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Hi,

There is maybe a little bug in the interface plugit "dialog list" (but maybe it comes from my configuration or misuse from my part).

Description:

You can fill the item dialog list "statically" by adding items directly in its window parameters before to play the scene:

It works fine and the result is this:

But you can also fill the items list dynamically on run by calling its action "Add element to list" (in this example i just use a button to call this action) :

I do it 3 times to add the same 3 elements than above. But then the size of the list item is not update and three little dots appears to indicate that not all items are displayed because dialog height is too small to show them all :

Origin of Problem:

In the plugit code (cdialoglist.pkg), the problem seems to come from the mecanism that should update the variables containing the item's list, but that don't work. In particular the number of items in the list is not update :

   obstr.PDLGL_iNbElem
   
   This var is used to compute the height of the dialog list, when it is created on show:
   
   Ln285:
   let 30 + (obstr.PDLGL_iNbElem * 36 + (obstr.PDLGL_iNbElem - 1) * oh) -> height in

But when you use action "Add element to list", this var is not update to the new number of items, so neither the height of the dialog that should grow accordingly.

The code of the action "Add element to list" is in :

    fun cbAddElement(...):

which call differents functions of v3dui.pkg like:

    VUIaddListElement & VUIunfoldListElement
   
   
Line 5543: fun VUIaddListElement(...)=

does different things to add the new item to list, then ask for an update of the dialoglist:

    VUIelementNeedUpdate parentstr.VUILE_element 1;

I haven't yet the time to follow the rest of the code, but apparently the update mecanism of the dialog list is not done somehere and the dialoglist height stays as there was only one item in the list.

Maybe it is wanted as this, but i don't find a way to adjust the height of the dialog after it is created. Of course the height of the dialog box can't grow infinitely, but I think it should at least be able to grow to show 3 or 4 elements, as it is possible when doing it with first method.

Thank's for reading.

Hi OS3D community,

To my little beginner knowledge, there is no plugit to do usual string manipulation (sorry if i didn't see it and it already exists somewhere), so made one simple example and propose it here, if it could be of any help for someone.

It is just an example, as I made it only with the functions specially needed for my os3D project, but it is not very difficult to modify it, if you want to add some other string functions you need, as there is many more of them in scol. You can find the list here, (mainly in the str... section):

https://svn.scolring.org/trunk/scol/doc … brary.html

This code has certainly to be improved and written more efficiently, as this is my first step in scol langage, but it works.

HOW TO USE:

Jut create a folder "string" in the "misc" plugits folder and create 3 text files to copy the following code in the respective files named:
string.xml, estring.pkg, cstring.pkg and inside this folder "string", create a folder "lang" to put local files: string.french.lang & string.english.lang

The string that you want to manipulate is send to the plugit in the link parameter (for example with a global var: %var%) or send by the previous plugit as usual.

Parameters (inside plugit pannel):

1) Number of occurence: when trying to find a substring in a string, allow to choose which occurence of the substring you want, if there is more than one.
                        If let to 0, when using Action "GetReplace" (see below), all occurences are replaced.

            example:   "i want to go to the zoo" --> with occurence=2 will select the 2nd "to" (the zoo).
         

2) from char: apply string manipulation not from begining, but from the char n (first char is 1).

3) to char: same for the end.

4) Searched string: a substring you want to find in the original string

5) Replacement string: if calling action getReplaced, the searched string (see above) is replaced by this string

ACTION/EVENT:

1) Action: GetPos -> Event: Position    return the position (start at 1) of the first char of the "Searched string" found in orginal string

2) Action: GetSubStr   has 2 usage mode

                       a) if occurence = 0: just return the substring between "from char" to "to char"
                          (like usual Substring, SubStr, MID function etc.)
                       
                       b) if occurence = n:  search occurence n of "Searched string" in the original string and return two events
                       
                          -> Event: PreString   return the part of the string situated before the "Searched string" [all the string if "Searched string" not found]
                          -> Event: SubString   return the part of the string situated after the "Searched string"  [(-1) if "Searched string" not found]
                   
       
        example:   GetSubStr of string "I want to go to the zoo"
                   parameters: occurence=1, Searched string=" go "
                     
                     -->  PreString="I want to"
                          SubString="to the zoo"
                         
                   In my project, "Searched string" is often just a symbol like # that separate two different data that i want to separate at runtime,
                   but need to get them Simultaneously in 2 separate events.
       
