PRS-505 FSK Test-Environment for Autorun Applications under MS-Windows

[Mark Nord]

Changes to Chess and Draughts are pushed to the repository.
Sudoku in the repository was already done by me.
For Fiveballs and Mahjong there is no difference, so nothing is pushed.

@ Ben: sent you a PM

[VICTORSJG]

What have i do to run chess, draught and freecell in ebooksimmain800? beacause on big resolution works correctly.

thanks

[Mark Nord]

Victor,

Sorry, "eBookSimMain800.xml" from x.06 works fine for me.
What problems do you observe?

[VICTORSJG]

I've used the version x.05, with the new versión x.06 all works fine.

thanks

[kartu]

Just checked what's in repository, very impressive, great job guys!

[VICTORSJG]

I've taken a look to the repository, and i see the new changes don't incluide the new icon like the last version ebooksim, are we going to incorporate localizatons for the titles of the games, and for the help? the rest of the games apart from freecell, will they incluide the txt help?

thanks

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

I've taken a look to the repository, and i see the new changes don't incluide the new icon like the last version ebooksim, are we going to incorporate localizatons for the titles of the games, and for the help? the rest of the games apart from freecell, will they incluide the txt help?

thanks

Hi there,

Regarding icons, that's up to kartu. It's actually quite a big job to get the icons done for all of the different models of Sony readers.

I think the plan is to do localizations of game titles and help texts. (Only MahJong and FreeCell have help texts, and there are no plans to add help to the other games. Do you think help texts are necessary? For which games?) I would think it would also be possible to localise many of the game labels but I know we will run into layout issues.

Add to that if people have replaced their Reader's system fonts then that makes layout problems even worse. There was one person on the Russian e-book site complaining that the "M" in Mahjong was a problem on his reader. I am pretty sure that this is a result of him changing his system fonts.

Sincerely,
Ben.

@Mark: Perhaps we should pick one game (Chess?) and try and localise it completely to see if it is even possible.

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by BenChen

Hi there,

Regarding icons, that's up to kartu. It's actually quite a big job to get the icons done for all of the different models of Sony readers.

Indeed, and to not to interfere with /core/compat/*_config.js i will suggest to use

kbook.autoRunRoot.sandbox._icon = Core.config.compat.NodeKinds.getIcon("GAME",0)+x;

where x will be the offset of the app-icon to the game-icon, already defined in PRS+ code. If the icon isn't accessilbe the standard icon will be returned.

I think the plan is to do localizations of game titles and help texts.

Titles should to be included in /core/lang/LANGUAGE.js
because they are used in PRS+ to show up in the menus.

The game specific help-texts, should be kept in separate files, with a two character language-indicator at the end of the filename.

If kartu provides a Core.lang.getLocale() (see post #197) we can easily check for the existence of a corresponding help-text-file and load it.

I would think it would also be possible to localise many of the game labels but I know we will run into layout issues.

Therefor we should go for individual labels for each key instead of using one long line of text, especially for button-hint-texts.
This would give for 600/x50 readers e.g.:
btn_hlp_prev_next_1; btn_hlp_home1; btn_hlp_size1; bnt_help_option1
btn_hlp_prev_next_2; btn_hlp_home2; btn_hlp_size2; bnt_help_option2

set up with the correct left, bottom and width value and "center" aligned.

For 300/505 it could be
hlp_left1; hlp_center_1; hlp_right1
hlp_left2; hlp_center_2; hlp_right2
plus hlp_0 and hlp_9

@Mark: Perhaps we should pick one game (Chess?) and try and localise it completely to see if it is even possible.

Ambitious goal!
But if it's possible to "export" Core.lang.getLocalizer("APP") or var L to our sandboxed code, this might be possible.
All labels will have to have their representation in the core/lang/LANGUAGE.js resource-files of course!

Just my 2 cents
Mark

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

I just finished improving the AI in draughts. At least, I can't think of any other way to improve it. The end result is a little more challenging than it was before, but as the screenshot below shows, massacres are still possible...

The code is in the repository: here.

Sincerely,
Ben.

[VICTORSJG]

Ben i'v modified the scripts freecell and draughts by the new in the repository and the result is the images show when i run the game.

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

Ben i'v modified the scripts freecell and draughts by the new in the repository and the result is the images show when i run the game.

That happens when there is a problem with the .js file. Did you also download the latest AppAssets folder from the repository?

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

Ben i'v modified the scripts freecell and draughts by the new in the repository and the result is the images show when i run the game.

Actually, the problem is more likely to be you need to also download the latest launcher files: FreeCell.js and Draughts.js in the addons folder.

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,
Ben.

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

Ben i'v modified the scripts freecell and draughts by the new in the repository and the result is the images show when i run the game.

Now I realise you are trying to run these in the Sim. Well, I am not sure what the problem is, since they run fine in the Sim on my computer.

Are you using Mercurial to pull the latest updates? If you are, everything should work fine, since everything works fine on my system. If not, you must have not downloaded one of the newer menu xml files, or something. I don't think I could work out what was missing. So I would recommend installing Mercurial!

Sincerely,
Ben.

[VICTORSJG]

Ben, I've downloaded the all fileS with mercurial and all games work fine now.

thanks.

[surquizu]

Originally Posted by BenChen

Hi everyone,

I just finished improving the AI in draughts. At least, I can't think of any other way to improve it. The end result is a little more challenging than it was before, but as the screenshot below shows, massacres are still possible...

The code is in the repository: here.

Sincerely,
Ben.

the last version of draughts does not work in my 505. It starts with the attached screen and it does not do any more. The previous version works well.