Re: [DM-dev] More on data interface and object model

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

whew, gosh, what a week it's been here. product launches, Oktoberfest AND 
Einheitstag all in one week! It's a nightmare!

On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:12, you wrote:
> I don't think so. The client apps would all use the data model used by the
> Dungeonmaker, which could be "everything is a Wall object". Of course the
> *developer* of the client app would have to use the design program to
> produce his dungeon files, which would use a much more complex data
> interface, but whose output to the Dungeonmaker would - again - be "just
> Walls".

sounds fair enough.

> Design parameters are for me all the data in the 2 files the Dungeonmaker
> reads to make a dungeon, plus the random seed. I'm mostly concerned about
> the "Rooms-"file, which IMO should have just Walls, not Rooms in it. Plus
> of course Crawler start locations... What are the "design parameters" for
> you?

i was taking "design parms" one step further, to include rooms, etc. There's 
no reason it has to be so, though, so i'll switch over to your definition.

> Hmm.. that last bit with the higher level interface sounds about right to
> me. 

:)

> But I still think we should have more concrete discussions centered
> around the actual interface functions you plan to introduce... on the other
> hand, as i said, as long as I can use your interface to do my stuff, things
> should be OK...

i need to sit down and draw it all out on paper so i understand it myself 
clearly, then i'll get that passed on to the list. My ideas have changed a 
dozen times, and mentally i've currently got a mix of these different 
approaches, which i think i'll only be able to clarify by physically mapping 
it out on paper.

> Glad you crawled out from under 2 weeks of TV. 

it was a pretty horrible 2 weeks, though. i normally almost never watch TV - 
hadn't turned the thing on since February or so, i think. But i was glued to 
it for a while. Now i just refer to cnn.com or foxnews.com a couple times a 
day.

> Sorry to hear your
> year-end-rush at work is already on. Can get only worse for 3 months, I
> guess. 

Through about mid-December it'll be hectic. My actual workload isn't so bad - 
the problem is that i'm the generic sysadmin and support guy, so as everyone 
else rushes to get their products online, i've got to be available to do the 
server-side installation, plus stand by to do updates and such as they work 
out their bugs. i'm very glad i'm not involved with the actual product 
development at the moment, though.

> I'm in carpenter mode, and hope to switch to programming by maybe
> December, if I get my project done until then. Today I'm actually in
> electrician mode... scary stuff...

Sounds like we'll line up at the same time, then :). From Christmas on it's 
generally really slow, as far as hecticness goes.

:)

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