Archive for the ‘ CuteMaze ’ Category
Now that I am switching to release branches I am finally going to also tackle something that has always bothered me but I’ve never taken the time to solve: the development source code has the same version number as the most recent release. I have always wanted it to be some sort of automated number, [ READ MORE ]
I should have announced this sooner, but better late than never I suppose. I will no longer be creating new PowerPC builds of my programs. There are many reasons, but the biggest two are that my iBook G3 finally gave up the ghost, and that Qt has dropped support for PowerPC. I know that this [ READ MORE ]
I have added back the GitHub issues for my projects hosted there. I had taken them down because I was working on my own bug database that would have been tailored to my own liking, and then I was going bring over the already reported issues on GitHub. Unfortunately, I never got further than the [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been writing programs with Qt since the Qt 3 era, and when I made my first Qt 4 programs available for general use I added cross platform support. One thing that entails is storing user data files in different locations on different platforms. At the time, I couldn’t find any way in Qt to [ READ MORE ]
It has been over a year since I last updated CuteMaze. I have worked on it since then, but my other projects distracted me so much I didn’t think about it. A few months ago I added zooming support, but moving was pretty slow when zoomed out. I finally got around to looking at it [ READ MORE ]
A week ago I wrote a simple maze solver for CuteMaze based on the principle of “dead end filling”, for the purpose of giving the player hints. Unfortunately, I had a pretty busy week and I was delayed in adding it. Some things were avoidable, some things were not, but suffice it to say that [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes I look at old code and say, “What in the world was I thinking?”. I had such an incident today. For an unrelated reason I found myself looking at the source code of CuteMaze. One piece of code in particular stood out: the placement of targets on the maze. This is the code in [ READ MORE ]
While testing things yesterday, I discovered that none of my projects install the executables when compiled from source. Oops. I don’t usually try to install them, so I’m not surprised I missed it. I guess nobody else does either, otherwise I expect I would’ve heard about this already. I am going to be making releases [ READ MORE ]
Now that Trolltech has released a version of Qt 4 under the GPL version 3, I have decided to re-license CuteMaze as GPL 3 or later. As this is the only change between the 1.0 and 1.0.1 releases, it’s quite a minor update. I’m amazed that nobody has reported any bugs after the 1.0 release. [ READ MORE ]
I have not been doing much with CuteMaze recently. That’s probably due to the fact that I have almost completed the game. Today I uploaded a version that allows the player to install or uninstall themes, which should make sharing them easier. If you have a theme you would like for me to put on [ READ MORE ]
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