Nov 2024

Added a multi-state checkbox Minor tweaks and fixes to NumberBox, ComboBox and TextInputSingle Cleanup of TreeBox, ListBox code. Some work on PropertiesBox. Renamed ‘lib/depot.lua’ to ‘ui_load.lua’. Depot was a resource loading library which I don’t…

Oct 2024

Finished the TableToString rewrite: T2S2 Updated KEVN, an INI-like config file parser. I later archived the repository because it doesn’t offer many advantages over loading a Lua table constructor. Integrated PILE (collection of Lua snippets)…

Sept 2024

I noticed that LXL is slow when reading large XML files under PUC-Lua. The problem is caused by how the library scans the document for valid XML code points. I made some changes to help…

Jul 2024

Released LXL (Lua XML Library), a major rewrite of xmlToTable. Rewrote ErrTest and StringWalk (formerly StringReader), and updated UTF8Tools. Most of this work happened in June, and it started from a naive attempt to add…

Jan 2024, post hiatus

No project work this month. I’ll stop posting until I have something to write about. (Nothing serious, just poor time management and the programming equivalent of writer’s block.)

Dec 2023

Made a dropdown box widget. The single-line text box widget started in November is mostly operational now. Merged the two scrolling register sets (scr, scr2) into one (just scr). uiGraphics: Added a wrapper to setScissor…

Nov 2023

I moved ProdUI to a public Git repo. It’s not ready for general use, but it should work with LÖVE 11.4, 11.5 and 12.0-development if you want to take a look. Wrote some UI Context…

Oct 2023

Reorganized the theming and skinning system: In August, I added special fields that described how to reach theme objects. For example, skin[“*tex_side”] = “textures/side” would eventually lead to the assignment skin.tex_side = resources.textures.side. This was…

Sept 2023

Wrote utf8Check and updated utf8Tools. I thought that Lua 5.3’s utf8.len() was suitable for validating strings in LÖVE, but it will allow some invalid code points through that LÖVE rejects, like surrogate pairs. Minor work…