Mar 2023

Updated QuickPrint (1.0.6 -> 1.0.9a) Added default horizontal and vertical alignment state Fixed missing font offsets in printf wrappers Various internal changes Fixed license problems with bundled demo resources 🙂 Released KEVN, an INI-like parser…

Feb 2023

Updated QuickPrint a few times (1.0.3 -> 1.0.6). The most significant changes are: Vertical alignment modes. Eases switching fonts on the same line (for example, by placing them relative to their baseline metrics). Auxiliary Data…

Jan 2023

ProdUI: For a file selector window, I got the basics of a menu with columns and sortable categories along the top. You click the category and it re-orders the menu items according to a sort…

Dec 2022

I’m officially putting Balleg (and the engine that runs it, Bolero 2) on hiatus until I get the UI stuff under control. This has effectively been the case since about March or so. Devlog posts…

Nov 2022

I was feeling very pessimistic when I sat down to write this — I wish I was further along — but it doesn’t seem so bad when I lay everything out for the month. Menu…

Oct 2022

I made some good progress on UI this month, despite an initial moment of doubt. ProdUI isn’t moving the game project forward, and I could probably just make a few adjustments to Balleg’s menu system…

Sept 2022

Regrettably, I don’t have much to show for this month. The overall look of ProdUI has improved, though it currently still falls short of being usable for a real GUI application.   ProdUI as it…

Aug 2022

Posting this a bit early. Not a whole lot to report (and I hate that I’ve opened two devlogs in a row like this, but it is what it is). No videos this month.  …

Jul 2022

Another month without much to show (well, there is a little bit to show related to mouse cursors). I fell short of the main goal: porting EditField to prodUI. This sucks, but it’s worth taking the…

Jun 2022

I started work on a simplified UI system, with the intent of using it as a test bed for editField. Neither are ready for public release (though editField is now mostly functional). I also dabbled…