Download MapSlapper for Windows (125KB)

My Win32/Allegro tilemap editor is finally ready to be unveiled It's a bit plain, but quite functional. Also quite plain are the docs (just open index.html), which are included in the zip. Hopefully the cause of all the crashing last time has been done away with. Another problem was people who didn't quite understand the interface cough*TF*cough, so RTFM this time Now that there is one.

Something the docs bring up are ideas on that whole general, do-all tilemap editor we were all discussing a few days ago. Any thoughts would be appreciated, if only so I can make a better editor for my purposes (even if no one else is interested). Also feel free to make suggestions for MapSlapper's interface; I find it quite intuitive but maybe someone has some ideas that I missed. I should probably figure out how to static-link so no one needs the dll ...

Uh, I guess that's it. I'm all types out from the docs G'night.

BTW, for those who remember my registry thread; that code has been commented out, so this isn't going to leave annoying little presents in your Windows registry.

EDIT: link didn't work for me, but copying & pasting the url into the address bar did. I hate when that happens!

yeah, link worked fine for me.. but I'm having troubles running allegro programs for the moment

(See allegro 4.0.3 thread for details )
Should be remedied shortly.

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Upon running MapSlapper.exe, I get the following error:

The instruction at "0x77f67f25" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written".

In other words.. you can't write to NULL Chris!

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Btw, this happens right away - before I can see anything on the screen. I tried to look through your source but I got lost very, very, very easily

Aye, I'm running WinXP chris, and I get the same error as Derezo. IIRC, you said you run WindowsME or something similar(of the 9x variety at least?) Perhaps you need someone who knows what they're doing(not me ) look into it.

Really looking forward to checking this out though.
-Flecko

EDIT: I tried enabling 9x compatibility under WinXP, no dice. Sorry I can't help further Chris, but I know absolutely zero about win32 programming. Best of luck though, its a huge step to take(win32 programming that is.)

[url http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=233605#post_233801]

Of course, that was then. I just tried it on Windows 2000 and XP, and it works fine (so far).

Got the new version, still no go. Really sucks for you since you don't have WinXP to test on. I'm really in the dark here. I eventually got your animation editor working before(still have it, and it works fine) so I don't get what the big problem is.

Hopefully you can get it worked out so in the future, people will know, because honestly, it should work regardless of windows version.

Good luck,
-Flecko

Tell me about it I couldn't believe the last thread; crash after crash ...

Does seem odd that it's more or less exclusive to the XP guys. I'm happy Matthew got it working though

Derezo: the binary is updated; but I guess I forgot to update main.cpp (oops). I'll take care of that now ...

Hallelujah! What's your OS?

I thought I fixed that. Okay, thanks. I reproduced it; should be easy to fix. EDIT: fixed.
Any other feedback? It rocks, it sucks, what? Anyone?

Interesting errors, X-G:

Heh

I'm adding a "using namespace std;" in the CTilemap header (I always forget the namespace); that should fix most of that. Some of those errors are weird, but I'll assume it's just getting confused by the namespace scope. Uploading new version now (though it shouldn't affect the crashing) ...

That's pretty picky O_O AFAIK, those functions should be able to convert a vector element to an iterator.

I changed the code so that I convert to an iterator first before passing the iterator to the function. Hopefully that file at least will compile fine now. New version uploaded ... maybe I should upgrade MinGW so I catch this stuff earlier ...

I tried to run it using XP. It crashed. Then I checked the box in the compability settings that inactivates the visual themes. Now it runs.

Well, I thought it might have to do with Themes, so I tried running it yesterday with Themes enabled - and it still worked.

A few thoughts.

1) Make the tile window automatically "wrap" the tiles when you resize it, and only use scrollbars if necessary.
2) Add keys for next/previous tile.
3) Where are my layers?