In the previous week I finished with fixing leftover bugs in MacVenture and later started working on bringing printing support.
The last problem that was left from the week before that was polishing console window. In particular, there were problems with how the text was displayed when new text was added or when the window was resized. To make things easier I decided to change that console window from Graphics::MacWindow to Graphics::MacTextWindow. That allowed to take care of text wrapping and scroll management at once. However, to take it fully work, a few adjustments have to be made, as the class probably was initially created for the console with input (editable text). For example, to make the cursor be focused on the right place required to a little workaround, where I made the window editable, append the text, and make it uneditable again. Despite this, after it was implemented, I also added support for saving the text, so the save/loading functionality is also complete now.
After this with Sev’s suggestion, I started working on bringing printing support. It would useful for the MacVenture titles as all four games give a chance to print the diploma after completing the game. In addition it could be added to numerous HE games and others. I did not start from scratch, but rather from the previous attempt from few years back. I took the first few commits, and the later ones with some fixes. Then I added a simple test in testbed, so that I could test how the resulting pdf file. Once that was tested, I started adding code on top of it. I added a dialog for printing and along with it a feature to save the input surface as an image.
This week I plan continue the work on this1 and start actually implementing printing feature for the engines that needs it.