Launcher

[WingedPanther]

BTW, is there a good place to have the code I have so far for the config editor?  I've been busier than I planned to be of late, though I still intend to get back to it and finish it.

[Cacatoes]

I can give you access to the SVN we use for the french OA community, though you have to register to Tuxfamily first, then I'll add you to the list of SVN commiters.

http://tuxfamily.org/en/subscribe

Here is a view of files currently hosted on it: http://svn.tuxfamily.org/viewvc.cgi/openarena_svn/ (templates for our wiki and forum, and some scripts for administrating OA servers)

Informations about how to access the SVN: http://faq.tuxfamily.org/SVN/En

This offer is also valid for other OA contributors, but it may be more reasonable to host OA projects inside OA's SVN itself, though the only procedure to commit on it is to go through this thread.
Official SVN is meant to be reorganized but this thread may not have received enough attention.

[WingedPanther]

For those interested in the current state of the config utility... here's the code to date.

[Cacatoes]

For curiosity, I tried to build it with Lazarus, seems I get this problem.

Code:

/tmp$ ./project1 
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF

Changed my GTK theme to clearlooks, but it didn't help. I admit I'm a bit lazy to try harder.

[WingedPanther]

Ouch!  I'm still on 9.04, so haven't run into that before.  I wasn't clear on whether changing the theme would make the issue go away or not.  Still, that sucks.  Maybe I'll try recoding it in QT one of these days (just got a book on it).

[Cacatoes]

By the way, wouldn't QT help in making it cross-platform ?

[WingedPanther]

Lazarus is already cross-platform   The only issue I had was the various locations the OS's use to store OA's files.

[Cacatoes]

Okay, in my mind GTK was hardly crossplatform, I know it runs on Windows with additionnal libs, but I wasn't sure for Mac OS X.
Good point for Lazarus

[Gig]

Lazarus is already cross-platform   The only issue I had was the various locations the OS's use to store OA's files.

(DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/FAQ#Configuration_files_and_automatic_downloaded_files_path

[WingedPanther]

Okay, in my mind GTK was hardly crossplatform, I know it runs on Windows with additionnal libs, but I wasn't sure for Mac OS X.
Good point for Lazarus

As near as I can tell, Lazarus is just using GTK on Linux, but uses native forms for Windows and Cocoa for Mac.  I could be wrong, of course.

[Gig]

I don't know.
On the wiki, I found a page about a program called "MacRadiant":
(DO NOT LINK) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/Mapping_with_MacRadiant

Probably someone should update it, it has been written at the time of OpenArena 0.6.0 (it includes the links to download v060 of the engine and of the "linux tarball")...

[Cacatoes]

My interest for this discussion was more specifically towards some "server browser", since this would be a crucial tool, and it may be worth bumping it.

It's not directly related but an idea I just had would have been to improve the server MOTD system if such tool comes to birth:

-> Giving the ability to fetch news concerning a server. That way, server administrators could tell stuff about their servers, which could then be read by players.

Some players don't care about coming on oa.ws to check that kind of infos, players are not always the ones you'll see on the forum. Goal is to improve communication: tell about server incidents, changes, organize tournaments...

I don't know more precisely what kind of implementation it could have.

[Gig]

Do you mean something similar to what I asked here or something different?

[Cacatoes]

Something slightly different, but somehow related.

Infos from servers, and ways for players to display them.
Current motd has a single entry, I was suggesting something more RSS-like (with entries based on dates or "item numbers"), while it's not very necessary.