Developing on the Mac
by Laralyn McWilliams · in Torque Game Builder · 04/02/2010 (6:41 pm) · 1 replies
I'm considering T2D/TGB for a project I'm starting... but I'd prefer to work on my Mac, which is where I'm creating all the graphics. I tried to get JEdit set up to debug but I couldn't get it working. I also tried connecting from Torsion running in Parallels to a Mac TGB runtime native on the Mac, and couldn't figure it out either.
I also haven't found any tutorials on compiling the source into a debug version for the Mac.
Are there any resources you can point me toward? If I can get this figured out and it's a good workflow for making games on the Mac, I'll write up a tutorial so someone else can avoid the headache I'm going through. :-)
Otherwise I can't imagine how anyone with just a Mac could use TGB as a development tool. How can you make a game of any complexity without an IDE or debugger?
Thanks!
I also haven't found any tutorials on compiling the source into a debug version for the Mac.
Are there any resources you can point me toward? If I can get this figured out and it's a good workflow for making games on the Mac, I'll write up a tutorial so someone else can avoid the headache I'm going through. :-)
Otherwise I can't imagine how anyone with just a Mac could use TGB as a development tool. How can you make a game of any complexity without an IDE or debugger?
Thanks!
Torque Owner Laralyn McWilliams
Now if only I could get TIDE to work. I installed it according to the directions (I think) but when I try to open a new project, I get this error in JEdit:
java.lang.ClassCastException: projectviewer.vpt.VPTProject cannot be cast to projectviewer.vpt.VPTGroup
at com.garagegames.torque.tide.Tide.createProject(Tide.java:1092)
at com.garagegames.torque.tide.Tide.newProject(Tide.java:1040)
at com.garagegames.torque.tide.Tide.newProject(Tide.java:1005)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Reflect.invokeMethod(Reflect.java:134)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Reflect.invokeStaticMethod(Reflect.java:98)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.Name.invokeMethod(Name.java:871)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHMethodInvocation.eval(BSHMethodInvocation.java:75)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:102)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHPrimaryExpression.eval(BSHPrimaryExpression.java:47)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHBlock.evalBlock(BSHBlock.java:130)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BSHBlock.eval(BSHBlock.java:80)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invokeImpl(BshMethod.java:362)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:258)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.bsh.BshMethod.invoke(BshMethod.java:186)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShellFacade.runCachedBlock(BeanShellFacade.java:225)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShell.runCachedBlock(BeanShell.java:423)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.BeanShellAction.invoke(BeanShellAction.java:73)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.gui.InputHandler.invokeAction(InputHandler.java:352)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit$4.invokeAction(jEdit.java:3255)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.jEdit$4.invokeAction(jEdit.java:3237)
at org.gjt.sp.jedit.EditAction$Wrapper.actionPerformed(EditAction.java:221)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2028)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2351)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:389)
at com.apple.laf.ScreenMenuItem.actionPerformed(ScreenMenuItem.java:95)
at java.awt.MenuItem.processActionEvent(MenuItem.java:627)
at java.awt.MenuItem.processEvent(MenuItem.java:586)
at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:317)
at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:305)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:638)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)