Visual Basic 6?

Andreas Mustola

Is there a runtime for Spine you could use in visual basic 6? (Yes, it´s an old one)
I like to make all the calculations in a .dll file (could be in C or C++). Get the numbers (images x,y, UV texture coord, rotation from origin vector...) and draw the images with my own engine. I use DirectX8 to draw the images in my game.
I am totally new to Spine. I seen then "Kickstarter: Coding Workshop" video.

Andreas Mustola

Found it myself :-)
Official Generic Runtimes http://esotericsoftware.com/spine-runtimes/
Will try to use the .dll

Andreas Mustola

Hmm. No. No compiled .dll files? Hmm. Is there a .dll file out there?

Andreas Mustola

I build a new .dll file with the C# spine runtime code. Created a tlb with "regasm spine-csharp.dll /tlb:spine-csharp.tlb". Added in a VB6 IDE. I see the functions and classes but I can't find "TextureAtlas" so I can start load a texture. Do anyone know what is wrong? (except that I use vb6)?

Andreas Mustola

Fixed some problems by rename the "spine-csharp.tlb" to "spinerun.tlb". But still cant find Atlas.

Nate

Atlas is there, I assume you see the source file? Not sure why it wouldn't be there, sorry.

Andreas Mustola

I found the Atlas. But I can't get anything to work.

Code:
Dim Spine_Atlas As Atlas
(Load atlas code)
(From Java example)
atlas = new TextureAtlas(Gdx.files.internal("spineboy/spineboy.atlas"));
(How to translate this in vb should be something like)
atlas = TextureAtlas("c:\MyProhram\spineboy\spineboy.atlas")
(But I cant find any load procedure)

Is there a way to only load the animation and only get the draw information (x, y, UV coord, rotation)?

Nate

TextureAtlas is a libgdx class, it is not in spine-csharp.

You might be able to use the Atlas(String, TextureLoader) constructor. I'm not sure how you'll implement the TextureLoader though. See XnaTextureLoader in spine-xna for how you might implement it. You can leave the Load and Unload methods empty if you just want the atlas information. You may need to write C# code that implements a no-op TextureLoader to make it easier to use the API from VB6.

Andreas Mustola

I tried to open the spine-xna runtime. But I can't open it. I got Visual studio express 2013, 2012, 2010. The error message is "The project type is not supported by this installation."
What program do I need to open it?

Andreas Mustola

I thought it was too good to be true that I could use this tool. I can not write a wrapper to vb6 and there are no examples of how to make it work in vb6 on Google. Will probably abandon the idea and look elsewhere. Will probably try to do own skeletons animation for my game.

Nate

I open spine-xna.sln with Visual C# 2010 Express.

Sorry, VB6 isn't a very popular language. Why don't you just port the spine-csharp code to VB6?

Andreas Mustola

I get error messages when I open the file. Game Studio not found. But I installed it. Maybe windows 8.1 problem. Must try something else now. Have been working on a solution for 15 hours straight now and it does not work. Cant make spine-csharp to work with vb6.

I am trying to open it in javascript and maybe translate it to vb6. But I can't get it to run. I use Webstorm to run the javascript but I get an error message: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'removeEventListener' of null
(anonymous function)

What program do you use to open and run javascript?

Andreas Mustola

I uploaded it to my site:
http://theanykey.se/spine/turbulenz/

but I only get an empty canvas.

Nate

Sorry, there was a bug in spine-turbulenz. 🙁 The skeleton should be positioned by skeleton.x/y, not the root bone. I fixed this and moved spine-turbulenz to its own directory to match all the other runtimes. Updated example is here:
http://esotericsoftware.com/spine/files ... index.html
This should work if you just copy the files (and copy spine-js into spine-turbulenz) to your webserver. Your link above actually works, just the skeleton is being rendered off screen.

I've added some documentation here:
https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spi ... -turbulenz

The turbulenz stuff uses HTML5 and is intended to be run in a browser, not sure you can get it working in VB6.