{"id":2923,"date":"2013-11-07T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2013-11-07T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T12:14:29","slug":"todays-progress-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2013\/11\/07\/todays-progress-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few hours, I&#8217;ve gotten my Windows builds working under the new SDL2 libraries, which is fantastic news &#8212; that&#8217;s one big task off my list, and makes me very comfortable about moving everything over to SDL2 for future releases.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a bunch of little technical fixes under the hood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VectorStorm&#8217;s screenshot functions now work on HighDPI displays (such as OS X &#8220;retina&#8221; screens).<\/li>\n<li>vsImage&#8217;s image saving code now uses SDL_image&#8217;s PNG saving code, instead of using libpng directly.<\/li>\n<li>vsSocketTCP now tries to send data immediately when requested, instead of putting it off until the next time its &#8216;Update()&#8217; method is called.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These changes are all now live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vectorstorm\/vectorstorm\">github repository<\/a>, in the SDL2 branch.\u00a0 Once I&#8217;ve verified that Linux builds work too (they&#8217;ll be a lot easier to wrangle than the Windows ones), I&#8217;ll take those SDL2 changes into the main master branch.<\/p>\n<p>But the big important one is having Windows builds working again, and having moved my Windows development system from the old Windows XP box to the only-slightly-less-archaic Windows 7 box.<\/p>\n<p>Back to game features, tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few hours, I&#8217;ve gotten my Windows builds working under the new SDL2 libraries, which is fantastic news &#8212; that&#8217;s one big task off my list, and makes me very comfortable about moving everything over to SDL2 for future releases. There are also a bunch of little technical fixes under the hood: VectorStorm&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-L9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}