Armin's personal Blog

Just have look at this screenshot and guess what makes it differ from the developer mode viewport windows in the currently released beta 18.

Nothing? Way wrong: The viewport window is now a full GTK+ featured window instead of just a raw X window. Currently, this makes no difference indeed, but it offers quite interesting possibilities: We could easily add scrollbars to the window, just like on Windows. This not only enables drawing large landscapes without having to drag a player's clonk around to move the viewport's position but due to the main loop still running during scrolling, it would also even pretend the game from blocking (like the windows version does) which is quite annoying when drawing landscapes with others through the network. Well, of course the network first needs to be fixed to stay synchronized with the windows version.

Another possibility the GTK+ window offers is drag+drop of definitions from, say, nautilus, into the viewport with few lines of code and having GTK+ do the dirty work.

As almost everyone has got a blog today, I just thought I needed one, too. Well, here it is. I wonder however how long I am motivated to blog regurlarly...

After having tried Bluetrait first I finally took Serendipity as weblog software because it also runs with the PHP option "register_globals" activated (although it recommends turning it off, and so do I) and I have no access to the php.ini file to turn it off. There seem to exist other methods to perform this (.htaccess?), so this was not the only reason not to use Bluetrait. The major one being that Bluetrait also forces me to use a WYSIWYG editor to write blog entries which I dislike (at least I could not find an option to turn it off).

I still have to figure out how to integrate my other pages like the Term parser and the links into this one before I finally make this blog the main site of arbur.net. And I still need a category where posts like this belong to...

Update: I just created an internet category for this post, although I doubt that many entries will end up in this section.