Re: [Civil-devel]Random thoughts

On Friday 27 July 2001 21:21, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> Somehow the image could not be loaded? Does it not exist, or is the
> installation procedure bad? I've never seen any problem with this, so
> there is something interesting going on. I've added a catch for the error,
> which should print out the file it tries to load.

It was a really weird SDL error - it seems SDL_image references libraries 
outside it's sourcetree during buildtime, therefore it didn't load any GIF 
images - I noticed that when I renamed IMG_Load to IMG_Loadxyz and started 
the "showimage" tool locally, it complained about an undefined reference to 
IMG_Load which should normally not occur. But anyway, this error is gone :)
I only had to disable
	scenario.audio.loadMusic ( properties.music_main )
	scenario.audio.playMusic ()
in civil.py/def main(), but the rest works ok. (The music continues from the 
menu though)
And it looks pretty good!

> Seeing Josef's signature below, and having read a few docs about GGZ and
> looked at the API, I wonder wether it would be hard to adapt Civil to some
> day use GGZ. Could be interesting to be able to provide some kind of
> "lounge" where games can be set up. Any Python interface? Just a thought
> though... :)

On the client side that wouldn't require more than 3 lines of Python or so 
(i.e. when given an option it connects to a local socket instead of to a 
port).
The server side seems more complicated - if I've understood the concept of 
the civil server right, it is intended to run permanently, which we don't 
support yet :(
However, we had some really weird ideas in the past weeks, including playing 
scripted games (Python, Perl, Ruby) directly from CVS or adding OOP methods 
during runtime - but most of those ideas are far from being realistic and 
will need some time. There is just no common concept available - at LinuxTag 
I've spoken with a WorldForge guy, they're also just beginning with this kind 
of libraries (including meta-servers etc.). Hopefully in some months there's 
some decent code present.

Josef

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