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Android / Android tier 1 publishing - not displaying images problem

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Jammy
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Posted: 25th Nov 2011 18:37 Edited at: 25th Nov 2011 18:38
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As can be seen in the screen-shot, I have managed to get my first test program working on the android emulator (I know it is slow but I don’t have direct access to a phone and would try on a friends before publishing).

However it is not displaying the images only placeholders, the program otherwise works great and moves as it should. The full colour AppGameKit preview is how it should look.

I suspect I am not putting the images into the right place for android compiler, though I have tried many different configurations. You can see where I have them currently.



Any help would be appreciated.

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bjadams
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Posted: 25th Nov 2011 20:06
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Create a directory called ASSETS in the ANDROIDTEST folder.
Put your media there.
In Eclipse press F5 to refresh project
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Jammy
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Posted: 29th Nov 2011 13:39 Edited at: 29th Nov 2011 13:40
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Thanks bjadams, however that was the first configuration I tried (as it was in the instructions) and I got the same result - no images being displayed.

After much messing about and pulling hair, I have found my problem.

Dohhhh

I am so used to DBP not caring about Letter case and AppGameKit for the PC not caring, I am very sloppy about it.

My AppGameKit code was

loadImage(1,”background.jpg”)
loadImage(2,”body.png”)
loadImage(3,”head.png”)

And the Images were

Background.jpg
Body.png
Head.png

As I said DBP and AGK(PC version) do not care, but they need to be the same for Android.

Here is it working - still to be tested on a real phone.



I have also found this site -

http://blogs.nuxeo.com/dev/2011/10/speeding-up-the-android-emulator.html

Which may be useful to anyone who does not have direct access to a phone. ( I have still to test this too, but it should work)


Great job by the way - TGC

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Posted: 29th Nov 2011 13:56
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Just figured it out too it needs to be lower case then it compiles fine , also look in the thread compiling for android there is a post with a link where you can set up a builder to do away with cygwin , much easier yipppee .

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Impetus73
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Yes, now I found out why one of my sprites did not appear on android, an I became i, and it did not load... Paul, this should get fixed! no need for case sensitive media files!

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bjadams
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Well there is nothing to fix really, just always use lowercasing!!!
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JimHawkins
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Posted: 29th Nov 2011 14:22
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It's Unix or Linux or C. Boring - but just needs a bit of discipline. No way should AppGameKit mess with filename case!

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Impetus73
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Maybe they can just MENTION it in the doc's then?

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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 29th Nov 2011 18:15
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We implemented a system in AppGameKit that tries to find the correct path regardless of case, but it turns out media in the asset folder is not traversable from code (it must know the filename in advance) so without a brute force approach (try every possible combination of case) media in the asset folder will be case sensitive in AGK.
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LeeBamber
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If you post a defect report in the Google Issues Board (http://code.google.com/p/agk/issues/list) along the lines of which help pages you want us to mention about the lower case issue, we can get right on that for build 107.

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