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Ally 4e6697352c Add an undoing & redoing system to the editor (#1085)
* Add undoing & redoing to the editor

It's very easy to make mistakes in VVVVVV's built-in level editor, with
no way to undo them. This commit adds an undo and redo system, bound to
CTRL+Z for undo and CTRL+Y for redo. The undo and redo stacks don't
have any limits, but could easily happen in the future. VVVVVV's data
is small enough where this should never be an issue, however.

No notes show up for undoing and redoing, because keeping track of what
specific action you're doing may bloat the system, and would get
annoying for the end-user. Notes are a bit annoying in general, even.

* Add level resizing to undo/redo system

* searchable gettext for undo/redo notes

* A few fixes and cleanup

The main fix was how holding right click to remove tiles did not
commit an action.

* Spikes also need to commit

* Cancelling placing a terminal/script box shouldn't have undo events

* Don't commit tile events if removing entities

* Clear redo buffer on level load

* Remove unneeded pointers from memcpy

* Add strings to lang files

* Fix definition in Editor.h

* Explain double-uncommit

* Don't unconditionally commit tiles on room change

I'm not that sure what I was thinking back then, but switching rooms
would commit tiles no matter what, causing a huge mess. The behavior
was intended to stop the "tile placement" action and commit it, but
just happened no matter what... So this has been fixed, and a few
comments have been added as well.

* Fix mentioned issues & make process_undo static

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Co-authored-by: NyakoFox <nyakowofox@gmail.com>
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How to Build

VVVVVV's official desktop versions are built with the following environments:

  • Windows: Visual Studio 2010
  • macOS: Xcode CLT, currently targeting 10.9 SDK
  • GNU/Linux: CentOS 7

The engine depends solely on SDL2 2.24.0+. All other dependencies are statically linked into the engine. The development libraries for Windows can be downloaded from SDL's website, Linux developers can find the dev libraries from their respective repositories, and macOS developers should compile and install from source. (If you're on Ubuntu and your Ubuntu is too old to have this SDL version, then see here for workarounds.)

Since VVVVVV 2.4, git submodules are used for the third party libraries. After cloning, run git submodule update --init to set all of these up. You can also use this command whenever the submodules need to be updated.

Steamworks support is included and the DLL is loaded dynamically, you do not need the SDK headers and there is no special Steam or non-Steam version. The current implementation has been tested with Steamworks SDK v1.46.

To build the Make and Play edition of the game, uncomment #define MAKEANDPLAY in MakeAndPlay.h.

To generate the projects on Windows:

# Put your SDL2 folders somewhere nice!
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -A Win32 -G "Visual Studio 10 2010" .. -DSDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS="C:\SDL2-2.24.0\include" -DSDL2_LIBRARIES="C:\SDL2-2.24.0\lib\x86\SDL2;C:\SDL2-2.24.0\lib\x86\SDL2main"

Then to compile the game, open the solution and click Build.

For more detailed information and troubleshooting, see the Compiling VVVVVV Guide on the Viki.

To generate everywhere else:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

Then to compile the game, type make.

Including data.zip

You'll need the data.zip file from VVVVVV to actually run the game! You can grab it from your copy of the game, or you can just download it for free from the Make and Play page. Put this file next to your executable and the game should run.

This is intended for personal use only - our license doesn't allow you to actually distribute this data.zip file with your own forks without getting permission from us first. See LICENSE.md for more details.