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I also got the same crash when try to type russian chars. There is an russian ‘э’ char on the button with english apostrophe  in my keyboard. When I typed <span style=”color: #00ff00;”>э</span> instead of<span style=”color: #00ff00;”> ‘</span> I got a crash. I think you use non-latin apostrophe too. It’s a core monkey’s bug, not the IDE itself. I wrote this issue to Mark.

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(And Bool -> String please…)

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My MX2 folder also grows and grows after building

Did you delete *buildv* folders generated by previous versions of mx2cc?

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To learn how to include app icon on windows, please inspect sources of Launcher

Monkey

\ monkey2 \ src \ launcher \ launcher.monkey2

1	\ monkey2 \ src \ launcher \ launcher.monkey2

There is a section

Monkey

#If __HOSTOS__="windows" 'to build resource.o when icon changes... ' 'windres resource.rc resource.o #Import "resource.o" #Endif

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#If __HOSTOS__="windows"   'to build resource.o when icon changes... ' 'windres resource.rc resource.o   #Import "resource.o"   #Endif

File resource.rc contains icon info

Monkey

AppIcon ICON "Monkey2logo.ico"

1	AppIcon ICON "Monkey2logo.ico"

 

Utility windres.exe is a part of mingw.

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@cocon   the question was – how to dynamically create (instantiate) copy of any objects (that may contains any components). You just described the design part – how to make such component-based system.

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+1.

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You can see this dialog window every time you click CODE icon in post reply textarea. There is red line marker on the screenshot to show where Height checkbox is.

Dropbox has Zoom in the bottom of page, image isn’t small.

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Screen with Height checkbox  https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6wenl8p46eeee3/tempFileForShare.jpg?dl=0

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What I want from that community work is to see all these extra docs inside of every monkey release.

How to do that? Just pooling into official repository. I think we can do the merges but after there will be considerable and nice-looking extra docs in this separate repository.

Also there is a wiki sections on github. We can ask Mark to open it. I see a way of using wiki as a temporary buffer for official docs. So anyone can write some useful info there, and Mark can grab suitable texts into official docs/examples.

I consider the wiki as an additional / intermediate resource, but which can live by itself.

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Reflection Limitations

Currently, typeinfo is only generated for non-generic, non-extension, non-extern 100% pure monkey2 globals, fields, function, methods, classes and namespaces. You can still use other types (structs etc) with variants etc, but you wont be able to inspect their members.

So, we can’t inspect a very common Vec2 class bcoz it’s generic.

We can ‘solve’ it by using our own version of vector2 together with operator To:Vec2 to mix internal and native vectors.

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Reflection..

When (and IF) we have a full reflection support, we can write object Serializer / Deserializer that allow us dynamically creation of any objects, like

Monkey

Local obj := Serializer.FromJson<MyObjType>( jsonStr )

1	Local obj := Serializer.FromJson<MyObjType>( jsonStr )

This time is impossible to do that.

 

p.s.

From time to time I’m thinking about building unity-like small editor, and only way I invented for instantiate prefab is

1. Generate code with needed properties set – by editor.
2. Rebuild sources on start – that’s very sad.

Like this

Monkey

' autogenerated Function Instantiate<T>:T( prefab:T ) Where T Extends Entity Local obj:Object=Null Local name:=prefab.InstanceType.Name Select name Case "house" obj=Inst_House() Case ... Case ... End Return Cast<T>( obj ) End Private Function Inst_House:HouseEntity() Local t:=New HouseEntity t.mass=100 t.AddComponent( New Collider ) ' other inits here Return t End

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' autogenerated   Function Instantiate<T>:T( prefab:T ) Where T Extends Entity     Local obj:Object=Null   Local name:=prefab.InstanceType.Name   Select name   Case "house"     obj=Inst_House()   Case ...     Case ...   End   Return Cast<T>( obj ) End   Private   Function Inst_House:HouseEntity()   Local t:=New HouseEntity   t.mass=100   t.AddComponent( New Collider )   ' other inits here   Return t End

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Also we can add special section in docs something like “< code >….</ code >” and IDE will produce some additional stuff for it like buttons(links) ‘Copy’ and ‘Open in editor’, so we can operate the code inside of IDE.

And many docs / samples we can grab / porting from mx1 (at least keywords description).

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Very nice!

One note: looking at these walls of code I have a question – is there way to make code box smaller? And I looked into “code” popup and found “Height” checkbox, that disabled by default.

I didn’t try it yet but it seems to be useful for big code blocks.

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Just to refer some docs Mark recently added

https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2/commit/bedec805fd49eb729a30a792649d73a977f738ea

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Nice example. And for docs/samples collection too.

Also there can be a version with ‘outList’ extra  parameter to allow users reuse one list for output values. And such variant can return added elements count.

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