Sunday, October 27, 2013
Another good day of work on the editor I've got pointers working - including abstract base classes - which means there's now an ability to change the shape of the data graph. Super cool stuff.
I continued to work on usability, trying to figure out how to present visual cues to make navigation as quick and easy as possible. I think I've made a lot of progress in that area - I can actually now navigate the data faster than I ever expected to be able to The biggest helper was highlighting the entire subtree of the active node, which gives you a visual cue indicating which part of the data you're about to descend into. With that in place, it's really easy to cycle through siblings until you see the part of the graph you're interested in light up, then you know it's time to descend. I think we'll all be able to get very fast at this type of navigation with a bit of practice, so I'm already convinced that visual data editing is not clumsy or slow.
Having not finished vectors yet, I'll admit that I didn't get quite as much done today as I wanted. Probably due to the fact that some family was in town for the weekend and I spent some time with them for a good bit of the day
Still, the plan for tomorrow remains: tech tree or bust! Really need a miracle to build the whole universe before the monthly update :laugh: Obviously that's not likely, but I would really like to have a visible tech tree and AI research implemented
[ You can visit devtime.ltheory.com for more detailed information on today's work. ]
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Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:55 am
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Week of October 27, 2013
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ~ Henry Ford