Re: Beerconf January 2023
On 1/14/23 2:03 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: # BEERCONF! Happy new year! Beerconf this month falls on January 28-29. Just a friendly reminder, this is happening soon. 2 days. I likely will be on late, but I'm sure someone will start it and post a message here with the link. -Steve
Re: Qonquest 2 - A simple strategy game written in D
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 23:10:39 UTC, TheZipCreator wrote: On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 01:29:09 UTC, TheZipCreator wrote: also at some point I'm thinking of making a "how to play" button. I probably should've done that before the announcement. (By the way, have you tried increasing the numbers next to the "move" and "deploy" counters before clicking the button? The game worked for my windows tester, sorry for the lack of any tutorial whatsoever) The newest version (2.2.0) now has a How to Play button! Hopefully the game will be easier to figure out now [link](https://github.com/TheZipCreator/qonquest2/releases/tag/2.2.0) Do you have plans add macOS support?
Re: Qonquest 2 - A simple strategy game written in D
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 01:29:09 UTC, TheZipCreator wrote: also at some point I'm thinking of making a "how to play" button. I probably should've done that before the announcement. (By the way, have you tried increasing the numbers next to the "move" and "deploy" counters before clicking the button? The game worked for my windows tester, sorry for the lack of any tutorial whatsoever) The newest version (2.2.0) now has a How to Play button! Hopefully the game will be easier to figure out now [link](https://github.com/TheZipCreator/qonquest2/releases/tag/2.2.0)
Re: Qonquest 2 - A simple strategy game written in D
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 00:49:03 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: It is my fault for resizing, i used width,height instead of width_,height_ so it used the pre-scaled things. [...] Or I'll see what I can do to clean up my branch and cherry pick this fix later in the week... There is nothing better to test a library than an application that's using it.
Re: WildCAD - a simple 2D drawing application
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 14:36:54 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote: Hi, I'd like to announce a little project of mine that started some years ago as a C++ application and which I finally managed to port to D. It's called WildCAD and it's a simple 2D drawing program (you know - lines, circles and so on). It uses a command line interface inspired by AutoCAD and features a very immature DXF im- and export. The application uses a DIY widget set (which comes as a sub project) called WildWidgets. Both can be found at https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildcad.git and https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildwidgets.git Currently both are restricted to DMD and Linux/X11 only. Sorry for that. On the plus side just very limited dependencies are needed - mostly X11, Cairo and Cups. It's still very rough and using it can be a bit of a challenge. Any feedback or help is appreciated ;-) this reminded me of KediCAD[1]. The author used the Gambas programming language. A long time ago, I chatted with the author, and he was thinking of an alternative language for development. I knew nothing about d at that time. I have just noticed that the author closed the source, or I failed to find it. I think D has great potential for creating CAD software. I will give it a try, but I wish it would use dub as a build system. 1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/parduscad/
Re: WildCAD - a simple 2D drawing application
I briefly played around with it, not bad at all. I did see the
menus popped up in the wrong place though, something to note is
that ConfigureNotify is a bit complicated in how it works. Let me
copy/paste a comment from my simpledisplay.d:
/+
The ICCCM says window managers must send a synthetic
event when the window
is moved but NOT when it is resized. In the resize case,
an event is sent
with position (0, 0) which can be wrong and break the dpi
calculations.
So we only consider the synthetic events from the WM and
otherwise
need to wait for some other event to get the position
which... sucks.
+/
if(event.send_event) {
win.screenPositionKnown = true;
win.screenPositionX = event.x;
win.screenPositionY = event.y;
}
You can also request the window position with
XTranslateCoordinates:
int x, y;
Window dummyw;
XTranslateCoordinates(dpy, window.nativeHandle, RootWindow(dpy,
DefaultScreen(dpy)), x, y, &x, &y, &dummyw);
Which is what I do when it is time to pop up a menu.
Your thing works ok when maximized tho, it is kinda nice how you
got the rest working.
But as a fellow DIY widgetset author it is always fun to compare
and contrast :)
And since some of these X things are a bit obscure it helps to
steal tips from each other lol
Re: WildCAD - a simple 2D drawing application
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 14:36:54 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote: Hi, I'd like to announce a little project of mine that started some years ago as a C++ application and which I finally managed to port to D. It's called WildCAD and it's a simple 2D drawing program (you know - lines, circles and so on). It uses a command line interface inspired by AutoCAD and features a very immature DXF im- and export. The application uses a DIY widget set (which comes as a sub project) called WildWidgets. Both can be found at https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildcad.git and https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildwidgets.git Currently both are restricted to DMD and Linux/X11 only. Sorry for that. On the plus side just very limited dependencies are needed - mostly X11, Cairo and Cups. It's still very rough and using it can be a bit of a challenge. Any feedback or help is appreciated ;-) Hello, cool work. Just a small tip: add screenshots in your readmes. It will make people more interested because when there are none, usually people will not take the time to fetch the project to check it out.
Re: Qonquest 2 - A simple strategy game written in D
On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 02:58:03 UTC, Doigt wrote: On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 00:16:09 UTC, Hipreme wrote: WARNING: - Virus scanner activated on windows (but virus free thankfully), try checking if there is some way to not let that happen Keep in mind that most people that is going to play your game is not a computer expert, and everyone I knew freak out in the idea of getting a virus, this is super important if you wish to distribute your game. This is something that always frustrated me back when I was on windows. Sometimes avast or later avg would trigger on my own programs and there was no docs on the internet to make it not happen. It wasn't fun and it wasn't making things more secure, just make people panic blindly and not want to try my games hugh. I saw some stack overflow issues on that too. I only found 2 things on internet and it was basically: 1- If you're using mingw compiler, they said to use mingw-w64 compiler instead and it would make your program probably not be detected. 2- Submit your binary to those antivirus softwares for them mark your software as a false positive[1] Those were the 2 things I was able to find. The other thing that rings me a bell that could solve that is "Code Signing" for your software being identified as yours, probably there's some kind of scans involved into doing that for checking if your thing is virus free. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission
