SpringSettings 0.2.0

koshi · Post by **koshi** » 20 Dec 2007, 02:26

I'd like to present SpringSettings, a cross-plattform graphical front-end to Spring's settings.

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=== Download and installation ===========================

Just go over to http://trac.springlobby.info/wiki/Install and follow the instructions
The windows archive contains both springlobby.exe with integrated springsettings and the springsettings standalone executable. The dll package is needed in any case (if you get errors about missing dlls redownload the package please).
Linux users can just grab the latest tarball and build from source. The offside maintained packages (SUSE and ubuntu/debian) don't contain the standalone at the moment, but you'll be wanting to use SpringLobby anyway, don't you

Current binary:
http://springlobby.info/windows/springs ... ttings.exe

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 20 Dec 2007, 06:28

I have taken the liberty of making you a windows installer for this. Neat program btw.

I found downloading 2 separate packages to be annoying...

http://forbodingangel.zjt3.com/InstallS ... ttings.exe

kiki · Post by **kiki** » 20 Dec 2007, 06:34

So this is really portable? Spring settings dont have to do with registry?

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 20 Dec 2007, 06:55

lbctech wrote:So this is really portable? Spring settings dont have to do with registry?

It does edit the registry, but when you start the proggie all you have to do is tell it where unitsync is. Doesn't work with 75b2 btw, only with new spring.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 20 Dec 2007, 14:13

What are people's thoughts about adding this to the SVN and bundling it with spring?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 20 Dec 2007, 15:18

Lemme test it...

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 20 Dec 2007, 15:20

lbctech wrote:So this is really portable? Spring settings dont have to do with registry?

it is 100% portable since it uses the spring's own internal code for options handling trough unitsync and a cross platfrom gui library (wxwidgets), so it will use registry in windows, files in linux, ecc and in the case spring will change the format configs are stored, springsettings will requires little to nothing changes

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 20 Dec 2007, 15:33

Checked it out. Awesome! This is a major improvement over the current settings application.

The only things I'd like to request is that putting in values manually (double-click on slider, bring up a field to enter an integer) might be nice, and it might be nice to include some method of bringing up video card settings and some hints about how to improve performance. Just a thought, though.

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 20 Dec 2007, 15:35

Will it be inlcuded in the installer of the coming release version? Would probably make life easier for ppl who are new to spring

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 20 Dec 2007, 17:51

LordMatt wrote:What are people's thoughts about adding this to the SVN and bundling it with spring?

+1

submarine · Post by **submarine** » 20 Dec 2007, 18:02

LordMatt wrote:What are people's thoughts about adding this to the SVN and bundling it with spring?

+2

Noruas · Post by **Noruas** » 20 Dec 2007, 18:07

submarine wrote:
LordMatt wrote:What are people's thoughts about adding this to the SVN and bundling it with spring?
+2

And I am tripling that!

Post by **Kloot** » 20 Dec 2007, 18:12

Nice one.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 20 Dec 2007, 18:38

+9001

Now that it's over 9000, it must be included. *gong*

koshi · Post by **koshi** » 20 Dec 2007, 19:41

Thanks for the positive reactions.
I'd be happy if this gets included once any remaining bugs get ironed out. At the moment there are none related to functionality i know of. There some appearence-wise, mostly concerning differences in displaying on different plattforms.
So i would ask that you actually use SpringSettings to change the engine settings and report anything untowards back to me, even if you're not sure there actually is a problem.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 21 Dec 2007, 01:42

Please test this heavily, and I'll include it in place of the current settings.exe in the windows installer. Also, can we get the code into the SVN so that it can be built as a part of a spring compile in Linux?

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 21 Dec 2007, 05:26

Seems buggy on linux. I compiled from source, and it reads my screen resolution wrong in simple mode. (reads 1024x768 when it really is 2560x1024). If you use the "switch to expert mode" button, it switches but does not change the toggle in side the mode menu, getting that toggle all messed up.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 21 Dec 2007, 11:32

I compiled on linux, but I couldn't get it to work. It complained about unitsync, so I set the correct path in the UI dialog, but it still didn't work.

http://pastebin.com/m11f540e4

EDIT:

nm, just realized it required a svn build.

koshi · Post by **koshi** » 21 Dec 2007, 12:07

LordMatt wrote:I compiled from source, and it reads my screen resolution wrong in simple mode. (reads 1024x768 when it really is 2560x1024).

actually it doesn't read your esolution at all and defaults to 1024x768. As with the other two comboboxes in simple mode i cannot see a reliable way to determine which option to select if settings already exist. That is also why there is the warning box when switchin back from expert mode. For the resolution i could select the one closest in x value, but for the other two i have no idea. Open to suggestions.

LordMatt wrote:If you use the "switch to expert mode" button, it switches but does not change the toggle in side the mode menu, getting that toggle all messed up.

Never encountered that one before. I am building against wxGTK2.8, could you post your wx library version and possibly a screenshot?

To the matter of getting this into spring svn: I certainly am for this, it would make a lot of sense to add springlobby as well. The codebase isn't seperable much anyway.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 21 Dec 2007, 15:25

koshi wrote:
LordMatt wrote:I compiled from source, and it reads my screen resolution wrong in simple mode. (reads 1024x768 when it really is 2560x1024).
actually it doesn't read your esolution at all and defaults to 1024x768. As with the other two comboboxes in simple mode i cannot see a reliable way to determine which option to select if settings already exist. That is also why there is the warning box when switchin back from expert mode. For the resolution i could select the one closest in x value, but for the other two i have no idea. Open to suggestions.

Well you can't have a situation where if you save settings by accident it will change them when you have not changed anything yourself, so you need to come up with some other behavior than overwriting custom settings.

koshi wrote:
LordMatt wrote:If you use the "switch to expert mode" button, it switches but does not change the toggle in side the mode menu, getting that toggle all messed up.
Never encountered that one before. I am building against wxGTK2.8, could you post your wx library version and possibly a screenshot?

wx version is 2.8. I'm not able to take a screenshot when I have a menu open, however imagine that all the expert mode tabs are up, but under modes the toggle is set to simple.

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