#bongocat-plus

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mental fossil
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My fork of bongocat-osu, with tons of bug fixes and additional features. Reworking the entire configuration system and how custom skins are made. Making it farrrrr more extensible and configurable. https://github.com/ZackeryRSmith/bongocat-osu

bongocatlogo.jpg
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Currently working on a window resizing bug

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Where resizing the window will mess with the sprite rendering and will create artifacts

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Fixed by storing the render states then drawing the sprites accordingly

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You can also now resize the actual window and it will adjust accordingly.

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Whoops small issue with the OSU cat, the right hand doesn't actually apply the new height correctly

mental fossil
mental fossil
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Thickness is now changable via the config by doing

"pawArc1Width": int1,
"pawArc2Width": int2
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😼

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God I forget I3 doesn't really support transparent windows

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Time to switch to a desktop enviroment for a bit

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maaynnn, I don't think there is a way to do this in SFML without using like the windows api to do it

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Which well works for windows but not linux :/

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Well I guess I already use the Windows api and X11

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I'll just use em for the transparency

mental fossil
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WinAPI is so good and fun guys

mental fossil
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Well it's kind of possible

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Seems like I have implemented something wrong

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Putting this to the side for now

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As SFML doesn't support transparency I have to do this with the WinAPI (windows) and X11 (linux)

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It'll be quite a bit of work to implement

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So I'll put it off to the side till more features are done

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Yeahhh

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I may not support transparent window for a bit

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Though on OBS keying is the best option.

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But actually supporting transparency on the window is pretty hard

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I'll probably implement this by allowing key1 and key2 to take a list rather than a single value. I was originally thinking of having a bool like anyKey but I've decided against that for a few reasons.

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Done

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Anything that takes a key input can be mapped to multiple keys

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@kindred plover would you be able to test this project with WSL?

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Sorry for asking

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Just want to know if key capturing works on windows even though WSL

kindred plover
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Yeah one second

mental fossil
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I had @unique scaffold test it

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It has some issues 😳

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WSL and X11 do not work well together

kindred plover
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missing libraries for me

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@mental fossil

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mental fossil
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Yeah it's because you need xdotools

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sudo apt install xdotool

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And such

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But yeah, I should convert it to an appimage

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so you don't need to install libraries

surreal rapids
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cool stuff

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good job man

mental fossil
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done

mental fossil
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In the config ASCII key codes are used, when really it should just be an ASCII character

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This would make life a lot better for whoever is modifying the config, so they don't have to search key codes up and such.

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"key1": [90] ← current config style
"key1": ["x"] ← what the config would look like

mental fossil
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Whoop got distracted

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Feature added

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Along with making sure the string is only 1 character long

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It doesn't throw an error but rather only grabs the first character

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so "key1": ["xyz"] would only grab x

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Maybe I should throw a syntax error if the string is greater than one character?

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Dunno

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I'll just leave it as is for now

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It also only supports using a char now

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You can't use numeric values. Should I allow both?

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I wonder, I'll sleep on it I guess.

mental fossil
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Because I just remembered some keys are impossible to easily represent as a string

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take the arrow keys for example

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Now supports both chars and char codes in one list

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It makes something like this possible "key1": ["Z", 65, "C"]

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Which is equal to "key1": ["Z", "A", "C"],

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This is what the current config looks like

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Ofc you can add more cats to the config, which will check /cats/ to see if that cat exists. If the cat exists and is selected it will be initialized and then drawn.

mental fossil
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I'll probably work on this tomorrow

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I am quite tired

mental fossil
mental fossil
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This is because I have code which makes sure config.json types are valid before actually allowing anything else to run

