Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Display Abstraction Landed?

[Timothy C. <da...@ma...>]

> Mmm, I better go check saved games to see if I can find anything. In 
> the meantime... do you know which version/date created the saved game? 
> And could you email (directly to me at br...@ma...)  the saved > game?

It was saved with this version; however, I'm no longer entirely sure 
that I've got the pertinent changes.  Running cvs update -AdP should 
bring my copy of the code fully up-to-date, yes?  Only when I ran it, 
it didn't seem to do much, and Project Builder seemed to think there 
weren't any changes when I built the thing.

I'll email you the save in a separate email.

> Some of the places in AM that I think are prime targets involve:
>
> 	* Resources
> 	* Input Handling
> 	* Main Event Loop (May be related to Input Handling)
> 	* Game Related GUI (File dialogs, ok to quit?, preferences)
> 	* Preferences
>
> I admit Preferences is less about platform specifics and more for 
> overhauling how the game uses preferences internally and how the game 
> handles preferences. I've been trying to think of a system that allows 
> for future preferences growth, while allowing conversion of older 
> preference formats. And which allows growth without necessarily 
> requiring a great deal of work between changes either.
>

My vote would be stuff (somewhat) related to input handling first, then 
network, then resources.  To be a little more specific: I think that, 
while it made good sense back in the day, relying *entirely* on the 
inputs for films & net games isn't the best idea in the world (if you 
disagree, please convince me! :-) ).  For the second, I tried clicking 
"Gather" and it just didn't do anything: I presume networking is 
currently inoperable, and thus you have disabled even trying it.  It 
would be great to see networking working in AM, especially since it's 
now working so well in A1.  For the third, well, it would be nice to 
have all the resource stuff out of the way.  It's obsolete even on the 
Mac side, after all! ;-)

Anyway, doing a fantastic job, Br'fin.  Keep it up!

Timothy Collett

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I 
learn from him.
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