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Aashtarsrain wrote:Thank God you're real !!!!

PyTom wrote: Apart from finishing the release of Ren'Py 6.9.0, I plan to take a sabbatical from Ren'Py development during March, to focus on finishing some game projects I've promised people I'd work on.

PyTom wrote: At the same time, I will be making a Simple Python iPhone Game. This is to teach myself about iPhone development, and to work out any problems that Apple might have. I'm considering a port of RobotFindsKitten.

This will bring us to Ren'Py 7.0.

Post 7.0, I plan to begin to maintain several ports of Ren'Py. An iPhone port seems likely, barring technical problems. I'm also considering a Silverlight port, as it will probably be easier to accomplish than Flash. (Silverlight supports IronPython, which minimizes what I'll need to rewrite.)

jack_norton wrote:Woot! Hope you're talking about my card game too

Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking in iphone SDK, there isn't python support ? it means you'll have to port renpy over to objective C ?

With Xcode you can run python, but not in the iphone SDK environment as far as I know.

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EwanG wrote:Guess I'm still not sure what the "Silverlight" port would buy you. It's your time and your choice, but unless someone has a real need for a web-based RenPy...

Obviously I remain very excited about the iPhone port, and look forward to taking advantage of that. So for my personal goals, I'd love to see that fairly high up the priority chain

When you mention an imagemap option, would that allow for non-rectangular hotspots? Or what would that do?

imagemap "foo.png" "bar.png":
    rect 100, 100, 200, 200:
         "You clicked on the House of Sixten."

    rect 300, 100, 200, 200:
          "You clicked on the Sunrider's Landing."

Finally, as far as something I'd like to see (and maybe the trick is to see if someone else on the board wants to write it), I'd love to see something that would let you work with the RenPy "stage", and then show you the appropriate coordinates/measurements.

To borrow from the Flash concept, I could display my background (or just use a blank one) in the tool, and then I could move items around, and see what the appropriate X/Y coords would be to plug into my script. Ideally I could also zoom in and out to see what magnifications give what results. Obviously you can do the same thing by doing a trial and error approach and messing with the coordinates in the script, but that can take a while.

EwanG wrote:someone has a real need for a web-based RenPy...

EwanG wrote:When you mention an imagemap option, would that allow for non-rectangular hotspots? Or what would that do?

F.I.A wrote:Last I recalled, hotspots do not apply to transparency, so try work around with it.

PyTom wrote:

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imagemap "foo.png" "bar.png":
    rect 100, 100, 200, 200:
         "You clicked on the House of Sixten."

    rect 300, 100, 200, 200:
          "You clicked on the Sunrider's Landing."

etc. Perhaps it might make sense to allow other shapes, but that would be a further extension.

 $ result = renpy.imagemap("Handiba_Imagemap_w_list.png", "Handiba_Imagemap_w_list_filled.png", [
        (274, 335, 398, 404, "General Store"),
        (440, 198, 512, 233, "Shakota Island"),
        (432, 9, 767, 74, "Camp Handiba Campground"),
        (657, 191, 800, 388, "Upland Trails 1"),
        ], focus="imagemap")

Preludian wrote: Oh and I think that a further abstraction from the language, being more a RenPy language than a wild mix between RenPy and Python could be beneficial for future platform portings, but that's what you have planned anyhow if I understood you correctly?

EwanG wrote:how is that any better than the current code