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bool update(Json::Value &cfg_default, Json::Value &cfg) {
    bool is_update = true;
    for (const auto &key : cfg.getMemberNames()) {
        if (cfg_default.isMember(key)) {
            if (cfg_default[key].type() != cfg[key].type()) {
                error_msg("Value type error in config.json", "Error reading configs");
                return false;
            }
            if (cfg_default[key].isArray() && !cfg_default[key].empty()) {
                for (Json::Value &v : cfg[key]) {
                    if (v.type() != cfg_default[key][0].type()) {
                        error_msg("Value type in array error in config.json", "Error reading configs");
                        return false;
                    }
                }
            }
            if (cfg_default[key].isObject()) {
                is_update &= update(cfg_default[key], cfg[key]);
            } else {
                cfg_default[key] = cfg[key];
            }
        } else {
            cfg_default[key] = cfg[key];
        }
    }
    return is_update;
}
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I could hard code a rule like

if (key == "backgroundColor") {
    continue;
}
```But I really don't want to do this
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I plan on expanding this project quite a lot

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Maybe even past Bongocat, so I'd like to keep that in mind

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I also would like this program to be as modular as I can without too many headaches

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So for now I'll keep this weird syntax, which I will be fixing tomorrow morning

mental fossil
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This checking system is getting on my nerves just a bit

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I'm disabling it for now and I'll add it back once I'm satisfied with the config structure as a whole

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This is probably the better idea, as I can develop freely then childproof later

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Annnnndddd I'm just giving up on this issue

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It's not that big of a deal to implement, but SFML doesn't take your conventional hex. Anyway, I'll get around to it later

mental fossil
mental fossil
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I’ve been at my grandmas for a while, she doesn’t have Wi-Fi nor do I have my laptop with me. I’m not sure if I’ll get much done today

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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I’ve thought about it

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But my codebase isn’t up to date on the GitHub 😦

unique scaffold
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Ah damn

mental fossil
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I'm going to write some code which helps facilitate the development of the cats code.

mental fossil
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Added wrapper function for input::is_pressed(), which can be accessed likes helpers::is_pressed()

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This cleans some repeating code

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I'd like to write a helper function for loading keybinds, and checking for duplicates.

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I'll probably just use templating, as I'm not sure how many key states the user takes in inputs for

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Or I could just do the normal way of taking multiple values

mental fossil
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This is the new code for checking overlapping keys

// check for overlapping keybinds
if (helpers::keys_overlapping({left_key_value, right_key_value, wave_key_value, smoke_key_value})) {
    data::error_msg("Overlapping osu! keybinds", "Error reading configs");
    return false;
}
```This code is also modular like I wanted it to be
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You can add more keys to be checked and everything will work fine

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This is cleaner then the old method which looks like:

bool chk[256];
std::fill(chk, chk + 256, false);

/* key1 & key2 */
if (!use_any_key) {
    left_key_value = osu["key1"];
    for (Json::Value &v : left_key_value) {
        chk[v.asInt()] = true;
    }

    right_key_value = osu["key2"];
    for (Json::Value &v : right_key_value) {
        if (chk[v.asInt()]) {
            data::error_msg("Overlapping osu! keybinds", "Error reading configs");
            return false;
        }
    }
}

/* wave */
wave_key_value = osu["wave"];
for (Json::Value &v : wave_key_value) {
    if (chk[v.asInt()]) {
        data::error_msg("Overlapping osu! keybinds", "Error reading configs");
        return false;
    }
}

/* smoke */
smoke_key_value = osu["smoke"];
for (Json::Value &v : smoke_key_value) {
    if (chk[v.asInt()]) {
        data::error_msg("Overlapping osu! keybinds", "Error reading configs");
        return false;
    }
}
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Here is the code for helpers::keys_overlapping()

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// Code cleaner. Makes checking for overlapping keys a breeze
//   * Automaticly converts ASCII chars to ASCII codes
bool keys_overlapping(std::vector<Json::Value> key_arrays) {
    bool chk[256]{}; // check buffer, used to keep track of keys
    int v;

    for (Json::Value &key_array : key_arrays) {
        for (Json::Value &tmp : key_array) {
            v = tmp.isInt() ? tmp.asInt() : (int)tmp.asString().at(0);

            if (chk[v]) { return true; }
            chk[v] = true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}
mental fossil
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Just pushed the changes I've made over these few days :)

mental fossil
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Been working on switching the project from working with a bunch of namespaces, to a few namespaces and a few classes

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Much more managable

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Still not done, it's been giving me trouble for hours now

mental fossil
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Ok, holy

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That was a fun time

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now classes are pretty much fully implemented

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All that's required when adding a new cat is including the cat's logic file and adding a new case to the switch statment

mental fossil
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Working on fixing this

mental fossil
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Not passing the render states seems to fix the issue, well somewhat.

