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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 7th Sep 2016 12:07 Edited at: 9th Sep 2016 01:24
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I've uploaded new version to the TGC download area and to Steam with the following changes.



The main new features are Amazon IAP, the ability to play a video to an image, and the ability to display the device camera to an image. See the included sample project "Projects/Other/DeviceCameraToImage" for details on how to use the device camera(s). The new video and camera commands currently only work on Windows, iOS, and Android 4.0.3 or above. An app using these new commands will run on Android 2.3.3 but the commands will not function.

Let me know if you have any problems.

Edit: Known issues
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Posted: 7th Sep 2016 12:32 Edited at: 7th Sep 2016 12:44
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Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH Paul !!! The BEST UPDATE EVER!!!!!!!!!!! Almost everything I was needed from the game engine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Did the HTML5 image issue get fixed?
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 7th Sep 2016 12:42
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Quote: "Did the HTML5 image issue get fixed?"

I can't remember off the top of my head. What was the issue?
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Nice, I especially like the camera to image function - that is very useful for a work project I have underway.
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Quote: "I can't remember off the top of my head. What was the issue?"


It was an issue with transparency. I made a test case for you and emailed it about 8 weeks ago. I've just emailed you it again. Thanks.
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Quote: "I made a test case for you and emailed it about 8 weeks ago. I've just emailed you it again."

I haven't received anything, and it looks like I didn't receive your original email either. Can you create a forum post about it?
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OMG
PlayVideoToImage

cant wait to test it !
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big thanks for the amazon IAP functionality
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Quote: "I haven't received anything, and it looks like I didn't receive your original email either. Can you create a forum post about it?"


That's weird, I'm sending the emails to the same address as usual. I've made a forum post.

Could you please also take a look at updating the facebook login so that we can get access to a users email address. See this post.. https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/217875
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Posted: 7th Sep 2016 14:57
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Will download tonight. Some cool new features and desperately needed bug fixes here Paul! Opens up lots of new possibilities. Great stuff! Thanks.
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Nice! But I had a little problem when trying to use AppGameKit 2 Player on both OS , Android and iOS .

The same message appears ; "Error on line 25. ", but in code dont have line 25.

My code:
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14 : Global telaHe as Integer
15 : Global telaWi as Integer
16: GetDeviceBaseName if ( ) = ' windows '
17: 960 = telaHe
18: Telawi = 640
19:
20 : else
21: telaHe = GetDeviceHeight ()
22: telaWi = GetDeviceWidth ()
23: endif
24:
25:
26: SetWindowSize ( GetMaxDeviceWidth ( ) GetMaxDeviceHeight ( ) , 0)
27: SetVirtualResolution ( telaWi , telaHe )
28: SetOrientationAllowed ( 1,0,0,0 )
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I restored the previous version ( steam rollback ) and now is working again.

What should I do to use this new version , upgrade to AppGameKit 2 Player?



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Quote: "16: GetDeviceBaseName if ( ) = ' windows '"
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Quote: "17: 960 = telaHe"
looks a bit wonky to me.

Of course, if you use the latest version of AppGameKit, then it should go without saying that you'll also need to install the latest version of AppGameKit Player on your devices if you want to broadcast latest code. The player(s) can be found in your AppGameKit installation folder under "Players".

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Hi CJB, thx.

Yep, wrong code past, sorry.

This working properly with the previous version , but I will update my AppGameKit 2 Player to try to use the new AppGameKit version again.

----------- Code Past Again ---------
global telaHe as Integer
global telaWi as Integer
if GetDeviceBaseName()='windows'
telaHe = 960
telaWi = 640
else
telaHe = GetDeviceHeight()
telaWi = GetDeviceWidth()
endif

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Solved ! AppGameKit 2 Player updated and works fine with AppGameKit Engine 2.0.21.
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THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 8th Sep 2016 09:18 Edited at: 8th Sep 2016 09:39
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@paul thanks SetImmersiveMode and SetDeviceCameraToImage is very useful for me

please
can you support a cam focus mode for android once/continuous? (need for barcode scan)
stop and restart the cam with a timer to get a new focus is different and looks the video interrupts, also it have a small black screen time.
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Really well done on this update! Really nice features and fixes!