       
3) Action: GetReplace  -> Event: Replaced   return the original string, where the "Searched string" is replaced by the "Replacement string" given in parameters
                                            (same as Replace function in javascript)
       
4) Action: LowerCase -->  Event: LowerCase   return lower or uppercase of original string (not sure this comment is really neccessary
   Action: UpperCase -->  Event: UpperCase
       
                                           
5) Event: Done    fired when other actions are finished, return just 'nil'
                  (needed when i wanted to know an action is finished to fired the next plugit, but don't need the returned string)
                 

Code:

File: string.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<PLUGIN name="string" version="1.0" type="misc">
  <DESCRIPTION>String Manipulation</DESCRIPTION>
  <HELP></HELP>
  <RESOURCE></RESOURCE>
  <EDITOR>
    <SCRIPT path="./estring.pkg" />
    <PARAM name="occurence" type="value" />
    <PARAM name="start" type="start" />
    <PARAM name="end" type="end" />
    <PARAM name="find" type="find" />
    <PARAM name="replace" type="value" />
  </EDITOR>
  <CLIENT minstance="true">
    <SCRIPT path="./cstring.pkg" />
    <ACTION name="GetPos" />
    <EVENT name="Position" />
    <ACTION name="GetSubString" />
    <EVENT name="PreString" />
    <EVENT name="SubString" />
    <ACTION name="GetReplace" />
    <EVENT name="Replaced" />   
    <EVENT name="Done" />
    <ACTION name="LowerCase" />
    <EVENT name="LowerCase" />
    <ACTION name="UpperCase" />
    <EVENT name="UpperCase" />
  </CLIENT>
</PLUGIN>

File: estring.pkg

fun cbCloseEdit(v)=
   let v -> [ctrlocc ctrlstart ctrlend ctrlfind ctrlrep] in
   let getEdCtrlFloatValue ctrlocc -> nocc in
   let getEdCtrlFloatValue ctrlstart -> start in
   let getEdCtrlFloatValue ctrlend -> end in
   let getEdCtrlEditTextValue ctrlfind -> find in
   let getEdCtrlEditTextValue ctrlrep -> replace in
   ["occurence" ftoa nocc]::
   ["start" ftoa start]::
   ["end" ftoa end]::
   ["find" find]::
   ["replace" replace]::
   nil;;


fun dynamicedit(winstr, inst, viewstr, applybtn)=
  let [400 300] -> [iw ih] in
  (
    setEdWindowSize winstr iw ih;
    
    let atof (getPluginInstanceParam inst "occurence") -> nocc in
    let atof (getPluginInstanceParam inst "start") -> start in
    let atof (getPluginInstanceParam inst "end") -> end in
    
    let (getPluginInstanceParam inst "find") -> find in
    let if find == nil then "" else find -> find in
    let (getPluginInstanceParam inst "replace") -> replace in
    let if replace == nil then "" else replace -> replace in

    let crEdCtrlLabel winstr 10 12 160 20 (loc "OS3STRING_0001") nil -> labeltitle in
    let crEdCtrlFloat winstr 180 10 40 20 nocc 0.0 100.0 1.0 0 nil EDWIN_RESIZE_MW -> ctrlocc in 

    let crEdCtrlLabel winstr 10 37 160 20 (loc "OS3STRING_0002") nil -> labeltitle in
    let crEdCtrlFloat winstr 180 35 40 20 start 1.0 100.0 1.0 0 nil EDWIN_RESIZE_MW -> ctrlstart in 
    
