Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: thomasareed on October 12, 2004, 06:33:05 PM
Post by: thomasareed on October 12, 2004, 06:33:05 PM
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
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
Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 12, 2004, 07:10:20 PM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 12, 2004, 07:10:20 PM
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:
New level option
Loading the editor after pressing F1
Editor loaded (do you see rectangles at text boxes/labels etc?)
Some screenshots of how it should look:
New level option
Loading the editor after pressing F1
Editor loaded (do you see rectangles at text boxes/labels etc?)
Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: thomasareed on October 12, 2004, 08:28:34 PM
Post by: thomasareed on October 12, 2004, 08:28:34 PM
| 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.)
Funky editor
Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 12, 2004, 08:42:42 PM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 12, 2004, 08:42:42 PM
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?
Edit: The dialog may have to do with registration?
Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: thomasareed on October 13, 2004, 05:21:52 PM
Post by: thomasareed on October 13, 2004, 05:21:52 PM
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.
Title: Editor doesn't work
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 13, 2004, 05:38:42 PM
Post by: Jonathan_NL on October 13, 2004, 05:38:42 PM
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. 
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).
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).