About a week ago, I played my worst game of Pipeline. I posted about it. The night before last, I played my best game ever. I’m not sure what external forces might have made the difference other than this recent game being a 1-on-1 game in my own…
Continue readingLast night, I played my worst game of Pipeline. I had a good thing going with a machine to run three pipes and multiple contracts for low-grade oil. That got me some income early but I never managed to leverage that into something better. Pipeline is a board…
Continue readingApple did a fairly nice job with the @IBAction mechanism. It’s easy to add code to handle a menu item action in a macOS program. It’s the same with iOS for button taps and other UI actions. But with the menu items, there is a severe oversight that…
Continue readingChampions of Midguard I played Champions of Midgard yesterday. It was the first time I played it and I did fairly well for most of the game. I had the point lead, including all stated points on cards, etc., for much of the game. I came in third,…
Continue readingI hope no one ever thinks that the Tabletop Score Calculator is just a physical calculator that is too big to stick in your pocket! The Tabletop Score Calculator is an iOS app I’m working on that will have virtual score sheets for various tabletop games. After another…
Continue readingI’m working on a board game scoring app. It’s an iOS app because I frankly don’t like writing Java for Android. This is an iOS app written in Swift and it runs on iOS 10 and newer. The score calculator uses some basic iOS UI elements like a…
Continue readingI fixed the selection box issue and the control points are included. There actually are control points associated with the line segments of the curve but they are not used and not displayed. I have been adding code to allow for editing of curves in the context of…
Continue readingI did a little work last night to the node smoothing code for the end points of the Bezier curves. I also added code to handle line segments withing the compound curve. Fancier Compound Curves The first and last segments are now lines instead of curves. Notice that…
Continue readingI spent some time designing data structures to hold the compound curves that will be used for enhanced drawing elements and cams in the Linkage software. The data structure is designed with the idea that there is a single Curve type of object that contains nodes and segments…
Continue readingI am about to add curve drawing to the Linkage program. The curves will be compound curves, or whatever you would call a chain of elements that can be lines, arcs, or Bezier curves. To start work on this, the first thing I did was remind myself how…
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