AGI Studio (further development)

[Nailhead]

I have given myself the task of furthering development of AGI Studio. It's what started out as killing a single bug, then escalated to adding new functionality, and now I'm taking suggestions. I hope this helps all of you in creating such excellent AGI games.

http://www.nailhead.org/agistudio

For anyone running an AGI site, please feel free to add this link to your lists. Thanks!

[Chris Cromer]

Hey nailhead when I tried to visit you AGI Studio page I got the error Forbbiden. What is causing this and how can I get to your page.

[Nailhead]

Sorry about that, I had a few IP prefixes banned from the domain. I've lifted them, so try it again.

[Chris Cromer]

Thanks I was able to get the AGI studio file. Thanks for adding the right click menu it's pretty cool.

[Chris Cromer]

Hey nailhead below is the things Peter Kelly was planning to add to AGI Studio  but never did you should try adding these things to AGI Studio.

Resource Management
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-Detect 'VIEWabc.000' or 'VIEWxyz.000' etc as VIEW.000 etc when adding resources
-Add drag and drop from explorer for adding/extracting resources
-Show resource size in resources window

Preview window
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-If an error occurs, display it in the preview window instead of a message box

Logic/text editor
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-Do not allow defines to be used before they are defined.
-Allow command blocks with no commands, e.g. if (isset(12)) { }
-Require quote marks around include filenames
-Give proper error messages when compiling something that is all comments

View Editor
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Features:
-Allow view editor to be used when there is no game open
-Make view loading more robust
-Fix up problem where other keys such as 9 and + on the num. keyboard trigger off other keyboard events
-Speed up pasting by determining whether or not clipboard image is from A.S. or external
-Add undo for cel/loop insert/delete/add/append
-Change MaxHeight and MaxWidth to functions ?

[Chris Cromer]

Hey nailhead I found an error in AGI studio. When you have a logic open and click on the words.tok editor you get locked in the words.tok file.

[Nailhead]

That's pretty strange on two levels.
1. I can't imagine why it would act that way.
2. I can't seem to duplicate the error on my machine.

By "locked" do you mean that you can't enter back into the logic screen?

Try the newest version that I have ready, maybe that bug is gone, if not I'll look into it further.

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Version 1.33 (10/10/01):

[*]Syntax Highlighting
[*]Allow command blocks with no commands, e.g. if (isset(12)) { }
[*]Added line number counts to the statusbar of all text editing windows
[*]More robust text editing, with gutter, margin, and more
[*]Pressing 'F1' will search a word in the Help file. The context is determined by the current position of the cursor in a text window.
[*]Improved the 'Find' text feature
[*]Added a 'Replace' text feature
[*]Added a 'Go To' text feature
[*]Added 'Bookmarks' to the text editing windows

[*]Access bookmarks through either the right click menu or using hotkeys
[*]Toggle bookmark using "CTRL+SHIFT+0". Use 0 through 9 to toggle specifics
[*]Go to bookmark using "CTRL+0". Use 0 through 9 to goto a specific one
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[Rich]

The thing that really needs to be added, IMHO, more than anything else (because I can get around all those other things), is a sound editer. This has always been the biggest request of most AGI Studio fans over the years I'd say. It's certainly mine.

Rich

[bokkers]

I absolutely agree with Rich: a sound editor would be the definite thing, but it seems quite difficult to me, as the sound.xyz resources are quite weird and limited.
Nevertheless, if anyone manages to get something like this done, I would appreciate it  
bok

[Nailhead]

Ah, a sound editor, of course! It would truly then be an AGI Studio. I'll definately look into that one.

[bokkers]

@Nailhead:
If you're really trying to do this and need some help, drop me a line. I have some experience with computer music and midi.
b.o.k.

[Chris Cromer]

Hey nailhead I found an error in AGI studio. When you have a logic open and click on the words.tok editor you get locked in the words.tok file.

What happens is all of the buttons at the top disapear such as minimize,maximize,and close which locks me in the words'tok editor. I have a similar problem with the original AGI Studio but it got worse with your version so maybe you can take a look at that.

[Chris Cromer]

I checked your new version pretty cool but that problem still exists. A new bug with 1.33 the highlighting dont work if your use capital letters such as IF

[Chris Cromer]

Hey nailhead I was wondering if you could put my web site in the web menu, because I put a whole bunch of AGI utilities on CD's that I burn then I take them and distribute them to people in my high school for free to get more people into AGI and to help them learn about games of the past and how to create these kinds of games themselves. So I would like to have a link to my site in there for them to use.

[Nailhead]

@Nailhead:
If you're really trying to do this and need some help, drop me a line. I have some experience with computer music and midi.
b.o.k.

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on that.

AGI1122:
That's the strangest sounding bug, and I really with that I could duplicate that error on mine. I've looked into all of the windows handling code and there's nothing strange about it. Are there any other programs that produce that same error? Also, what version of Windows are you running (eg. version, service pack no., language, charset)?

I'll definately add your site to the menu, and any other useful sites as well.