[DM-dev] finally!! how does this sound?

[Stephan B. <st...@wa...>]

class Dungeon
DungeonElement * add( DungeonElement *de );
/***
 returns the passed object, or NULL if it refuses to add it
 for some reason. Could also use booleans, but this approach 
 allows us to chain calls:
 dungeon.add( new DungeonElement() )->doSomethingToTheDungeonElement();
 the default impl. will never return NULL. it's there for future
 functionality.
**/

Then we have various convenience functions in Dungeon:
DungeonElement * addRoom( x, y, w, h );
DungeonElement * addDoor( x, y, w, h );
DungeonElement * addWall( w, y, w, h );
etc.
These are all functionaly identical except that they set the square type, so 
they'll all just call:
DungeonElement * add( x, y, w, h, squaretype )
which simply calls add( DungeonElement ) on the created element.

I'm working on the new save/load code now. The STL does have some cool 
classes for this kind of thing, and the C++ ref I have covers them all in 
gory detail. I'm gonna try it first using sscanf(), but eventually I'd like 
to switch to overloaded << and >> operators. Perl is still better at this 
kind of thing, though ;).

See ya!

----- Stephan Beal - st...@wa...
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