Month: July 2011

Another week pass, with a lot of breaking and fixing. The good part is, I am really getting used to this.

The first one was a obvious mistake, I forgot to increase the iterator I use. When you try to exit, the removeAllScripts function is called, and it tries to free the first element a second time.

Second one was a save load problem. I was using iterators, and checking if the iterator equals to end(), but loading creates and adds a new node in every loop, so it never ends. Since the number of elements is written in the save file, and read before the loop, I just changed the check in the for body.

I have worked on ctp.h/cpp this week. Player walk logic is in it. There were too many global variables used, so I decided to form them into classes. I have created two classes, one for walkbox and one for routes. I manage to move most of the globals, and move to Scripts.h/cpp unaware of the lurking problems.

This was a smooth week for me. I had no big glitches, no unpretictable segmantation faults etc. I worked on different parts, but the most important class I created is the Stack class.

There was a implementation of stack in stack.h/cpp, but fingolfin leave a TODO comment that suggest replacing with Common::Stack, so I did that. I had seen code parts using Common but this was the first time I did. The stack was used for both int16 and void*. There is a union of those two, and a enum for type, capsulated as stackElementStruck, so it uses spesific pop and push functions. first I made it a class, and added constructors for both possible data type, then created a new Stack class, inherited Common:Stack, and added pop & push methods to it. It is pretty straight forward, but it feels better integrated.

I am thinking about using Common::List for some of the parts I already worked on, but it has to wait after midterms, which is this week.

This week was a little sad for me. I have started working to make use of Cell lists head, but in the end, I have to backup, and postpone it until GSoC midterms.

I started with modifying the add and remove. But of course it did not work out as expected. I had a lot of faulty assumptions. First of all, add does not always adds to end of the list, and it was obvious actually. I knew Remove does not have to remove from last, what I did not realise was, removing head is not an option. After every modification another problem emerged, and of course a lot of segmantation faults. After days of working, I manage to fix nearly all of the problems, except unable to save or load, and an odd rendering issue. Some of the objects were rendering in wrong order. I tried everything I can think of on sorting, but I could not found the origin of the problem, or anything wrong in the code. On that point I feel I do not have a choice, but surrender.