Tinkering with ScummVM

AlaraMoonrunner · Post by **AlaraMoonrunner** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:10 pm

Would I be able to look at the code with CodeLite?

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:34 pm

Assuming you are talking about the ScummVM source code, then you can look at it with any text editor, or even MS Word if you wanted to (for some obscure reason

. Google tells me that CodeLite is a C++ IDE, so it should be able to display the ScummVM source files just fine.

However, I have no idea whether CodeLite can compile ScummVM, or how, never having used it.

AlaraMoonrunner · Post by **AlaraMoonrunner** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:55 pm

Ah, ok. I've been looking at a tutorial for C++ as I'm interested in helping out.

bobdevis · Post by **bobdevis** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:10 pm

AlaraMoonrunner wrote:Ah, ok. I've been looking at a tutorial for C++ as I'm interested in helping out.

You need to forget about ScummVM for little while then.
FIRST get familiar with C++ so that you can write your own small apps, THEN start looking at ScummVM code. There is no way stuff will make any sense otherwise.
You also will want to get familiar with the SDL libraries because they are the foundation under ScummVM on most platforms.

fingolfin wrote:Assuming you are talking about the ScummVM source code, then you can look at it with any text editor, or even MS Word if you wanted to (for some obscure reason .

A capable programmer and Mac fan suggests looking at source code in MS Word.... So the apocalypse IS upon us after all...

KuroShiro · Post by **KuroShiro** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:49 pm

For just reading through source code I'd suggest Notepad++. It's fairly intuitive.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:47 pm

bobdevis wrote:
fingolfin wrote:Assuming you are talking about the ScummVM source code, then you can look at it with any text editor, or even MS Word if you wanted to (for some obscure reason .
A capable programmer and Mac fan suggests looking at source code in MS Word.... So the apocalypse IS upon us after all...

I never suggested to use MS Word -- I just pointed out that it is possible

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MeddlingMonk · Post by **MeddlingMonk** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:43 am

fingolfin wrote:I never suggested to use MS Word -- I just pointed out that it is possible .

Come to that, you could probably view the code using an early version of WordPerfect via DOSBox...but only someone with serious mental problems would want to.

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:27 am

MeddlingMonk wrote:
fingolfin wrote:I never suggested to use MS Word -- I just pointed out that it is possible .
Come to that, you could probably view the code using an early version of WordPerfect via DOSBox...but only someone with serious mental problems would want to.

This is how I edit for ScummVM.

AlaraMoonrunner · Post by **AlaraMoonrunner** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:41 pm

I can read that, but at the same time I think my brain just broke...

dreammaster · Post by **dreammaster** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:21 am

clone2727 wrote:This is how I edit for ScummVM.

Reminds me of this Xkcd comic.