One thing I've noticed is that globally dimmed arrays are only recognized project-wide if they've been declared inside of the main.agc file. If you globally dim them inside any other of your project files they won't get recognized. Globally declared variables work just fine, though. It's just arrays that don't cross boundaries.
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Posted: 8th Sep 2016 12:44
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You sure about that CumQuat?

worked for me in a source file outside of main.agc. Though you might want to use



and control array size with testarray.length = x instead.
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Quote: " globally dimmed arrays are only recognized project-wide if they've been declared inside of the main.agc file"


I've never experienced this problem either.
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Quote: "- Added SetMusicSystemVolumeOGG to control global volume for OGG music files"


Sweet, now I can fully move over to OGG and use my existing music code

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Posted: 8th Sep 2016 15:02
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One small problem Paul - the Amazon Appstore is reporting .apks built with 2.21 as being incompatible with the Amazon FireTV as they are not touchscreen devices:
https://developer.amazon.com/public/support/submitting-your-app/tech-docs/troubleshooting-android-manifest-and-device-targeting


I've tried hacking that line into various AndroidManifest.xml files found in AGK_V2_21\Tier 2\apps\ but nothing works so far. Can we have an export flag for non touch devices?
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Posted: 8th Sep 2016 15:18 Edited at: 8th Sep 2016 15:23
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Try adding it to the AndroidManifest.xml file in "Tier 1\Editor\data\android\sourceAmazon", near the very top. It is purposefully missing the very beginning of the file as this is generated by the export process.

Edit: Can you let me know if this works and gets approved by Amazon? If so I'll make it an option in the Amazon exporter
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I used similar code with the global dims. It recognised the declaration of the array, but the length of the array was always zero when it was checked from inside another source file.

So, for example, if I had two source files, main.agc and extracode.agc, if I used the following code inside of extracode.agc:



Then, inside of main.agc, use this code:



It always sends back a zero.

But if I take the type and dim code out of extracode.agc and put it into main.agc it works like a charm and returns a 10
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CumQuaT:
Make sure you have a blank line at the end of each file. Also try not using the global keyword. All arrays are always global and doesn't have to be declared as such.
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Quote: "Edit: Can you let me know if this works and gets approved by Amazon? If so I'll make it an option in the Amazon exporter"


Yes that worked, Amazon is now reporting it as supported across all three FireTV skus.

BTW does the existing joystick support account for wireless controllers? Its not a huge problem because my game uses a smartphone gamepad app and the FireTV controller ; it looks like they have Gamepad support checking built into the approval process but not automated.

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/docs/supporting-controllers-on-amazon-fire-tv
https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/docs/amazon-fire-game-controller-input
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Quote: "I used similar code with the global dims. It recognised the declaration of the array, but the length of the array was always zero when it was checked from inside another source file."

In keeping with the old compiler dim arrays are only assigned a size when they are reached in the code path, this is because dim arrays can be declared multiple times in different places with different sizes as a method of resizing the array. This means the compiler can't know in advance what the default size of the array should be before it is reached in code. #include appends the file to the end of the main.agc file, so the declaration of MyArray occurs after the do loop, and would never be executed, hence the array will never be resized to length 10.

This is the reason for the new method of declaring arrays, using "MyArray as MyTest[10]" can only appear once so the compiler will use this as the default value even if it is never reached by the code. Then all subsequent size changes use the MyArray.length parameter.

Quote: "BTW does the existing joystick support account for wireless controllers?"

In theory the wireless part is handled by the OS and all controllers set the same internal values whether they are wireless or wired, but I've not tested it.
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Is this working on the latest version of Ubuntu? 16.04
I installed AGK2 and loaded in my project. It compiles fine, but doesn't seem to be able to run the executable from the IDE. I followed the guide; tried installing opengl1 etc through the terminal but the packages cannot be found. I think they're only for older versions of Ubuntu. Any chance on an updated guide to get this running with Linux? Cheers!
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SetImmersiveMode on Android! Woooohoooo!
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Well there you go. Learn something new every day. Thanks guys!
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Can someone please tell me what amazon iAP has been added? Is it Amazon underground or just an ad plain update? Thanks
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Paul,

Uhh so about the Android touch movement not registering... It still doesn't work on my phone using the latest agk player from Google Play and the steam version of agk. Maybe I have to manually install the apk? Otherwise I'm not sure what to do here haha, maybe the issue is something other than the Android app hover/move events :/
I really hope this is something I'm doing wrong I don't wanna have to wait for the next release to test games on my phone


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When trying to do a Google build without signing an error: "Failed to sign APK, is your keystore password and alias correct? (error: jarsigner: unable to sign jar: java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: classes.dex"
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Two commands I am missing right now is:

MaximizeWindow() - Maximizes the window. Perfect for editors or running a game without blocking the Windows' taskbar. Making it multitask friendly. Currently the user has to manually maximize the window every time the program is run.

