I was wondering if there is any (approved) way of having an offline copy of the up to date Forge Viewer js package (v2.14 at the time I'm writing this).
All documentations I've seen about the viewer use the CDN (or rather viewingservice) version and emphasize on specifying a version tag (e.g. https://developer.api.autodesk.com/viewingservice/v1/viewers/viewer3D.js?v=v2.14).
In some case it comes handy to have the full package (js, css, locales, textures, dds, etc...) locally.
npm package view-and-data ships a 2.5 version inside a zip (but github repo no longer exists), forge-rcdb.nodejs github repo used to embed it, and some old forks who do are still online (with an outdated version obviously).
In the same vein, https://autodeskviewer.com/viewers-dev/ seems to list all files (so one could script and retrieve them) but again is outdated.
No, there is no downloadable package for the Autodesk Viewer. The Viewer is composed of multiple files and the list may change in future (js, css, png, rendering config, ...) - One easy way to get it locally is to go to https://extract.autodesk.io/ which is embedding the viewer files in the extraction process. The Autodesk copyright still applies, but there is no issue to get a local copy to run your app.
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How do you go about organizing your Github projects for your front-end and back-end?
For example, I have a python script that generates a JSON file that the front end JavaScript consumes to generate data on the pages.
Would you create one repository with two directories labeled front-end and back-end?
Or would you make two different repositories?
I'm interested in what developers do in the wild. Because up until now I found myself having a complete clone of my website in a directory on my desktop PC, and just pushing individual files via SFTP from there.
I'm getting to the point where I have enough *.old files that I want to implement version control so I can view much older states of code with Metadata like date and user that edited it.
The answer is yes. Make two different github projects.
Just Like Michael W has stated, "[...] this is highly opinionated". What I find to be the most common approach is to implement a single github project when still in development and especially when you're developing on your own. This is useful because you don't have to switch up between repositories and/or branches, which saves time.
Another common approach is to split them up. However this approach is only possible when both projects can run independent from one and other. In your case it's important to split the project logically. If the python project only generates JSON files and places them on a server location, then I would place that into it's own github project, because the main purpose is to generate files, so the python application can run on a server seperate from the frontend. If the webapp only consumes the JSON files through maybe a rest call or through a connection to a FTP, then also that can be placed within it's own project.
I have a project that uses both PHP and Python, and I would like to use JetBrains IDEs (in this case PhpStorm and PyCharm) to work with both languages.
However when I open the project using both IDEs concurrently I get a pop up whenever I switch from one to the other, as the newly focused IDE detects metadata that has been written to the project directory by the other IDE. I imagine this would be a problem between other combinations of JetBrains IDEs as well (hence the use of the generic jetbrains tag).
I have a work around (I will post in an answer for others to view), but it is somewhat awkward to set up, and I may well be working with other projects that use the same combination of languages.
Is there an easier solution?
My current workaround:
Create a new directory separate to the main project directory - using the language specific IDE for the second-most used language in the project, open the new directory as a project, and using the options in Settings > Project > Project Structure, add the main project directory as a separate content root.
Whenever needing to work on the parts of the project written in the secondary language, you can now open the new directory instead; this keeps metadata for both IDEs separate.
A workaround which allows for two IDE's to share the same directory without IDE settings conflicts.
JetBrains software allows you to store project settings as either a file based project (*.iml), or a directory based project (.idea).
To choose file or directory based projects, change the file storage type when opening a project.
Note: Directory based projects are preferred to file based projects, as they allow for versioning of shared settings. Support for file based projects is deprecated and may be removed.
This is a very basic question, but I have not been able to find the answer anywhere.
I just got Cocos 2Dx 3.3, made a new project and built the HelloWorld scene that was generated.
It generated projects for all platforms, but I am currently compiling and running the Mac project using XCode.
I can easily add new files using XCode, but of course it only adds it to my XCode Project. I would have expected a way to automatically modify all projects at once to add files or change compiler settings. I saw that there is a CMake file, probably used for command line compilation, but I cannot find a way to use that to regenerate the projects for all platforms.
Is it possible to automatically add a file to all platforms? Maybe it is possible to modify the template directory os Cocos and use the cocos new command line to recreate the project from scratch?
Or is it better to do all that manually?
Such an automation would imply parsing of a project file, finding list of relevant files and then changing all the dozen of project files. Which is hell of the work.
Even if it was implemented, how would this implementation decide which project file is a main one? (to get filelist from) And if your projects all have different lists of files? This would need merging etc. etc.
For now cocos new only copies files from one place to another. Frankly, Cocos2d-x have much more serious problems to solve, so I don't think this feature will ever be implemented.
However, you could customize project files/folders to your needs to make process of adding files more or less convenient and sometimes even automatic. Here are some clues:
It is easy to change Android and Linux Makefiles so they will pick up all the source files from a specified folder. Just use wildcards. Resource files are picked up by default.
