Re: [ZE-dev] Some requests

[James T. <ja...@co...>]

Hey, I really appreciate comments and feedback, and please don't 
hesitate to ask for any features or report any bugs, that's what these 
lists exist for. 


> - First of all i see that most of the function members return void. I am
>not a C++ guru so maybe i am wrong but wouldn't be better if they returned
>a reference to the object ? In this way we could do
>object.func1().func2()...funcN().
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Where would this syntax come in handy? I've never really heard of this, 
but that doesn't mean it can't/won't be done.
 I'm just not clear on what type of functions you'd like to see this 
behavior available for, a small example would help.

> - I also believe that it would be better to use GL_LINEAR for Image
>Stretching not GL_NEAREST. Maybe u could put an extra parameter in the
>function Resize/Stretch.
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>
That was recently suggested on the boards and in a personal email to me, 
and I do plan on adding GL_LINEAR functionality.

> - The compilation in Linux could be much better if u used a configure
>script.I hope you have the time to do so.
> Also the #include "../zlib/unzip.h" in ZE_Includes.h, seems to mess up
>the compiler (at least when i make my project).Each time i install ZEngine
>as root i have to fix this line as "#include "zlib/unzip.h". Dont u think
>../zlib is a kind of a bad hack ???
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I do most of my development on Windows, so the Linux build system is 
lacking.  I'm not familiar with configure scripts,
but when I began ZEngine I was hardly familiar with Make, so that won't 
keep me from adding a configure script.
Sorry about the ../zlib/unzip.h, that was added when I was first adding 
the code, and I accidentally let it into the release,
it's already fixed in my local copy of the source.

> - I have the impression that GetFramerate() doesnt return the value as
>set by SetDesiredFramerate(). E.g i set the FPS to be 85 but GetFrameRate
>reports 50. But when i set FPS to 185, the GetFrameRate reports 100~125
>which seems reasonable.
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You're not the first person to report this behavior, but for me the 
rates are much closer until I go to high framerates.
I made a note to myself to look into this behavior, but keep in mind 
that framerate limiting often isn't a good idea,
especially if you are using it to control movement speeds.  If that's 
what you're limiting the framerate for, GetFrameTime
exists to help maintain a constant rate of motion even as the framerate 
varies.

      Thanks for the comments, the simple things should be fixed ASAP, 
and I'll try to work on that configure script
when I get the time.  (Anyone experience in writing configure scripts is 
welcome to help, yours will most likely be
better than my first attempts at one.)

            -James Turk