Spent most of this morning working on Error Messages.

Couldn't get to sleep, last night.
The Level Layout grid was keeping me awake, as I considered how many alternative ways I could figure out the many possible sets of numbers.

According to what I've read online, I need to convert the socket to a non-blocking socket, then try to connect, and THEN (after trying to connect?!) tell it to set the timeout to a low number.

Today during testing, I hit a rather nasty issue with the framework.
When coding the Online Scoreboard component, I added a 5 second timeout to the code.
Unfortunately, as well as that works "in theory", the timeout is completely ignored during the "connect" part of the script.

Today's plan is exactly the same as yesterday's plan.
It's like Deja Vu, all over again.

Spent about an hour, last night, trying to figure out how to get the "Home Directory" of an App, from MacOS, using just C++.

I *think* I've now sorted the save-file issues.
After hours of stress testing, which showed up oodles of issues, I've inevitably decided that I should make the values Unsigned, since in 99% of my games, the scores tend to go up, not down.

Over the past few weeks, I've noticed my highscores seemingly vanish for no reason.
I initially put this down to the fact that I was compiling over and over, and occasionally deleting the build folder, thus losing the save file.
Yesterday, I finally wrote a stress test for the save files, and was shocked to find that, indeed, it's losing highscores.

Spent a few hours yesterday digging through code, neatening things up, and fixing what bits and pieces I could.

Seems I've broken a few bits of the framework, this week.
RSKGames has reported that the music seems to stop after a few seconds.
Not quite sure why that might be, but it's definitely something to look into.

Stupid iOS!
"Alert" says the debugger in XCode.
And that's all.
Quite what that means, I've no idea. Could literally be anything.

AHA!!!
.. Can't show you any of the results, yet, though, as the entire framework's graphical stuff is currently all commented out, until I convert everything from GLFW to GLES.
But that's a VERY important step in getting the thing up and running on iOS.
Previous attempts have spewed out thousands of Linker errors, but now I'm fairly confident that I vaguely might maybe know, roughly, what I might have been possibly doing wrong!!

I've spent far too long, this week, trying to get Android and iOS Framework support up and running, but am going to have to leave it for the next few days.

Seriously, though, why is this so bloomin' complicated!?

First test!

We'll call this the proto-test, since I'm still not 100% sure things are going to run AT ALL, let alone well!!

Windows Download

MacOS Download

Linux Download

I had to rejig a small amount of the framework, yesterday, to allow me to access the controller's thumbsticks separately from the d-pad.

I think I've got everything ready.
Or at least, all the important bits.

I started work on the "Enter Your Name" screen, yesterday, but ended up doing something vaguely, but not entirely related!

Yesterday ended up being much more productive than I intended it to be.
With the Linux re-installation, the CPC coding and the ALChoon, I managed to get a fair amount of stuff done.

Hello.
Welcome to a test!
You can Download Linux Test 2 here
Please note : This isn't a game, it's just a test!

Lots of background stuff, today.

Seems like I might need to restart the MacOS project files..

Starting the iOS thing from scratch, due to my usual case of overcomplicating things!

I *think* I've figured out how to "create" XCode projects programatically.

People might look at the fact that I spent all day, yesterday, working on an "unrelated" Icon Resizer project, but the new framework needed a new version of the tool.

The scoreboard admin page has been "broken" for a long while.

The framework isn't done.
Stop playing around with possible games, and get the framework finished, first.