project.flow; config settings not reflected

[jonathanhirz]

Seems like the project.flow file is being ignored. Settings like window size, project name, etc revert to default. Could be related to AppConfig -> GameConfig change?

[ruby0x1]

Yea I forgot to note that, currently you just set them in the config function like here. (I've added a note to the blog post).

Both ways require a rebuild though - if you wanted to change those settings conveniently without building, you should probably load the settings from config.json and you can change the settings without building.

I'm working on a good way to pass information from flow to the runtime though, it's just a transition thing while fixing up some other issues. Sorry for the inconvenience!

[jonathanhirz]

Loading from a config.json file does seem like a better way to handle it. Are you moving away from having these settings in a flow file?

[ruby0x1]

I'm busy clarifying the distinction between build vs runtime, and development vs user facing data in the projects and engine.

Right now I just know that how that information from flow was passed into the runtime was a short stop for convenience, but the same convenience comes from the config function when it's already there (which is why I put it in the empty sample).

There's more than just the window settings, and more than just luxe stuff - the fact that it's build time, and requires rebuilding (and if needed by the IDE, re-setting the project) doesn't make a lot of sense as it stood. Another relevant factor is whether user facing builds use a hardcoded resolution or fullscreen state, it's not as common or useful.

A better form of this type of convenience would be providing a facility to automatically read and apply some config from the config.json file during development, but I want to solve the need of passing data from the build file to the runtime cleanly in a general way - which is part of what I'm solving as mentioned above by the distinctions.

[jonathanhirz]

Could it be possible to have if blocks in a config.json file like we have in project.flow? Specifically, I would set borderless to true if building for iOS, and false if no iOS. If not, I think this can be set in Main, which is fine too since it probably isn't something that would change without rebuilding.

[ruby0x1]

yea it's better to code it in main for now. Note that the engine already sets fullscreen + borderless by default here because as a game engine, fullscreen with no status bar is the most common use case on mobile.

That kinda stuff is technically what I'm referring to above btw, a consistent format for developer facing data that has important traits that we need (I'll get into that in the near future).

[jonathanhirz]

Oh, didn't realize that was default behavior now. 👍

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On May 13, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Sven Bergström [email protected] wrote:

yea it's better to code it in main for now. Note that the engine already sets fullscreen + borderless by default here because as a game engine fullscreen with no status bar is the most common use case.

That kinda stuff is technically what I'm referring to above btw, a consistent format for developer facing data that has important traits that we need (I'll get into that in the near future).

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[ruby0x1]

Pretty sure it's been that way for a long time but either way!

[jonathanhirz]

How do you write changes to config.json?