Gideros Update 2015.06.10

ar2rsawseen · June 2015

Since I'm leaving for a week, and won't be able to make releases during that time, here's a little early release:

Release
* Application:vibrate now accepts amount of miliseconds to vibrate
* Ability to provide organization name and domain when exporting desktop applications
* Player dispatches SUSPEND/RESUME events on losing focus and modal dialogs

Plugins
* Flurry fix to work with new Flurry library

WinRT export template
* Added application:setKeepAwake
* Added handling Back button on phone
* Added application:exit
* Added application:vibrate
* Added Sprite:setBlendMode
* Fixed not resending all files to player all the time

Desktop export template
* Dispatches SUSPEND/RESUME events on losing focus and modal dialogs
* Uses provided organization name and domain

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/releases/tag/2015.06.10

Backers will receive new templates soon

ar2rsawseen · June 2015

By the way, from this release, since you can provide organization for desktop export, OSX build should be submittable to apple (only organization should match your developer name in apple)

After that you would need to codesign .app and all dylib files and I think bundle it.

Additional news is that I think Apple merged developer licenses today, so all ios developers, are able to submit OSX apps now too.

So have a go at it and share any experience you have successful or not.

I will try to do the same when I get back

tkhnoman · June 2015

Wow. Great.
This is faster than i thought.. I feel like submitting our game faster now, but there is still so much thing need to be done for the game itself...

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Hmm.. i just wondering about Gideros's logo and name. (Going to use it on vid & credit)
Lately i searched 'Gideros Logo', it all show "Gideros Mobile" as it's name.
Using "mobile" might be weird for desktop game, so is there any talk between core team about this? :-?

EDIT : SUSPEND/RESUME events isn't dispatched at my player.

keszegh · June 2015

it still resizes for me the player for the app size, so it's hard to test different screen sizes.

zoolax · June 2015

So cool,I was waiting for blend mode ,thanks

ianchia · June 2015

Hi Core Devs,

I'm trying to optimise my toolchain and text editors with Gideros and running into issues using gdrbridge instead of running an Applescript that calls Gideros Studio to run a player on an iP address for on-device development (my Gideros projects use a number of custom plugins.)

Under OS X using the 2015.06.10 build, in the terminal, if my unix pwd is:

/Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents

I run:

./Tools/gdrbridge setip 192.168.1.20

and I get these errors:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork
Referenced from: /Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/./Tools/gdrbridge
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

Looking in the Tools directory, I can see a bunch of Windows QT dlls, ie:

/Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools/Qt5Core.dll
/Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools/Qt5Network.dll
/Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools/Qt5Xml.dll

but no Mac versions?

Has the gdrbridge executable been tested under Mac OS X lately?

Thank you for your advice.

Best,

- Ian

john26 · June 2015

A few extra WinRT features were also added:

+ Support AlertDialog
+ Support soundchannel:setPitch

I've now send out the templates to backers.

This is probably the last beta release for backers only. In future we will incorporate desktop and WinRT into the official Gideros releases.

john26 · June 2015

@tkhnoman: SUSPEND/RESUME might work when you install the latest templates? Which OS is it not working on?

ianchia · June 2015

Hi again,

I got the OS X gdrbridge to work. I downloaded the current community edition of QT5.4.2 and installed the clang x64 binaries. Then I manually created the subdirectories within /usr/local so /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib existed.

Then inside the directory:

~/Qt5.4.2/5.4/clang_64/lib/

I copied QtCore.framework, QtNetwork.framework and QtXml.framework to:

/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtCore.framework
/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtNetwork.framework
/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib/QtXml.framework

Now I can call "gdrbridge setip x.x.x.x"and "gdrbridge play ~/path/to/foo.gproj" and everything works. Yay!

However, it *doesn't* work if I copy those .framework folders into the /Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools directory, even though I'm guessing the windows gdrbridge.exe binary is using the qt5 dlls in the same directory on that platform.

Why is the Mac version currently hardcoded to expect qt5 libs in /usr/local/opt/qt5/lib ?

Thank you for your thoughts.

Best,

- Ian

ar2rsawseen · June 2015

Yes @ianchia I will need to update my local OSX QT to 5.4 and build with that later on

freessp · June 2015

'Application:vibrate now accepts amount of miliseconds to vibrate' I have been waiting for this addition. Now I can actually use vibration in my game! 300ms was way too long so I just didn't use vibration at all. Thanks @ar2rsawaeen!

tkhnoman · June 2015

* Player dispatches SUSPEND/RESUME events on losing focus and modal dialogs

@john26 : I assumed it works on the player because of this, but since it works on the export project, i guess it's fine. (just received and tried it recently)

--- BUG ---
In the new template, i can't access |D| with io.open, it give me error:

|D|file.ini: Invalid argument

zoolax · June 2015

Hi,Any body knows how to create a trial version of your app for WinRT ?
Maybe this is too soon to ask:)

john26 · June 2015

@tkhnoman: "In the new template, i can't access |D| with io.open, it give me error:".