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I still need to render things keeping render states in mind, so visual bugs are kept to a minimum

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It all works fine width wise.

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Only issue is the background is locked to the top of the window, not the bottom like it should be

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Setting the proper height makes everything fine though (I also set the width back to the proper size)

mental fossil
mental fossil
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Just pushed some commits!

mental fossil
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bongocat-plus

mental fossil
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I probably won't be working much on the project until next Tuesday. Which is when my midterm ends

unique scaffold
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Ha ha, midterms

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Must suck

mental fossil
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Lol

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It does

mental fossil
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Working on adding lua scripting support

kindred plover
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Would you mind explaining what's bongocat

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I see it's an overlay but what does it do

mental fossil
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Bongocat was originally just some meme website someone made. Bongocat then became popular for people who didn't want a face cam but wanted something in its place. Bongocat-plus aims to hopefully be the "best" bongocat overlay supporting some extensible scripting for each cat overlay. The project in which Bongocat-plus was orginally forked from is Bongocat-osu. Osu is a rhythm game, with 4 different modes.

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Anyway all it is, is a cute overlay for games

mental fossil
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Working on proper MacOSX support

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Switched to a more modern build system; cmake.

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Cmake also displays some nice information about the build, which can be very helpful for debugging

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There is an issue with capturing mouse input on MacOSX

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As MacOSX uses a Quartz display server, many features in XDOTOOL don't actually work as expected

mental fossil
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Fixed some MacOSX bugs

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Biggest one being mouse tracking

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You can now make bongocat borderless

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You can still drag the application in borderless mode. Just grab ahold of anywhere on the app and drag

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Found a new bug with onboard config reloading

unique scaffold
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@mental fossil HES ALIVE

kindred plover
mental fossil
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Still not going to be as active for a while but I'll poke my head in every afternoon

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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Thanks, I do miss helping out here

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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Removed the numerous dependencies that were being compiled alongside Mac which are only for Linux. Apparently CMake doesn't have a built in way to distinguish MacOSX or Linux, they are under the same group Unix.

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Either way, fixed

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kindred plover
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Nice

mental fossil
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Miniaudio deals with a lot of the pain for me, I get the easy bit of making the miniaudio a bit more user friendly

mental fossil
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Whoops I'm dumb

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SFML supports this kind of stuff already

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I don't need to even mess with miniaudio

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:P

kindred plover
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When I'll head home I'm gonna try this out

mental fossil
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I barely tested Windows, though it hopefully should work. I'm not very good with the Windows api :P

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Worth a shot though

mental fossil
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Alright I'm going to try and compile Bongocat-Plus for windows

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We'll see how it goes

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Worked first try, 100% :)

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I will update cmake

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I already have the most up-to-date visual studio C++ redistributable

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I'm not going to mess with it too much, don't have a lot of time to mess with this. I have to study for some upcoming tests

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but the issue seems to be somewhat easy to fix (based on some stackoverflow solutions)

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We'll see when I come back to this

mental fossil
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The linux build should work fine too

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I did change the code quite a bit though, but I know my way around x11 enough to where I can confidently say the code should work.

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I changed a lot of mouse handling code so I'm scared that it won't compile

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we'll see though, i'll try to build it in a bit

kindred plover
mental fossil
mental fossil
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bongocat-plus is now able to be compiled on Windows with ease.

