Haven’t been in much of a coding mood for a while, but the Avatars are working for EmuLauncher XNA. That leaves the backgrounds and borders, and I can call the shop done and get to the REAL nuts and bolts – Systems, Games, and making **** run!
Archive for January, 2009
Been a few daily updates in my Workshop corner of the forums though.
Basically where I’m at is I can get to the main menu on this thing, the playlists load correctly from the Profiles, and it’s able to display some text scrolling across the bottom of the main menu.
Working on the Shop, then the Systems and Games objects so I can crank out the other screens. Thankfully there’s some light at the end of the tunnel – 4 of the screens are all but identical (any screen that lists the games). They’re defined separately because there’s different paths to get to them.
Plus there’s 4 that -are- identical, so I code it once and it’s done!
I’m not even sure how to do the Config screen though, and I haven’t quiiiite figured out the New Profile button on ProfileGod – need to add in another chunk or two of code so it displays an alphabet to select letters from.
Which reminds me, I need to fix the profiles – the card never displays your name, and the number in the top-right needs to be calculated….
No screenies here until I get a bit further along with the shop. Stay tuned though!
So if you actually check my buddylist on the right, a friend over at GamEscape Online ran into a problem recently involving his free forum host XSOrbit deciding to not renew one of their domain names for 3 days.
This, coupled with sporadic database corruption bursts and other issues, resulted in a partnership between Livewire HQ (me!) and GEO to move the forums to somewhere more reliable.
The Forums are up and running quite well on this host, with one catch.
Recently (as in today), X10’s having a DNS issue resulting from a cPanel update. Seems cPanel has a habit of releasing stuff that makes other stuff really unstable. Corey, one of the X10 admins, is currently working on keeping NS1.x10hosting.com up, while ns2.x10hosting.com is the problem causer – if ns2 comes online, both die. He’s working on setting up ns1 on another of x10’s servers (Cirrus) until the issue gets resolved by cPanel.
So you might experience some problems loading the site over the next day or so until it gets resolved. Bear with us please!
Did the easiest part of this emulauncher again, the first of 2 ‘main’ menus.
At least I’m doing something while hopped up on caffeine from a Dexter Season 2 spree. Next up’s the Profile screen, that’ll be something of a WIP for some time though because of the profiles themselves being a WIP, but at least I can get the profile selection and such down – that won’t change even if the profile does.
So at least I’m still working on it, right? Right.