LateralGM:Todo

From ENIGMA

Article is subject to change depending on latest LateralGM SVN

This is a list of some of the current things needed in LateralGM. Developers can use this as a guide for things they could consider doing. General users can use this to know what things aren't functional yet in LateralGM.

Contents 1 Current Tasks 2 Tracker 3 Suggestions 3.1 Proposed Systems 3.2 Editor Suggestions 3.2.1 Main Editors 3.2.2 Secondary Editors

Current Tasks

High priority:

• Fix sound playing (found in SoundFrame.actionPerformed).
  • Option 1: Make sure the lines are closed when the sound finishes. Cheeseboy was complaining that it keeps opening lines and never closing them.
    • It'd be helpful to figure out how to reproduce this problem. Also, the java sound demo does not exhibit this issue.
  • Option 2: Use a real sound system.
• Improve function/keyword/etc list for syntax highlighting
  • Needs to have same concepts as ENIGMA
  • Needs to be able to be modified on-the-fly (each time the plugin calls definitionsModified)

Medium priority:

• Please Note: These have already been implemented, they just need to be smoothed out before they can be considered stable for release.
• Code Completion, automatically completes sentences while typing code
• Code Blocks, being able to toggle sections of code visible, such as in Monodevelop or Visual Studio
• Syntax Highlighting, color coding of selected text and keywords, functions, scripts, etc.

Lower priority:

• Consider removing GameInformation from instantiation thread? It doesn't seem like it should take that long. Maybe lazy creation.
• Make LGM able to be compiled with javac (and not just Eclipse's javac).

• Code Color Configurations, so people can set there own choice of keyword, function, script, resource, etc hightlight colors in the code editor.

Tracker

A lot of LateralGM's todo is hosted on its GitHub Issue Tracker. For reporting a bug, please use the GitHub. For features, suggestions, or system proposals, use these wiki pages instead.

Suggestions

LateralGM Suggestions fall under 3 different categories:

• LateralGM:Suggestions - Small-ish suggestions for tweaks, buttons, etc.
• #Proposed Systems - Larger scale proposals to change entire systems, like the Event system.
• #Editor Suggestions - Suggestions and proposals for the Resource Editors.

Proposed Systems

This item is not officially maintained by LateralGM developers, but sub-items are responses from User:IsmAvatar, and indicate official acknowledgement of the item.

• Edit events inside LGM
  • Planned eventually
• Replace definitions with new resource type
  • Planned somewhat soonish
• GM compatibility resolver
  • Planned, although I'd like a detailed spec on what the desired behavior should be.
• Find/Replace feature
  • Planned eventually
• Code Formatting
• Tabs and tab-bar for windows (add close button to tabs and right-click context menu includes option to always keep windows ontop or open after saving)
• Advanced Code-based Object Editor
• Add a feature to convert DND directly into code in the object editor and in a menu throughout the game
• Add an inline-editing feature for Actions in the ActionList, so that you can edit their arguments without having to open up the ActionFrame (Think Alice, Scratch, Stencyl). Sketch-up of the idea
  • Sounds like a neat idea, once we get the other major systems out of the way.

Editor Suggestions

Main Editors

• Sprite editor:Suggestions
• Object editor:Suggestions
• Path editor:Suggestions
• Room editor:Suggestions
• Options panel:Suggestions

Secondary Editors

• JoshEdit:Suggestions (script editor)
• JEIE:Suggestions (image editor: not in progress)
• ReSequence:Suggestions (sound editor)
• Particle editor:Suggestions (particle editor: not in progress)