PolyDraw ver.1.01 (a polyline designer)

[Lachie Dazdarian]

I recently released PolyDraw, a polyline drawing utility.

It was primarily created to be used with vdecampo's Polylib, for the purpose of designing retro style vector games: http://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15968

But since polylines are saved in plain text format, PolyDraw can be used in combination with any code that deals with polylines.

Download: http://lachie.phatcode.net/PolyDraw_ver101.zip



It supports many options, like mirror polyline, vertex on snap, zooming and rotation while editing, undo/redo, load BMP sprite (to draw collision lines around it, for example), and more.

If you can find use for it, my pleasure.

[BadMrBox]

Looks nice. Good joob Lachie .

[vdecampo]

Looks Awesome! I love the icons.

Great Job! Now I can start editing my polys for my next game!

-Vince

[Brick Break]

Amazing! I have to admit, though, I was a little disappointed when I saw that they weren't filled polygons, but great interface!

[Lachie Dazdarian]

An update on my site after over 2 years, thanks to finishing this designer: http://lachie.phatcode.net/index.php

[Brick Break]

Um, Lachie, you might want to fix your zip archive. Keeping everything in the root is considered bad practice. Maybe a PolyDraw folder? I'm going to test this right now anyways.

EDIT: It opens and then closes. Such a shame. I'll see if I can make it work under Wine. Sorry for all the negative criticism.

EDIT 2: For some reason, when I recompiled it myself it worked. I wonder why that is. I also decided to make it respond to Alt-F4 and close events, and put it all in a PolyDraw folder, just because I think it's more friendly that way. I put it on a temporary file host so you can see what I've done.

http://uppit.com/u6ho3gr66f3c/polydraw.zip

EDIT 3: Oh, great. I get some weird caching error when I go fullscreen and all the menus disappear, because then when I close and start the program up again, the menus still aren't there! You probably want to use GFX_NOSWITCH. I'll compile again with that flag and see if that solves the problem.

EDIT 4: That's strange, when I run it out of the editor I don't get that error. Fixing it nonetheless.

EDIT 5: Fixed it. There is no way for that error to happen again. Sorry, I didn't update the link. It should be easy enough for you to add that flag, though. You know, I really like the interface, but it sucks how there's no file browser. I've never worked with files in FreeBASIC, so I don't know how that would work, but it would be a cool feature. Maybe I'll make that as a library if I get time.

[Lachie Dazdarian]

Thanks for your feedback guys.

Updated to version 1.00. Added scale and shift center options.

Brick, since you have the source, you can easily change it to start full screen. As I don't have Linux, I'm too arse to compile my programs for it and double test for possible glitches. I might be willing to do that only for major projects, but for something like this, primarily a help tool meant for FB developers....no....they should be able to help themselves, if you know what I mean.

And yeah, a file browser would be cool and I can do it (check my screen by screen scrolling engine), but simply, it's out of my scope of interest with this project.

[Brick Break]

Thanks for your feedback guys.

Updated to version 1.00. Added scale and shift center options.

Brick, since you have the source, you can easily change it to start full screen. As I don't have Linux, I'm too arse to compile my programs for it and double test for possible glitches. I might be willing to do that only for major projects, but for something like this, primarily a help tool meant for FB developers....no....they should be able to help themselves, if you know what I mean.

And yeah, a file browser would be cool and I can do it (check my screen by screen scrolling engine), but simply, it's out of my scope of interest with this project.

Well, it's certainly worth an update to your site apparently. I honestly imagine this turning into a full-fledged game engine. Why not? You can do the stuff, why not combine projects? I'm always trying to find/make the Holy Grail of game engines, but I somehow fall short when it comes to hard coding. Take this javascript library, for example. Zero downloads. ZERO! But I know in my heart that I did a good job and that somebody, some day, will discover it and make a retro game with it. It's not even that much code, but I was inspired for a few hours so I made it.

This project you have hear- you say you can make a file browser? You should. I find that very challenging. Also, I think the reason your menus are causing problems is that you aren't redrawing them every frame. Plus, screenlock/unlock causes problems. This could become HUGE, if you let it.

[Brick Break]

Cool, it looks like you downloaded my javascript library to see what it's about. Do you think some FreeBASIC stuff would be possible in it? You know, ports and stuff? Everybody knows the Holy Grail of game engines is cross-platform.