I just finished my first game of Union Stockyards. This is a game themed around the Union Stockyards of Chicago in the late 1800’s. More info can be found here. I played a two-player game with me being both players. The game board is two-sided and one of…
Continue readingThe image above shows the current state of the Linkage app for the Mac. There is a main editor window and a sidebar with two panels. The visible panel is the “properties” panel. The other panel is the element selection panel where elements can be selected and deselected…
Continue readingI decided, after talking to my dad about neural networks, to write a creature simulator that allows creatures to evolve. This is a complicated type of software for me to write because I want to make it totally flexible and yet get it done and working. There are…
Continue readingI read a while back about how linked lists were not included in the standard Swift library because they are something that only gets used in classroom situations where people are learning about algorithms., or some such nonsense (in my humble opinion). But then I did a test…
Continue readingI’m working on the Mac version of the Linkage app and I’ve been having some trouble with panning and zooming. When a single finger is slide along the top of the Apple Magic Mouse, the software gets a “scrollWheel” event. It’s a Magic Mouse so there are values…
Continue readingThe documentation says something to the effect of “onMeasure() is called to determine the size of the view.” and “onLayout() is called to set the size and position of the child views.” The problem is that onMeasure() is called before onLayput() and never after it. How can a…
Continue readingHave you used the Linkage software? Was it useful but you didn’t think it was worth it to send me a pile of money? Please consider a simple $1 donation on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/rectorsquid). It won’t add up to more than $12 per year but it will still be…
Continue readingI had some C++ code that would determine if any element in a list was selected. A “selected” element is one that has a boolean variable “isSelected” set to be true: bool bLinkSelected = false; POSITION Position = pConnector->GetLinkList()->GetHeadPosition(); while( Position != 0 ) { CLink* pLink =…
Continue readingA Linkage document file contains coordinates based on there being 96.0 pixels per inch. If the software is rendering onto an old monitor then the document units are scaled based on the amount of zoom in effect and then they are translated to different coordinates if the document…
Continue readingI am porting the Linkage program to the Mac in Swift, as I’ve mentioned in other posts. I’m trying to be “Swifty” because a language should be taken advantage of and because I like to learn new programming paradigms (or simply styles since this might not be a…
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