Nephil Thief

First off sorry for the slow response, last week was the work week from hell topped off with a head cold. I don't know, but a nagging voice in the back of my head tells me this might be impossible in X. @sylae: please be aware that GTK2 is no longer developed, and GTK3 is considered an internal Gnome3 library and subject to API breakage with every major release. Qt4 (or is it 5 now?) might be an option, but it is extremely huge. (And people wonder why the heck nobody uses Linux on the desktop.)

Ah, sorry about the assumption on my part then.

THANK YOU. I'm ignorant of a lot of Delphy's terminology, but I think I'm basically in agreement with her. (On a related note, the Rancom! blog is a great reminder of how much of a hypocrite I am.) Edit: but I did at least recognize a veiled justification for a hierarchy when I saw one... Yay me I guess.

Ventus by Karl Schroeder. Possibly aka "Star Wars meets Star Trek meets LoTR, done right." The problem is it has the weaknesses of all of those as well as the strengths. Strong points: decent characters, good action scenes, plenty of "WOW!" moments. Weak points: the philosophical stuff felt more pretentious and technobabbly than anything else, though I'll give it points for not being as degrading and offensive as Dan Simmons. But the thing that really grated on me like crazy was the gender politics. Which is not good, because the failure of medieval social concepts is a major part of the plot! It goes like this basically. Men are by nature * aggressive, with a desire to fix (or reshape) the world * unaware of other people's feelings * fundamentally brutish and naive no matter how smart they are * need women for emotional consolation and guidance * more importantly, need women as an outlet for sexual energy and/or aggression and women are by nature * passive, with a desire to mediate and provide emotional counsel * aware of other people's feelings to the point of overthinking everything * fundamentally shrewd and conniving no matter how naive they are * need men for physical and emotional protection * need the aggression/sexual energy of men for some ill-defined reason Not sure what to call this complex, but it should be familiar. It's common in SF and especially fantasy literature; and from what I've seen, almost always espoused by men, and almost always treated as a Truth that cannot be denied. Ventus is a pretty mild example, compared to e.g. Dune or the Kvothe Kingkiller novels. But yeah, the rigidity of such ideas just makes me sad, in a way that even nihilism never quite manages. I counted two female characters in the novel who defied this framework. Both were definitely lost, unhappy sorts. Also, zero characters who were not cis/hetero, and almost all European names. Which is kind of surprising given the post-mortal post-AI interstellar civilization in the picture... tl;dr A novel purportedly about awareness is a bit too lacking in just that. Physician, heal thyself.

Oy, this could turn into quite a task. Methinks I will attack it next weekend, when I have the time to throw some brainpower at it. No. Definitely not. X Window System only provides primitives, everything else is done with higher level widget toolkits; so if you want file dialogs, you have to make calls to GTK/Qt/Fltk/etc. so you might was well use one of those in the first place.

Maybe? Not sure though. svchost is the Windows service host. IIRC most Windows services are DLL libraries, not standalone executables, and must be loaded into the svchost process to run. I've never seen 16 svchosts running at once though. That sounds weird, even for Windows 8. No idea what it might imply though.

Celtic Minstrel: umm, how do I compile this (or try to)? I don't see any makefiles or related stuff, only an XCode project...

https://gitorious.org/neoband (Google and the NSA already know who I am, so what the heck...)

Well thank you, I had never even heard of SFML until today... I'll take a look at the "osx" code tomorrow. Edit: Just curious though, why SFML? It looks painful to use for 2D stuff, with buttons and things that ought to be widgets. Re the dialogs, you mean they had graphics stuff stored in resource forks? Argh. Not sure what you mean about how windows work on Linux? Shouldn't SGML handle the abstractions needed for dealing with X11 vs. Quartz vs. whatever Windows uses? But I'll see what can be done. Hmm. How does SFML handle text fields exactly? I'm looking through the API docs but it seems the usual level of abstraction is much lower. Okay, thank you. In fact, I think I will take a look at the code tonight... I just finished installing SFML on my workstation, give me a minute.

Thanks. I have been doing well. Extremely extremely busy, but well.

Just thought I'd put it out there. Linux is now my day job, and I maintained my own Angband variant for a while, so I can sorta kinda do C. Oh, and I have a Github account. I'd be interested in helping out with the cross-platform version. Caveat: I'm really really busy most of the time. But I would be quite willing to pitch on in weekends, especially if it might teach me a thing or two more about C++/WxWidgets/etc. Anyway, if there's anything that needs working on in the Wx editor, please mention; I will probably want to start small (don't know much about the more advanced C++ stuff) but hopefully will be able to help matters. Thanks for keeping the game alive!

I figure it's been a long enough break, and things appear to have calmed down a bit. So yeah. Here I am again... Now to vanish for another few months. (J/K. You'll be able to find me in the BoE subforum from time to time. Probably not much elsewhere; I don't have much time for non-programmable games any more.)

I believe the System process is the Windows kernel. In my experience it is not unusual for it (and other OS kernels) to eat up a significant amount of memory, even when the system performs normally. I'm not sure how you could get it to use 0.1 MB, unless you embarked on some massive purging of filesystem caches or something. I can't say exactly what happened here (not enough of a Windows geek). However, looking at your Process Explorer log, I see stuff that probably shouldn't be there: sqlwriter.exe 1,420 K 4,504 K 1844 SQL Server VSS Writer - 64 Bit Microsoft Corporation aspnet_state.exe 1,332 K 4,104 K 3696 Microsoft ASP.NET State Server Microsoft Corporation >>> I'm not that familiar with Windows 8, but these are the sort of things one would normally see on a server, not a desktop. Serving up web content from a desktop is a security hazard. If this is for a class and/or experimentation you might want to use a virtual machine, otherwise you should probably serve the content from a dedicated computer. AVG-Secure-Search-Update_0414c.exe 1,584 K 452 K 3584 >>> This looks like part of AVG, not sure what it's doing on a system without. I'd also recommend uninstalling the browser toolbars.