A standard Xmas in the house of Jay. The morning was spent unwrapping the insane amount of sweets that I'd been gifted. Since folk know not to buy me Chocolate (since it gives me migraines) and they're desperately trying not to resort to buying Xmas Socks, they all seem to end up buying me a curious variety of sweets. Each one trying desperately to find the most unique sweet they can, in a bid to outdo each other. I unwrapped an alarming number of Jelly Beans, yesterday!

Today is a day without my usual daily blog, mostly because I've been lazy, watching a lot of Festive TV, and am currently sat on the couch watching my Sister and her friend having a game of Scrabble, whilst typing this small bit of none-blog. Later on, I'll probably need to hook up the SNES Classic for a short while, but given that my NES Classic hasn't ever been hooked up, that's not too likely to happen! Anyhoo, Merry Xmas everyone, and if you don't do that sort of thing, then at...

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

A bit of blind coding, last night.

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, it always says...

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. -=-=-

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 addition, my handwrit...

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!