Is it happening with desktop or WinRT?

@zoolax: Do you mean create a WinRT package to distribute to beta testers? Yes, you can do that from the STORE > Create app packages menu. Then you just email what it outputs to testers and they can sideload it using Windows Phone Application Deployment. They just need to unlock their phone. There is no UDID on Win Phone.

To sideload Windows Store apps on a PC, see here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/129535/how-to-sideload-modern-apps-on-windows-8/

tkhnoman · June 2015

@john26 : Windows Desktop.
Somehow i always forget to mention where it is, lol.

tkhnoman · June 2015

Just wondering and not important,

Is it possible to implement catching mouse left click and mouse right click?

SinisterSoft · June 2015

@tkhnoman some of the kickstart backers have it on early release, it depends on how much you contributed. Everyone should have it sometime this month.

tkhnoman · June 2015

@SinisterSoft
Did you mean Desktop version already can catch mouse left click and mouse right click? If yes, i wonder how we do that.

If it's about Windows Desktop, i already received it, and frequently issuing about things, because we planned to go on Steam.

ar2rsawseen · June 2015

@tkhnoman sorry I'm away for couple more days

So does focus stuff does not work on player but works on desktop export?

and will add mouse button too

tkhnoman · June 2015

@ar2rsawseen :
Yes, it's only works on desktop export. Haven't tried Mac.

zoolax · June 2015

Hello Every one,
I wanted to thank every one who has worked on making gideros winRT possible.
Really Great work.
I have published my game on windows store :
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-ca/app/sea-of-giants-the-society/f2c86e76-ebec-4f7b-be5e-d7121659dcce

I am trying to find out on how to add a free trial as well within the same paid application.
A Free trial that is based on the amount of levels that players play.
There is an option in publishing page,
but it only lets you to limit the trial's time which will not work all the time.

Here it is an example:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-ca/app/roman-empire/18a56d6a-901f-4f84-aba9-4d57b91e64b9

Let me know if you have any idea how to do this.
Thanks

john26 · June 2015

Congo ratz, @zoolax! You are the first person I think to publish a Gideros game on the Windows Store. And it's fitting we should start with one of the finest and most beautiful Gideros games.

I hope everyone here will download this game to see how Gideros looks on WinRT and also to support a fellow developer! :-)

Are you also planning to release Windows and Mac desktop versions? Perhaps on Steam?

Now that 2015.06.30 is released (phew!) I will look into the issue of preparing a trial version on WinRT.

zoolax · June 2015

Congo ratz, @zoolax! You are the first person I think to publish a Gideros game on the Windows Store...

@john26 @ar2rsawseen and @marceloJunior, @hgy29 @SinisterSoft
Thank you guys for all the dedication and massive hard work.
I can not imagine how complex of task ,it must of been to execute.
I will look into steam for sure.
I am downloading the new released version just now.
I might just create a free demo for now as a separate package,not sure if Microsoft approves it.
but I will give it a try.
Talk to you guys soon

john26 · July 2015

Thanks, @zoolax! I downloaded and played Sea of Giants last night and it's a fantastic game. (rated 5 star and reviewed of course!) I loved "the Lost City" so really enjoyed this also. Haven't finished yet, I've got to the submarine but still need to repair it! The game seems to run smooth on my low spec Dell Celeron laptop. I haven't noticed any bugs.

hgy29 · July 2015

@zoolax, just purchased and tried Sea of Giants too, looks very good, but I experienced a scaling issue, i.e. graphics not taking all screen space and mouse events not matching actual graphics location (Windows 8.1 PC). I and @john26 will try to investigate this problem further.

john26 · July 2015

The problem seems to occur only on high resolution devices. Doesn't happen with my laptop. So a "retina display" issue.

jdbc · July 2015

+1

john26 · July 2015

We've now found the problem and fixed the code. I will compile test and release a new version (at least for WinRT) tomorrow.

hgy29 · July 2015

@zoolax, Thanks for the update, everything is ok now... well except French translations which are, hmm, awful I'd say

If you want to send me a localization table for French (along with english version to get original meaning), I'd be happy to correct them.

Beside that, your game is really beautiful. I am very fond of adventure/point and click games like that.

ar2rsawseen · July 2015

@ianchia I've found a bug in gdrdaemon (which gdrbridge uses) which prevent it from building correctly, that's why the library stuff did not work.

But for some reason I can not make it to work with Gideros Player.
So does it really work normally for you?

zoolax · July 2015

@zoolax, Thanks for the update, everything is ok now...

Thanks,I have also added a free limited demo for any one who likes to just test it out free:
bit.ly/1T95VgF
regarding translation,that might happens when you hire on freelancers,and since I do not speak any French,it can be very hard for me to check that.:)
If you send me a gmail,I will share the word document with you.
And I would really appreciate that.
My email is play@zoolax.com
Thanks

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