Thougts on Skellington and submission

bjorn on 2008/04/06 05:44 of Bot Builder 2000
— edited on 2008/04/06 00:58

Well due to my own ineptitude (and being separated from my linux box so having to do it the windows way) I messed up the md5 sum for my team's final entry and so it was (temporarily) rejected. Thankfully I'd uploaded a less polished version earlier in the day, so all would not have been lost if I had not been allowed to correct my error.

From what I've been reading though I'm not the only one who had a bit of difficulty creating a correct md5. It got me thinking: Skellington is a great package and the create-upload script made it really easy to package our game; it would, I suspect, be fairly trivial to have that script optionally (but on by default) produce md5 sum along with the zip file. I think that could save some stress when it comes down to the wire.

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saluk on 2008/04/06 07:16:

Yeah, I think the main reason many md5's didn't work was we used the code on the help page and opened the files in text mode rather than binary mode - producing improper hashes on windows machines. If the md5 code were build into the create script, this would be a simple matter. I think Richard mentioned looking into doing this, I'm sure it will be added by next time.

Bob the Hamster on 2008/04/06 21:34:

I was able to run the 1.0 version, but when I tried 1.1, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_game.py", line 16, in 
    main.main()
  File "/home/james/src/misc/pyweek6/BotBuilder2000-1.1/lib/main.py", line 41, in main
    stateManager = StateManager()
  File "/home/james/src/misc/pyweek6/BotBuilder2000-1.1/lib/main.py", line 62, in __init__
    self.credits = Credits()
  File "/home/james/src/misc/pyweek6/BotBuilder2000-1.1/lib/credits.py", line 20, in __init__
    self.textList.append(pygletfont.Text(self.font, line, x = 800 / 2, y = sy, halign = pygletfont.Text.CENTER))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyglet/font/__init__.py", line 357, in __init__
    self.halign = halign
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyglet/font/__init__.py", line 504, in _set_halign
    self._layout.halign = halign
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyglet/text/layout.py", line 1409, in _set_halign
    self._update()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyglet/text/layout.py", line 836, in _update
    left = self._get_left()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyglet/text/layout.py", line 854, in _get_left
    return self._x - width // 2
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for //: 'NoneType' and 'int'

I tried with both pyglet 1.0 and pyglet 1.1 installed.

j-1 on 2008/04/06 21:41:

Speaking of skellington, I got strange results when trying to make setup.py export an .exe, or rather when running the exported file. It was something about not finding the module 'main', which did exist. I did not have time to learn py2exe myself, so I gave up. However: Since skellington has the exact same layout as our final entry, this leads me to think that something is wrong. Has anyone experienced the same issues?