Cleaning up API.

Disks/PixelVision8System/code.lua

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
   a new game.  Simply delete the following code and implement your own Init(),
   Update() and Draw() logic.
 
-  Learn more about making Pixel Vision 8 games at https://www.gitbook.com/@pixelvision8
+  Learn more about making Pixel Vision 8 games at
+  https://www.pixelvision8.com/getting-started
 ]]--
 
 -- This this is an empty game, we will the following text. We combined two sets of fonts into

Disks/RunnerTools/BootTool/code.lua

@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ end
 
 function Update(timeDelta)
 
+  -- Convert timeDelta to a float
+  timeDelta = timeDelta / 1000
+
   -- Track time of animation
   time = time + timeDelta
 

Disks/RunnerTools/ErrorTool/code.lua

@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ end
 
 function Update(timeDelta)
 
+  -- Convert timeDelta to a float
+  timeDelta = timeDelta / 1000
+
   animTime = animTime + timeDelta
   if(animTime > animDelay) then
     animTime = 0

Disks/RunnerTools/LoadTool/code.lua

@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ end
 
 function Update(timeDelta)
 
+  -- Convert timeDelta to a float
+  timeDelta = timeDelta / 1000
+
   -- Calculate start delay
   delayTime = delayTime + timeDelta
 

Runners/PixelVision8/Runner/Editors/GameEditor.cs

@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ public Point OctaveRange(int? min, int? max)
         ///     Manually update the sequencer
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="timeDelta"></param>
-        public void UpdateSequencer(float timeDelta)
+        public void UpdateSequencer(int timeDelta)
         {
             musicChip.Update(timeDelta);
         }

SDK/Engine/Chips/Audio/MusicChip.cs

@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ public TrackerData ActiveTrackerData
         ///     move the play head to the next beat and play that note.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="timeDelta"></param>
-        public void Update(float timeDelta)
+        public void Update(int timeDelta)
         {
-            time += timeDelta;
+            // Need to conver the time to a float
+            time += timeDelta / 1000f;
 
             songData["playing"] = Convert.ToInt32(songCurrentlyPlaying);
 

SDK/Engine/Chips/Game/GameChip.cs

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class GameChip : AbstractChip, IUpdate, IDraw
         //        
         public int fps;
         public Dictionary<string, string> savedData = new Dictionary<string, string>();
-        public Dictionary<string, string> textFiles = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+
         private int[] tmpFontData = new int[0];
 
         private int[] tmpSpriteData = new int[0];
@@ -87,22 +87,6 @@ public class GameChip : AbstractChip, IUpdate, IDraw
 
         public int CurrentSprites { get; set; }
 
-        /// <summary>
-        ///     This allows you to add your Lua scripts at runtime to a game from a string. This could be useful for
-        ///     dynamically generating code such as level data or other custom Lua objects in memory. Simply give the
-        ///     script a name and pass in a string with valid Lua code. If a script with the same name exists, this will
-        ///     override it. Make sure to call LoadScript() after to parse it.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="name">Name of the script. This should contain the .lua extension.</param>
-        /// <param name="file">The string text representing the Lua script data.</param>
-        public void AddTextFile(string name, string file)
-        {
-            if (textFiles.ContainsKey(name))
-                textFiles[name] = file;
-            else
-                textFiles.Add(name, file);
-        }
-
         #region GameChip Properties
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -169,7 +153,7 @@ public override void Configure()
         ///     Runner
         /// </label>
         /// <param name="timeDelta">A float value representing the time in milliseconds since the last Draw() call was completed.</param>
-        public virtual void Update(float timeDelta)
+        public virtual void Update(int timeDelta)
         {
             // Overwrite this method and add your own draw logic.
         }

SDK/Engine/Chips/Game/LuaGameChip.cs

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ namespace PixelVision8.Engine.Chips
     public class LuaGameChip : GameChip
     {
         protected Script _luaScript;
-
+        public Dictionary<string, string> textFiles = new Dictionary<string, string>();
         public Script luaScript
         {
             get
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public override void Init()
             luaScript.Call(luaScript.Globals["Init"]);
         }
 
-        public override void Update(float timeDelta)
+        public override void Update(int timeDelta)
         {
             base.Update(timeDelta);
 
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ public override void Reset()
 
             #region File IO APIs
 
+            luaScript.Globals["AddScript"] = new Action<string, string>(AddScript);
             luaScript.Globals["LoadScript"] = new Action<string>(LoadScript);
             luaScript.Globals["ReadSaveData"] = new Func<string, string, string>(ReadSaveData);
             luaScript.Globals["WriteSaveData"] = new Action<string, string>(WriteSaveData);

SDK/Engine/Chips/IUpdate.cs

@@ -32,6 +32,6 @@ public interface IUpdate
         ///     input.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="timeDelta"></param>
-        void Update(float timeDelta);
+        void Update(int timeDelta);
     }
 }

SDK/Engine/Chips/Input/ControllerChip.cs

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public class ControllerChip : AbstractChip, IControllerChip
 
         private Keys? repChar;
 
-        public void Update(float timeDelta)
+        public void Update(int timeDelta)
         {
             // Save the one and only (if available) keyboardstate 
             previousKeyboardState = currentKeyboardState;

SDK/Engine/PixelVisionEngine.cs

@@ -160,12 +160,8 @@ public virtual void RunGame()
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="timeDelta"></param>
         /// <tocexclude />
-        public virtual void Update(float timeDelta)
+        public virtual void Update(int timeDelta)
         {
-//            int delta = (int)(timeDelta * 1000);
-//
-//            Console.WriteLine(timeDelta + " " + delta + " " + delta/1000);
-
             // Reset the sprite counter on each frame
             gameChip.CurrentSprites = 0;
 

SDK/Runner/Data/DisplayTarget.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-//   
+    //   
 // Copyright (c) Jesse Freeman, Pixel Vision 8. All rights reserved.  
 //  
 // Licensed under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) except for a few

SDK/Runner/GameRunner.cs

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public enum RunnerMode
         protected IServiceLocator serviceManager;
 
         //        protected bool stretchScreen;
-        protected float timeDelta;
+        protected int timeDelta;
         protected IEngine tmpEngine;
 
         public GameRunner()
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
                 return;
 
 
-            timeDelta = (float) gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds;
+            timeDelta = (int)(gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds * 1000);
 
             elapsedTime += gameTime.ElapsedGameTime;
 
@@ -394,15 +394,11 @@ protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
                 // Make sure the game chip has the current fps value
                 activeEngine.gameChip.fps = frameCounter;
 
-                // Save this to the runner
-                //                frameRate = frameCounter;
-
                 frameCounter = 0;
             }
 
             // Before trying to update the PixelVisionEngine instance, we need to make sure it exists. The guard clause protects us from throwing an 
             // error when the Runner loads up and starts before we've had a chance to instantiate the new engine instance.
-
             activeEngine.Update(timeDelta);
 
             // It's important that we pass in the Time.deltaTime to the PixelVisionEngine. It is passed along to any Chip that registers itself with 

SDK/Runner/Parsers/ScriptParser.cs

@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ public class ScriptParser : AbstractParser
     {
         private readonly string name;
         private readonly string script;
-        private readonly GameChip target;
+        private readonly LuaGameChip target;
 
         public ScriptParser(string name, string script, GameChip target)
         {
             this.name = name;
             this.script = script;
-            this.target = target;
+            this.target = target as LuaGameChip;
         }
 
         public override void CalculateSteps()
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public override void CalculateSteps()
 
         protected void LoadScript()
         {
-            target.AddTextFile(name, script);
+            target?.AddScript(name, script);
             currentStep++;
         }
     }