[Luciditygkit-announce]changelog for thursday 24 jan

[Neo (D. Gowers) <ne...@ma...>]

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THURSDAY 24 JANUARY
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my goals for today are:

- get lucidity back into compilable state (some changes i made a while
 ago weren't finished, and it currently won't compile)
- get sprite editor running.

I don't care to go into the subject at length, but I've recently realized
the value of plans,
and how they are conducive to zig. several things have contributed to
this: my own thinking on the subject,
reading rinku's game design article series again, talking to charbile.
also, i realized that if i don't feel like doing something ( that normally
i want to do),
then after doing it for a while i do get that sense of enjoyment again.
providing
excessively frustrating things are not happening, such as things not
behaving as
their documentation indicates.

I'm expecting to release approximately 8 prereleases, to be sure that
lucidity is
relatively bugfree (and annoyance-free, preferably, but that would take
longer)
maximum time of 5 days between releases. so, maximum of 30 days before the
first release -
don't quote me on that, though. i need more practice at such estimating.
anyway, there will be a prerelease no less often than every 5 days, i'm
sure of that.

lucidity is in compilable state (7:40am - 9:38am)

fixed more makefile messiness, removed more unnecessary files.

fixed the outdated version system with the __DATE__ system plus a
LUCIDITY_STATUS constant:
"lucidity version 24 january 2002 prerelease 1 (beta)"

a reminder to myself - update LUCIDITY_STATUS for each prerelease.
also, post a message on both of the lucidity forums regarding prereleases
and these mailing lists.

my system of working: I have a Konsole up, in which i have several
consoles, which i switch between.
each is running a copy of Midnight Commander, and these are the console
names:

 Research
 Changelog
 compile [this is also for viewing error messages when compiling]
 edit
 viewsource

I'd like to point out that you are free to reply with comments,
suggestions or questions
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fixed my Pine config so that luciditygkit-* mailinglist messages
actually go where they should (in separate folders)

(hopefully) figured out how to send a message that only shows the list
receiving it in the reply-to, using blind carbon copy.

removed all warnings on compilation. only warning left is given by make.

made n_scrollbox un-hacky.. now the mouse cursor doesn't flicker.

discovered a bug in the iliac console interface. i'm not sure where it
originates from.
Don't use it.

implemented n_icon_proc(required for sprite editor)

switched to 02ku design work, because my brain went "graaaugh" at the
thought of more coding.(this being at 6:40pm. 9 hours.)
perhaps some rice will revive it.
later: yep.(8:20)

end-of-day: i completed my first goal but failed to complete my second.
twas
an overly-optimistic goal, i think. i should have been aware of the
particular
problems that ended up preventing this being completed on time.
beforehand, that is.