I actually found a workaround for this problem, but I figured it's still worth asking about. Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible to pass an object type as an argument to a function. How do you do it? And is it considered good/bad practice?

Update; saving maps as asm source works (with a hard coded filename)!

Next, move/enemy editors and saving items, conversations, etc.

Hi everyone,

Today I installed HL2 via wine and while it does run, it is unusably slow and the audio stutters a lot. On my WinXP partition however, it works more or less fine. I'm suspecting that Mint is not correctly identifying my old integrated crappy graphics card.

System Information:
Mint 13 MATE
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
1gb RAM

Relevant LSPCI output: *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 04
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=agpgart-intel
          resources: irq:0
        *-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 04
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:cfe00000-cfe7ffff ioport:cc00(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:cfdc0000-cfdfffff
        *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
             description: Display controller
             product: 82915G Integrated Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
             version: 04
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
             resources: memory:cfe80000-cfefffff
...

The UNCLAIMED display1 is what's getting me at thinking that the graphics driver might be the problem. I've been on Intel's website, and apt is telling me I have xserver-xorg-video intel all up to date. Is this a driver problem? If so, how can I fix it? If not, what else could it be?

Thanks in advance

Small update: NPC conversation editor and selector are about 80% done. Just have to add the aiblity to choose NPC convos from the "addNPC" dialog. I'll see if I can provide an executable jar in a bit, since screenshots don't really do it justice...

Next, item and move editing, and most importantly, exporting

Edit: Here's a jar, so you guys can play around with it a little bit. For some reason though, I can't get it to run on my system See if it works for you guys

Looks pretty awesome, though the perspective seems off a bit- lines seem to converge above the horizon

Map files are now fully importable, I think writing the export routines is going to be trivial. Warp, NPC, and Triggers are pretty well supported now, although adding a new NPC and trigger is not yet implemented. I'm going to have to come up with a data structure that can work with the npc convo structure...maybe an array of bytes will be the best way to go? Custom input routines in Java? Or should I leave that at least as a textfile...Not sure about that.

Edit: I think I'm going to ask for input as a string, and then parse through it to insert the special characters via an escape character (maybe * or ~) and convert to an array of bytes.

Ok, so here's my code basically. Normally I'd spend a bit more time trying to figure it out but I'll be away for the next couple days so I thought I could run it by you guys first


public class stuff {

public static Tile[] tileReference;
//a reference array to keep tile objects reference-able by tile number (this is a calc/computer project)
public static TileSelector tileContainer; //need to declare this outside of the main class so it can be accessed by other nested static classes in 'stuff'
...
public static class TileSelector extends JPanel {
..stuff
 public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
  //initial drawing stuff
  for(int i =0; i<tileReference.length, i++)
   tileReference[i].drawTile(blah blah blah)
 }
}
...
public static void main(String[] args) {
...stuff initializing contents of tileReference
tileContainer = new TileSelector();
...
}
Right at that tileReference[].drawTile method I get a NullPointerException at runtime. In the main method, the first creation of a TileSelector occurs after I've initialized the contents of tileReference.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to get around this? If anyone has suggestions on how to better organize my code, I'm also welcome to that. I need tileReference[] to be accessible by many different methods and classes, and the instance tileContainer needs to be accessible by one other class (well to be specific, the active tile, which is encapsulated in the tileSelector class needs to be accessible. I suppose I could make that another instance of the main class "stuff" but i might run into complications, as mouse events in the tileSelector need to be able to modify the active tile. I might be ablet o give it a go but I'm not sure if that would solve the problem) .