Thanks!
\o/

Warning : There are Mince Pies in the house!!
Fat Jay may be making a regularly scheduled festive return!!

The Pulpish AL Bum is now almost complete.
Just one last track to go.

Developments

Nothing happened, yesterday.

When the best made plans are thrown out the window!

Weeee!

I went over the checklist, last night, and .. Boy, is there still a lot to do!!

Some crazy coding, tonight, as I try to figure out how the Escape key should function in various bits of the Framework.

Although the thumbsticks are now working, and showing up in the Controller Config screen, neither of them are yet configurable.

I didn't wake up until about 12:30, today. Oops!

After a good number of days working on this, I've finally got it up to a mostly functional state!
For now, you navigate the controller using "default" buttons, so hopefully that works well enough to allow for that.
I've still not started work on the thumbsticks, yet, but the code does at least allow for analogue controls, so it shouldn't be too hard to add.
*sigh*
Such a struggle to get to this point.

The new control system is coming together nicely, but the redefine functions are a bit messy, right now.

My monthly calendar reminder popped up, last night, to remind me to do all of my "full" backups.

Having a lot of these, lately! Perhaps it's a sign that things are getting close to the end?
.. Or maybe I'm so far from the end, I'm starting to get frustrated, and drift off the plan!

With the controller doing proper feedback, now, it's time to look into integrating it into the framework.

It's taken quite a while to get up to this point, but I now have the engine half-doing a "Which button is pressed" function.
I can push a keyboard button, or tap a button on a connected controller, and the engine says "This button!"
There's a slight issue, whereby if a button is held, it takes control.
For example, if you're playing on the keyboard, but your gamepad's lying on the floor, and the thumbstick is prodded to the side, then no matter what button you try to hit, i...

I started the rewrite of the controller code, last night.
Digging deep, I realised I could probably reuse quite a lot of the old code, since the engine already grabs Joystick data each frame, as well as using a bunch of good-old fashioned numbers to do a lot of the legwork.

Today's been a nice none-coding day. .. with coding in it!
Rather than my usual coding, a package arrived.

Spent hours (literally hours) simply planning a method in my head, that would allow me to get the controller config page to work.

The controller config screen has done that thing, where I started with a minor issue, but the more I thought about it, the more and more complicated it got!!

Note : These posts were originally posted to Patreon as a Subscriber bonus. Now that Patreon's imploding, I've decided to start reposting the contents here, instead.
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Inside Jay's Notebook - 001

When typically coding, I tend not to use pen and paper. Over the many years that I've been doing this, I've found my mind to be perfectly adequate for storing bits and pieces, and jumping between all the many random and crazy ideas that I generate.
In addi...

Starting to think I should probably just make an XCode project.

The framework isn't quite running properly on MacOS, so today will probably be spent trying to get that going.
For some reason, since the recent MacOS Security Update, I don't seem to be able to Remote-Desktop into the Mac via the WinLaptop.
Hopefully it's just some weird thing, requiring a reset or something, and not a hole that's been closed, making it unusable.. Hmm.. :\

Yeah!
Linux success!!
That's two systems that can now access (kinda) web based data.
A good sign that things are slowly coming together!

A brief roundup of the things I've managed to accomplish, during 2017.

1. Online Scoreboards

It's been a long time since I last had online scoreboards in my general AGameAWeek games. iOS's GameCenter made me lazy, and I could never be bothered to implement anything more complicated into my Framework.
But this year, I opted to take on the challenge, so right at the start of this year I added an "Enter Your Name" thing into my framework, and tied the scoreboard system to the ...

...by putting prices up!
"we're always looking for ways to do what's best for you - creators."
Yeah, but if you piss off the people who pay the creators, then the creators aren't going to be too happy!!
If you're one of my three Patreons and feel that you're getting screwed by this epic fuckup, then feel free to remove your patreonage. I won't complain.

WinSock only took 2 days to get right.
Today I'll be needing to attempt the same thing with Linux.
I'm sure that'll be a totally painless, and easy task!

After a day spent trying to track down the issue(s), I've finally got WinSock to return exactly what I expect it to return!

I can't rest yet, as I need to foolproof the values being returned, and also then get it working on things other than Windows...
WinSock is strictly for Windows, so .. It's going to be a system-by-system rewrite to get everything on the same level.
But I'm about 50% confident that I'm able to send requests from the Windows editions of the ga...