Borogove: Online editor for Vorple, Inform, Hugo, Dialog and Ink

[Dovahn]

Hi Juhana, I just discovered this project; really awesome work! I’m trying to host the project on my own server and was wondering if you were still planning on publishing the source to the i7 compiler service. No worries if it’s low on the list or no longer happening, but I wanted to check before I started trying to hack something together myself!

[Juhana]

The plan is to publish the compiler service source once the latest Inform 7 compiler addition has been cleaned up a bit, in a couple of weeks time perhaps. You’re free to use the compiler at i7compiler.borogove.app in the meanwhile (in moderation.)

[Juhana]

The source for the compiler service is now available: GitHub - borogove-if/i7-compiler-service: Remote Inform 7 compiler service

[Dovahn]

Awesome, thank you very much for following up! I know what I’ll be playing with today.

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@Natrium729

You could also consider adding other versions of Inform (6L38 or even 6G60)

Since I don’t see that it was ever mentioned here, at some point 6G60 was added!

[Juhana]

The Inform 7 compiler service for version 10.1.0 is now set up with all of the Friends of I7 extensions so you can just include any of them in the source text and the compiler will have access to them. It downloads a fresh copy of the repository every day.

(6M62 has all the Public Library extensions installed, but it has already had those from the start. 6G60 only has those that came with the standard I7 installation.)

[Natrium729 (Nathanaël Marion)]

How often is the 10.1.0 version updated? Or is it still the version that was available at the start of May?

I understand if you don’t want to update it all the time. I just want to know if I can use Borogove to test the latest behaviour of Inform.

(In case it’s not updated, maybe add the +6V23 or similar label to the menu in the settings, and the date?)

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

Having it in the pulldown while it’s still in pre-release flux would be convenient. But compiling a game and saying version will give you the complete version number, at the moment v10.1.0-beta+6V19. So it’s fairly fresh.

[Juhana]

The compiler updates every time the service is restarted, which isn’t very often. I’ve done that now and added the build date to the compiler output (click “Show compiler output” on the Compiler tab.) The previous version was about two weeks old.

Hopefully the first official release happens soon so automating the compiler updates now would become obsolete quickly. In the future it might be possible to have an option to use a “nightly” version of the compiler, which would be built once per day from the latest source in Github.

[DavidC]

It occurred to me that making a version of this for “snippets” would be excellent. So people could share code (working or not working) to test and figure out issues.

I7Fiddle maybe?

I think the only change would be to create a version of this that has access to extensions and has an identifier that can be shared and updated.

[Juhana]

New feature: online snippets

I’ve added a snippet feature to the Borogove online IF editor. It lets people share small parser IF projects with links or with the code and an interpreter embedded to a web page. Here on the forums it can be used for example when asking about a coding problem to demonstrate the issue, or when answering to include a demo of how the solution works. You can also publish code that doesn’t compile. If you include a snippet with a question, it’s easy for anyone to quickly check what it does, edit it…

Borogove: Online editor for Vorple, Inform, Hugo, Dialog and Ink

The Inform 7 compiler service for version 10.1.0 is now set up with all of the Friends of I7 extensions so you can just include any of them in the source text and the compiler will have access to them. It downloads a fresh copy of the repository every day. (6M62 has all the Public Library extensions installed, but it has already had those from the start. 6G60 only has those that came with the standard I7 installation.)

[DavidC]

Of course it already exists.

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

It’s even the case that all the v10 documentation examples are available as Borogove Snippets.

Fine print: excludes the examples that generate EPS maps that there would be no support for displaying, ones that are Z-machine only, ones that are just fragments and not whole programs, and, of course, the “information only” examples.

[scrotty (Sean Crotty)]

I am able to properly play-test Vorple multimedia from within borogove.app. But when publishing to borogove.io, Vorple seems to be lost and the game falls back to text-only mode. Is this expected?

[Juhana]

@scrotty

I am able to properly play-test Vorple multimedia from within borogove.app. But when publishing to borogove.io , Vorple seems to be lost and the game falls back to text-only mode. Is this expected?

At the moment yes, unfortunately you can’t upload Vorple games yet.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

@Juhana

At the moment yes, unfortunately you can’t upload Vorple games yet.

I believe one route (if you can publish the game with all the necessary components/interpreter) you can upload to itch.io and the game should work.

[Juhana]

That’s true, if you choose the “Download Web Site” from the Share page it should work as is when uploaded to Itch.

[fredrik (Fredrik Ramsberg)]

Upgrading PunyInform to v4.1 and the Inform compiler to v6.41 would be welcome.

[Lancelot (Onno Brouwer)]

Hi all,

When I try to compile my Inform7 project I get the following error:

Compilation failed

Could not connect to remote compilation service

Anyone else experiencing this problem? Are there other online tools I could use as backup plan to build and test my Inform7 project?

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

Just flagging that I’m getting the same error!