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You can't make good HTML5 games in Haxe
- A phrase usually popping up when it comes to a discussion about HTML5 and Haxe. Which is complete nonsense. Not just that it is nonsense, but it's also a good measure of how little (read: none) research the author of phrase has made on the topic. I'm quite tired explaining to people, why their opinion about this is incorrect, so I've decided to group key points into a post,
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It've been a long long time. How have you been?
Meanwhile I have been studying, working on some things (you can also see from the finally linked Works page), some of which I am going to highlight in next few days here.
One for today is the Haxe-made JavaScript minifier+obfuscator, called HaxMin. You could just navigate to it's Github repository or read the full post below.
Today I'm officially releasing OpenFL-bitfive, an alternative backend to OpenFL-html5. Similar to standard backend, OpenFL-bitfive assists you at creating HTML5 games (apart of standard Flash, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, [...] ones) with use of comfortable Flash-like OpenFL API. A difference is that while focusing only on certain feature set, OpenFL-bitfive reaches quite higher performance and compatibility in its niche, also making it possible to develop mobile HTML5 games using the framework. This post goes in-depth about it.
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If you are migrating to Haxe (or just porting an existing application) from another C-like language, such as JavaScript or ActionScript, you may have already noticed that for-loops in Haxe differ a bit from standard format that you would expect to see in languages of this type. To be precise, they lack common 3-statement format support. This article is dedicated to different methods of "migrating" your for-loops without rewriting contents entirely.
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If you are working with HaxeNME, you might have noticed that compiled JS/HTML5 applications do not necessary work same as other platforms. Or don't work at all. Or don't compile because of some uncommon unimplemented method that you've used.
Reasons of such behaviour are even somewhat understandable - process of recreating Flash API on JavaScript+HTML5 isn't exactly an easy task, especially since multiple features do not exist in both of two in the same way or do not exist in second at all, meaning that implementation may require a trick or two to work.
And as code base is accumulating "tricks" by multiple contributors, it does not necessarily remain entirely stable.
For example, if you've decided to clear your BitmapData-based 640x480 buffer via BitmapData.fillRect, you are making a huge mistake - the function is not just doing this pixel-by-pixel, but also via ImageData API.
Overall, this article is dedicated to substituting Browser/Jeash part of NME by your own library in JS compilation.
Recently I was searching for at least relatively high-definition icon for Haxe (programming language), and found that there ... just isn't one. The best I could find was icon used on someone's blog, and that had white seams at shape intersections (suggesting anti-aliasing problems).
So I've made one.
The whole icon (after a few manual optimizations) is 1108 bytes, is in SVG format, and seems to meet proportions of original perfectly.
Also sections of icon are made to partially overlap "behind the scenes" to avoid earlier mentioned white seams on shape boundaries.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="128px" height="128px" viewBox="0 0 128 128" xml:space="preserve"> <g> <rect fill="#f7941e" width="96" height="96" x="16" y="16"/> <polygon fill="#fdb813" points="0,0 4,32 16,64 64,16 32,4"/> <polygon fill="#faa61a" points="0,128 32,124 64,112 16,64 4,96"/> <polygon fill="#f36f21" points="128,128 124,96 112,64 64,112 96,124"/> <polygon fill="#f58220" points="128,0 96,4 64,16 112,64 124,32"/> <polygon fill="#ffcb08" points="0,0 64,16 32,0"/> <polygon fill="#fff200" points="0,0 0,32 16,64"/> <polygon fill="#fff200" points="0,128 16,64 0,96"/> <polygon fill="#f4813c" points="0,128 32,128 64,112"/> <polygon fill="#f7941e" points="128,128 64,112 96,128"/> <polygon fill="#f15922" points="128,128 128,96 112,64"/> <polygon fill="#f15922" points="128,0 112,64 128,32"/> <polygon fill="#ffcb08" points="128,0 96,0 64,16"/> </g> </svg>
Recently I've been searching for examples of client-server communication in Haxe, however could not find anything specific. After some search and asking around, I was pointed to sys.net.Socket class, but the actual means of usage remained unclear. It was also confirmed to mirror POSIX socket functionality. Indeed it does that, though, given that Haxe implementation uses exceptions rather than return values, usage remained uneasy.
After some experimenting, I've figured a semi-simple way of using "blocking" sockets.
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HaxeNME version. Love2d version works equally to this.
Click and drag different parts for interaction.
By user request on Love2d IRC channel, yesterday I've made this nice function to do intersection/collision check between a ray (for clearance, here, a ray is a infinite line with starting point but no end point) and a circle.
Underlying code is fairly simple, though it does not even require understanding to use the function.
Love2d version takes advantage of multi-return values.
Haxe version has slightly longer code due for more optimal implementation of interface.
Definition file in action, displaying syntax for function of fancy purpose.
In past few days I've spent some time to update an existing user definition file to UDL2, which was introduced in Notepad++ v6.2.
UDL2 improves possibilities of creating user defined languages slightly, introducing configurable delimiters, non-symbol operators, foldable comments, and other things.
For the case of Haxe, UDL2 improves detection of symbols, and made it possible to include hexadecimal number declarations, and separate highlighting for regular expressions. A thing that is currently missing out is preprocessor instructions (#if, #else, #end, ...), however, due to nature of these, highlighting is not always needed anyway.
Update: Someone has set up a repository with a more up-to-date version of the UDL file, so you should take a look at that as well.
Alternatively, UDL .xml' contents:
<NotepadPlus>
<UserLang name="Haxe" ext="hx" udlVersion="2.0">
<Settings>
<Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="yes" forceLineCommentsAtBOL="no" foldCompact="no" />
<Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="no" Keywords5="no" Keywords6="no" Keywords7="no" Keywords8="no" />
</Settings>
<KeywordLists>
<Keywords name="Comments" id="0">00// 01 02 03/* 04*/</Keywords>
<Keywords name="Numbers, additional" id="1"></Keywords>
<Keywords name="Numbers, prefixes" id="2">0x</Keywords>
<Keywords name="Numbers, extras with prefixes" id="3">a b c d e f A B C D E F</Keywords>
<Keywords name="Numbers, suffixes" id="4"></Keywords>
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<Keywords name="Operators2" id="6"></Keywords>
<Keywords name="Folders in code1, open" id="7">{</Keywords>
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<Keywords name="Folders in comment, open" id="13">//{</Keywords>
<Keywords name="Folders in comment, middle" id="14"></Keywords>
<Keywords name="Folders in comment, close" id="15">//}</Keywords>
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<Keywords name="Delimiters" id="24">00' 01\ 02' 03" 04\ 05" 06~/ 07\ 08/ 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23</Keywords>
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<WordsStyle name="COMMENTS" styleID="1" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
<WordsStyle name="LINE COMMENTS" styleID="2" fgColor="008000" bgColor="FFFFFF" fontName="" fontStyle="0" nesting="0" />
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