> Thanks, Lee. You already know about how I feel about your role in
> this, reflex editor really was an inspiration, especially once I
> learned I didn't have to be quite so weirdly-OOish.
Still, I wouldn't abandon OO in JavaScript. It has peculiarities in its implementation, but as you know, OO can make life easier in a lot of cases. Particularly in game and UI coding with JS.
> Yeah, IE seems more sluggish than firefox. Ah well, code first,
> optimize later ;-)
I had some serious speed problems with IE when I was working on AsciiBurgertime. I had to create a custom ... er ... kernel ... specifically for IE. As it turned out, blitting a giant DIV full of ASCII is faster than blitting each object in IE, but vice versa in Firefox and Netscape.
> I find the editor fun to use... "can I make a purple robed wizard
> following the per scanline rules?" etc...I almost worry it might
> provoke a flood of the n00bs saying "look i made this, it follows the
> rules, now can someone code it for me?" -- especially if I have it
> spit out ready to DASM source, running the thing around on screen.
Which will subsequently provoke us to respond, "Please visit Kirk's 2600 101." :)
> You know, I could almost see a "use current frame as background for
> onion skin" / "clear onion skin background" button that would
> effectively set the background for the main canvas. I think the
> problem then is how to fade out the background so it's strong contrast
> with the current layer. Maybe taking each color value and dividing
> each of the R,G,B component by 2? Or do you have a different CSS-y
> trick in mind?
I didn't look closely at how you're setting cell colors, but yeah, I'd use some multiplier as you described. I was sort of half-joking about onion-skinning though. Whenever I see a program that supports animating frames, I always look for an onion-skin feature. However, this particular editor is probably lo-res enough not to really need it... particularly once copy-paste starts working. (But it would still be a nice feature! ;)
Ciao.
-Lee
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