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I already added vertical offset in this beta: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=54431.0
Is the gap customization also required?

Vertical offsetting won't change the line spacing, so if it's a problem, then yes.

I just tried the beta and found this same problem. Putting a negative vertical offset moved the text *up* but didn't make lines in a wrapped paragraph any closer together.

Not sure if this has been asked before, but importing fonts into AGS is difficult because there is no way to change the vertical line gap and AGS seems to ignore the Ascent and Descent font settings. So I end up fiddling round with the Em size to get fonts with an acceptable vertical gap, which is not the way it is supposed to be used! I'd like to be able to either alter the vertical font gap within the editor, or for AGS to pay attention to the Ascent/Descent settings.

From user interface side:
- how the watched variables are displayed? Should there be a pane with list of those, or floating hints.

Whichever is easiest to code XCode includes both.

UPDATE: I just remembered that compiled script stores names of imported and exported variables for some reason. That's a good start, but not enough for general case.

Just that would be a big help, because usually the problem variables for me are imported/exported variables (I use them a lot.)

Anyone who wants to build for Mac, check out the port Nick Sonneveld did for Wadjet Eye!

Thank you, I have found the git branch but I'm wondering if a compiled executable is on the web somewhere.

No, you have to compile it yourself! Sorry!

Anyone who wants to build for Mac, check out the port Nick Sonneveld did for Wadjet Eye!

JanetGilbert/ags
Branch: osx-nick

I've really let this go (busy on other stuff), but we at Wadjet Eye are interested in releasing our games on OSX. Our old port by Edward Rudd of Humble Bundle isn't up to commercial standards anymore. It would be fantastic if OSX compatibility was part of the standard project. If anyone knows of any OSX developers who would be interested in working on this project, let us know. Otherwise I might try and muddle through (but I'm not experienced on Mac.)

I'm keen to look at this again.. Just need to find time/energy.

Nick.

Nick found the time/energy

Anyone who wants to build on Mac can check out our OSX port at https://github.com/JanetGilbert/ags/tree/osx-nick

Most debuggers allow you to hover over a variable while stepping through the code in order to inspect the contents of the variable. This would make my life so much easier!

How to rebuild libraries is always good, I really got tripped up on that one.

Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you an unsigned IPA of AGS 3.3.0. It works with most games on every device I've tried (iPhone 6+, iPad Pro etc- not sure about iPhone 7). It doesn't seem to work however with large games such as Primordia, Shardlight and Kathy Rain- the prior two I can confirm do work on Android. Also I don't want to violate any rules here or disrespect Janet and Dave so let me know if this is a no-no! Finally and as always please use a Purchased copy of the game to support our wonderful community:)

AGS is open source as is our (Wadjet Eye's) version of it, so you can do anything you like!

Thanks Crimson Wizard! That's cleared it up!

I was pretty thrilled to see that the latest version of AGS has an option to build for Linux, but I'm not sure how it works. I tried to run the output on my CentOS installation, but no joy. I'm not all that knowledgeable about Linux. What's the status of the "Build for Linux" feature in AGS 3.4.0? What are the steps involved in getting it running?

i've got a working build of AGS 3.3.0 using patches written by JanetC and JJS if anyone needs it. not sure if people are looking for the ipa or the xcode project though. let me know.

portdr Can you send me the Compiled IPA too please?

Thank you in advance!

Hi portdr,

Would you still be able to provide for a pre compiled IPA version? I would much appreciate that.
I've tried the IPA from different sources and it is not working on my iPad ios9.

If you can't provide for it, is there someone who has experience running the port on ios9?
If so please explain how to get the iOS port to work on my ios9 device?

Many thanks for any response,
Koekie

I'm not sure that anyone will be able to get my version of the port running without expertise in compiling with XCode and a paid developer account. The older version of the port by JJS might have worked because all it required was a jailbroken device, but that older port probably doesn't even run anymore on modern devices.

Thanks for the info, Crimson Wizard! I had exactly the same issue on iOS and the same solution worked (copying patches.dat into the bundle)

Most of the ports are pretty experimental, have you tried asking in the Engine forum?

OK, we got someone for this so we are not looking anymore for now! Thanks!

Hi All!

We at Wadjet Eye are trying to port all of our back catalogue to iPhone/iPad. This involves quite a bit of re-coding - we have to extensively modify the existing PC game code to make this possible.

We are looking for experienced AGS scripters to help us with this task on a paid contract basis. It involves following a checklist to add extra code and rearrange the user interface to be more manageable on a small touch screen. It is about 2-3 months part-time work.

This task does not require ownership of an iPhone, iPad or Mac. All the work is done on PC, in the AGS scripting language.

PM me or (even better) email at janet@wadjeteyegames.com

Janet Gilbert

It would be useful to be able to do it in script only, if just to simplify things. But I couldn't find any functions that send a keypress to the engine.

There is work on porting the engine to OSX, but for now, most players find it easiest to use WINE.

Cannot they use Wadjet Eye's old port? The game is old enough to be runnable by that version.

Sure but you need to know how to build things with XCode.

If anyone is further pursuing a commercial version of JJS' amazing port, I'd be interested as a financial backer... I'd love to see this in a neat download with an easy game import coded in from our Archives... Send an email to Paul@8BitAirwaves.com if you're interested in putting this together, I just don't ha e the technical skills to do it myself!!

Wadjet Eye has tried throwing money at people for this project but everyone is a gentleman amateur and doesn't want to accept money

I checked the specs of iOS devices here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices
Apparently, newest devices have like 1-2 GB of RAM, but previous versions had much less, like 128-512 MB. I do not know how actively older iPhones are used in general, and not sure whether it will be safe to hardcode default of 100 MB sprite cache for iPhone then. I can enable reading this property from config file though (do not see why not).

I tried setting to to 100mb and it didn't seem to make any difference to the first 5 minutes of Primordia. Ran fine but not any faster or better.