[Dev] SVN: james/501 Math Marauders: Now saves any changes you make to the map

[Brian Fisher]

I'm just comparing alternatives here - how would a save as work? would it
pop up a dialog? that's what creating a new asset in the editor does, and
it's more consistent and explicit because it's an always available option,
and isn't something that would just be used once (when editing the broken
reference asset)

I think ~, Alt-B, Select object type, Create Asset, pick location and name,
OK is as good a way to make the initial asset as any.

If there is a different model that makes more sense, we can invest in that.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:50:15AM -0700, Brian Fisher wrote:
> >    The error is bad there - but I think the correct solution is to
> create a
> >    new map in the editor that is connected to a file, and then edit it.
> The
> >    broken asset is really intended to be a "hey! you have a bad asset
> >    reference" object and to be a bootstrapping device (i.e. you can run
> it
> >    long enough to create an asset)
> >
> >    basically it might be nice to have a "save as" mechanic, but I don't
> see
> >    how any such mechanic would be any less work than creating a new
> asset in
> >    the editor?
>
> It would be needed for something edited directly in the game window.
>
> ---
> James
>
> >    On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, James Paige <
> Bob at hamsterrepublic.com>
> >    wrote:
> >
> >      I was running into problems when saving a not-yet-existing asset.
> >
> >      Basically, I have a map asset which I create like so:
> >
> >       map = AssetRef(BaseMap, "default")
> >
> >      So "data/default.map" does not exist anymore, but it correctly uses
> the
> >      _BrokenMap object when I play, so I have a map, but when I try to
> call
> >      map.asset_save() it crashes because map has no .asset_metadata
> property.
> >      (which makes sense, because this was not deserialized from disk)
> >
> >      So I have worked around the  problem by manually creating
> default.map in
> >      the editor, but is there some better way to say, "please save this
> >      asset to disk even though it was not loaded from disk"
> >
> >      You can reproduce the problem I was having by deleting
> data/default.map,
> >      running main.py, and clicking anywhere (which triggers the
> >      .asset_save() call)
> >
> >      ---
> >      James
> >      On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:09:58AM -0700,
> subversion at HamsterRepublic.com
> >      wrote:
> >      > james
> >      > 2008-04-11 11:09:57 -0700 (Fri, 11 Apr 2008)
> >      > 58
> >      > Math Marauders: Now saves any changes you make to the map
> >      > ---
> >      > A   marauders/data/default.map
> >      > U   marauders/locals.py
> >      > U   marauders/main.py
> >      > U   marauders/map.py
> >      >
> >      >
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