A thought popped into my head the other day, and I wonder if it's possible and / or desirable: a GUI-API.
Seeing how much trouble it is to get the new GUI fully operational, I thought it might be a good idea to seperate the GUI code from the Spring code entirely (much like the AI-sytem is). That way new features can be added to Spring without causing immediately problems with the new GUI (which is the case at the moment I believe). It would also allow 3rd party programmers to come up with a GUI of their own.
It sounds like a good idea to me, but I might be wrong. I don't even know if it's feasable at all. So what do you SY'ers think of this?
suggestion: a GUI-API
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maverick256
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Honestly, I'm pretty lazy and even though I know, in general, how to read and code and compile C++ I'm so lazy that I've never bothered to get past programming hello world and other stuff like that cool program with the "Insult Me" button.
However this whole "that would take too much work" attitude is really going to kill this project. I know that what we have "works" and adding more features is a lot more flashy and gets more praise to the desiners then streamlining pathfinding or otherwising optimizing code would. But without drastic redesign this project is going to stagnate or bloat up with features that are stuck on instead of really incorporated into the design.
However this whole "that would take too much work" attitude is really going to kill this project. I know that what we have "works" and adding more features is a lot more flashy and gets more praise to the desiners then streamlining pathfinding or otherwising optimizing code would. But without drastic redesign this project is going to stagnate or bloat up with features that are stuck on instead of really incorporated into the design.
Man, my wife was saying that to me just last night... and people have been telling me to do it my entire life... I even had some dealings with a psychiatrist but she suggested I join the millitary so I stopped listening to her... if I was going to get UN-lazy it's going to take more then an annonymous stranger telling me to do so on the Interweb... no offence intended.
Sorry, did I just steal this thread?
Sorry, did I just steal this thread?