First Impressions

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

After having my first afternoon of monkey2 programming I have come to the following conclusions.

1. I need an editor with % $ and and # keys mapped to :Int :String and :Float macros
2. I must learn to type brackets for every command invocation

Monkey

#Import "<std>" #Import "<mojo>" Using std.. Using mojo.. Global instance:AppInstance Class VPaint Extends Window Field image:Image Field canvas1:Canvas Field mousex:Int Field mousey:Int Field framecount:Int Method New(title:String) Super.New(title,640,340) image=New Image(2048,2048,TextureFlags.Dynamic) canvas1=New Canvas(image) canvas1.Alpha=0.5 ClearColor=Color.Black End Method OnRender( display:Canvas ) Override App.RequestRender() If framecount=0 Endif canvas1.Flush() display.DrawImage( image, 0,0) framecount+=1 End Method OnKeyEvent( event:KeyEvent ) Override Select event.Type Case EventType.KeyDown Select event.Key Case Key.Escape instance.Terminate() Case Key.F1 Fullscreen = Not Fullscreen End End End Method FatLine(x:Int,y:Int,x1:Int,y1:Int) Local fat:Int=3 If Not canvas1 Return Local verts:=New Float[8] Local dy:Int=y1-y Local dx:Int=x1-x Local len:Float=Sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy) Local q:Float=fat/len verts[0]=x+dy*q verts[1]=y-dx*q verts[2]=x1+dy*q verts[3]=y1-dx*q verts[4]=x1-dy*q verts[5]=y1+dx*q verts[6]=x-dy*q verts[7]=y+dx*q canvas1.DrawPoly(verts) End Method OnMouseEvent(event:MouseEvent ) Override Local mx:Int Local my:Int mx=event.Location.X my=event.Location.Y FatLine(mousex,mousey,mx,my) ' Print "OnMouseEvent mx="+mx+" my="+my mousex=mx mousey=my End End Global title:String="VPaint 0.0" Function Main() Print title instance = New AppInstance New VPaint(title) App.Run() End 'Method DrawIndexedPrimitives : Void ( order:Int, count:Int, vertices:Float[], texcoords:Float[], indices:Int[], material:Material=Null )

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#Import "<std>" #Import "<mojo>"   Using std.. Using mojo..   Global instance:AppInstance   Class VPaint Extends Window Field image:Image Field canvas1:Canvas   Field mousex:Int Field mousey:Int Field framecount:Int   Method New(title:String) Super.New(title,640,340) image=New Image(2048,2048,TextureFlags.Dynamic) canvas1=New Canvas(image) canvas1.Alpha=0.5 ClearColor=Color.Black End Method OnRender( display:Canvas ) Override App.RequestRender() If framecount=0 Endif canvas1.Flush() display.DrawImage( image, 0,0)   framecount+=1 End   Method OnKeyEvent( event:KeyEvent ) Override Select event.Type Case EventType.KeyDown Select event.Key Case Key.Escape instance.Terminate() Case Key.F1 Fullscreen = Not Fullscreen End End End Method FatLine(x:Int,y:Int,x1:Int,y1:Int) Local fat:Int=3   If Not canvas1 Return Local verts:=New Float[8] Local dy:Int=y1-y Local dx:Int=x1-x Local len:Float=Sqrt(dx*dx+dy*dy) Local q:Float=fat/len verts[0]=x+dy*q verts[1]=y-dx*q verts[2]=x1+dy*q verts[3]=y1-dx*q   verts[4]=x1-dy*q verts[5]=y1+dx*q   verts[6]=x-dy*q verts[7]=y+dx*q canvas1.DrawPoly(verts)   End Method OnMouseEvent(event:MouseEvent ) Override Local mx:Int Local my:Int mx=event.Location.X my=event.Location.Y FatLine(mousex,mousey,mx,my) ' Print "OnMouseEvent mx="+mx+" my="+my mousex=mx mousey=my End   End   Global title:String="VPaint 0.0"   Function Main() Print title instance = New AppInstance New VPaint(title) App.Run() End   'Method DrawIndexedPrimitives : Void ( order:Int, count:Int, vertices:Float[], texcoords:Float[], indices:Int[], material:Material=Null )

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

Part 2, structs aren’t primitives, even though you can do operations on them without initialisation you need to new instances before they actually work.

