Hey everyone, be sure to go to http://nwdo.sourceforge.net I have a newer version of the interface. Things that have been worked on:
- Font engine
- further perfection of the graphics library
- improved the Keyboard interface
You can now input text and have stuff appear on the screen.
I've learned quite a few interesting things while experimenting. i remember someone was bringing up an issue about how we should download files onto users machines to save space. I started putting EVERYTHING into Jar files, images, classes, etc. I'm quite certain that IE caches the Jar file because I need to go through a lengthy shutdown restart process just for it to recognize "hey, there is a new version of this jar" and download it.
I'm starting to come upon some annoyances already though because of 1.4.2. Firefox (and i'm assuming mozilla) cannot access my webpage anymore because I have to use specific HTML plugin codes to get things viewable on the screen now that the browser just doesn't recognize.
If one of you backend programmers wanted to be really badass, you could create a way for me to do simple server/client chatting from my interface. =)
Anyways, so whats ahead? Well, right now it is very easy to render images and render text with the Umbra, as well as do a few cool tricks. I'm starting to feel like i'm being limited more by my ability as a graphics artist more than my ability as a programmer.
First, I'm going to redocument and reorganize my codes a bit, and update my javadocs.
Second, I think I am just going to start with the design document and start coding the major components of each page. I will start with the preloading scene:
- Develop an animation loading image
- Develop a progress bar
- Develop a more effecient and abstract resource access system (its right now somewhat hard coded).
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Hey everyone, be sure to go to http://nwdo.sourceforge.net I have a newer version of the interface. Things that have been worked on:
- Font engine
- further perfection of the graphics library
- improved the Keyboard interface
You can now input text and have stuff appear on the screen.
I've learned quite a few interesting things while experimenting. i remember someone was bringing up an issue about how we should download files onto users machines to save space. I started putting EVERYTHING into Jar files, images, classes, etc. I'm quite certain that IE caches the Jar file because I need to go through a lengthy shutdown restart process just for it to recognize "hey, there is a new version of this jar" and download it.
I'm starting to come upon some annoyances already though because of 1.4.2. Firefox (and i'm assuming mozilla) cannot access my webpage anymore because I have to use specific HTML plugin codes to get things viewable on the screen now that the browser just doesn't recognize.
If one of you backend programmers wanted to be really badass, you could create a way for me to do simple server/client chatting from my interface. =)
Anyways, so whats ahead? Well, right now it is very easy to render images and render text with the Umbra, as well as do a few cool tricks. I'm starting to feel like i'm being limited more by my ability as a graphics artist more than my ability as a programmer.
First, I'm going to redocument and reorganize my codes a bit, and update my javadocs.
Second, I think I am just going to start with the design document and start coding the major components of each page. I will start with the preloading scene:
- Develop an animation loading image
- Develop a progress bar
- Develop a more effecient and abstract resource access system (its right now somewhat hard coded).