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erkyrath / quixe

A Glulx VM interpreter written in Javascript
http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/
MIT License
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I7's "release along with an interpreter" feature shows no graphics in Counterfeit Monkey #26

Closed angstsmurf closed 7 years ago

angstsmurf commented 7 years ago

It was pointed out to me that if you add "Release along with an interpreter" to the source, the resulting play-in-browser page will only show a black square where the map should be. I'm not sure if this is even supposed to work.

erkyrath commented 7 years ago

This is not supposed to work. I mean, it is supposed to work but at present it cannot work because the compiler doesn't support it.

The Inform compiler does not include the images in the "interpreter" directory in any form. (The file "Counterfeit Monkey.gblorb.js" is not actually a blorb file and contains no image data.)

Getting this to work requires an I7 update, which is covered at https://inform7.uservoice.com/forums/57320-general/suggestions/12890385-fully-support-sound-and-image-resources-in-quixe .

curiousdannii commented 7 years ago

If the template was changed to load the real gblorb rather than [ENCODEDSTORYFILE], would it work?

It's been so long since we set up the JSONP system that I don't remember which browsers it was needed for and whether they are still relevant. Perhaps we can just load the normal storyfile now.

erkyrath commented 7 years ago

No.

You can do a postprocessing step where you run "blorbtool.py giload" on the real gblorb file, and it writes out all the necessary data into the interpreter directory.

curiousdannii commented 7 years ago

What I meant is that play-remote.html will extract images from blorbs, then we might be able to make it easier to set up (even if the blorbtool giload method is better performance-wise). But it depends on the browsers and their file:// rules. Chrome was the problem last time, and probably still is.

[edit] From what I can tell nothing has changed with Chrome sadly. But if the whole blorb file is put through game2js.py then it might just work.

erkyrath commented 7 years ago

But if the whole blorb file is put through game2js.py then it might just work.

Yes, that works. That's one of the options I mention in the uservoice post. But if I7 needs to be updated, it might as well use the high-performance option.