    let crEdCtrlLabel winstr 10 65 160 20 (loc "OS3STRING_0003") nil -> labeltitle in
    let crEdCtrlFloat winstr 180 63 40 20 end 0.0 100.0 1.0 0 nil EDWIN_RESIZE_MW -> ctrlend in            

    let crEdCtrlLabel winstr 10 90 160 20 (loc "OS3STRING_0004") nil -> labeltitle in
    let crEdCtrlEditText winstr 10 108 (iw - 20) 90 find nil EDWIN_RESIZE_MW -> ctrlfind in
    
    let crEdCtrlLabel winstr 10 223 160 20 (loc "OS3STRING_0005") nil -> labeltitle in
    let crEdCtrlEditText winstr 10 241 (iw - 20) 90 replace nil EDWIN_RESIZE_MW -> ctrlrep in
    (
      [mkfun1 @cbCloseEdit [ctrlocc ctrlstart ctrlend ctrlfind ctrlrep] nil];
    );
  );;

  File: cstring.pkg

  fun deleteOb(inst)=
  0;;

  fun GetPos(str, nocc, start, end, find)=
        set nocc = if nocc == 0 then 1 else nocc;      
        let start -> pos in
        let if (end == 0) then (strlen str) else end -> end in
        let 1 -> count in
          if find == nil then (-1) else
           (
              while ( (count <= nocc) && (pos <= end) && (pos != nil) ) do (
                 set pos = (strfind find str pos);
                 if (pos != nil) then set pos = pos + 1;      
                 set count = count + 1;
              );
              let if (pos == nil) then -1 else pos -> pos in
                  pos;
           );;

  fun cbGetPos(inst, from, action, str, reply, p)=
       let p -> [nocc start end find _] in
       let GetPos str nocc start end find -> pos in
           SendPluginEvent inst "Position" itoa pos nil;
           SendPluginEvent inst "Done" nil nil;
  0;;
  
  
  fun cbGetSubString(inst, from, action, str, reply, p)=
       let p -> [nocc start end find _] in
       let start - 1 ->  start in               
       let if ( (end == 0) || (start > end) )then (strlen str) else end -> end in
       let start -> pos in
       let "" -> pre in
       let "" -> sub in
       (
          if nocc != 0 then (      
               set pos = GetPos str nocc start end find;
               if pos != -1 then (
                   set pre = substr str 0 (pos - 1);
                   
                   let pos + (strlen find) - 1 -> start in
                   let end - start -> len in 
                       set sub = substr str start len;
               )
               else (
                   set pre = str;      
                   set sub = "-1";
               )
          )
          else
          (
              set pre = substr str 0 (start - 1);
              let end - start -> len in            
                  set sub = substr str start len;
           );
           
          SendPluginEvent inst "PreString" pre nil;
          SendPluginEvent inst "SubString" sub nil;
          SendPluginEvent inst "Done"      nil nil;
       );
  0;;


 fun GetReplace(str, find, replace, nocc, start, end)=
        let 0 -> pos in 
       let GetPos str nocc start end find -> pos in (
       if ( pos >= 0 ) then (
          let substr str 0 (pos - 1) -> first in
          let substr str (pos - 1 + strlen find) strlen str -> last in ( 
          set str = strcatn first::replace::last::nil;
          str;
          )
       )
       else nil
       )
 ;;

 fun cbGetReplace(inst, from, action, str, reply, p)=
    let p -> [nocc start end find replace] in
    let start - 1 ->  start in              
    let if (end == 0) then (strlen str) else end -> end in
    (  
       if (nocc != 0) then ( 
           let GetReplace str find replace nocc start end -> res in
           if res != nil then (set str = res);
           0                                          
       )                                             
       else (
          let 1 -> loop in  
           while ( loop == 1) do ( 
             let GetReplace str find replace 1 start end -> res in 
             if res != nil then (set str = res; 0;) else (set loop = 0; 0;)
           );
           1                                                
        );                                           
       SendPluginEvent inst "Replaced" str nil;
       SendPluginEvent inst "Done" nil nil;
    );
  0;;

