great addition, although the version bundled in 2020.9 is three days old and you guys seem to be improving a lot recently. I guess it will be even greater in 2020.10

keszegh

it seems imgui is not supported in html export, will it be?

hgy29

It is supposed to be supported, but I didn't try. Do you get an error or something ?

keszegh

"module 'ImGui' not found"

keszegh

also, when the ImGui binding becomes completish then a gideros example using many of its features would be nice.

hgy29

keszegh said:

"module 'ImGui' not found"

Ok, I think I know. There is a case mismatch between the module symbol name (imgui) and the file name (Imgui). I'll fix that. You can rename your Imgui.wasm file to imgui.wasm and change imgui.gplugin line 40 to export 'imgui' instead of 'Imgui'.

keszegh said:

also, when the ImGui binding becomes completish then a gideros example using many of its features would be nice.

I count on you for doing that

EDIT: Sorry, it should be all lower case instead.

keszegh

@hgy29 , changing the file helped, thanks (now it's simply outdated so my example with latest features does not work, but otherwise it's working).

gideros example... @rrraptor has an example, i shall add some further stuff to that, when the time comes.

keszegh

EDIT: sorry post in wrong topic.

rrraptor

hgy29 said:

[plugin/imgui] ImGui bindings by @Rraptor

Skiped 1 "r"

Dafb

Thank you so much!

keszegh

now i'm using gideros gui instead of zerobrane to try simple things, in zbs if you press F5 it starts a player and runs the project.
in gideros you have to start it with button or with ctrl+shift+p, then you can press f5 (even though it's not mentioned in the gui) to run it.
can you add please that also in gideros it starts local player when f5 is pressed and no player is running? or alternately at least add a simpler shortcut to run local player, e.g. f7 or f9 or whatever you like, just one key instead of 3 (like ctrl+shift+p).
thanks

dreiko65

Hi everyone, is Android target version 29 and android tools version 30.0.2 a good configuration for exporting a project?
thanks!

SinisterSoft

Leave Android tools blank and it will pick the most recent that you have installed on the pc. 29 is the new norm.

keszegh

on http://giderosmobile.com/ in the bottom there is a twitter box. either at least twit about the new releases or remove this box. makes the page look dead.

a blog post per year, even if short would be great too, but i understand that you don't have time for it.

on the other hand this also seems obsolete:
http://giderosmobile.com/thankyou
"We have reached our main goal and already started working on making 64 bit binaries and adding WP8 and Desktop supports."

keszegh

btw these wiki pages are related how? they could be merged. there is still so many separate pages of resource for gideros, very confusing for newcomers i guess:

http://giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/Main_Page

https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/Welcome!

SinisterSoft

@keszegh - I added some blog posts, so did a couple of others. Nobody else seemed to want to get involved. I can add you to the list of users that can post to the blog if you like?

If nobody cares for the blog then maybe we should move the articles to the Wiki as tutorials then get rid of the blog?

keszegh

yes, i understand the issue, and i'm also not so eager to make posts, i don't enjoy much writing such posts, even to my page about my own app. but copy-pasting the release notes should be relatively fast and already would be a good sign of how gideros is kept improved and maintained.

keszegh

btw i like reading posts, just not writing them.
e.g. in the past even though i do not use openfl at all, i liked to see the updates on their blog page https://www.openfl.org/blog/ . now they stopped adding things to that and even they have unlinked this page from their main page (i guess it was too much hassle). they also use the forum exclusively now to announce things. still, they also have a tweet channel which the users do use from time to time. so learning from that we can also unlink the blog page from the main page if we do not intend to use it (somewhere hidden we can include a link to it). a minimal but maintained page looks better than a bloated one with many deadends. but i guess this idea was raised in the past too, other users even made some attempts for a new page but at the end the old one stayed. still, we can remove parts of it from time to time....

MoKaLux

keszegh said:

btw these wiki pages are related how? they could be merged. there is still so many separate pages of resource for gideros, very confusing for newcomers i guess:

http://giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/Main_Page

I think they (the gideros maintainers) don't have the access to this wiki and they cannot update it nor delete it from the web

keszegh

sounds weird. is that true?

antix

Meanwhile the main Gideros website sits there and really needing a revamp. I thought there was some movement on that?

If nobody has the time to keep the blog going then I'd vote for closing it as well.

Also, is it possible to close a reddit sub? The gideros sub has zero content and really shouldn't even exist IMHO.

icworx

Hi, the "Addons\Turbo Amiga Map Editor(alpha)" throws a bunch of errors and not working, assuming it's a placeholder or just not working yet?

SinisterSoft

Oops - I'll get back to working on the map editor soon.

keszegh

@SinisterSoft , your name is strangely doubled in the forum recently.

SinisterSoft

@keszegh I looked at the user list and couldn't see another one. Maybe another moderator deleted them?

keszegh

i mean this way:

SinisterSoft

That's odd. Maybe a glitch in the css? Is it just my profile?

keszegh

only yours.

hgy29

It looks ok for me, maybe something in your cache @keszegh ?