Hi guys. Any of you guys play SuperTux. It was origionaly written for Linux but has been ported to a microsoft windows version as well. (This is a free game, NOT shareware or crippleware).

Now for the visual basic part. The level (map) editor that's builtin is very limited compared to the available functions that are actually in the game. In the Linux version, there is an extra addin utility that adds some of the missing functions but the addin dosen't exists for the windows version. Since many people I talk to in VB forums are allways trying to learn to work with text files, I thought a visual basic project making a new map editor for the game would be interesting. All the levels (map) files are stored in plain text format. One problem is both the windows version and the linux version of SuperTux use the unix type of linefeeds rather than the dos type used by windows. Example:

In windows, you add a "newline" by adding a vbCrLf to the end of a string. This means a Chr$(10) & Chr$(13). In a unix pc, only the Chr$(10) is used. This made it slightly more complicated in working with the files in visual basic. If you need some insight on working with these type of files, the editor's source code could provide valuable clues for you.

Current status of the level editor I'm creating:

The level editor is basically functional and provides many more functions than the built-in editor SuperTux has. What I'm currently working on is a "world" map editor (to be part of the current editor) that links multiple maps to a single set.

If you're interested in this game and/or my editor, you can download from this website:

http://roofrabbit.com/supertux.html

What's available?

1) Links to where you can download SuperTux (free game).

2) My editor in Setup.exe format without source code but includes VB6 runtimes.

3) My editor's complete visual basic source code (it's free too) (no exe file).

My website is NOT an add supported site and I provide the full costs of it myself. I don't even use cookies! Anyone needing help with vb should feel free to contact me either by email or here in this forum. I've been programming computers for over 25 years now in several different languages including assembly. I'm not college trained, but I know a few things about coding.





Website: http://roofrabbit.com

I've updated to the current editor version of 1.08 and will probably remain at that point for now since the editor has been completed. If you downloaded a version older than 1.08, please download again. For just running the editor, just download the exe version, for source code, just get the source code version. You don't need the setup version again if you've already installed once since the vb runtimes will already be on your pc.

I think you'll find the current editor works quite smoothly and has many nice features no other SuperTux Level Editor has.




Website: http://roofrabbit.com