Re: [Rails-devel] Rails-devel Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

brett lentz wrote:

>All those will work.  Do you have time to work on the XML data for those?
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I don't own 1899, 18NL, or 18KAAS, but I can do the others.  Where are 
special abilities for privates defined?  What is missing for 18AL, which 
is already there?

>We were waiting on route calculation for someone (you?) to port their
>tile data over.
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Perhaps I misunderstood -- when we last discussed that sometime around 
last November, it sounded like you didn't want to use the tile database 
for route determination but only for drawing, with a comment about the 
connectivity bit fields which would be used for route calculation being 
too convoluted for use in Rails.  If I am remembering incorrectly or you 
have changed your mind, there is no reason the API to the tile database 
couldn't be nailed down pretty quickly and the route calculation code 
written based on that.

I'm sorry I haven't had the time I thought I would, and I am pressed for 
time to get 2 more (possibly 3 or 4) games in production in time for 
Essen.  I wont have time in the next month or so to spend a lot of time 
such as finishing up the Java port of the tile rendering code (or then 
writing the Swing output device for it), but it wouldn't be hard to 
implement the non-drawing parts of the API based on a static XML file 
for use in route calculation (or derive it from the information 
currently in Tiles.xml which appears to have the connectivity 
requirements, other than track that merges before a city [ie, city to A 
and city to B share track before it gets to the city and can't be used 
by two different trains]).

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