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Without the need for installing SFML manually

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I'm marking the Windows build in the readme as passing

unique scaffold
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nice

mental fossil
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the readme build instructions are not up-to-date, and may not be for a little while

mental fossil
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3 hours of my life though

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To get a working build, and make it easy to compile

unique scaffold
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:(

mental fossil
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The cats mouse will now size down to whatever is the focused window, this behavior isn't currently toggleable but will be in the near future

mental fossil
kindred plover
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two months later he compiled it

mental fossil
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Sorrrryryyyy

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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Well it's compiled now B)

kindred plover
unique scaffold
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@mental fossil is the current repo stable on linux?

mental fossil
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Go for it

mental fossil
mental fossil
kindred plover
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Nice

kindred plover
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Make it so the console is hidden on Windows

mental fossil
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

kindred plover
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Use int WINAPI WinMain() instead of int main()

mental fossil
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Ahh

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Ok

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That doesn't seem to fix my issue :/

kindred plover
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Weird

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Add FreeConsole() to the beginning of the program

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Not the best option because it is still running with the console subsystem but it hides the console

mental fossil
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Yeah that hides it

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Shows up then gets hidden

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#if defined(__unix__) || defined(__unix) || __APPLE__
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
#else
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) {
    FreeConsole();
#endif
mental fossil
kindred plover
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Yes

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The console is basically freed

mental fossil
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Ok, so it doesn't seem like that big of a deal then, and it fixes my issue

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Thanks

kindred plover
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👍

mental fossil
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Fixed #24 #25 and #29

mental fossil
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Auto config reloading

mental fossil
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🥳 🎉 BONGOCAT-PLUS IS WORKING ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS 🎉🥳

(Windows, MacOSX, and Linux)

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Yippeee

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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for how long though 🤨

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Thanks @unique scaffold for helping out with the Linux testing and support :)

kindred plover
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🎉

mental fossil
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Created new branch for Lua scripting support

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The CMake is now actually maintainable

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MacOSX and Linux are now no longer forced to have SFML built and compiled if SFML is already installed on the system

mental fossil
kindred plover
mental fossil
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I would like the cat logic files to be external instead of compiled with the application because it would make sharing cats, and modifing them much easier

kindred plover
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ah

mental fossil
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Going through a refactor throwing all the code out the window

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I've been doing the refactor for about 2 days now, and lua support is now actually viable. Using LuaBridge3 to bind needed parts of the SFML library

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The code structure is now much more modular, and comprehensible.

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Window management is no longer done by the user in lua, as the c++ backend now handles all the underlying SFML code.

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The user is only exposed the required SFML types and classes that are required. Like sprites, images, and etc. Along with some types like Vector2<T>

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Only one window is given to the user, and no more can be created by a user. This could be seen as limiting but I currently don't have a good way of allowing a user to manage their own windows and have it be memory safe. Along with that, who even needs more then one window... unless you're trying to be cool. You don't need it

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Along with that audio will now be possible using SFML and it's audio system

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Proper input handling is still hell, so as such I'll write some helpers and expose them to lua

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I have also created a stubs.lua file for helping IDEs or linting tools understand the skeletal representation of the BongoCat Lua API

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I have also changed the cmake a lot, now it's much more readable

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Many of the features listed above are still being worked on, but the current refactor can be found here

GitHub
GitHub - ZackeryRSmith/bongocat-plus at refactor

An extensible and highly configurable Bongo Cat overlay - GitHub - ZackeryRSmith/bongocat-plus at refactor

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Shortly I will be pushing many changes

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TL;DR

I'm refactoring bongocat-plus, thus removing much of the weird code caused by a 5 year old unmaintained project started by kuroni. With Lua support at the forefront of development. Windows, MacOSX, and Linux are still tested and all will still function

mental fossil
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Cleaned up sprite rendering and loading

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Now instead of manually loading an image as a texture, check for errors, then converting it to a sprite, can now be done as```lua
local spritename = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("image path")

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Managing a window is no longer up to the lua script

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This may strip some power from the user, as now only one window can be created at a time, and it's all managed by the c++ backend

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You can, however interact with the window using BongoWindow. Like for example clearing the screen with a color, and you may choose when to display your sprites

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This is all you need, at least it's anything I've ever needed.

