Technical guidelines
FLASH
* animation sizes fixed 800 x 600 px (w x h)
OTHERS
* player avatar size fixed 200 x 200 px (w x h)
Work diary
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Mari
* tested the Amfphp solution as a gateway between PHP and Flash
* checked details for the upcoming tasks in Jira
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Jenni
* added issues to JIRA
* set up SVN server for files
Mari
* tried out Flash remoting for PHP
* added new tasks to JIRA
* modified actionscript and PHP codes, they still need further developing
Guide: Using SVN
Cyberhouse has now its own SVN (version control) server installed, and I hope it’ll be used with this project. All files from mails and FTP server have now been transferred to SVN server, and will be accessible from there.
The purpose of SVN server is to hold all the files used in this project, and give opportunity to users (simultaneously) modify the files, so everyone is working with up-to-date files.
For example:
Person A edits a file called test.txt and uploads it (’svn commit’) to the SNV server (repofolder). Person B can then download the same file (’svn update’) and see the modifications that person A has made. In case A & B both modify the same file at the same time, and their modifications to the file overrule each other, a previous version of the file can be easily restored by selection a earlier revision (version) number than the current one. In case they modify different parts of the file, the modifications will be stored to the files existing in SVN server and all users can download their ‘working copies’ of it. In case you accidently happen to delete the file from your own PC, it’ll be still available at SVN server.
Good and easy-to-use software for browsing the Cyberhouse SVN:
TortoiseSVN (Windows)
SvnX 0.9.9 (Mac OS X)
The address of the SVN server is svn://sntl.dyndns.org:4753/cyberhouse, login/password is usually your firstname/firstname.
Setting up TortoiseSVN in Windows (pictorial guide)
1. Download TortoiseSVN and follow the instructions to install it. Then reboot when asked to, and everything should be OK.
2. Create a folder where you want to keep the working copy of the Cyberhouse SVN folder. Right-click the folder and select ‘SVN Checkout’.
3. In the field ‘URL of repository’ put ’svn://sntl.dyndns.org:4753/cyberhouse’ as shown below. Make sure the address of the checkout folder is the same you are now in. Click OK.
4. If it asks for your login / password at this point, put them on. After that the SVN software starts downloading all the files at the repo folder at the moment. It may take a while, since there’s lot of files.
5. After this you should have all the files up-to-date in your working folder! Congratulations! With TortoiseSVN the icons next to the files tell what is the state of the file - green is up-to-date, red has been modified since last update.
