[ian-reeds-games] Re: For scripters: Typescript
- From: Monkey <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:54:21 -0600
Do you want more maps to test? I can send you mine, if you like.
On 3/26/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As a bit of early feedback. I spent a few hours doing this tonight. And
> it's all good!
>
> Took a while getting through the errors where I'd not been quite doing
> things properly (using var x in array), etc. And more commonly where I
> was setting up submodules.
>
> One positive upshot here is it should be highly unlikely, with the
> exception of the event handlers that have to be in the global namespace,
> to get a naming conflict, since all my stuff will be under the CB
> module, and various submodules within that.
>
> The real win for me though is being able to know that an event argument
> has a unit and saying so. Then when I use that variable, I can just get
> all the unit specific methods and fields in intellisense. And knowing I
> can't mistype things now always helps, too.
>
> It all seems to still work fine (after I worked out that the game needed
> event subscriptions to be in the global namespace). I won't be releasing
> this version in the wild until there's a new feature to show, though.
> Which should hopefully give me more testing time to make sure all my
> scripts work. Age Of Warlords, Demon Wars and some custom fiddling of my
> own should give me enough testing, and hey it will be fun too.
>
> On 26/03/2015 20:01, Craig Brett (Redacted sender craigbrett17@xxxxxxx
> for DMARC) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is more something for either the scripters or those who are
>> interested in code organisation and things of such a geeky nature. If
>> you're not that way inclined, feel free to move on.
>>
>> I started work on some more scripts today, and realised I could try
>> something new to help myself and help my code organization as well.
>> Using TypeScript <http://www.typescriptlang.org/>. It's a superset of
>> Javascript that compiles into Javascript itself. I use it at work and
>> I know Ian is a big fan of it too. It offers a lot of cool things that
>> native JS doesn't or does but with some more effort.
>>
>> So to aid me in this, I was going to make some definition files for
>> some of the in game types, such as shared, unit, etc. And then
>> wondered whether it was worth sharing them or not. And then decided
>> some of it would be less useful depending on what you use to write
>> your javascript.
>>
>> I used to use Notepad++, but now I use Visual Studio to handle all my
>> scripting (as well as my .md files), for various reasons, not least
>> code completion, etc. And also being able to autocomplete on
>> referenced files outside of the current file. As well as a build step
>> which I made which zips up my js files and docs and copies them into
>> the right places.
>>
>> Typescript makes all this even better. One of the features is being
>> able to make definition files of types outside your code, so in this
>> case the TB back end script API that the game exposes to us. I'm happy
>> to make the ones from the documentation and share them if you guys
>> think they'd come in handy for you.
>>
>> Another cool thing Typescript easily lets you do is put things neatly
>> into modules. You can already do this in native Javascript, of course,
>> using self-executing functions and such, but it's much nicer in
>> Typescript. I'll give the example I'm currently working on.
>>
>> module CraigBrett.AI {
>> export function preferencialSkillOrder(event: any): void {
>>
>> }
>> }
>>
>> And here's the slightly less attractive JavaScript it compiles to.
>>
>> var CraigBrett;
>> (function (CraigBrett) {
>> var AI;
>> (function (AI) {
>> function preferencialSkillOrder(event) {
>> }
>> AI.preferencialSkillOrder = preferencialSkillOrder;
>> })(AI = CraigBrett.AI || (CraigBrett.AI = {}));
>> })(CraigBrett || (CraigBrett = {}));
>>
>> It also supports static typing, so things have a real type, although
>> you can get around this by using any (as I did above). Static typing
>> is better if you can do it, as it helps you catch errors early. But I
>> get that it's not for everyone.
>>
>> I'm not sure how my TB Typescripting for scripts will go, but I
>> thought I'd share my experiment with the other scripters to see what
>> you think.
>>
>> To add to this, what tools do you guys use to write your scripts? I'm
>> just curious. And also wondering whether my TS stuff will help any of
>> you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Craig
>
>
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