Devices have various physical resolutions and densities. One phone may be 10cm wide and have 800pixels across, while another may be 8cm wide and have 1200pixels across. A UI engine needs to […]
UI Layout: Working with Pixels, Points and Density
mortoray
Over 20 years of programming. From video games to communications; science to finance; compilers to business processes. Too many languages to even track anymore.
Here's looking to another 20 years towards mastery of the craft.
Dissecting my Rusty Superhero Bots — The code review
I chose Rust as the language for the Botters of the Galaxy contest. My code structure was suitable enough to get me to the final league, but I had a few […]
Dissecting my Rusty Superhero Bots — A contest post-mortem
I made it to the top Legendary League in a bot programming contest. This is the first such competition I’ve done, with a language, Rust, which I barely know, and all while […]
UI Layout: Natural versus dependent size
Elements have either a natural size, a dependent size, or combination of the two. The size of an element influences its placement. The user and creator of a UI layout system must […]
Drawing a bitmap in the window (Leaf-SDL #2)
Read Update #1 Syntax Error I addressed two problems since last update: A bad error message, and an image loading error. The bad error message was triggered when an unknown symbol […]
Fixing some vector drawing issues
I fixed several issues with the vector drawing in Fuse. A few of them seemed somewhat obvious, so as with all such issues, I wonder why they were even there. In this […]
New Game: A quest for graphics (Leaf-SDL #1)
I’ve started a journey to make Leaf more visual. You may have seen some of my videos about complexity, complete with shaky mouse drawn lines. It’s simply not good enough, especially […]
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