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

something is wrong here

/Users/simon/Desktop/m1.monkey2 [23] : Error : Type ‘std.graphics.Color’ has no member named ‘Brown’

[PharmhausParticipant]

Talking about Ted2, the hotkey I am missing a lot is CTRL + D to duplicate a line.

Visual Studio also has the nice feature to copy the whole line when you press CTRL + C and nothing is selected.

I also showed monkey2 to someone and he disliked the fact that the [x] for closing documents does not stand out little more. It’s pretty much atom like but for a person not used to might be worth making it a little more visible. It is also not noticable which file is currently opened which could become a little confusing when the project grows larger.

[DruggedBunnyParticipant]

Speaking of ted2, has it disappeared? Just went to try and build it/try it, but src/ted2 doesn’t exist!

[PharmhausParticipant]

The version I am using is the one from the christmas demo, just copied the ted2.exe and bin/ted2.exe.

Mark said somewhere that one could use ted1 also esp. because it has the debug buttons.

[wiebowParticipant]

Personally, I thing Ted 2 is awful. There, I said it. I am using sublime text with a new language file. Works like a charm!

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

I am having way more fun than expected and am now laying down catmull interpolated mouse movements in my vpaint project. Latest source here:

https://github.com/nitrologic/m2

[RetroRustyParticipant]

Does anyone know of any IDE’s that either support now or will support MX2 soon? I know there is TED 2 and Mollusk, but what others are being worked on? Would be good to have some choice when MX2 is released.

[EthernautParticipant]

I need an editor with % $ and and # keys mapped to :Int :String and :Float

You may wanna try using := for variable assignments, like:

Monkey

Field name := "Object"    'This is a string Field speed := New Vec2f     'This is a Vec2<Float> Field health := 100    'This is an Int Field damage := 10.0    'This is a Float

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Field name := "Object"       'This is a string Field speed := New Vec2f     'This is a Vec2<Float> Field health := 100          'This is an Int Field damage := 10.0         'This is a Float

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

Thanks Ethernaut, style improvement ahead.

:= could be the new monkey2 emoticon

Regarding the IDE, I started the week (yesterday NZT) thinking I can make it through a week with Monkey-X Ted. I need to navigate to errors and no sign of debugger so I suspect I am in need of an upgrade.

Would prefer to be using monkey2 native editor as it blew me away watching Mark coding on it / in it earlier in the year.

and starting to wonder if I want cursor keys to perhaps ignore white/brown space.

:= monkey2

[EthernautParticipant]

Of course when you use type inference like this you always have to assign a default value to the variable, but I feel like that is actually easy to understand when you look at someone else’s code.

Oh, and I’ve been using Mollusk as the IDE. Doesn’t officially support M2 yet, but it works pretty well already.

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

I got sidetracked and wanted to find out how modules worked.

First Box2D test successful!

 

Monkey

#Import "<std>" #Import "<mojo>" #Import "<box2d>" Using std.. Function Main() Print "monkey2 box2d test" Local down:=New box2d.b2Vec2(0,20) Local world:=New box2d.b2World(down) Local g:=world.GetGravity() Print "gravity="+g.x+","+g.y End

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#Import "<std>" #Import "<mojo>" #Import "<box2d>"   Using std..   Function Main() Print "monkey2 box2d test"   Local down:=New box2d.b2Vec2(0,20)   Local world:=New box2d.b2World(down)   Local g:=world.GetGravity()   Print "gravity="+g.x+","+g.y End

[therevillsParticipant]

Cool!

Is it a mx2 version of box2d or an externed version?

Since MX2 can import C++ files, it might be better to use 3rd party libs in their native form:

https://github.com/erincatto/Box2D

[Simon ArmstrongParticipant]

Yes, I am using original C++ source.

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