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-- load a sprite
local sprite = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("sprite.png")

-- create a window
BongoWindow.create(612, 354, Sfml.Style.Default)

while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do
    -- clear the window with a color (optional but recommended)
    BongoWindow.clear(Sfml.Color.White)

    -- draw some sprite to the window
    BongoWindow.draw(sprite)

    -- display the window's contents
    BongoWindow.display()
end
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This is basic boilerplate for loading a sprite and displaying it

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compared to the old way

-- create a window
BongoWindow.create(800, 450, Sfml.Style.Default)

-- laad an image into a texture
local texture = Sfml.Texture()
if not texture:loadFromFile("sprite.png", Sfml.IntRect()) then
    print("Error loading image")
    return
end

-- create a sprite and set it's texture
local sprite = Sfml.Sprite()
sprite:setTexture(texture)

while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do
    -- clear the window with a color (optional but recommended)
    BongoWindow.clear(Sfml.Color.Black)

    -- draw the sprite to the window
    BongoWindow.draw(sprite)

    -- display the window's contents
    BongoWindow.display()
end
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Another thing provided to you through BongoWindow, is managing Window events

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As you can see in this line```lua
while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do

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BongoWindow.processEvents() will return 1 once the window is asked to close

mental fossil
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Currently playing with scaling and how to deal with window resizes

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This is something I previously ignored, disabling window resizing.

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But as I was using i3wm I wasn't limited to the size of window I could spawn as it'd be automatically resized for me. This causes some obvious issues, I want cat's to work across all screen sizes, scaling down or up at a certain aspect ratio

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One thing currently being worked on is some simple logging, especially now that a lua frontend is used. If you write some wacky lua that will break things warnings should be in place

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Along with the scaling, if it works and looks good on the developers screen, it should scale appropriately on other screens so it looks just how the developer intended.

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Added:

Warning if BongoCat+ is unable to spawn a window of a certain size E.g.

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BongoCat+ [WARN]: Cannot spawn window of size (612, 1900), window has been sized down to (612, 779)

mental fossil
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Added basic input handling

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The Lua api now has a simple way to interact with keys and such

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The Lua code for doing so looks like```lua
if is_pressed(BongoInput.Key.backspace) then
-- whatever you want here
end

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With this addition the Lua api is pretty much done

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At least a very basic implementation

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I have also updated the stubs.lua file as well to better represent the current state of the bindings

unique scaffold
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its the monthly update 🎉

mental fossil
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I only work on Bongocat+ when I am bored as it's a easy and fun project to work on in my downtime

unique scaffold
mental fossil
unique scaffold
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i litterally have a project where 80% of it is copy paste, the other 20% is manipulate github copilot and i thought that was hard

mental fossil
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Your OS?

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Well this is really just a lot of simple repetitive tasks

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Like binding to lua

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and adding simple features

unique scaffold
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the os is actually hard

mental fossil
mental fossil
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OS dev doesn't sound easy by any means

unique scaffold
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if you have a decent grasp of what your doing its not bad but

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i dont

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so

mental fossil
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well that's a problem lol

unique scaffold
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why do you think i havent touched the project

mental fossil
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Also another update to BongoInput is it now supports on_pressed and on_released so you can do something like```lua
if on_pressed(BongoInput.Key.s) then
-- something here
end

mental fossil
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I would like to try OS Dev but I currently have a lot of projects being worked on

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My main one being #1163111883851698266

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Although I haven't posted much in the forum the project is by no means dead and has been getting a lot of updates

unique scaffold
mental fossil
unique scaffold
mental fossil
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Yeah... I know ASM to a pretty good degree but I have no clue where to start on an OS

unique scaffold
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well, because im using a premade bootloader, asm is as heavly needed

mental fossil
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Which would be hell

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But I'm a programming masochist

