Codename Morning Star 0.1.0 released!

UPDATE: the bugs in 0.1.0 were so annoying I uploaded a fixed version 0.1.0.1 shortly afterwards. Enjoy!

At last, the first working version of codename “Morning Star” is available — this is the new Qt4 GUI for team-colorization and palette switching for Wesnoth sprites.

After a day or so of working on it, distributed amongst 4 days, version 0.1.0 is now ready for downloading from this very site for testing purposes, although it should be usable for production from now on as well. Just don’t blame me if it eats your precious input.

• Version 0.1.0.1 (Gzip tarball, 24 KiB)
  SHA1 checksum: 132d326d265b61ae7441a599f7dc10537c13bc8e

In all seriousness though, I want this application to become usable by the general audience after reaching version 1.0. Artists are naturally the intended target audience, although users who just want to recolor Wesnoth sprites to use as their forum avatar may also find a use in this tool. 😉 However, to achieve this, I need your feedback. Please try Morning Star out, report bugs, suggest features (within the scope of the project’s goal), and if you think you can help with anything else, tell me!

Don’t forget that Morning Star is also in need of a definitive name!

Compiling the sources

Since I’ve got no packagers to help at the moment, the only way to install for now is from source. Since I’ve been working only with Qt Creator so far, there’s no specific build recipe other than the project file (morningstar.pro), which you are expected to use to generate a Makefile using QMake.

To do this, just make sure you have Qt4’s development files and QMake installed (package qt4-qmake on Debian and Ubuntu), and type the command as follows:

$ qmake morningstar.pro

Note: If you have Qt3’s version of QMake installed, you may have to explicitly use qmake-qt4 instead to avoid confusing the generator and messing up the sources.

Once QMake generates the Makefile, just issue make and wait for compilation to finish. The binary morningstar will appear in the source dir, and you can now run it from there — no installation is required.

Git repository

There’s also a Git repository hosted at Gitorious.org, from which you can download the latest source code, follow the history, and switch releases according to tags.

• Morningstar in Wesnoth-TC
• Git clone (git):
  git clone git://gitorious.org/wesnoth-tc/morningstar.git
• Git clone (HTTP):
  git clone http://git.gitorious.org/wesnoth-tc/morningstar.git

Known issues at the time of release

*Note: most of these issues have been fixed in version 0.1.0.1, uploaded around an hour after 0.1.0 for your convenience.

• Closing the Open dialog without selecting anything once an image is already loaded produces a bogus error message.
• The Open dialog doesn’t track the last visited directory path as it should, so it’ll always revert to the My Pictures location.
• Dragging the selection in the color ranges listbox doesn’t update the preview as it should.
• Image previews are not centered, and are not scrollable either.
• The main window may be resized but the contents won’t adapt to the new size.