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PostSubject: Application here!   Application here! EmptyFri Jul 18, 2014 6:59 am

Hi, I've been following this project for a while now and finally decided to come and join in. I'm not that much of a coder (Even though I and my friend made one game a long ago with C#, but we don't anymore remember how to code and stuff) but with art, textures and anything that kind of things I merrily help if you need some. Also of course I have some ideas and basic memory about coding, so at least I know what can be coded and what can not. Also my primary language is Finnish, so I can translate. Although I'm sure Finnish is pretty much useless in this awesome game, as Finnish is very rare language. Anyway, I just want to help with this project. It seems exactly something what Spore was meant to be, that's something I want to see done!

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PostSubject: Re: Application here!   Application here! EmptyFri Jul 18, 2014 11:50 am

Hey and welcome to the forums:

Here is a suggestion for something you could help with:

We have a lot of XML that needs writing and editing for the new GUI once the design is finalized. It seems most of the non-coders are a bit uncomfortable with it, despite that XML really doesn't have anything to do with coding, but perhaps you would be interested? If you're unfamiliar with XML then don't worry you can easily learn.

You can read about the types of XML that are needed for the GUI here: http://cegui.org.uk/wiki/XML_File_formats

They're a bit daunting at first, but if you're interested they are quite simple once you get the jist of it and I would be available to help on skype/wherever.
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PostSubject: Re: Application here!   Application here! EmptyFri Jul 18, 2014 12:22 pm

crovea wrote:
Hey and welcome to the forums:

Here is a suggestion for something you could help with:

We have a lot of XML that needs writing and editing for the new GUI once the design is finalized. It seems most of the non-coders are a bit uncomfortable with it, despite that XML really doesn't have anything to do with coding, but perhaps you would be interested? If you're unfamiliar with XML then don't worry you can easily learn.

You can read about the types of XML that are needed for the GUI here: (New members cant post URL:s)

They're a bit daunting at first, but if you're interested they are quite simple once you get the jist of it and I would be available to help on skype/wherever.

Well, I spent three hours to look what exactly is XML, and read almost everything about it, but still I can't understand. Ok, it's a "language", but that's all I learned. Could you please try to explain it to me? From the start, like "What is it for?", "How to do it?", "Anything else I should know?"
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PostSubject: Re: Application here!   Application here! EmptyFri Jul 18, 2014 12:57 pm

Well I wrote my reply less than an hour ago, but sure

XML is just a widely used way to write a textfile to contain data. It consists of elements inside elements with some basic information.

This is often used for things like saving settings for a game, or in our case saving which compounds exist and how the gui is set up.

The most important thing in an XML file is the tags/elements. An element is simply started as "<my_element_name>"  then you put something inside, usually just more elements or some text and then you end the element with: "</my_element_name>" (note the slash). So XML is just these elements with more elements or text inside them.

Say we want to make a simple XML file containing a student with his name and age, we could write some basic XML like this (note that there are many different correct ways to write XML):

Code:
   <student>
         <name>
             James
         </name>
         <age>
             16
         </age>
    </student>

So we start with a student element and we put a name element and an age element inside it, and those then have text inside them.

Say we want to save 3 students in a class with their name and their age, we could write an XML file like this:

Code:

<class>
    <student>
         <name>
             James
         </name>
         <age>
             16
         </age>
    </student>

    <student>
         <name>
             Henry
         </name>
         <age>
             17
         </age>
    </student>

    <student>
         <name>
             Joe
         </name>
         <age>
             16
         </age>
    </student>
</class>

So we made a class element, and put 3 student elements in it. Each student element then has a name element and an age element!

And thats basic XML!

Now it can be annoying to have to write every piece of information about a student as a seperate element, the way we can make this easier is with what is called attributes. If we want to put the name and age of students as attributes instead of elements we do it like this:

Code:
  <student name="James" age="16">
    </student>

which is another allowed way to do it!

Then it looks kinda silly to have a start part and an end part with nothing inside (although its still totally proper XML) but we can make it a bit shorter:

Code:
  <student name="James" age="16"/>

Note that we remove the ending tag and simply put the slash at the and of the start tag.

Now we can write the students list much more compactly:

Code:

<class>
    <student name="James" age="16"/>
    <student name="Henry" age="17"/>
    <student name="Joe" age="16"/>
</class>

All XML is, is a way to write down information, any kind of information! It's meant to be both readable by humans and by computers!

When you have XML with the purpose of informing the computer of something specific, like how we inform it of types of compounds, the program expects the XML to look in a specific way. It might expect the first element to be an element called "Compounds" then with a variable number of elements inside called "Compound" and then for each of those elements to have two elements called "Looks" and "Functionality" each with some attributes for model size, molecular weight etc.

The task I suggested for you was to write the XML files that our programming GUI library wants to read, which are a number of different XML structures that it needs for different things!

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PostSubject: Re: Application here!   Application here! EmptyFri Jul 18, 2014 1:39 pm

So... (Correct me if I'm wrong) I need to make a kind of a notebook for a computer which has everything about QUI of the game, for example: I want to write the "Resume Game" in XML-Format, and it has to be something like this:

Code:

<QUI>

 <pause>

   <resume_Game>

     <in-game-text>

       Resume
     
      </in-game-text>

      <action>

        place_button-resume
 
      </action>

      <location>

        top-right

      </location>
 
      <texture>
 
        shard-button3.png

      </texture>
   
    </resume_game>

  </pause>

</QUI>

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