I added a few more widgets to the dialog box system: NumericInput, Slider, Direction, and tweaked I RadioGroup to be more usable. The result is the ability to edit object properties in the DreamZZT editor:
You can also modify the board properties:
It’s almost to the point where you could create a new game from within DreamZZT. I still need to write a board picker widget and a text editor for editing ZZT-OOP scripts.
As a followup to yesterday’s post, here’s how the new icons look on Windows:
And using the standard Windows file dialog to open a file:
I made a lot of progress on DreamZZT this weekend. First, new icons:
Next, DreamZZT now uses the OS’s file browser to select files to load / save:
Finally, you can associate DreamZZT to open .zzt and .sav files and it’ll run them for you when you double-click them.
Comcast is no longer carrying GSN on their analog service, they replaced it with Turner Classic Movies. Now I have nothing to watch when there’s nothing to watch 🙁
Woah! DreamZZT and FrotzDC are mentioned in the O’Reilly book Gaming Hacks: 100 Industrial Strength Tips & Tools by Simon Carless. Apparently it was published in 2004, but I had no idea it existed until a random google search turned up the index from the book. Anyone know where I can track down a copy? I’m curious to see what it says, but I’m not about to pay $30 for it 😛
The following rolled across the top of my tv during My Name Is Earl:
Hopefully this doesn’t also affect WCAU NBC 10, otherwise I’ll have to investigate “alternative” means of watching my NBC shows.
Sohail: naa, i was breastfed, she’s got a rack
85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap!
