Dec 6, 2023
So Mu was on the advent of Qemu calendar yesterday, and I totally missed it.
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Dec 3, 2023
This bug I foisted on myself today was a real "things are not as they appear" puzzle.
bugfix: only check for settings menu when open
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Dec 2, 2023
I fixed several embarrassing bugs in Lua Carousel in the past week, including:
- Buttons now flash to give you feedback that, e.g. the file was actually saved like you asked and you didn't fat-finger the wrong button.
- Tapping didn't always move the cursor.
- If you selected some text and hit 'clear', the app would crash.
- Dragging on empty space above the settings menu selected text beneath.
- Lots of jitteriness.
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Nov 27, 2023
I'd somehow never drawn a Hilbert curve before. Finally rectified this omission.
I released the hopefully final feature last night for my mobile-friendly REPL: file loading and saving.
From here on out I only want to work on UI polish and accessibility. Let's see how long it can stay running without incompatibilities that require upgrades.
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Nov 26, 2023
Achievement unlocked: I've built an app large enough that it crashes my programming environment that puts all the code on a spatial surface.
Or spread out enough, rather. It's not really about lines of code, just how much area the code occupies.
The problem: I do this snazzy initial animation (see video) that takes in the whole thing before zooming back in somewhere.
That animation works by drawing the whole surface to an in-memory canvas before transforming it. Turns out drawing to a canvas still uses the video card, and I don't have enough video RAM for a virtual "monitor" of this resolution.
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Nov 23, 2023
Lua Carousel: A lightweight programming environment for desktop and mobile devices
I just published this thing on itch.io.
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Nov 22, 2023
This responsive layout for my toolbar is the Sultan of Jank.
Lots of progress today. Remaining issues:
- That question of how many colors to permit customizing.
- UI for loading/saving files.
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Nov 21, 2023
Remaining issues with the toolbar:
- Actually persisting settings across restart.
- Still not responsive. But I have a plan for this.
- Every color I use in the editor needs more sliders to customize :grimace: Right now there are 3 other colors: comments, scrollbars and those borders around the editor. Maybe I need a dropdown :grimace: Or just punt.
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Nov 19, 2023
Progress on a lightweight programming environment for both computers and mobile devices. Modifiable live while it runs (though not on mobile devices).
The seed design constraint here was to structurally prevent the pop-up keyboard on a touchscreen from ever blocking my typing. That led to a multi-line commandline editor in the top half, fixing the non-editable output buffer in the bottom half. Independent commands/scripts then expanded in the only other direction available: left/right.
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