WorldBuilder 2.0

[KingdomAlion]

Wondering if made for macintosh? I have MacBook. and i much want to use.

[Alfar]

A version that should be able to run under MacOS X is in the works.

I don't have a mac, so I don't have any way to test for it specifically, though.

[Alfar]

Ok, I guess I’m just about ready for folks to try this thing out.

http://whee.dk/wordbuilder/monowordbuilder.zip

Copy the contents of the zip into a directory of your choice and run it using:

Windows: doubleclick gtkwordbuilder.exe.

Mac/Linux: in a terminal, run the command ‘mono gtkwordbuilder.exe‘

You will need an install as well. On the mono web page, you can find instructions for your operating system: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

Windows users will be able to run this with GTK# for .NET, a pretty small download.

I’d love to hear about your experiences with trying this version out on non-windows systems.

[ravells]

You are the bomb, Alfr! I now have a few books with tables of roots of English / Scottish / Welsh placenames which should go into worldbuilder as a lexicon file. If I don't have the time to do them, can I scan them and send them to you?

Best

Ravs

[Alfar]

Heh - I suppose you could try, see what happens

I might try to run them through some OCR software, at least, see what I can get out of them.

My main focus will be on the actual application, of course - it still has a lot of things I need to put in.

[cfds]

Ah, I should look more often into this forum. I will test it as soon as I get home.

[Edit] Ok, works with Ubuntu 9.??

[Alfar]

Alright! That's one person that got it working, other than me on my Windows XP using .NET Framework and the separate GTK# download.

cfds, have you had a chance to play with the app other than checking that it runs? Any opinions?

[ravells]

I've created two wordbuilder files this afternoon. One which will generate street names based on medieval professions for cities and the other a village / town / city name generator based on English toponymy roots. If I add to them I'll post the updates here.

Alfar, once you've finished laughing at my feeble coding skills feel free to polish it up!

Best

Ravs

[Alfar]

Ravs, that's pretty cool!

I've just tried it out in my new WordBuilder 3.0.0, which has syntax highlighting and new syntax features (c-style brackets and ; line endings if you want, or python-style blocks where the indentation level decides when the block ends) - Apart from a small issure with the new parser (it doesn't allow blank lines in the translate command), they work beautifully.

Check out the release here: http://whee.dk/?p=229

[Isaac Thomas Riley]

It's been a while since I fired up a new thread, but I'm still working on WordBuilder.

For version 2, I've reworked the dictionary and translator, and I'm very interested in feedback on those, but of course also on the application in general.

Download at http://whee.dk/wordbuilder/WordBuilder20.msi

Requires Windows and .NET framework 3.5sp1.

Documentation for the rules language at http://whee.dk/?page_id=65

Any questions, feel free to contact me.

I hate to bring this thread back to life, but what happened to the wordbuilder? The link doesn't work.