coppolaemilio/stellar

🌟 An open-source IDE for game development.

stellar's Issues

Application does not start; missing file in repository

After trying to clone the repository and run Stellar.py, I'm immediately met with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Stellar.py", line 162, in <module>
    mainWin.open()
  File "Stellar.py", line 80, in open
    decoded_data = json.loads(open(self.fname,'r').read())
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Example/Example.JSON'

It looks like this file might not have been added to the repository properly.

Remove gap

I can't figure out how to remove a gap on the sprite layout

the gap appears after adding:
self.originlayout.addWidget(self.LblX,7,0)
self.originlayout.addWidget(self.EdirXorig,7,1)
self.originlayout.addWidget(self.LblY,7,2)
self.originlayout.addWidget(self.EdirYorig,7,3)
self.originlayout.addWidget(self.BtnCenter,8,1,2,2)

I can't figure out how to correct it, can anyone help?

PyQT4 is obsolete

Since i can't install PyQT4 on my linux mint packpage not found i suspect that this is an Obsolte API.

Also, it will be nice to port this project to render with Pygame itself...

I am thinking about making a port to my Framework made with pygame...

Scripts fonts on Linux

The font displayed on the scripts window on linux is very thin and difficult to read. Is there any way to change the default font so it looks the same on all OS?

Script Window

When I open script window, I can't close it. There is no button for it.

Renaming Sprite

There's QLineEdit with sprite's name. When you click on 'OK' button it should rename the sprite (if it's modified), however it says that this image is used by another proces and can't rename it (WindowsError: [Error 32])

UTF8 in path

Can't open project with utf8 character in path to project

Propose change to SoundGUI "OK" button - split into two buttons, "Save" and "Close"

Essentially, the "OK" button performs two functions, it saves the settings the user has just set, and then it closes the dialog.

I think that many users would like the ability to save their sound's new properties without closing the dialog - perhaps for playing back the sound with the changes they just made (volume, pan, via the sound editor for example).

The solution is easy, just split the button into two buttons side by side, "Save" and "Close". Save would update the soundconfig with the new settings and now the play button can play the sound/music with those changes.

Whether the close button would still save all the new settings, or just cancel them I'm not sure.

What do you think? I'll be happy to implement the changes if it sounds like a good idea.

Error Message spelling

This is a minor issue.
The last word is incorrectly spelled in the Launcher error message displayed when the buildUpdates server cannot be reached.
It should read "Error retrieving information from http://adventuros.evelend.com/include/buildupdates.txt Are you connected to the internet?"

New Icon

Second version of the new icon:

"Save Project on Exit" triggers even if there are no changes to the project since the last save.

I think the system should check if there are any unsaved changes before prompting the users to save on exit. If the project is saved and up to date, the message shouldn't appear.

To implement this could be slightly complex, I think.

On Save Project, the temporary directory gets saved to the project directory. If that's how it works, then we could just check if the temp directory matches the project directory exactly. If it is, then don't trigger the prompt.

Splashscreen modal

Show splashscreen as modal.

"Soun" Properties window title - Sound directory should be renamed to Sounds

The title bar for the SoundGUI dialog reads "Soun properties" when it should probably say Sound properties.

The window title is set in tree.py, line 179. It sets the title by truncating the last letter (usually an 's') of the directory name for each directory.

This is good because it means we don't have to set the name manually, but in this case the directory name is not plural. We could tweak this line of code to account for the singular "Sound", but I think the real solution is to rename "Sound" to "Sounds". This would also be consistent with the other directories in a project. I can make the changes, but I wanted to make sure there wouldn't be any far reaching consequences first.

License

What license is the Stellar developed?

Alpha build of AdventurOS will not load

I am running OSX Mavericks and called the launcher from a command line.

There were no instructions in the download

Docstring is not a docstring

The docstring in Stellar.pyw is not a docstring; docstrings can only be preceded by comments and are otherwise not treated as docstrings.

