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Offline Havner

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
There is nothing i can tell you about what needs to be done. You need to know yourself how to do that, if I knew (or at least had OSX to experiment) i wouldn't ask for help :-)

Basically there are few simple OS specific functions to be written. Get latest svn and look in trunk/src/macx. They should be self explanatory when comparing to win/linux implementation.

About build system I'm pretty sure qmake will handle it automatically.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
I personally don't like how you used buttons. I prefer the tabs, myself.

Thats because I didn't manage to wrap tabs in QT. You'd have to scroll one line of them left<>right which was even worse. I'll get back to that at some point. For now its just cosmetics.

It's argued that they are a bad idea usability-wise... people hate multirow tabs as they hate Comic Sans. Not even the KDE equivalent supports this.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Well, that means that I should stop rewriting Luncher 4 for OS X?

If you would like, I could do some work for this Launcher on OS X... Notify me if you want to.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Honestly, it's a race to the finish line at this point.  Preferably a cross platform launcher that works would be ideal, but people have to use what they can get in the meantime and there's no guarantee the best solution will be seen in the near future.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
If you would like, I could do some work for this Launcher on OS X... Notify me if you want to.
Well, the OS X specific parts need an OS X user to test them. I suppose that's what Havner would most want from you right now.
It's really easy if you know OS X and have a machine to test:

* FilePaths_macx.cpp
- bool initialize( const QString& );
Sets QString m_qstrGameDir to the game directory. Probably just the dirname() of the parameter.
- QString getConfigDir();
Returns a dir where config files will be stored. Probably the same that fs2_open uses.
- QString getTempDir();
Returns a dir with write permission so fs2_open's -get_flags works. Probably just QDir::tempPath().

* System_macx.cpp
- static bool run( const QString&, const QStringList& = QStringList(), bool = false );
Run the game with the given parameters
- static bool runBrowser( const QString& );
Open the URL from the parameter with an Internet browser
- static int mSleep( int );
Just sleep.
- static QSize getSize();
Returns the window size.
Probably all of them can be just copied from System_unix.cpp.

 

Offline Havner

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Probably all of them can be just copied from System_unix.cpp.

I suppose they can't. Take into consideration that application on OSX is an .app dir. I have no idea how's that related to data dir. Binary itself is hidden somewhere inside this .app, I don't know whether your current dir when you run this .app is inside binary dir, inside .app dir or somwhere else. Same with config dir. AFAIR fs2_open holds it somewhere else then ~/.fs2_open.

So basically you can't copy that from System_unix but a person with basic knowledge how that work on OSX should be able to do that without any problems. If any of you is eager to do that be my guest, would be nice to run this launcher on OSX.

Answering Soulstorm's question, no I don't want you to stop developing anything if you feel that's needed. On the other hand if you feel you're doing the same work and would like to help here you're more then welcome.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Yes, I am willing to help.

Also, I haven't been around for some time, and I also haven't taken a look at this Launcher to see differences and similarities in functionality, so I can't tell you if 2 Launchers are needed. Right now, I am willing to begin writing Launcher 4, which will be a complete overhaul from 3, and I also want it to use Core Animation in order to make the UI more appealing to the end user. Objective C offers a great level of abstraction, and sometimes that is needed.

So, what do I do to help? Must I download a binary? Or take a brief look at the source? This program is Qt based, right? Please pm me if you are interested in me helping with anything regarding the new Launcher.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
We're very utilitarian in this community. I can tell you we don't need core animations (unnecessary animations would make it worse). Just make it a good utility launcher and that's what everyone wants at heart.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
I wouldn't speak for the whole community, Mac users are notorious for expecting a pretty UI, even if the same doesn't apply to the community as a whole.  If it improves the user experience then go for it.
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Offline Agent24

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Can someone help me getting this working on Kubuntu 9.04?

I've played this on XP before but I thought I'd try to get it going on Linux as well

I get these errors:

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make -f Makefile.Release
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/agent24/Desktop/yal-0.1.3'
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -Isrc -Isrc/gui -Irelease -o release/FilePaths.o src/FilePaths.cpp
make[1]: g++: Command not found
make[1]: *** [release/FilePaths.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/agent24/Desktop/yal-0.1.3'
make: *** [release] Error 2

 

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
The error seems pretty self explanatory to me, it can't find g++ so there's something wrong with your build environment.  Either it's not installed or it's not in your path.
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Offline Havner

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Exactly as chief said. Besides if you want to use it take SVN version, much more usable.
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Offline Agent24

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Thanks but I have no idea how to get SVN or what g++ is or what to install to get it...

 

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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Use synaptic to install the build-essential and qt-make packages.
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Offline Havner

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Also install subversion, create some dir and inside it in terminal run:

$ svn co svn://vega.livecd.pl/yal/trunk
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
I have decided to take a look at the Launcher, so I downloaded from the latest trunk at the SVN. I installed QT 4.5 on Leopard, and I opened the "yal.pro" file. When building, I received 12 warnings and 4 errors from the debugger. Note that I have Leopard.

In Snow Leopard, I receive 250 warnings and 46 errors, and I take it this is a Qt incompatibility with Snow Leopard.

This is what I am getting in Leopard 10.5.8:

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/Users/soulstorm/programming/Active Projects (Controlled)/FS2_QT/trunk/src/macx/FilePaths_macx.cpp:3: error: prototype for 'bool FilePaths::initialize()' does not match any in class 'FilePaths'
/Users/soulstorm/programming/Active Projects (Controlled)/FS2_QT/trunk/src/macx/FilePaths_macx.cpp:3: error: prototype for 'bool FilePaths::initialize()' does not match any in class 'FilePaths'
/Users/soulstorm/programming/Active Projects (Controlled)/FS2_QT/trunk/src/macx/FilePaths_macx.cpp:3: error: prototype for 'bool FilePaths::initialize()' does not match any in class 'FilePaths'
/Users/soulstorm/programming/Active Projects (Controlled)/FS2_QT/trunk/src/macx/FilePaths_macx.cpp:3: error: prototype for 'bool FilePaths::initialize()' does not match any in class 'FilePaths'

I guess that you need help with the OS X side of the Launcher? Or I did something really wrong with this one? I would really like to help with Qt, and I intend to get to know it better, since I need to do some cross platform work in some projects.
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Offline Havner

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Exactly, the errors you pasted show unimplemented functions that need to be done for OSX. Just look what they are in linux/win version, they are QT independant, just some simple functions for finding files and a little bit more complicated for running processes.
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
I will try. I intend to get involved with Qt, and when I learn to do some basic stuff, this Launcher is the first one I will look into, in order to establish support for OS X.

If I may ask, is distributing the compiled application with Qt allowed? Or must anyone who wants to use the Launcher must download the source and compile it?

EDIT: Oh, and... if anyone doesn't have the Qt framework installed, can he/she use the precompiled binary?
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Offline Havner

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If I may ask, is distributing the compiled application with Qt allowed? Or must anyone who wants to use the Launcher must download the source and compile it?

You can distribute the precompiled binary but if it's compiled from modified source you need to give the modified source as well if someone asks you (GPL)

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EDIT: Oh, and... if anyone doesn't have the Qt framework installed, can he/she use the precompiled binary?

Normally no, there are few ways to workaround that:

1. Statically link
2. Include libs together with binary (more of a windows way)
3. Include framework within .app dir (osx way, don't know whether that's possible but something like this should be)
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Re: [RELEASE] Yet Another Launcher (Linux, Windows, OSX soon).
Is this the latest launcher?
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