Éric
Bischoff
2009-12-15
0.6.0
KDE
KTuberling
technical reference

# Technical References

&ktuberling; offers a gentle and rewarding introduction to &kde; customization and programming. The application can be extended. For example, without any coding, new playgrounds can be added by changing the graphics files. By adding appropriate sound files, translators can change the sounds to their native tongue!

If you extend or add to the game please consider sending your additions to the maintainer Alex Fiestas for inclusion in future releases.

## For Artists

To create a new &ktuberling; playground you have to:

- Draw the playground in a SVG file, there you have to:

  - Name the place where items can dragged "background".

  - Name each of the draggable items with an unique name.

- Create a .theme file, it has to follow this schema:

          <playground gameboard="yourSVGFile" name="theDesktopFile">
          <object name="itemName" sound="soundName" scale="someValue" />
          ...
          ...
          ...
          </playground>

  - yourSVGFile is the name of the svg file that has the drawing.

  - theDesktopFile is the name of the desktop file that has the name of the theme.

  - For each object you need a <object> entry. itemName is the unique name you used on the SVG file, soundName is the sound name that will be played when dragging it, see sound themes howto for more information.

  - scale is optional and someValue is the scale factor that will be used when drawing this object outside the warehouse, if not specified is 1.

- Create a .desktop file, it has to follow this schema

          [KTuberlingTheme]
          Name=themeName

  - themeName is the name that identifies the theme, will be shown in the Playground menu.

- If you are adding the theme to &ktuberling; SVN, add .svg .theme .desktop files to FILES section of the CMakeLists.txt in the pics/ directory

- If you want to install it for yourself, place .svg .theme .desktop files in `kde4-config --prefix`/share/apps/ktuberling/pics

## For Translators

Besides the usual `.po` files mechanism for translating program labels and prompts, the sounds can be localized too.

To create a new &ktuberling; sound theme you have to:

- Record the sounds in OGG Vorbis rc3 file format.

- Create a yourLanguageTwoLetterCode.soundtheme file, it has to follow this schema:

      <language code="yourLanguageTwoLetterCode">
      <sound name="soundName" file="relativePath" />
      ...
      ...
      ...
      </language>

  - yourLanguageTwoLetterCode is your language two letter code, for example gl for Galician.

  - For each sound a <sound> entry. soundName should match with the soundName specified in the playground theme (see themes HOWTO). relativePath should be the relative path you are going to install the file with this sound to, typically it will be someUniquePath/soundName.format (someUniquePath can be your language two letter code for example).

- If you are adding the sound theme to &ktuberling; SVN:

  - Add the sound files and the .soundtheme files to the data/kdegames/ktuberling directory of your language translations.

  - On that very same dir you need a CMakeLists.txt describing how to install the files, typically it will be.

        FILE(GLOB datafiles *.ogg)
        install( FILES ${datafiles} DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/ktuberling/sounds/yourLanguageTwoLetterCode )
        install( FILES yourLanguageTwoLetterCode.soundtheme DESTINATION ${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}/ktuberling/sounds/ )

- If you want to install it for yourself:

  - Place yourLanguageTwoLetterCode.soundtheme file in `kde4-config --prefix`/share/apps/ktuberling/sounds

  - Place yourSoundFiles in `kde4-config --prefix`/share/apps/ktuberling/sounds/someUniquePath

Information on how to work with the translation mechanisms in &kde; is available in The &kde; Translation HOWTO.

## For Programmers

&ktuberling; isn't really difficult to extend for programmers.

### C++ classes

`TopLevel`

  Top-level window and basic program management

`PlayGround`

  Description of one of the game levels

`ToDraw`

  Description of one of the graphical objects to be drawn

`SoundFactory`

  Description of one of the languages and its sounds

`Action`

  One of the user's manipulation in the undo/redo stack