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LMAO

unique scaffold
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imma text your gf and ask her

mental fossil
unique scaffold
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i gotta see this hold on

mental fossil
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You got her on speed dial?

unique scaffold
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not nescesaryly

mental fossil
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Instagram? That's the only platform I could see you having her on

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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OS Dev is something I've always wanted to dip my toes in, so I'm very tempted. I definitely will pick up something that I can read in my spare time about it

unique scaffold
mental fossil
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That would've been the first place I'd look

unique scaffold
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fuck off @queen robin

mental fossil
unique scaffold
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it will be hell

mental fossil
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Oh shit, that looks juicy

unique scaffold
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its a little thicc

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honestly though, limine is amazing

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with the only exception that it doesnt support vary many filesystems

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also, we should move this to #1160349382336589915

mental fossil
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Yeah true, flooding my monthy cat updates is hurting my moral sad

mental fossil
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added drawif function to simplify the need to have an if then for checking variable states

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So lua if smoke_state then BongoWindow.draw(smoke) end becomes```lua
BongoWindow.drawif(smoke, smoke_state)

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Here is my current testing lua file```lua
--==========================--
-- Just testing lua support --
--==========================--

-- laad our images. LOAD BEFORE CREATING THE WINDOW!
local smoke = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/osu/smoke.png")
local mousebg = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/osu/mousebg.png")

-- states
local smoke_state = false

-- create a window
BongoWindow.create(612, 354)

while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do
-- clear the window with a color (optional but recommended)
BongoWindow.clear(Sfml.Color.White)

-- smoke logic
if on_pressed(BongoInput.Key.s) then
    smoke_state = not smoke_state
end

-- draw the sprite to the window
BongoWindow.draw(mousebg)

-- draw smoke if smoke_state is true
BongoWindow.drawif(smoke, smoke_state)

-- display the window's contents
BongoWindow.display()

end

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Which results in

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Even when not in the app s is still being monitored

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These changes have been pushed

mental fossil
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Major rework of the whole paw movement

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Or well one that's currently underway

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As the original code from 5 years ago from Kuvster is just an unreadable atrocity

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The only reason it stuck was I didn't want to take time to go through the ugly code and math to understand it well enough to rewrite the code.

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After some time working through it I have a solid idea of how everything works, and the general math behind it

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I also have an understanding of how I want to structure my c++ code and lua api for working with the paw

unique scaffold
mental fossil
unique scaffold
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Fair

mental fossil
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The arcs of the hand are calculated in two parts, they're both just bezier curves with a dynamic control point which is based of the mouse position and some magic numbers

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Then filling in the hand is just some other math

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using SFML's TriangleStrip and a VertexArray makes it a breeze

mental fossil
unique scaffold
mental fossil
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Yes

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Well breaking it up into parts and racking my brain for a while

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I'm just working now on rewriting the logic

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and making it more modular, and in-turn more readable

unique scaffold
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it hurt my head, although, i didnt look at it for very long and i have no clue whats going on soo

mental fossil
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Yeah, it's horrible to read. So far my impl. is doing much better on being readable

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and more expandable so the lua api has more flexibility over the paw, along with color, line thickness, it's position

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and such

unique scaffold
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i was about to say wtf is suhc

mental fossil
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My bad, it's been a long day

unique scaffold
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understandable

mental fossil
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command to build Bongocat+ now vs the old waybash cmake . && make vs```bash
mkdir build
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cd build && make

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Alright welcome me back fro the monthly update, yayyy!!!

