Game Development

Lasse

9:00 PM

here you go: newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/Introduction.htm

Joe

thats how to use the library, but ty! (sorry manners)

I need to know how to install it

Lasse

nuget

toby

Has anyone encountered the following strange behavior: when glGenBuffers is called twice in a row, the program exits without explanation, SDL/OpenGL/C/Windows

Lasse

does it crash on the first or the second glGenBuffers call?

Joe

google-ing continues... "what is nuget"

toby

9:02 PM

@Lasse, it doesn't crash, it just exits with no explanation

Lasse

oh, well, you can download the source from github and build it to a dll, or install it with nuget if you got visual studio

@toby isn't that the same thing as crash?

unless you have some code that exits when some errors occur

Joe

@Lasse apparently nuget is a windows phenomenon

toby

I guess it is

Icy Defiance

@Joe *was. monodevelop supports it now.

Joe

ty ty

Icy Defiance

9:05 PM

you might need to install the nuget addon to get it though. not sure if the unity version includes it by default.

Joe

can i skip all this bs and just download "json.Net" for unity

when this is all said and done its going to be a "using" line correct?

Icy Defiance

json.codeplex.com

try the download button there. see if it works for you.

or I guess it moved to github, so try this: github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/releases

Joe

ok heres my problem I've got the files but IDK with I do with any of the many options for .dll .pdb .xml file-sets?

seems like a ridiculous amount of initial learning curve / googe-ling / reading to do something so basic

Icy Defiance

9:20 PM

yeah I'm not sure how Unity works with 3rd party libraries. if it was just normal C# I'd say right-click on the project in monodevelop, then add a reference to the dll. maybe that'll work with Unity too.

Joe

my issue is I dont grasp how .Net operates

and short of you telling me that id still be searching for that kind of advice lol

Lasse

in unity you just drop in the dll file in the assets folder

I GUESS...

I've never tried to import anything myself, I've always used unity package

and that's where the dll files end; in the assets folder

unity is doing a horrible job with the project management

it always assumes that scripts in folder "editor" is always in the editor project, and there are no other means to manage where which items belong

also unity test tools is included in the main project, which is really stupid since if any of the unit tests is not building, the whole project is not building at all

Joe

so im 3 miles down a 5 mile road with nuget at the moment

let me fail at this then ill try that

once I add the package are these language constructs just supposed to be available to me? JsonConvert JsonSerializer or do I need to use a namespace? furthermore what might that namespace be?

Icy Defiance

they'll be in a namespace. Newtonsoft.Json, maybe?

Lasse

yeah the namespace is got from the dll after unity notices it's existence

Joe

9:29 PM

YES

well recognized in monodevelop with code completion... but unity doesnt care

Thanks all for holding my hand... i suck at this shit

this = windows

Lasse

no, it's just windows world that sucks

if everyone used linux, world would be a lot better place

Icy Defiance

it's really nice between the points where you understand it and where you need to jump into csproj files and edit them manually. outside of those points then it's annoying.

Joe

I mean my experience to this point with c# was smooth sailing, shit actually utterly enjoyable

really cant beleive that was required to use JSON

Lasse

what you just did is required for 90% of the stuff in software development

Joe

then my mind has been corrupted by the web too much

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

9:36 PM

@Joe I might be a bit late to this.

But using Newtonsoft.Json was extreeemly easy to use because of dynamic.

Joe

I dont even want to know what sort of difficult things you have to use then

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

dynamic node = JObject.Parse(File.ReadAllText(path));
node.something = new JSObject();
node.something.nick = "MindWorX";
node.something.name = "William";
File.WriteAllText(path, nodeToString());

Doesn't get much easier than that.

Icy Defiance

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(jsonString);

much easier than that

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

I don't see how that is easier.

Joe

ok lets be clear the code makes perfect sense

the setup was ridiculous

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

9:39 PM

Using dynamic, you basically just treat it as an anonymous type and add whatever you feel like.

Lasse

I don't think unity supports dynamic

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