fun cbLowerCase(inst, from, action, str, reply, p)=
    SendPluginEvent inst "LowerCase" (strlowercase str) nil;
0;;

fun cbUpperCase(inst, from, action, str, reply, p)=
    SendPluginEvent inst "UpperCase" (struppercase str) nil;
0;;

fun newOb(inst)=
  let atoi (getPluginInstanceParam inst "occurence") -> nocc in
  let atoi (getPluginInstanceParam inst "start") -> start in
  let atoi (getPluginInstanceParam inst "end") -> end in
  let (getPluginInstanceParam inst "find") -> find in
  let if (find == nil) then "" else find -> find in
  let (getPluginInstanceParam inst "replace") -> replace in
  let if (replace == nil) then "" else replace -> replace in
  let [nocc start end find replace] -> struc in
  (
    PluginRegisterAction inst "GetPos" mkfun6 @cbGetPos struc;
    PluginRegisterAction inst "GetSubString" mkfun6 @cbGetSubString struc;
    PluginRegisterAction inst "GetReplace" mkfun6 @cbGetReplace struc;
    PluginRegisterAction inst "LowerCase" mkfun6 @cbLowerCase struc;
    PluginRegisterAction inst "UpperCase" mkfun6 @cbUpperCase struc;
    setPluginInstanceCbDel inst @deleteOb;
  );
  0;;


fun IniPlug(file)=
  PlugRegister @newOb nil;
  setPluginEditor @dynamicedit;
  0;;

File: string.english.lang (to be put in folder "lang")

LANGUAGE english
OS3STRING_DESC String manipulation: find, substring, replace, case replace
OS3STRING_HELP
OS3STRING_0001 Number of occurence
OS3STRING_0002 from char
OS3STRING_0003 To char
OS3STRING_0004 Searched string
OS3STRING_0005 Replacement string

File: string.french.lang (to be put in folder "lang")

LANGUAGE french
OS3STRING_DESC Manipulation de chaine de caracteres: find, replace, subtring, case
OS3STRING_HELP
OS3STRING_0001 Nombre d'occurences
OS3STRING_0002 A partir du caractère
OS3STRING_0003 Jusqu'au caractére
OS3STRING_0004 Chaîne recherchée
OS3STRING_0005 Chaîne de remplacement

Hi,

My project is working fine now, but i have apparently a last annoying problem of screen resolution.

When using OS3D under win7 with a screen resolution of 1440x900, every elements of project is rendered fine (2D text & pictures, 3D mesh...).

But after exporting to android tablet Lenovo Tab 2 A8-50 (screen: 1280x800, Android 5.1), all 2D user UI objects appears very very tiny: text zone, dialoglist, custom interface...

For example a text written in custom interface plugit with font size 20, appears like something size 3 on the tablet. Also a Dialoglist plugit window, is so small, i can barely click on the ok button to close it.

I don't understand why all the scene is so shrink between windows version and android export. The resolution of the screen of the pc & tablet are very close (1440x900 vs 1280x800), but the size of the scene is rendered completely differently.

I have try different width & height default size in OS3D project settings (player settings), with no effect.

The problem comes certainly from those Lenovo tablets, but there isn't any settings i can find to change that (android settings to set text size doesn't fix the problem).

The only solution i found is to increase a lot the font size and width/height of all 2D user interface control (button, text...) in windows, where they are now very huge, even cut at bottom, but then in Android they appears quite normaly.

But i can't do this with dialogbox UI taken from interface plugit folder (dialog list, dialog number, dialog text input) for which there is unfortunately no settings to change the font size, so they stay very tiny and quite unusable. The problem is that i use a lot of them in my project.

I'm teacher, doing this project for my student and can only use this model of tablets that are available at my school.

Does someone knows if there is a setting somewhere when export to android to change something about screen resolution, or what could cause this problem ?

As this project is also using the webcam for AR recognition, and the webcam resolution on my pc & the tablets is quite different, could the problem comes from this ?