For Visual Studio solutions (Win32, Win8, WinPhone) you could enable "Show all files" to see all files that either added or not. Unfortunately you can only see files down in the folder tree relative to project folder. To see Classes folder, make a symlink (link /j) of a Classes folder near .vcxproj file. You'd better don't copy/move project folder after it. And don't forget to add this linked folder to ignore list of your versioning system, or you will end up with duplicated files. Resource files are picked up by default for Windows projects.
I am not aware of any solution for XCode project, so you basically stuck with manual source file addition. Which is most annoying among all platforms. However it can pick up resource folders with all files.
Anyway, I would be glad if someone would proof me wrong and would write some kind of script to solve this problem (and also to change project name, company id, automatic versioning, etc.). I believe it could be done more or less reliably with, let's say Python and some regex magic. At least until project file formats will change.
I am using Visual Studio 2013 and TFS for source control. My solution contains json files with the translations for my app made with the mvvmcross framework. The mvvmcross JsonLocalisation plugin recommends to link the translation files from a commen location to the different projects needing them.
When trying to shelve or check-in these changes, TFS complains about the translation files not being available in the platform projects.... Do any of you guys have a nice solution to that (one that doesn't include branching)?
I'd really like to avoid branching because I then need to merge the files to all my platform projects on every change I make.
How do you solve that using TFS?
I am now certain branch/merge is the best option in TFS. File linking is NOT supported by TFS. I ended up putting my json translation in a resource folder outside the platform specific projects (Droid, Windows Phone and WPF). Then I branched that directory to mentioned projects.
The process for changes are now as follows. Changes made to translation files in i.e. Droid projects must be;
Checked-in in Droid project
Merged from Droid to CommonResource
Checked-in in CommonResource
Merged from CommonResource to WindowsPhone and WPF
Checked*in in Phone & WPF
It makes it a bit more cumbersome compared to File-linking but it'll work...
Best regards
You should package your files for distribution as a NuGet package.
If you create a nuget package you can automate the update and control of the files while making them an external dependency. You then publish your nuget package to a repository (UNC or ProGet) and reference from VS.
If you edit the files you create a new versions package and deploy then update the solutions. You can automate this by having a CI build that created your nuget from the files automatically and publishing.
Look at how the Node, Angular, and other JavaScript nuget packages are composed.
Plead/Preparing for standard SO backlash
This is a generic question I apologize as I'm not an SO "noob" and I realize this doesn't fit the format exactly, if you can suggest a better place for this query I'm all ears. If you choose to down vote or close please suggest an alternative.
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Is anyone aware of projects that already generate a PSD file from within AS3?
Background (everything below here you may not care about if you just want to answer a question, but if interested I could use a hand)
I've found an AS3 PSD parser here.
For some basic tests this has worked fine (after some tweaking to avoid errors). However, now the task is to reverse this process to write a PSD file.
Current plan (and overall goal)
I also found a file format specification document.
My plan at this point is to just start from the top and work my way through the document building each of the parts of the file (and helper value objects) as I go along. Since this will be a very time consuming process, I'm wondering if there's any other previous work I could build off of.
Ultimately my goal is to integrate this code into a mobile drawing project I've been working on for some time. Since it's a mobile project I have to deal with the possibility that the OS kills my app to reclaim memory, in that case I need to be able to save/load the existing state of the app (currently has layers of BitmapData similar to photoshop, plus would be cool to be able to open PSD files and open my files from the device in photoshop with layers preserved).
Links to live version and code
The app can be downloaded here (is free will remain free, no ads, app is funded by love and the desire to create something cool everyone can have/use):
Google Play
Amazon App Store
Still working on an iOS release (process is more involved than the other two stores)
The code can be found here on github (Flash Builder project files in the FlashBuilderProject/FingerPainting folder).
Legal
Essentially the code contained in that repository is all MIT or Apache Licensed (will be going back to double each of the authors sites to get the original licenses to copy in now, just in case). I'm not a lawyer, but I believe I legitimately obtained everything in the project currently and am simply obligated to include the licenses and make my extensions of the source code available in some cases. (fonts came from google web fonts and downloaded Roboto from Google directly http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html). Any code in the com.shaunhusain package I wrote and you can assume is GPL for now. If anyone more legally savvy wants to tell me I'm breaking the law, and how, I would appreciate it.
The portions included and used from other sites include
Actuate MIT License
PNGEncoder2 License included in source from Adobe permits usage.
ShareANE I don't have a license for this one (he didn't include one) the author is chinese, as such I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to contact him, but am assuming I'm safe to use his code.
A couple of pieces of code are in the repository but currently not used including a GIF parser/encoder from bytearray.org and a ColorMatrix class from Grant Skinner.
Update
After trying this for a while I ended up deciding to just use the ORA format since it is open and far far simpler and works fine with GIMP and Krita (open source editors).
I'm not sure about the intended use, but if you are compiling the file in Flash, you might be able to use JSFL to export the fla to a PSD. Then tie the JSFL functionality to a button in a SWF that you load as a panel in the IDE. JSFL is pretty powerful, however it only works within the IDE/locally.