whtrbt @whtrbt@merveilles.town

@neauoire nasu's savebmp function does not work on macOS.

SDL_GetWindowSurface is returning null, and SDL_RenderReadPixels does not work with NULL as the rect.

does this fix work for you?
https://paste.sr.ht/~whtrbt/5589a26ec8970b494efe77d37b0bde06d5a1b02a

Big canvas and some minor usability changes. I might add select/move/clipboard to the canvas area. Off to the pub for now though. :)

"This site features a curriculum developed around the television series, Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017), a fictional narrative about people working in tech during the 1980s-1990s."

https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/

it is very good.

source is here. excuse the mess, but feedback appreciated.
https://github.com/bg3/nifty

Works pretty well now. Time to smooth off some of the rough edges. Then clean up my terrible code. :D

:D

Matched the number's backgrounds to the colours used in the character picker. I'll probably only use 2 colours for the stuff I want to do, but may as well keep supporting .chr format, it's nice.

Now to add key/mouse colour picking. At the moment it's just eye dropping from the canvas area.

Something like this...

Back to the chr art editor... trying to work out a good way to handle colour picking. The .chr format has 4 possible colours per character. I want the ability to pick different palettes for each tile, which means some awkward selection of 4 colours from a set. Pressing a number 1-4 while over a colour, and showing that number against the color in the palette would work but it seems a bit clumsy. Maybe I'll also allow left/right click to set col 1-2 and then 3-4 with shift-click as well.

Tile selection and painting works properly. :) Next, right-click to pick tile from the map, then colours. After that resizable tile maps.

Great, found an offline version of the SDL wiki: https://files.pineapplemachine.com/public/sdl/wiki/offline-archive/

Goodnight Merveilles

it's slow going, I'm a bit exhausted this week. had a disappointing day sailing, got drunk afterwards, then limped through the first two days of work so far. going to leave it here for tonight and read. Thursday I will try to make the tile selection/painting work properly.

Making a little tile map/nametable tool. I was using an old version of Nasu for this sometimes, but it didn't handle palettes in the way I wanted so I'm hacking away at new Nasu and turning it into something else.

Last year I hoped to read 25+ books and clear out my bookshelves. I read 6!

I used to read so much as a kid, now it takes me a month to get through some books. Maybe I'll aim for 12 this year.

dumb name, but it looks like there's some alternate society/civ stuff that I will find interesting.