[Ohrrpgce] Fufluns released! ...

Ralph Versteegen teeemcee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 23:35:07 PDT 2018


Another: I just noticed that I forgot about cutting tiles from backdrops,
that's broken, and may be crashy when .mxs is deleted.

On 23 March 2018 at 18:13, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, how should non-320x200 backdrops be positioned? Currently, textbox
> backdrops and I think "show backdrop" places these backdrops aligned to the
> top-left corner of the screen, while the titlescreen and battle backdrops
> are centered. Perhaps we should change this. It would be best to add a
> textbox option to position the backdrop.
>
> On 23 March 2018 at 18:11, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The spriteset editor is unusably slow in large games; I need to get rid
>> of the defpal#.bin lumps. (WIP)
>>
>> .pt# and .mxs lumps need to be deleted.
>>
>> Cursor keys in the spriteset editor are still very wonky. I rewrote the
>> cursor key handling, I just need to clean up the code and commit it.
>>
>> Also, the Windows 10 bug which breaks gfx_directx fullscreening ought to
>> be addressed, I think at least 4 people have complained about that problem.
>> The easiest way to solve it would be to switch to gfx_sdl as the default
>> for game.exe, but switching backends always causes unexpected problems (and
>> gfx_sdl fullscreening is really bad anyway), so I'd rather try to figure
>> out how to fix the problem properly.
>> (And anyway, Pepsi reported another new problem with gfx_sdl
>> fullscreening on Windows: https://www.slimesalad.com/for
>> um/viewtopic.php?p=132358#132358)
>>
>> There was a bug which resulted in broken textbox links; I fixed that bug
>> but for some reason didn't merge in the upgrade code to scan a game for
>> broken textbox links and show a message.
>>
>> Although I merged in my branch which reenabled MP3 previewing, when I
>> tested it later it didn't actually work for some reason. Should either fix
>> it or delete that from whatsnew.
>>
>> I still need to fix the rest of the bug where copy-pasting text is broken
>> on Windows (it appends \r characters to each line).
>>
>> Audio doesn't work at all on Windows when the codepage (for non-unicode
>> applications) is set to Japanese, because in that codepage the \ character
>> has a different code point. Not really a blocker, but serious
>>
>> On 23 March 2018 at 16:09, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hehe! Well, we will release for real soon enough. Other than the Sprite
>>> import/export stuff, what else would you consider blockers?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, March 22, 2018, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Haha! Surprisingly for that split second before seeing the "Just
>>>> kidding" I didn't feel shock or annoyance; more like relief :)
>>>> I have been unfortunately too busy, and when I have had time, failed to
>>>> work on the important stuff, so this is turning into a bit of a farce... I
>>>> am currently working on the missing spriteset import/export now though, and
>>>> will follow that up with other important features.
>>>>
>>>> I don't want to keep delaying forever and have come to think that we
>>>> (mainly I) are following the wrong strategy: rather than releasing late to
>>>> fit in more features, we should cut early releases when we have something
>>>> cool we want to get into people's hands without delay! (However in this
>>>> particular case we couldn't, and can't, release on-time because of blockers)
>>>>
>>>> On 22 March 2018 at 11:03, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just kidding! not yet! I like imagining your reaction to that subject
>>>>> line, TMC ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> But seriously, how are you feeling about pending features and bugfixes?
>>>>>
>>>>> Shall we push the stabilization of for another couple weeks?
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> James
>>>>>
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