exacoustics

I drank one of those ghost energy drinks for the first time today and I'm still buzzing after 5 hours. wtf in in those things?

b r e a k s t a t i o n

lmao I just checked all the new features. I'm psyched for a working pause

arc witch. might try ranger or templar next. have you been playing long?

I started playing Path of Exile 1 for the first time recently. The Maori influence in their art style and lore came as an unexpected surprise -I had no idea this was made by a Kiwi studio! It feels very quaint and hits close to home. It reminds me of art and stories I read growing up. Cool game!

My body is ready Todd Howard

Defs replace as much of the standard libraries as you can. Plenty of great stuff on GitHub.

All I use is:
Malloc/calloc/realloc/free
Memset/move/cpy/cmp
snprintf
math.h

All other string and i/o functions are awful.

Have you considered switching to plain old C, or something even newer and riskier like Zig, Odin or Jai?

Good design makes gotchas like this hard to make, and I certainly haven’t found the right one yet. If you have ideas or tips to share, I’d love to hear it!

Also if you hit me up on discord or something I’m happy to share code

Extra logic is required on mouse exit events to stop this trip up happening. I suspect I’ll run into similar problems with keyboard focus gained lost events, and maybe drop + drag end events.

A gotcha I ran into with this no callback approach is responding to mouse exit/enter in the correct order. For example, two widgets A & B set/restore a cursor on enter/exit events. If A is drawn before B and the user moves the cursor from B to A, then B’s exit event will be resolved last.

Yep, you basically described the code I have so far (ids and bounds checking).

Currently z indexing is an unsolved issue. I’m hoping clever use of a “generational ID” will help. That’s a trick game developers use.

Definitely. The latency thing is a year old issue on GitHub, and probably very easy to solve, I just haven’t gotten around it lol

I’m struggling to understand your reply. Are you saying certain widgets require callbacks?

If so, I believe key/mouse events can be stored in a queue or similar, then consumed at the site of the widget without any requirement to register a callback.

Good luck! Are you using another lib, or writing your own?

You’re not missing out

Removing a retained mode widget is just as bad. First you remove it from the header, then remove all references to it, possibly across several files and definitely in several functions/methods.

What a nightmare!

This developer friction certainly stops many great ideas from being tested!

The equivalent of this is extremely cumbersome in a retained mode GUI (eg. JUCE, VSTGUI, Qt). To add a widget you will probably add a new member to a class in a header file, then it needs to be initialised correctly in a constructor within a .cpp file, then it needs to drawn in some third place...

If you want to test a GUI idea using immediate mode widgets, it's as simple as writing all necessary code in one place. If you need to temporarily make space for something, then removing widgets is as easy as commenting out a block of code, or a function call.

In C/C++, you can literally plot any chart to see and hear results in real-time. You can add/remove temporary "static" parameters for testing (see above pic) and commit them to proper plugin params later

There is also no algorithm rewrite from mathematical notation to C/C++

So far so good! I even managed to make rendering event driven.

IMGUIs are an amazing way to quickly prototype ideas and refine an algorithm. Some plugin devs do this in matlab, desmos, or similar, but I think sticking to your implementation language has some important advantages

All this including the plugin this is built for will be open source at some point

For rendering I’m using nanovg with a fork of sokol gfx.

Nope. It’s not a full fledged UI framework. It just takes mouse events and manipulates a few booleans and floats so you can have widgets detect mouse enter/exit/hover/drag/dragstart/dragend/single/double/tripleclick.

Buttons and sliders aren’t hard at all. Things may start to get complicated if I need to support z-indexing.

Given how simple IMGUIs are, I suspect you could hack together a new lib for each project with certain features included/excluded.

This weekend I started working on my first immediate mode GUI library. It’s amazing how much you can do in so few lines of code!

If you’re making noise below -120dB, it’s pretty darn high quality. -288 is nuts

Most boring cyclone ever

Every day. Imagine waking around with a dirty phone. Ew

I was studying recordings of the famous Square 4 sound from Maelstrom. I managed to create a filter that produces the same output when you run a square wave through it.

It’s available as “Comb 4” in Ghost v1.0.15. Go make some yoinks with it.