I’d like to know what people think this is
Mmmmm… Cake.
Testing
This is the first test entry for the blog
Time for a wee bit of math (minimap)
Ok,
We have the X position:
– getMapXPos()
this is a fraction of the overall display:
(getMapXPos() / getMapWidth())
multiply by the width of the display.
Making sure to order them such that there is never a zero value
for the multiplication.
More palm5/6 woes
the high resolution support for the PalmOS5 is driving me nuts.
little new pieces of the API seem to appear every now and again that make older code stop working. The testing matrix looks like:
- pre palmos 3.5 device
- palmos 3.5 device
- grey
- color
- palmos 4 device
- grey
- color
- palmos 5 device (simulator)
- 320×320 resolution
- palmos 5.?? device (simulator)
- collapsible display, reorientable display
- 1, 1.5 and 2x resolution
- palmos 6 device (simulator)
- all the 5.?? matrix
It’s quite a trek to make sure that it works in all the devices. I need to codify the testing matrix.
How difficult?
How difficult is it for a music playing application to remember where the
hell I was during the last run? I have a pile of long running files (lectures,
audiobooks) and I can’t bookmark a piece within them.
Still not used to the ‘bring it back the way I had it before’ concept then
are we?
Need to change the distribution algorithm
The distribution algorithm results in some silly output. There are times
where zones that are adjacent to power plants have no power.
I need to flag power shortages as well.
It looks like wasps find me sweet…
Alistair Cooke is dead
It’s merely a month after he retred and he’s passed away. I am not happy
that this has happened. He was the one true constant in the world.
Work related meh
Today could have gone better in the office. I feel like I’ve been done over by Bill Hick’s goat boy.
Need to work on the GUI for pocketcity.
Implement the scrollbars on the Palm. I am in the undesirable position of having the scrollbars makes the screen usage lopsided (grrrr). The tiles are 16 pixels in size. Scrollbars are 7/14 pixels depending on the resolution of the screen.
so the questions are:
1. redesign the drawing routine to clip on a partial tile?
2. Change the tile size?
3. reshape the screen?
Usability Woes
Quote from http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability:
Oh, I see: the problem is that Linux developers are just so fucking smart that they overlook the problems faced by “dumb users” such as dear old A.T. But everything will fall into place with just a little attitude adjustment.