GoneWacko’s Blog

This semester

So I finished my schoolproject, got my 15 points (of the 60 required to finish my foundation course).
Now the fourth and last semester for this year has kicked off, and it partially bores me. This semester I’ve got two subjects: Network Administration - but so far it’s about the organisational difficulties of fusing two companies - and TAD, of which I do believe it means Technical Automation Development. Basically it’s a combination of Product Quality (Assurance) and Technical IT, where I have to program PLCs.
The latter subject is somewhat interesting, but it’s also a bit tedious because we’ve not got a lot of documentation.

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Haven’t really worked on my map renderer as of late, although I did improve some features shortly after posting my last entry.
The biggest improvement is that the renderer now correctly renders all walls and fences. Furthermore the tiberium is rendered semi-correctly: The more tiberium surrounds a tiberium tile, the higher it’s value. I’m probably not entirely using the correct algorithm, but it’s close enough.

And I’ve been doing some experimenting with various GUI libraries. I tried OcempGUI, a toolkit for creating GUIs ‘inside’ SDL surfaces. But I was not satisfied with the look of the widgets and some widgets I did want to use (TreeViews, ComboBoxes, …) are not in it. And I wasn’t in the mood to write those widgets myself and/or restyle the other widgets, so I decided to use GTK.
I’ll have to rewrite my rendering code so it’ll render to a GdkDrawable, but I think it’ll be worth the effort, somehow.