Hi there,

I had never used the "publish" feature. I am using free version o lite-c. Everything is working fine during my tests but when I published and tryied to run the game, the panels for characters, terrain, were not visible. They are all runtime created.... the previous defined panels are shown ok. Perhaps I am missing something? Is this a known issue? Are there differences between test run and the published version run?

I was going to show this demo to someone but right now I am really frustrated...

I can post the code if that helps...but I am pretty sure there is something to do with the pan_create(....)'s

I think when you have predefined Objects that use files, the publish process detects the files and adds them to its resource list.

With runtime objects, this doesnt work so i think you have to explicitly tell the compiler to look for the files.

You can use the 'BIND' keyword for this. So if your panel used an image like "car.png";...you would use BIND "car.png";

I´ve read about this BIND on the manual and that might be the problem... if it isn´t to much could someone give me an example?

Anyway I am considering to change the unnecessary runtime created panels for previous defined panels, since my project is a small one.

thanks djbmaster!

Look at this:


Now the player1.png is in your gamename.cd-folder

Ok, thanks Richi007. I´ll try that later and post the result here.

Thank you guys! That just worked.... sorry for the newbie question...
By the way, the manual tells that pan_create is slow. Should I restrict it´s use for some specific stuff? Because I am really using it a lot, actually everytime the map changes (it is a 2d tile based game, like the very early ultima games) all that is created (ground obstacles, npcs, itens, cities) is runtime panels (except for the ground tiles wich are predefined)

I have something like "panel* npc[10];" and "panel* otherstuff[10];" and then I use this same panels in all the maps just using the pan_create function and some strucs to identify the npc or needed map detail as unique. Acording to the map id, the correct npcs are displayed.... I didn´t notice any performance issue but... what do you guys think about it?

Is that going to be an issue if the game grows big?

unless you create panels every frame it should be ok i guess.