Re: [Rails-devel] tile rendering objects

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

> Does this plan fit with what you want in rails?

I hadn't really thought of making anything printable for various copyright reasons. My initial reaction is that I'd rather not allow users to leverage this game to bootleg their own copies of any 18xx game. I suppose we can provide support for other forms of output on a per game basis, and just enable it as we get permission from each game's copyright holder.

With that in mind, the primary implementation that we use would probably need to be specifically for drawing in Swing/AWT to a user's screen.

Bridging the gap between generic output and Swing/AWT objects will take a bit of doing, but many examples of drawing already exist in our own hex drawing code, which gives us a good starting point.

I don't think that changes the way you are talking about developing the classes, so yes I think that plan will fit just fine.


---Brett.