ricardocabellov5.5

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24 days left until Inspire08
Setting up the code framework and additional tools.

Just after writing the report for day 1, I thought I should setup the framework as soon as possible, so before going to sleep that's what worked on.

I'm also trying to do this pro with as much open source programs as possible. By now, I'm using (and/or planning to use) Ubuntu 8.04, Eclipse, Processing, Inkscape, Blender, ... and for the music, I don't know yet.

First on the list was making the Ubuntu-Eclipse-Processing framework er... work. For doing that I just had to follow this nice tutorial. After a couple of tries I had the setup done but it wasn't compiling yet, found out I had to install sun-java6-jdk from the synaptic repository, but still wasn't working as eclipse was using another VM, which was something more or less easy to fix from somewhere in the properties of the project. And changing the default VM from the console with this also seemed to help (with update-alternatives --config java).

So, this works, compiles and executes, there are some warnings on run time, but doesn't bother me yet, I'll find what's going on later.

Next things on the list will be to load/parse XML files (yeah, I'm still not a fan of hard coding), load/display/modify bitmaps, load/play audio, and, maybe, draw a triangle with OpenGL. So, hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to have the first screenshot :)