Re: Level Comment Tool online - could be of interest to leveldesigners

[Rune Zedeler]

David Philippi wrote:

> It would probably easier to simply extract those information from the
> xml demo data. Running the demo isn't required. ;-)

There is no such info in 0.6.0 demos.
Has the format changed since then?

> Well, we'd only need someone to code all that. I've never coded anything
> in PHP so far.

Well, I don't know php either.
If all the needed info is in the demo-files then it should be fairly 
easy, I think. Perhaps, I'll have a look later on.

> This would require an automated demo running mode where you start Pingus
> with a certain switch, telling it to play through the demo and indicate
> level solve status as return code. Add in an option to disable any
> actual drawing to gain speed (drawing is only need when you want to see
> where a demo fails). Do you volunteer to write the code? :-)

Well. I have problems compiling pingus. Will really soon (promise, 
promise) install a newer linux. Then I'll have a look at compiling 
pingus. Will wait till we are ClanLib 0.7.0 compatible, though.

Afaics this would be a relatively small change.
In all cases outputting the result (success/failure) to stdout would be 
a Good Thing (TM) - and if we have this then the rest could be done in a 
simple shell script that runs all the demos and ensures that none of 
them fails.

-Rune