ENIGMA Development Environment

The reason nobody takes the Java conversion seriously is because you simply can't expect a converter to just take Java code and spit out perfectly optimized C++ they are after all two completely different languages and a lot of the subtleties do make a difference. This is why for us seasoned developers it's easier to just rewrite it correctly from scratch ourselves than to piss around correcting all the issues with generated code. Not to mention if you write it yourself you can take baby steps along the way testing and getting individual features working, instead of just converting a giant 20,000 line project (which is what LGM is) and then trying to figure out how to get all the generated code working. Generators are more work than you are bargaining for is basically what I am saying.

Baby steps yes I know what you're talking about, still I hate QT with all my heart, and sadly only one halbacked attempt was made to use other toolkit (wxWidgets) which sadly the only half decent visual editor it has is wxGlade... If only they had completed BoaConstructor.

Don't forget, RadialGM I rewrote the GUI components of all of LateralGM's editors in two days. It's not that much work, ENIGMA is just a very large project, and it can't really make progress with so few developers.

YOU rewrote the gui components of all of LGM in two days, but... You already knew C++ and some Java I dare say, and you did it without a visual gui editor which tells me you really know QT, which usually changes C++ and leaves you with a not standard code.

If wxDev-C++ were as easy to use as wxGlade I might be tempted to use your C++ code plus some input from You, Harry, Darkstar2 and anybody else that would len some time to solve my doubts.

Any way and just out of curiosity... What is the todo list off RadialGM?

By your JAVA comment I reckon you are not a fan of JAVA or know JAVA programming ?

Neither do I, but there is apparently an amazing tool that can convert Java to C++ and C++ to JAVA, someone here used it and gave amazing results.  I'd love to get to write an entire IDE to C++ or port it to C++ along with dynamic resource handling and what I talked about above.  One can only dream.

But I thought you knew JAVA !?!?

I'd love to try your converter when LGM works again in my pc.

Me a JAVA fan? No by the stars no and a million times no! 

Seriously, I don't know Java, if I wanted to use an interpreted language I would go for Python, tryed reading java code once or twice, and although people say its verbose because its easy to read I much preffer les verbose languages, C++ I'm studying right now so I can't really undertake such an enterprise on said language, Python; dabled on it, it's easy to learn and much more stable than Java (I think), that tool I jave it, as a mather of fact I can convert to and from java to C++, C#, VB, and between those too. so I might take that code and try to use it but... no converter does a full and perfect conversion, there's always some manual labour left, and I don't trust myself with C++, now if we were talking about C#... But someone said they hate C#, or was it .NET languages? If it was the former well there's monodevelop+mono+gtk# 

What I'll likely do is try and finish the Python IDE (GameEditor?) it also needs another name. The other one I'm making (Code name Chimera) in Lazarus-FPC is giving me some problems managing true trasnparency on linux-GTK so I'm redoing part of it and it's not as simple as replacin the controls... Different controls different functions, different calls and so on.  Maybe Ill end up doing the python one and rebranding it as Quimera 

If the tool you're talkin is not TSS Java to C++ converter, then I would love to know the name, if only to see if it works better than the one I have.

By the way how can I know in C++ when something is a funtion or a procedure?, you see I also have a C++ to Pascal converter but as already mentioned it doesn't convert everything nor is it perfect, and every time it gets to a piece of code marked as void it leaves the word there so a little help would be apreciated.

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When you make a program for windows you may need to know several APIs: The API of the software you are using, Windows API, Database API, etc.
so that you can use those applications inside yours, make calls, send files, create, modify, save, delete databases, etc. ; so Enigma's API is not necesary (although it kind of is) for using LGM+ENIGMA but... If you want to call ENIGMA from another IDE and use it then you need to know ENIGMA's API.

I know what an API is, but there is no such thing as ENIGMA's API in the usual sense. LGM talks to the .dll via a plugin. I guess you could call the way they talk an API. You should look at compiler source code (\CompilerSource) and the Java plugin source (which is somewhere in Git).
No need to look into \ENIGMAsystem, it's the game engine which has nothing to do with the IDE. The .dll (\CompilerSource) is also technically not connected to the IDE. LGM sends data via the plugin and the .dll sees this data. Then it parsers, writes everything to IDE_EDIT files (which is the generated content) and then calls a makefile so C++ would compile it.

So basically you should look into the Java plugin code and then replicate that, so you know how to send data to the .dll.

