Yearly Archives: 2008

My Free Tileset, version 6

More free tiles for game developers. Now in a fantasy, medieval style.

tileset palace snes rpg style

Some detailed view. The royal throne (king was not in the room), carpet and banners.

tileset palace detail view 1

I had to place guards across the room. You know, being a king is dangerous.

tileset palace detail view 2

There’s this new kind of wall, with bricks. There’s a passage for the king bedroom.

tileset palace detail view 3

Here’s the new version of the tile set.

free tileset version 6

2nd Prize at Sun Student Reviews Contest

Project Xort won a second place prize at the MySQL and GlassFish Student Reviews Contest. A lot of guys here from Brazil were prized, congractulations guys! Very cool projects, worth to take a look.

Prize

I won a certificate (seems to be really autographed by Jonathan Schwartz *_* I want to believe) that I will frame and put in my room and a $250 dollars check that I’ll save for a trip next year. \o/

Prize

There’s always cool contests running. Let’s keep our eyes open. ;)

Ubuntu Shipit

Ubuntus!

Those days I received my box of free Ubuntu CDs and sticks, free of charges.  Courtesy of Canonical throught the Ubuntu Shipit project, thanks guys! I love those Internet free stuff. It’s essential having a few CDs distros always with me.

OpenSolaris Time Slider

In this demo Roman Strobl shows the new functionality available from OpenSolaris 2008.11 . Time Slider allows users get instant rollback and point in time snapshots. This is possible the thought the ZFS Snapshots and now can be easily used by users thought the Time Slider in the Gnome interface.

More about news functionalities in OpenSolaris 2008.11 in the live demo “What’s new in OpenSolaris 2008.111″ also with Roman.

Parsing a XML Sandwich with JavaFX

delicious sandwich

Let sandwich.xml be a file at /tmp directory with the content above.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<bread sesame="true">
   <catchup/>
   <hamburguer/>
   <cheese type="chedar"/>
   <maionese/>
   <lettuce/>
</bread>

We can open it using java.io.FileInputStream and so use it on a javafx.data.pull.PullParser. A PullParser is a event oriented parser that works with XML and YAML files. Above a general and simple parser with a GUI that show the list of events during the parse process.

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javafx.data.pull.Event;
import javafx.data.pull.PullParser;
import javafx.ext.swing.SwingList;
import javafx.ext.swing.SwingListItem;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
 
var list = SwingList { width: 600 height: 300 }
 
var myparser = PullParser {
   documentType: PullParser.XML;
   onEvent: function (e: Event) {
      var item = SwingListItem {
         text: "event {e}"
      };
      insert item into list.items;
   }
   input: new FileInputStream("/tmp/sandwich.xml");
}
myparser.parse();
 
Stage {
   title: "XML Sandwich"
   scene: Scene { content: list }
}

javafx xml sandwich

The XML cheese element produce two the outputs.

type:1 typeName:START_ELEMENT level:1 qname:cheese text:” namespaces:{} attributes:{type=chedar}
type:2 typeName:END_ELEMENT level:1 qname:cheese text:” namespaces:{} attributes:{type=chedar}

Notice that white spaces like tab and escape characters like new line also produced events from type TEXT. We are not interested on them. Above a parser that looks only those events of type START_ELEMENT or END_ELEMENT, look into it’s contents, building a sandwich at runtime based on the XML file.

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import javafx.data.pull.Event;
import javafx.data.pull.PullParser;
import javafx.data.xml.QName;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
 
// my sandwich starts as an empty VBox
var mysandwich = VBox {}
 
// give a name and returns a ImageView with a png image like the name
function ingredient(name){
   return ImageView {
      image: Image {
         url: "{__DIR__}{name}.png"
      }
   }
}
 
// basicaly, look the event and put a ingredient at mysandwich
var myparser = PullParser {
   documentType: PullParser.XML;
   onEvent: function (e: Event) {
      // starter xml elements
      if(e.type == PullParser.START_ELEMENT){
         // bread
         if(e.qname.name.equals("bread")){
             insert ingredient("bread_top") into mysandwich.content;
         }
 
         // hamburguer
         if(e.qname.name.equals("hamburguer")){
             insert ingredient("hamburguer") into mysandwich.content;
         }
 
         // catchup
         if(e.qname.name.equals("catchup")){
             insert ingredient("catchup") into mysandwich.content;
         }
 
         // maionese
         if(e.qname.name.equals("maionese")){
             insert ingredient("maionese") into mysandwich.content;
         }
 
         // lettuce
         if(e.qname.name.equals("lettuce")){
             insert ingredient("lettuce") into mysandwich.content;
         }
 
         // cheese
         if(e.qname.name.equals("cheese")){
            var type= e.getAttributeValue(QName{name:"type"});
            if(type.equals("cheedar")){
                 insert ingredient("cheedar") into mysandwich.content;
            } else {
                insert ingredient("cheese") into mysandwich.content;
            }
         }
      }
 
      // ending xml elements (just bread)
      if(e.type == PullParser.END_ELEMENT){
         if(e.qname.name.equals("bread")){
            insert ingredient("bread_botton") into mysandwich.content;
         }
      }
   }
   input: new FileInputStream("/tmp/sandwich.xml");
}
myparser.parse();
 
Stage {
   title: "XML Sandwich"
   scene: Scene {
      height: 300
      content: mysandwich
   }
}

Here’s our sandwich.

sandwich javaFX

Just changing the XML file you got a new sandwich.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- double burger -->
<bread sesame="true">
   <maionese/>
   <lettuce/>
   <hamburguer/>
   <cheese type="chedar"/>
   <catchup/>
   <hamburguer/>
   <lettuce/>
</bread>

double burguer

Bon appétit.

For more details on XML and JSON parsing see the JavaFX API.

Pizza Party!

duke pizza

A pizza party que o CEJUG ganhou por ter atingido mais de 100 usuários no OSUM em apenas dois dias é essa sexta-feira, às 18hrs no restaurante Florence L’Escale. As pizzas ficam por nossa conta e as bebidas por conta dos participantes.

Se você vai:

Lembre-se, é nessa sexta-feira, dia 26 de Dezembro, às 18 horas. Preencha o espaço na sua agenda entre as festas de natal e a farra de ano novo. ;D Maiores detalhes no site do evento dentro do OSUM.