[CF-Devel] crossfire map editor.

[Pertti Karppinen (OH6KTR)]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:53:40PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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       Just to recap:
     
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       current crossedit apparantly has severe problems with newest versions of Xaw
     
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      making it unusable.  So discussion has started on making a new crossedit.
     
     
The first step into this direction, would be the separation of crossedit and
crossserver source trees. This should be done before we move to
sourceforge. 
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      another method would be to keep it in C, but instead use a toolkit that has a
     
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     common API set for both unix and windows.  Once again, saves porting effort, but
     
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     this needs to be a pretty mainstream library.  If people running unix have to
     
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     jump through a dozen hoops to get the library and have it set up (Because of
     
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     various dependancies or other issues), this may not be ideal.  I'm presuming
     
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     that windows would be distributed in binary form, so they won't need to jump
     
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     through the hoops.
     
     
I still propose fltk. Only drawback for this API is "support for MacOS is
under development". On the good side is "Very small & fast portable 2-D
drawing library to hide Xlib and WIN32".
     
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk
     
     

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       Whichever option for development is chosen, I do have the following thoughts:
     
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      1) Editor will be a separate package and not part of the server.
     
     
Absolutely.

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      2) user can grab updated archetypes and image files for his editor to create
     
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      maps.  In face, breaking the files generated from the 'arch' distribution off
     
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      from the server may not be a bad idea in any case, as I get the feeling that if
     
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      1.0 ends up being very stable, the archs will probably end up changing more than
     
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      the source will.
     
     
Looks likely as fair amount balancing is still about to happend.
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      3) user does not need map distribution to make new maps.  They can easily enough
     
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      make a standalone set of maps and send it to whoever who can then link it into
     
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      the the main distribution.
     
     
But we do need good documentation. And tutorials.
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