On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 06:48:32PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 23 March 2017 at 18:25:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > And BTW, that was written for a text console, so the only library > > needed was a terminal control library (which in theory could be > > dispensed with, as you could just output the escape sequences > > yourself / call the OS console functions yourself). > > Oh, my terminal.d makes that simple anyway!
Oh yeah, I've found terminal.d to be extremely useful in the little console apps I've been writing. Thanks for that! Before I came across terminal.d, I had to resort to binding with lib[n]curses, whose API is a sorry mess, esp. when Unicode is involved. (Plus, many API functions are implemented as C macros, which makes it a royal pain to interface with D code -- I basically had to wrap them in an additional C wrapper library on top of linking in libncurses in the first place.) > I want to close some of the gap between terminal and simpledisplay > though. I wrote a little file text viewer for someone on irc today > with simpledisplay and it was a bit of a hassle. On the other hand, a > high-level widget is outside sdpy's charter, but being able to write > text is really useful... and surprisingly complicated with low-level > apis, so I think I'll do something. > > But regardless, for a 2d game, sdpy and terminal both give what you > need to make it pretty simple. Technically, it would work for a "3D" game too, if you're willing to sacrifice the realism of 3D perspective projection and settle with 2D slices of 3D. :-P (Hey, if that works for 4D, why not for 3D?) T -- It said to install Windows 2000 or better, so I installed Linux instead.