Thank you very much for any help.

Hi,

I'm building a OS3D project to be used on android platform, and add a hud with some text. As it is proposed in the plugit "custom interface" or "text zone", i choose a particular character font type that is on my pc to write the text without problem.

But it seems that when you export your project to android apk, the font.ttf file is not included in the package and so can't be displayed on android devices.

There is very few default fonts included in the different versions of Android, so usually when you make an android app in other framework, you can add any fonts you want with some code in the manifest file and the xml files coming with it in the res folder.

So could you please tell me if i am making a mistake or if there is a way to ask OS3D apk exporter to embed font files used in a project inside the apk ?

Or maybe is it possible to add necessary code manually in the source files produced by OS3D apk exporter (especially in manifest), then recompile the apk in Android studio or other framework.

Thank you for your help

Hello to all the OS3D community,

I am completely new to OS3D and I am a trying to make android AR tutorials for my students on different scolar subjects, to make learning more attractive. I have followed a video tutorial to use AR with OS3D and i succeeded to make a 3D object follows a trained image marker without problem and then export the apk to android device. All this works very well.

So now i'm trying to go a step further, but i am stuck by different problems for which I really don't find solutions so far, could you please help me about those :

1) CPU USAGE: I apologize for this probably dumb question, but first i have a concern about cpu usage. Since OS3D is loaded, the OS3D process make cpu load at 50% permanently, so quickly the fan goes to max and the pc heats a lot.

As my pc is quite old, i can understand it is highly sollicited for 3D rendering, but even when i open a new project where there is nothing in the scene (no 3D object, default_light desactivated) i don't understand why it needs all this cpu.

At first i believed that the toolbar button Play/Stop has purpose to start or stop 3D rendering, but then i have understood that 3D rendering is done in real time permanently.  So I have look up in render settings, but didn't find an option to desactivate real time rendering or something to limit fps (it is at about 400 for now) or to lower render quality, because for my old pc i don't need so much quality to just make some test. I have unchecked all options in rendering settings window, but cpu still always at 50% (using directX or OpenGl).

So could you please explain me, what is the 3D motor rendering, although there is absolutely nothing in the scene, and is it possible to desactivate this real time rendering or lower its quality when i don't need it, for example when i am just working in the edit zone to try differents plugits.

2) ACCENTUED CHARACTER: I use OS3D in french language, and I have a problem with text (create in a custom interface for example) that use french accent that are not recognized when exporting to android app. When testing it on Windows 7 everything is fine, but when export to android apk, accentued character (é,à,ç etc.) are replaced by "?". I try on 2 differents android devices (tablet & phone) with same result, although there is no problem when using the project on windows.

Scol voyager is set to french, project setting is set to french, OS3D option is set to language french, and when export to android I put FR for country when asking to sign apk. Does i forgot an option somewhere about that or are the french accentued character not supported by android apk compiled by OS3D ?

3) TEXT SMOOTHNESS:  I have also a big concern about the quality of text rendering that seems not to be really smooth. For example, creating a text in plugit "custom interface", i choose a classic font Arial and police size 10 to 20 to test. But the text (in 2D) i obtain gives something like "aliased", not smooth (irregular) when i compare with exactly the same text and size i see in an text editor like Word. Is there something to do, to make characters appears more smooth ?

4) PLUGIT ADDSOURCECODE: Last thing, could you please help me to use plugit "addsourcecode", for example to be able to call directly a method of some instance. I have look some examples, but didn't manage to make it work:

For example, i make an instance of the plugit "custom interface" named MyCustomInterface, and inside create a text named myText and give it some value ("hello" or anything else).

If now i want to change the value of this text with an instance of the plugit addsourcecode, using action "set Text" of the plugit "custom interface", to replace the text by another text contained in a global var named Myvar: 

is there something like that ?

fun main(inst)
     Scene.MyCustomInterface.myText.setText(Myvar);
     0;;

Thanks a lot for any help you could provide me.