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Working on going through all the issues

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creating new ones and revising old ones

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Hand movement stumped me a lot previously

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So the best solution... ignore it

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I will be implementing the other core parts of Bongocat-Plus before touching it again

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Oh also just a note I got a star from one of the original contributors of Bongocat-OSU the project Bongocat-Plus us based from

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Pretty neat

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Oh yeah bongo logging in lua? Well here you are

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The code for logging is quite straight forward as you'd imagine

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bongoDebug("Where are the bugs?")
bongoError("Oh not this again...")
bongoFatal("OH GOD I'M PANICKING!!")
bongoInfo("phew, fixed")
bongoWarn("... shit")
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To allow the mouse support that I mentioned I wanted in a closed issue (#32)

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To do this I will have to rewrite the entire mouse capturing system

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The mouse hand also isn't implemented due to the complex math which I have no clue why or how it works

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MOUSE CAPTURE SUPPORT

(text is BOLD if supported & tested)
[text is striked if an implementation is not currently feasible]
([text is underscored if it's buggy or partially implemented])

  • positionOnScreen (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)
  • positionOnFocusedWindow (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)
  • positionOnHoveredWindow (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)
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I have marked positionOnFocusedWindow for MacOSX as not currently feasible

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Although it may be, it's hard to find anything about the MacOSX api for c and c++

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doing this in objective-c would be a breeze

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So it is possible but unless I find something worth while for the c/c++ I don't plan on implementing this function

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Which would require mixing of objective-c and c++

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The hacky way is to take a window and continue to use CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo and continue to search up using the Window ID as refrence

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After a nap later I'm ready to get back into it

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kCGWindowBounds

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Pretty neat

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Ok so upon further inspection window layer != window level

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I'm just going to assume what's at the top is what's focused

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Which seems reasonable enough to me

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though I still don't have a way of getting window level

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I might be able to do a little tricky tricky hacky hacky

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lets find out

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Well for obvious reasons the terminals subprocess dosn't get detected seperatly from the terminal

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but it now works (getting the active window)

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It now somewhat works

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It like to break when trying to use it on the Bongocat-Plus window, or the terminal running the process

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positionOnHoveredWindow is possible on MacOSX

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We can find the positions of windows

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We can find the level of a window

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And we know the psoition of the cursor

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So we should be able to implement this with relative ease

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Made some small pushes

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I would work on the Windows and Linux versions right now, but I'm cold and don't feel like getting out of bed

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Maybe I'll fix the bug on MacOSX with getting the window bounds

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Added a new skin

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Pengu, from the developer who originally created Bongocat-Osu

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Working on adding the original bongo skin

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# mental fossil 
-- laad our images. LOAD BEFORE CREATING THE WINDOW!
local up = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/pengu/up.png")
local down = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/pengu/down.png")
local bg = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/pengu/bg.png")

--                           R    G    B   A
local bg_color = Sfml.Color(218, 216, 254, 0)

-- states
local pressed_state = false

BongoWindow.create(612, 383)

while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do
    BongoWindow.clear(bg_color)

    -- state logic
    pressed_state = isPressed(BongoInput.Key.Any)

    -- draw the bg sprite to the window
    BongoWindow.draw(bg)

    -- draw if logic
    BongoWindow.drawif(up, not pressed_state)

    -- display the window's contents
    BongoWindow.display()
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TODO:

  • add BongoInput.Key.Any
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I would like to allow ternary to use any type? It would be nice

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Or maybe just add a function like drawifelse

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After some time I did decide to add a drawifelse function with usage like drawifelse(true_sprite, condition, false_sprite)

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# mental fossil * with some modifications

The lua code for this test ```lua
-- laad our images. LOAD BEFORE CREATING THE WINDOW!
local cat = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/cat.png")
local mouth_shut = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/mouth_shut.png")
local mouth_open = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/mouth_open.png")
local left_down = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/left_down.png")
local left_up = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/left_up.png")
local right_down = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/right_down.png")
local right_up = BongoSprite.loadFromFile("cats/original/right_up.png")

-- states
local left_state = false
local right_state = false

BongoWindow.create(800, 450)

while BongoWindow.processEvents() == 0 do
BongoWindow.clear(Sfml.Color.White)

-- state logic
left_state = isPressed("z")
right_state = isPressed("x")

-- draw the bg sprite to the window
BongoWindow.draw(cat)

-- draw ifelse logic
BongoWindow.drawifelse(left_down, left_state, left_up)
BongoWindow.drawifelse(right_down, right_state, right_up)

-- display the window's contents
BongoWindow.display()

end

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Here is the GIMP file I had to create for the next skin I'm making

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this just the catbanner.jpg reconstructed into it's original parts (seeing as I lost the original GIMP file)

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The code for this is extremely similar to [this](#1063894460959834116 message)
Just a 2 lines removed, 2 added, and 1 modified

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New cat dropping?

