FreeGameDev

Hi all

Again and again, my friends who play SuperTuxKart ask me questions like: How I install Add-On's for SuperTuxKart. What is the path to the karts folder again. etc.
Therefore, I made a programm (Mac) which install add-on's (karts and tracks) for SuperTuxKart 0.6. It's only a betaversion...

It works on Mac OS X 10.5 PPC and Intel / Mac OS X 10.6 Intel

Suggestions and tipps are welcome. Tell me if I mistranslated the program. I'm not very good in english...
Download:
English Version: http://www.supertuxkart.de/STK-Add-On-Installer-(English).zip
German Version: http://www.supertuxkart.de/STK-Add-On-Installer-(German).zip

greetings Toren

Hi,

interesting! In what language is it written, is it open source?

I written it in Cocoa, Objective-C and it's open source of course .

I think Objective-C doesn't work on Linux and Windows, does it ? (edit : maybe objective-c works but cocoa...)

If Objective-C works, I can help you to port it on linux, if you want.

edit2 : can we see the code anywhere ?

Cocoa Obj-C works on Mac. I don't know whether it work on Linux.

It's not only a Code. It's virtually a project with classes (.m and .h / Cocoa classes). At the moment, i learn cocoa objective-c and this is one of my first project .
Here is an extract from the bulk of this programm.

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- (IBAction)doMove:(id)sender {
   // InfoLabel...
   [infoLabel setHidden:NO];
   NSString * sourcePath = [addonPath stringValue];
   NSString * destPath = [addonDestPath stringValue];
   NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

   // Pfade werden erstellt...
   NSString *directoryPath = [addonPath stringValue];
   NSDirectoryEnumerator *directoryEnumerator = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] enumeratorAtPath:directoryPath];
   
   for (NSString *path in directoryEnumerator) {
      
      // Überprüfen...
      if ([[path pathExtension] isEqualToString:@"kart"]) {
         // Don't enumerate this directory.
         [directoryEnumerator skipDescendents];
         
         if ([fm moveItemAtPath:sourcePath toPath:destPath error:nil] == YES) {
            [infoLabel setStringValue:@"Installation erfolgreich!"];
            [ok setImage:[NSImage imageNamed: @"ok.png"]];
            [ok2 setImage:[NSImage imageNamed: @"ok.png"]];
         } else {
            [infoLabel setStringValue:@"Programm konnte das Add-On nicht installieren. Überprüfen Sie die Lokation von SuperTuxKart.app."];
            [error setImage:[NSImage imageNamed: @"err (.............)


It isn't easy at all.

Edit: I use XCode to build it.

Toren1994 {l Wrote}:Cocoa Obj-C works on Mac. I don't know whether it work on Linux.

I think it doesn't work on Linux and Windows (and I haven't any Mac).

Toren1994 {l Wrote}:It's not only a Code. It's virtually a project with classes (.m and .h / Cocoa classes). At the moment, i learn cocoa objective-c and this is one of my first project .

I haven't any Mac but your code isn't in real files ?

Toren1994 {l Wrote}: I use XCode to build it.

And it doesn't work on Linux too

Objective-C works on Linux, but not Cocoa (GNUstep implements a subset of it). BUT, anyway, add-ons location is different between OS X and Linux anyway so a cross-platform installer couldn't share much code

wouldnt it be cool if you could make a in-game add on browser and downloader so ppl could really easily get all the add-ons

Yes it would be cool, but also a lot of work, so that won't happen just right now

Maybe you can just use installer maker (e.g. InnoSetup) to make an add-on installer, I think that is easier than C

(In Linux maybe sh is enough ...)

I'm working at the moment for a Mac Os X 10.4 Version.