Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source
projects in the last week.
Roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme (written in Ada)
Again, the quiet week in the stable version. As I'm focused on the development
version, I can't find anything suspicious here. Well, I hope that the worst
things are fixed now. :)
In the development version, there are a couple of visible changes done this
week:
- Added the help entry to the knowledge screen. As it got some improvements
with presented information, it could be good to inform the player what all
these colors mean. :) And now I'm also starting to think about adding that
help to the rest of the screen. At least the ones which don't have it yet.
- Updated the game's modification's documentation with information how to
change the newly added icons.
- Fixed some typos in the help entries.
- Added hide equip button in the player's ship's crew member's inventory if
the item can't be equipped because it isn't a tool or a piece of equipment.
- First change to the game mechanic since a long time. ;) I noticed that
battering rams have too strong influence on the quality of generated enemies.
They caused to generate enemies which could be too strong, especially for
starting players with Undead or Inquisition factions. Now, the game counts
the installed battering ram differently, and it should generate enemies a
bit weaker.
- I started to play a bit with some colors for the default game theme. As
usual, it means that the most time, I'm just watching the screen instead of
working. :)
- The work to move the code to Nim continues. A lot of code related to the
items handling in the game is now moved. But still many things are to do.
- And the old code cleanup continues. Slowly, very slowly. :)
The experimental command shell written in Nim
The week started with continuation of cleanup work from the previous, but ended
with adding several new small options to the shell.
- All unnecessary parentheses should now be removed from the code. It should look
a bit better... but it is still a pretty ugly code. :)
- Added a new type of shell's options: positive. As the name suggest, it allows
setting to that option only numerical values above zero.
- Added the shell's option
helpColumns to set the amount of the columns when
presenting the list of help entries to the user.
- Added the shell's option
completionColumns to set the amount of the columns
for Tab completion when there are more than one option is available.
- As the amount of the options slowly grows, the shell started sorting them on
the list when presenting them to the user.
- When the user sets the shell's commands history length to zero, it now
disables the history completely.
- Fixed deleting exceeded entries from the shell's commands' history.
- When the user set the Tab completion amount to zero, it now disables the
completion.
- Changed the type for the shell's option
historyAmount to positive.
- Added the shell's option
historySearchAmount to set the amount of the
results returned when the user is searching the shell's commands' history.
- Also, updated the shell's documentation with information about the newest
changes.