JS Files Question

[AMPITUP]

Ok, I went through ALL the files here to understand what was going on. There was one or two spots in the JS that I didn't get what was going on, but, then again, I am not very familiar with CreateJS. Anyway, it looked like there were nearly all the features implemented. I downloaded the .zip file, and nothing at all works. Just out of curiosity, why is there so much code (that I couldn't find any errors in, not that I really looked hard or anything though), and no working features? Sorry about my ignorance, but I just kinda wondered why nothing worked and what needs to be done (coding-wise) that I might be able to do.

[Mektrode]

Thats the very same question ive been asking myself for a while now.

Alex notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, I went through ALL the files here to understand what was going on. There was one or two spots in the JS that I didn't get what was going on, but, then again, I am not very familiar with CreateJS. Anyway, it looked like there were nearly all the features implemented. I downloaded the .zip file, and nothing at all works. Just out of curiosity, why is there so much code (that I couldn't find any errors in, not that I really looked hard or anything though), and no working features? Sorry about my ignorance, but I just kinda wondered why nothing worked and what needs to be done (coding-wise) that I might be able to do.

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[AMPITUP]

The main contributors are Logan and sru (I think), so I just thought that they might be able to give me a job or at least give me a hint at what is going on.

[sru]

It works for me. You might have cross domain issues because modern browsers prevent people from loading images while opening locally.

You need a simple server that can serve directories. For example, you can do:

python3 -m http.server
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

with Python 2 and 3.

[sru]

And please ask when you have doubt about what each part does.

[AMPITUP]

Ok, well, what are you saying works? The whole game, or just part. Cuz, on the Vilify site, I get slightly more than what I get if I download and run locally, but there are still no images or working stuff. Oh, and I didn't really understand what you meant by the python thingy.

[sru]

I mean that it does what it should do. We've been implementing parts of the game, so it might not look finished/polished. On the Vilify site is outdated version of the game.

If you just click the html file and open in browser, it says XMLHttpRequest cannot load file://path/to/file/images/logo.png. Cross origin requests are only supported for HTTP. So, you have to use server to serve the whole Vilify directory and open the html file via localhost:8080 (or whatever port you use for localhost server).

[AMPITUP]

So, I open the file in my browser and then change the url?

[sru]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Same_origin_policy_for_JavaScript

Read Cross-origin network access.

[AMPITUP]

Ok.

[AMPITUP]

sRy, but that didn't make sense. Oh well...

[sru]

Well, I don't know how else would I explain this...

Modern browsers prevent loading images if you open the html file by clicking on it.

[AMPITUP]

Ok, so then do I open it some other way?

[Graeme22]

"Well, I don't know how else would I explain this... Modern browsers prevent loading images if you open the html file by clicking on it."

firefox doesnt

[AMPITUP]

^How about Safari?

[sru]

Safari probably does, and Chrome does too.

@Graeme22 I didn't know. Now I know.

[logan-r]

A temporary work around for this issue is to change the first line of objects.json from { to Game.DATA = { and then save the file as objects.js. After that, in index.html, add <script src="game_data/objects.js"></script> after <script src="js/main.js"></script> (line 23).

[AMPITUP]

Oh. Ok. So, I'll fork it and then make those changes to see it?

[AMPITUP]

I tried it and it didn't work.

[sru]

Try opening it with Firefox. According to @Graeme22 it doesn't block loading images. It didn't work for me without using server.

[AMPITUP]

Ok. Will do. Thx.