Re: [DM-dev] Dungeonmaker going on version 2 ...

[stephan b. <st...@wa...>]

On Sunday 10 February 2002 14:53 pm, Pete wrote:
> > latest version of the DungeonMaker, and he'll hopefully post his response
> > to seeing the Tunnelers in action (and the new Crawlers, and whatever...)
> > here.

Oh, cool :)
The second design file you sent turns out much better than the one from last 
week.

i haven't been through any code yet (except to slow the movie down), so i'm 
not sure how the dungeon stored. What i'd like to see is the dungeon stored 
in an intermediary object, instead of rendered directly to the graphical 
area, so we can make ascii dumps, etc.

i'm glancing through DungeonMaker.cpp now and i don't know how you got any 
work done on your place, with all this code! This thing is tremendous! Is it 
all a rewrite, or how much did you salvage from 1.x?

Going back to your comment about assert: here's a replacement for assert 
which doesn't kill the app when the assert fails:

#define MYASSERT(ptr, msg, ret) if( ! ptr )  { cerr <<"assert failed: 
"<<__FILE__<<":"<<_LINE__<<":"<< msg << endl; return ret; }

It can be used like this in any function which returns a value:
  MYASSERT( myptr, "myptr may not be null!!!", -1 );
and from void functions like this:
  MYASSERT( myptr, "myptr is null!!!", );


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