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Editor doesn't work

Started by thomasareed, October 12, 2004, 06:33:05 PM

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thomasareed

I've downloaded the Mac OS X version of the editor, and have fixed the problem with the executable file not actually being executable.  I can start up the editor, but then I just get a mostly-black screen with some white and gray rectangles on it (which look almost like lines of text that have been blocked over), and a large white square for a cursor.  Pressing F1 does absolutely nothing, but clicking on some of these rectangles causes things to happen -- like making the editor quit, or causing different screens full of rectangles to appear.

Anybody else seeing this?

Mac OS X 10.3.5
PowerBook G4, 1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ~38 GB free disk space
screen resolution: 1440x900

Jonathan_NL

I think you should put up a screenshot somewhere, because this is an unknown (Josiah, do you know anything?) problem.

Some screenshots of how it should look:
http://home.filternet.nl/~eo000199/jonathan/gish/editor1.png" target="_blank">New level option
http://home.filternet.nl/~eo000199/jonathan/gish/editor2.png" target="_blank">Loading the editor after pressing F1
http://home.filternet.nl/~eo000199/jonathan/gish/editor3.png" target="_blank">Editor loaded (do you see rectangles at text boxes/labels etc?)
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thomasareed

Quote (Jonathan_NL @ Oct. 12 2004,12:10)
I think you should put up a screenshot somewhere, because this is an unknown (Josiah, do you know anything?) problem.


Okay, here's a screen shot of the problem.  (First time I tried, it didn't work and I assumed the editor ate the keystroke.  This time it worked fine.)

http://www.bitjuggler.com/temp/editorbug.gif" target="_blank">Funky editor

Jonathan_NL

Looks like some dialog. Buttons in the corners, a text box with label at the top, a message explaining something and the cursor. The alpha channel seems to be ignored.

Edit: The dialog may have to do with registration?
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thomasareed

I figured out what was wrong.  I didn't put the editor in the Gish folder.  Of course, these instructions *should* have been duplicated in the documentation included with the downloaded package, not just present on the forum.

Jonathan_NL

Ah, so it asked for registration because it couldn't find the registration file, but couldn't display it right because it couldn't find the textures. http://www.pontifex2.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':laugh:'>

This is just the beta stage, so I would expect it to be a bit sloppy. And the only place where you can find the link is on the page with the instructions, so I don't care about them not being included (but a good point for the next version).
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