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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on May 29, 2011, 02:37:10 pm
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After A-Map and A-Sprite for TI-83 Plus Axe programmers, here come some more online development tools, this time for TI-Nspire Lua programmers!
Jimbauwens has released an online Sprite editor that supports custom color palettes to ease drawing sprites, which also supports importing and exporting, to make editing existing images easier. It is still in the works, so more features might be added eventually.
You can access the tool here (http://bwns.be/jim/sprite.html).
In addition to that, Hoffa has been working on an online image converter, allowing you to convert computer image files to TI.Image files, for use in Lua documents. It can be useful for large images, but sprites as well:
(http://bb.xieke.com/files/5/screen3.png)
(http://bb.xieke.com/files/6/screen2.png)
You can access the tool at http://hoffa.zzl.org.
(May 30th UPDATE: The Author switched to a new host: http://hoffa.franceserv.com. Also the tool now converts multiple image formats rather than just PNG files!)
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I had tried this before and it's looking great :)
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Thanks for mentioning my sprite tool, DJ_O :)
Its finished for the biggest part, but whenever something pop's in my mind I'll add it.
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No problem. I'm glad to see new tools for programmers. These days online tools are very popular because we don't need to install anything and can get there directly in our browsers. I think SourceCoder kinda helped that trend in the community. I like being able to just upload a 8xp file online and viewing the code immediately.
Btw it doesn't work in IE9. Looks like Micro$oft still have a long way to go x.x
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Nothing works in IE 9...
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Nothing ever works in IFE
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I wrote an online TNS file creator, which allows for direct input and uploads, plus it supports multiple files/input! :D
http://withg.us.to/lua2tns/MakeTNS.php
This was originally written by JayTe (MakeTNS was in Python).
I'm still working on it since this will eventually be integrated into Levak's and Adriweb's wiki (inspired-lua.org, I think), but things should be working in top notch shape at the moment! :D The only potential bug is that if someone else types a file name you used, you may end up downloading someone else's file or them downloading yours, so try to make up really random TNS file names! :P
Speaking of crappy browsers, although this isn't "compliant HTML" (it lacks a <head>, <html>, <body> - you name it!), this should work since I don't use any magical CSS... yet. No JS either. If this doesn't work in IE... /me bangs head on desk
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Speaking of crappy browsers, although this isn't "compliant HTML" (it lacks a <head>, <html>, <body> - you name it!), this should work since I don't use any magical CSS... yet. No JS either. If this doesn't work in IE... /me bangs head on desk
I bet their will still be a bug. Microsoft just likes being special that way
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Won't anyone of you be able to write a program with which you can convert a .GIF - picture into a file, whitch you can open with a TI Nspire CX CAS?
Single picrures are not bad, but what's about .GIF ??
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Won't anyone of you be able to write a program with which you can convert a .GIF - picture into a file, whitch you can open with a TI Nspire CX CAS?
Single picrures are not bad, but what's about .GIF ??
Do you just mean regular GIF files, or also animated GIFs? I don't think there's functionality for animated images in the OS, so some kind of Nspire-side program for it would be needed.
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I mean animated .gif - files.
But in colour.
A agree that it'll be a special program needed, but can anyone of you please try to make that?
(I don't understand any other languages than Basic and a bit Axe code)
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jimbauwen's sprite editor is REALLY COOL and EASY TO USE and I find it HELPFUL.
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So would it be possible or not?
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So would it be possible or not?
It probably is, but we don't know if anyone wants to do it. You'll have to wait and see if anyone feels like writing such a program.
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I hope anyone will make the program.
I'll be a great new too for the TI.
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@Spyro, Thanks :)
p2, it is possible to show many pictures after each other with Lua. But I don't know how fast it would be with full screen pic's.
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Those programs are lookin pretty cool! that could help programmers a tremendous amount. Cause you could design on the computer and convert to Ti-Pic and use it as a menu screen, or a sprite, or something.
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Nothing ever works in IFE
Everyone using that acronym now :w00t:I wrote an online TNS file creator, which allows for direct input and uploads, plus it supports multiple files/input! :D
http://withg.us.to/lua2tns/MakeTNS.php
I think this post got really overlooked. alberthrock's script is the only online Lua to TNS converter I know of that works, so kudos to him for that!
And for the fun of it, I made a little front-end for his script here: (http://clrhome.co.cc/resources/lua/logo.png) (http://clrhome.co.cc/resources/lua/) (It's just a front-end, so http://withg.us.to/lua2tns/MakeTNS.php?process still does the actual converting, not my page.)
I think he's on vacation right now, but if/when you read this, feel free to copy it. It's entirely self-contained except for a certain JS script (http://jquery.com/), but you can easily change that.
(If you're curious about the theme, it was nspired by http://www.lua.org/.)
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So would someone make a program of it? Who?
(Insert .GIF Splitting GIF in Pics Showing them very fast one after another)
But there's a Problem:
GIFs are sometimes with very long pauses (30seconds) and sometimes with very short pauses in it (50ms).
An example:
The GIF-picture I made of the BobbyCarrot game.
You can see on the Pic, what I mean:
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1460.0;attach=8699;image)
BUT:
how to save this times in a program?
Typing the whole list in the TI for every GIF I want to watch on the TI??
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Its actually quite easy to make a converter (I can do it), but I don't have the time right now.
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And who has the time and may make it?
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Well, someone who thinks its usefull to make it :)
Maybe apcalc, as he done animation stuff on nspire's before.
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http://hoffa.franceserv.com deson't work anymore!
The old one, located at http://hoffa.zzl.org still does, but it's been so long I can't remember what the new version looked like.