Re: [DM-dev] DM status update

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

On Friday 31 August 2001 02:27, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> You mean the data is entered in the map-array, right? Not actually rendered
> to the screen, eh?

right - rendered to the grid. render-as-we-read saves us from having to store 
the data in a separate structure. It's the simplest approach. And, as the 
Extreme Programming book challenges me to ask, "what is the simplest thing 
which will get the job done."

> >> Saving a dungeon back to "dungeon data" format is not what we want to
> >> do.
> >
> >Yeah, I've given up on that for now.
>
> Heureka! ROFL!

You can thank the Extreme Programming book for that ;). I'm trying a new 
approach (but it's so HARD to not always think, "but what if a user wants to 
do that... I need to add this function...")

> Very smart move. According to my book, you can also use the FSF's "checker"
> program to check for memory leaks, though I hevn't tried it myself.

I downloaded some great mem leak detection code which works be replacing 
new() and delete() with custom copies to make sure you always have a delete() 
for all of your new()s. It won't work with QUB because some of it's macros 
conflict with stuff defined in Qt. Since Qt does it's own memory management 
internally, too, the leak detector code doesn't see the delete() calls, and 
therefor thinks that all Qt objects are leaking. (In Qt, at least with 
widgets, you typically create them with new(), but only delete the top-most 
one, which takes care of deleting all children).

So... until I have a great way of checking for leaks, I do it with cerr. I'm 
sure I'm missing some still, but I'll eventually get them all (I hope).

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