I just finished my first release of a program that ease the job creating 2D Arrays:
Homepage:
www.ArrayPainter.com
Direct download (Beta 0.2):
http://www.arraypainter.com/files/ArrayPainterBeta02.zip
Screenshots:
http://www.arraypainter.com/images/screenshot_main.jpg
http://www.arraypainter.com/images/screenshot_scheme.jpg
http://www.arraypainter.com/images/screenshot_generator.jpg
What do you guys think?
Great looking tool! I don’t have a use for it myself but it does look nice.
I’m surprised you registered a domain for it tho.
Kev
Clean, efficient, very useful - congratulations! Will be excellent for quick proof-of-principle tile-based games…
Thanks!
Glad ya liked it 
Interesting to see how your map editor evolved into something bigger.
Nice presentation also (the domain name is a plus).
I’ll give it a try.
My 2d engine already has a tilemap editor but I will try to modify it to make it work with arrayPainter too.
[quote] Interesting to see how your map editor evolved into something bigger.
Nice presentation also (the domain name is a plus).
I’ll give it a try.
My 2d engine already has a tilemap editor but I will try to modify it to make it work with arrayPainter too.
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Thankyou for the fine words 
I just fixed a bug that made the machine freeze when generating maps bigger than 100x100.
When I had a loop looking like this:
String[][] map = new String[][] //This is just to show what type map is
String code = “”;
for(int y = 0; y < map[0].length; y++){
for(int x = 0; x < map.length; x++){
code += //Some signs
code += map[x][y];
code += //Some other signs
}
}
…it got really slow when the code got bigger and adding one letter to a String with 10.000 chars in it really takes time, so I made a timer creating each line in a String[] array and then I used a recursive method putting the lines together.
This resulted in a major performance boost when generating the map.
Plus: Now you can see the progress while the program generates
Check out the new version: Beta 0.1b (This fix is the only difference)
What ya think?
You need to use a java.lang.StringBuffer instead of adding Strings together with “+”.
[quote] You need to use a java.lang.StringBuffer instead of adding Strings together with “+”.
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I just used a StringBuffer and another method for compiling. It reduced the compile time to 1/5.
Check it out.
Why do you use Strings? ints are much more efficient, memory-wise and performance-wise.
[quote]Why do you use Strings? ints are much more efficient, memory-wise and performance-wise.
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Because the user might want to use whatever he wants and then it has to be strings, you see
Just added flip, rotation, copy and paste.
Anything else I should add?
Nice looking tool. I am not sure if I have a need for it at this time, but if I do find a need, it’s nice to know it’s there
[quote]www.ArrayPainter.com
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With Konqueror on linux.
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With Konqueror on linux.
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Well bad to hear. I dont know what it could be. I will post som screenshotsd on this forum then (Top of this post) and post a direct link for download.
Hope you can download the file.
[quote]Nice looking tool. I am not sure if I have a need for it at this time, but if I do find a need, it’s nice to know it’s there
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Well then I just have to say one thing: BOOKMARK !!!
When I had a loop looking like this:
String[][] map = new String[][] //This is just to show what type map is
String code = “”;
for(int y = 0; y < map[0].length; y++){
for(int x = 0; x < map.length; x++){
code += //Some signs
code += map[x][y];
code += //Some other signs
}
}
one small change I would add:
When I had a loop looking like this:
String[][] map = new String[][] //This is just to show what type map is
String code = “”;
int map0length=map[0].length;
int maplength=map.length;
for(int y = 0; y < map0length; y++){
for(int x = 0; x < maplength; x++){
code += //Some signs
code += map[x][y];
code += //Some other signs
}
}
Well I dont use inner loops (or loops at all) for the generation. I switched to recursion which gave 5-6 times faster compile times
But thankyou for the reply anyway. I see this is your first post. Are you new? If so: Welcome!