[Alephmodular-devel] Progress Update

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

Wow, that was a bit of work.

I've managed to wrangle with the fonts. I think I won. All the text 
drawing is now being handled through the CBuffer::Context (drawing 
contexts). As are many of the calls to paint/eraserect and such.

Much Rectangle math is also being handled with CRectangle instead of 
the Mac native Rect.

While I have some issues to deal with still, such as somehow massaging 
a PictureResource suitable for DrawPicture into a CBitmap suitable for 
throwing around the drawing routines. (My Next big hurdle) things feel 
like they are coming along well.

For instance, I believe I am in a good position to move all of the 
remaining code out of overhead_map_macintosh.cpp just because it is no 
longer Mac biased at all. Some of the other areas of major contention, 
such as computer_interface.cpp and game_window.cpp (the HUD) are also 
falling into line (They use DrawPicture, but the rest of the code in 
those areas are now 'neutral')

Still got cursors to deal with, and I have no good way to denote the 
'dim game window' effect used when the game pauses. (Where it fills the 
game window, but not the HUD, with a 50% black dithered pattern, thus 
darkening the world window)

-Jeremy Parsons