more UI space

[theTrav]

i really, really want a higher res client. it would be great if there were several options. but yeah, this is definitely the most important thing on my wish list as far as client improvements go.

Not checked in yet, need to do some more testing/stabilising

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

[sabinati]

awesome... how do i actually get the code? i don't understand that part. and can i compile it with like, netbeans IDE or what?

[ArPharazon]

I think theTrav is using Eclipse, though both it and NetBeans support svn (NetBeans natively and Eclipse with a plugin if I'm not mistaken) which is what the Google Code project is using. I couldn't figure out how to get Eclipse to work though (I'm a noob).

By the way, is the project gonna be on git or google now? Or both in sync or what?

Also, theTrav, do you have time to teach clueless newbies the ropes or are they on their own?

[theTrav]

I think theTrav is using Eclipse,

correct

though both it and NetBeans support svn (NetBeans natively and Eclipse with a plugin if I'm not mistaken) which is what the Google Code project is using.

correct, but read further down

I couldn't figure out how to get Eclipse to work though (I'm a noob).

There are some tricky bits around setting up the build path correctly (the glugen-rt.jar needs native libraries set up)

By the way, is the project gonna be on git or google now? Or both in sync or what?

Stuff that is intended for submission to Loftar for the official client goes in the github project, random utilities and mess around throw away code goes in subversion (although maybe I'll move that to Git, it's a much nicer version control system.

Don't bother with the eclipse plugin for Git, it's barely functional, get git-gui, it's perfectly acceptible.

Also, theTrav, do you have time to teach clueless newbies the ropes or are they on their own?

I LOVE answering questions, seriously, can't get enough of it... well, that's questions where people actually want to learn things...
So yes, more than happy. Keep your expectations low though, I'm not exactly master of the java universe or anything, I just know some stuff.

[theTrav]

awesome... how do I actually get the code? I don't understand that part. and can I compile it with like, netbeans IDE or what?

For this current res change, there's no code to get, I haven't pushed it to the public repo yet... I'm playing around with it first, to make it stable, and checking whether having it in my source tree is going to make it harder for Loftar to pull patches for other things.
My primary goal in contributing is to make things that get accepted into the official client as that makes Loftars life easier and helps more people than just making my own stuff easier.

That and better farming UI... QUEUED ACTIONS! *fap fap fap*

[sabinati]

[g1real]

I tried getting the client code.

Then I realised it was too much hassle to install multiple programs for one thing to edit: resolution :<

[sabinati]

multiple programs? all you need is one

[kaka]

multiple programs? all you need is one

It is called Emacs.

[theTrav]

multiple programs? all you need is one

Depends on your starting configuration...

Required software:
An Operating System (preferably a modern one)
Java (compiler and run time, count them as one or two programs I don't care)
A Text editor (most OSes come with them, but some people count IDE's as necessary)
Git (possibly also a GUI for git depending on the users preferences)

I personally had most things already installed, but needed to put on sun's JDK as H&H has issues with OpenJDK on my environment that I wasn't up to debugging.
I had to install git and git-gui, I had to find and download some native libraries for glugen-rt (which I believe is used by jogl) and I think I needed to grab the haven-res.jar for the build path, however that may have just been a time saver.

Other steps involved creating an eclipse project in my work space, then creating new folders (I recommend doing it as links so you keep your eclipse workspace garbage separate from your version controlled files), then setting up a build path so the proper crt and icon files were in the haven package on the build path.

I believe it's also possible to have a working environment just using the ant/maven build or whatever is there, but I vastly prefer compile as you go, auto complete and code template style IDE editing in eclipse.