Data Workstation 0.5d Released~ 21st June 2009

[Madara Uchiha]

that's a good point i sometimes get that probelm to.

[rikumaster]

data workstation is really good, and helpfully but i get a problem :

if i click x/y the proggy freezes ! (and if i´m waiting long, my pc freezes and then i must shut down)

the other buttons like itr , bdy , etc. work , but the x/y not !
i have the newest java version , so i hope you can fix that !

EDIT: hops, yinyin already post that problem , sry!

[Madara Uchiha]

this things really good i just coded 4 characters at once at 2 yesterday. thanks again.

[JossuaDC]

I love it <3
Instead of calculating areas myself, I can just run the program and get visual feedback

[YinYin]

mockup image
that layout is mainly aimed for characters/objects, still a lot to refine and think about
i hope to animate/'record' a few features and button functions - how i think they should work for easy use
and perhaps also think of a neat solution on stage and background data

[Madara Uchiha]

but still nice program cant wait for the improvements.

[Faidan]

im waiting too, for the improvements.

[Azriel]

ack. i can't work magic so fast =s.

@Alblaka and no one - bitmap not working problem
may I emphasize again, the FM only works properly with 24 bit bitmaps. 8 bit ones usually don't work due to restrictions in the java API, that's why it doesn't load properly. I may be able to fix this if there's a free imageIO java code thing that works with indexed bitmaps somewhere.

@TheNave - Find/Replace bug
kayz thanks I'll try fix that.

@Cirno
-bg color thing
I'll probably implement a background colour selection thing, or, there's Yinyin's mockup which is quite... innovative
-sprite number
read down
-top left corner pixel thingy
read waaay down

@YinYin
- x/y lag thingy
knew about this; it used to not happen if u used it at the start/middle of data files, only at the end, but I didn't really go find out what the bug thing was. again, I'll try fix it.

- mockup app features (or what i could gather)
>selected frame background highlight
I haven't found a way to manipulate this yet. Would be something to implement.
>separate frame element template generation panel (for FM)
that's still quite far off (not that any of the other stuff are anywhere near)
>white/grey transparent square bg tiles with colour selection for both tile colours
could do that as well, but writing a colour picker is not so easy =s. I'll google first, otherwise that may take a long time to do.
>spritesheet slide panel with single sprite selection (via clicking)
this was something i did think of, but again, it will take a lot of code (at least, i haven't played around with mouse listeners much, so it may take a while)
>sprite number displays on the top of sprite
easy.

@topic
-the bug where frame element template generator only appears and disappears if the bottom one is there/not there
knew about this, and I did try fixing it already, but haven't managed to.

from the chinese forums, they mentioned that [ctrl] + [space] is one of the hotkeys to swap from chinese to english, so I'll also be writing something to allow you to select your own hotkeys.

#waaay_down
future feature list that haven't been listed already in this post:
-magnification on the selected sprite.
-coordinates panel (something like ms paint's thingy)
-line/column thingy for data part (like notepad)


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But (and this is a big thing),
I just had my first taste of a full day @ university today, and I'm flat out tired. I'm taking the accelerated pathway programme, which means completing a 4 year (honours) degree course in 3 years, which pretty much cuts into my life except weekends. (5 papers in each semester instead of 4, and one extra paper + 400 hours work during summer holidays (starting next summer (winter for ppl in north america i guess))) so, progress will be slowed (since i started until now, i was pretty much free 70% of the day so i could code a lot).

I'll fix up the bugs, but from now on the features won't pop up so fast (the frame maker bridging wasn't easy believe me D= ). also, will be very nice if someone would like to help do the reference info (pm me if you're serious; I'll reply if I think you are capable).



Azriel~

[Alblaka]

[font=courier]@Alblaka and no one - bitmap not working problem
may I emphasize again, the FM only works properly with 24 bit bitmaps. 8 bit ones usually don't work due to restrictions in the java API, that's why it doesn't load properly. I may be able to fix this if there's a free imageIO java code thing that works with indexed bitmaps somewhere.

So you cannot load LF2-Sprites...

Nice, a LF2 Workstation without the possibility to work on LF2 sprites.
That could be a little disadvantage maybe... [/sarcasm]

At least it looks better then the old data changer :/

[1477]

Do Monochrome and 256-color bitmaps work?
Sorry for short post

~Solomon Leung