Screen_Shot_2024-01-12_at_11.33.06_PM.png
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issues #39, #40, and #41 sprung from the idea of this cat (which was from this video I found online)

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I plan on adding the typing you see in the video, along with the sounds

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Athough for right now, all I have is this

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I cannot state how much work binding SFML to Lua is

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Manual labor, it's not even difficult just time consuming

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Then after that having to write a stub file for autocomplete in lua

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Alright I may be dead inside but audio should now be supported

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Yes although very basic and messy it's supported

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I would like to handle playing the sounds myself rather than SFML dealing with it

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As currently the way SFML handles it isn't powerful enough to do what I want with my API

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A cat I want to implement

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Maybe even being able to capture the entire screen or just a window and display it where the code is? Quite ambitious but cool

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Need to add drawing at a position

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I have created a few others

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but they aren't really important

unique scaffold
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New cat drop

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And here is the lua for that (the first time ever I've had to send the actual file)

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Of course I wouldn't drop issues for no reason. The actual reason is listed in the closing comment of the issue

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Impressive

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I plan on changing the banner in the readme to this silly little gif

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This thing

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Refactor is now the default branch (despite it's incompletion), the reason why is noted in the readme

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Compiling on Windows has always been a pain

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To get passed using NMake you must specify the generator you want to use

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in most cases -G "MinGW Makefiles"

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Now I'm getting an issue with FetchContent_MakeAvailable

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And that seems to be because I do not have git installed

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Windows deps for compiling (so far):

  • MinGW
  • CMake
  • Make
  • Git
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Yes! After installing Git all worked fine

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MacOS deps for compiling (sor far):

  • CMake
  • Make
  • Git
  • SFML (recommended to be installed using Brew)

THESE ARE ON MACOS BY DEFAULT, BUT LISTED HERE JUST FOR CLARITY

  • ApplicationService
  • CoreFoundation
  • CoreGraphics
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I think i'd like to make a type racing cat

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Something like this

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but with a propmt

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Ok just to get mouse support working I plan on just coping the unreadable code from the original Bongocat-Osu

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I really do plan to refactor it all, trying to understand the math

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I understand bout half of it, but rewriting it will take some time

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Bongocat-Plus has 9 stars on Github ⭐

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Not a crazy milestone but way more stars than any other project I've worked on

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This only works on MacOS for now, as the mouse functions all need to be implemented on all platforms

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Issues with compiling Linux all stem from mouse handling errors

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I'd like to avoid x11 but that seems unlikely

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Regardless I will probably add support for x11 and wayland just to support most (if not all) linux enviroments

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Improved readme build section quite a lot. Compiling no longer is (much) different between platforms.

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I also changed up the "About the Project" section

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I have created aa new issue tag food, slapping that tag on issue #55

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Improved the CMake, making sure the syntax and style is consistent

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Along with adding some fun features to the CMake

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-DFORCE_ANSI=true          force ANSI regardless of OS
-DNO_APP_DIR=true          hide app directory
-DNO_INCLUDES=true         hide includes
-DNO_SOURCES=true          hide sources with
-DNO_COMPILER=true         hide compiler with
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CMake does now show include files used in Bongocat-Plus

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When talking about platform based linking, where it used to say *NIX SPECIFIC'S, is now replaced with MACOS SPECIFICS, LINUX SPECIFICS, or OTHER SPECIFICS

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Bongocat-plus is the face of the bongocat topic page

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Nice :)

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Uhhh, so Mac support for Bongocat-Plus may have to be dropped

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From now on I will be unable to test the project via cmake

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Instead I will be compiling the project directly with g++