Add line number to script editor

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/04/01/sample-using-qscintilla-with-pyqt/

Rewrite geometry to layouts

Geometry is bugged on linux.

Allow user to save project wherever he wants

Saving all the projects into stellar folder is really annoying. We should allow him to save the project wherever he wants.

It would be nice to clean some code

I found this article and I felt that many of the things here are all over the place in the project.
http://mtayseer.net/2014/11/06/your-python-smells-like-java/

Spanish translation

Hello, I would like to collaborate with the Spanish translation, is it done?

Bug replacing sprites

When you add a sprite and then you replace the image from stellar with another sprite with different extension it loads both images.
Example:
I add "sprite.png" and name it "example" then, from the SpriteGUI, Load Sprite "othersprite.jpg" and on the sprite folder of the project there are 2 "example" sprites. One with the jpg extension and the other with the png extension.

Closeable tabs not working

I did a very buggy close button for tabs, can someone help me with this?

Make SGE as a submodule

Currently sge is not in /Data/SGE . I suggest adding it as a submodule and we don't have to copy & paste it when something updates, just simply run git submodule update and it updates sge from git repository.

Make it easier to keep a sprite inside the room

There is something like this in the Example project sprite code

# Limit the circles to inside the room.
if self.bbox_left < 0:
    self.bbox_left = 0
elif self.bbox_right >= sge.game.current_room.width:
    self.bbox_right = sge.game.current_room.width - 1
if self.bbox_top < 0:
    self.bbox_top = 0
elif self.bbox_bottom >= sge.game.current_room.height:
    self.bbox_bottom = sge.game.current_room.height - 1

I think it would make sense to add a function like keep_in() which would do precisely the same thing but would simplify the code significantly.

Maybe it could be added to the StellarGameEngine?

Icon error on scripts.

Every time I open the "scripts" window it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src\tree.py", line 140, in DoEvent
openWindow(name)
File "src\tree.py", line 133, in openWindow
self.main.qmdiarea.activeSubWindow().setWindowIcon(QtGui.QIcon(os.path.join('Data', self.ImageName[directory + 's'])))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setWindowIcon'

No idea how to fix it!! D:

License issues

The "About" section of the top-level Readme says: "You are free to distribute the games you create with Stellar in any way you like. You can even sell them. This of course assumes that the sprites, images, and sounds you use can be distributed or sold as well."

However the license (in the LICENSE file) is GPLv3. GPLv3 isn't well suited for libraries; a better GPL-like alternative would be the LGPL. But even the LGPL isn't that great a license, because, say I want to add my own hacks and twists to this library and bundle it along with my commercial game; I'd have open-source the library. This isn't too big an issue for me, but might be for others.

I suggest going for a more lassez-faire license such as the Apache license or one of the BSD/MIT/ISC licenses. Apache would be ideal because it comes with clear legal language and also provides a software patent waiver to its users. (This is one of the reaons why Apache is the default on Google Code, and is generally preferred by large companies.)

Create New Project from Splash Screen fails

I'm trying to run Stellar on Windows 7. On creating a new project the following error spits out on the command line.

For some reason, the code is trying to copy a directory that doesn't exist, specifically \Data\SGE\sge\. The directory that is trying to be copied doesn't exist in the repo. I imagine it's the game engine itself. Following the Traceback, I wasn't able to see where the game engine gets downloaded or otherwise put into \Data\SGE\sge\.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "src\splashscreen.py", line 176, in CreateProject self.main.createProject(dirname, name) File "Stellar.pyw", line 339, in createProject shutil.copytree(self.sge_folder, dirname) File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 171, in copytree names = os.listdir(src) WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: u'C:\\Users\\ username\\Stellar\\Data\\SGE\\sge\\*.*'

Readme does not list dependencies

The readme really should list the dependencies of Stellar. Dependencies I'm aware of are:

Pygame
PyQt4
PIL

Dialogs

Can someone place all the dialogs from the main folder to a subfolder? so we don't have so many python files mixed.

Thanks!