Thursday, June 16, 2005

Thursday 16th

Spent the better part of the day finalising the resize routine; the map can now be resized in both the X and Y axes, enlarged, reduced, and cropped properly using the anchor facility.

The rest of the day was spent tinkering with the Mini Map code; this has never really worked precisely as I would have liked, and now that the map sizes can be changed the Mini Map also needs to be able to cope with this.

Part of the problem with going back to old routines is that of familiarity; you can spend far too much time simply working out how a routine works, and getting back into the mindset you were in when you wrote the code originally. Luckily, I want to completely revamp the Mini Map system, so most of the time was spent stripping down the routine to its basic elements ready for some serious tinkering.