CenterWindow() - Centers the current window on the screen, vertically and horizontally (also accounting for Windows' taskbar). Currently when you change the window size it stays were it was, forcing the user to move it manually.
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I have a problem. Getting "Package tool returned error code 1"
All I did was install 2.0.21, going back to previous version until confirmed that this is fixed.

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Actually, I was running v2.0.19 which I see is not longer downloadable.
Need a solution
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Quote: "Actually, I was running v2.0.19 "

So install v2.0.121?

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Quote: "Need a solution"

If you installed 2.0.21 over the top of your old version, that could be the problem. Try installing it to a new folder, or delete the old version first. There's a thread on this here: https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/217787
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Well done for this update.

I've been away for a while, and this is a huge surprise!

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Hi,

I'm having an issue with V2.0.21. I'm trying to create an Amazon APK but I'm getting the error message "Package Tool Returned Error Code 256". I've trying removing and redownloading but to no avail. I'm on a Mac running OS El Capitan.

Any help would be appreciated, had no problem creating a Google APK and iOS IPA. Had no problem creating it in older version (think it was 2.0.19 but I've since deleted) and I haven't changed the code.

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Thanks a lot. Just installed it and everything seems to work great!
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Quote: "Two commands I am missing right now is:

MaximizeWindow() - Maximizes the window. Perfect for editors or running a game without blocking the Windows' taskbar. Making it multitask friendly. Currently the user has to manually maximize the window every time the program is run.

CenterWindow() - Centers the current window on the screen, vertically and horizontally (also accounting for Windows' taskbar). Currently when you change the window size it stays were it was, forcing the user to move it manually."


+1 to this, also could you possibly add directory support to RunApp() for the next release?
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Paul,
Just wondering if you saw my previous post? I really need this fixed haha, not to mention that agk is unlikely to function correctly on any Moto g 2nd gen
I tried to both with the agk player on Google Play and with apk export and neither of is fixed properly

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I've got nothing useful to say, but

Great job Paul.
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Paul,

I have the same problem as JohnnyMeek.
HTML5 Sprite image transparency problem still exists. When you haven't set SetSpriteTransparency to 1 the sprite appear with white background.
If you could fix that bug I would be very happy

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Quote: "Uhh so about the Android touch movement not registering... It still doesn't work on my phone using the latest agk player from Google Play and the steam version of agk."

Can you try the attached version and see if it works?

Quote: "Package Tool Returned Error Code 256"

I don't know what could cause that, I've attached a new version of the IDE executable that will hopefully produce a better error message, place it in "Tier 1\Editor\bin" and then use it as normal.

Quote: "HTML5 Sprite image transparency problem still exists. When you haven't set SetSpriteTransparency to 1 the sprite appear with white background."

Fixed for the next version

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Still no luck

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Quote: "Still no luck"

If you use GetRawMouseX/Y does it return the correct X and Y coordinates? It may be that your touch device is declaring itself as a mouse.
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PlayVideo() doesn't work in full screen mode. Tested on "VideoPlayback" example with tier1.
PlayVideoToImage doesn't work with .WMV file format on Windows (video.wmv from AppGameKit example) but it works with .MP4 (but only from AppGameKit example. Not my own videos...)...

Hi Paul, can you please tell me, is this possible to put H264(or another) codec inside the AppGameKit like you did with JPEG or OGG, to make videos totally independent of platform?
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Quote: "is this possible to put H264(or another) codec inside the AppGameKit like you did with JPEG or OGG, to make videos totally independent of platform?"

I wish I could, but unfortunately H.264 comes with license and patent issues which may also affect our users. We have to rely on the device decoders, which on mobile devices seems to be pretty good, but on Windows not so much.
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