Re: [DM-dev] DM status update

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

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 04:13, you wrote:
> Render-as-we read? As I see it, we read the data in and use it to
> initialize the DungeonMaker internals (nothing's rendered at this time).

Sorry, I meant when reading data from a file. For example, read one line 
which says "room=x,y,w,h,..." and then draw it to the grid immediately. I had 
a reason for this, but now I'm not sure what it was. Perhaps it won't be 
needed at all. I've still got a few ideas to try out which may make this moot.

> Saving a dungeon back to "dungeon data" format is not what we want to do.

Yeah, I've given up on that for now.

> All we need is the initialization data and the random seed, and we can
> generate the dungeon in under one second flat. Calling programs will have
> their own formats, and it will be very easy for them to write code to save
> the dungeon to that format, if desired.

Sounds fair enough. I think I was gonna have to make a new file format for 
QUB, anyway, so this is no problem.

> Sorry to hear about the QUB leak. Hope you got the right tools to catch it.

It was one I could catch with cerr, luckily. I'm still paranoid about memory 
leaks in C++ (because my background is mostly Java, where that doesn't 
exist), so I tend to print debug output for all objects when they die. I just 
happened to notice that some objects didn't die when I thought they should. 
It's all fixed and online, so I'm happy. I wasn't aware of some deletion 
behaviour regarding main windows in Qt, and wasn't deleting them until the 
app closed.

Here's a handy macro for dealing with debug output:

#define CERR cerr << "debug: " << __FILE__ << ": " << dec << __LINE__ << ": " 
  
You use it just like cerr:
	CERR << "debug output!" << endl;
and you don't have to search for the debug output later, because you get the 
file/line in the output. 
That's in DM.h, by the way.

see ya!

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