Others might help you more on this than I. I have done basically 0 changes for the \CompilerSource in the years I have been here. I have only modified the .exe a little. I work on the game engine.

Well that certainly makes it easier and not  Java? Brrrr! But what can one do? Thanks Harri, this makes it more likely for me to do something for you all (Other than virtual BJobs!  ).

edsquare, Harri def. knows what an API is he just didn't know what you meant in context. Using ENIGMA in C++ is pretty easy, just copy and paste ENIGMASystem/SHELL and have your C++ program run make on it and use namespace enigma_user for all GML functions.

I know He beats me hands down in programming knowledge, it's just one of those days you know? 

Harri my most sincere apologies if I offended you. 

Thanks Robert! a couple more questions: Only gml functions? or any function? So if I want to draw a room the function is in enigmasystem/shell? I just call it draw_room? 

What I mean is this: Is there some place to look and read all the API? Where?

If there isn't, then what files of the source should I look in?

As long as he has installed ENIGMA somewhere in his home folder, he does not need sudo. Windows is the only platform on which ENIGMA needs elevated privileges to function.

It's sounding like multiple games are working fine for you. What problem are you having right now, and how can someone reproduce it?
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Some of the examples do work, or at least worked yesterday. Today, after deleting compileEGMf.so and compiling it again, the ide still crashes when I try to run TED's test, if I try to create an empty game LGM puts the create, normal step and draw events for the object I'm adding to the room (only one object) and when (after saving it) I try to run it this is the error I get (It's not the same I was getting until today):

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/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h: In function ‘void enigma::constructor(enigma::object_basic*)’:
/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h:56:15: error: ‘struct enigma::object_locals’ has no member named ‘timeline_index’
     instance->timeline_index = -1;
               ^
/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h:57:15: error: ‘struct enigma::object_locals’ has no member named ‘timeline_running’
     instance->timeline_running = false;
               ^
/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h:58:15: error: ‘struct enigma::object_locals’ has no member named ‘timeline_speed’
     instance->timeline_speed = 1;
               ^
/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h:59:15: error: ‘struct enigma::object_locals’ has no member named ‘timeline_position’
     instance->timeline_position = 0;
               ^
/home/eduardo/.enigma/Preprocessor_Environment_Editable/IDE_EDIT_objectfunctionality.h:60:15: error: ‘struct enigma::object_locals’ has no member named ‘timeline_loop’
     instance->timeline_loop = false;
               ^
make[1]: *** [/home/eduardo/.enigma/.eobjs/Linux/Linux/Run/SHELLmain.o] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio «/home/eduardo/enigma/ENIGMAsystem/SHELL»
make: *** [Game] Error 2
If you are on a linux32 box with a recent install (about 2 weeks) of the linuxmint17 distro and follow what I did and don't get the error I dont know what could you do in order to reproduce it.

EDIT 1 : Okey, tried to run mario isometric and I get the same error.

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I manually downloaded and still the bug persists.

Here are two more suggestions:
1) Do you recompile the .so? Like go to enigma-dev and delete compileEGMf.so, and then type make (on windows it's mingw32-make). When you update .jar's and download new code via pull, the compiler/parser .dll is usually not automatically updated. If you delete it, then it's possible it will be built the next time you run LGM. But I personally do it via terminal.
2) If 1) doesn't work, then try this LGM and plugin: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qe19dvwa7v4kbxz/workingLGM.rar
This is LGM+plugin I use and it works. I haven't updated it to the newest version egofree has made, so maybe he has created some kind of bugs.

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No such directory or file, is it supossed to be on enigma-dev? should enigma generate it always? How do I make enigma generate it?

It should be created automatically and always (although I think there was an option in settings.ini to toggle, but by default it should on). The fact that it doesn't write the log files seems to be some kind of privilege problem? Do you use sudo to launch LGM?

Thanks for the tips, will do so in a few hours when I get up.   

I haven't touched the settings, and no I do'nt use sudo to launch lgm, why, should I?

Robert he means adding the ability to have multiple projects loaded simultaneously in the same IDE window/treeview instance, similar to CodeBlocks/VisualStudio how you can manage solutions and workspaces kinda deal and whatnot.

Kinda, but not:

More like what lazarus does where I can close a project without closing the ide, this because before I could open another project on enigma and it would close the one already open, but now sometimes I end up with two projects open on the project inspector one on top of the other.