DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.
08:41
I have awaken, and it rains.
08:59
Class information can store annotations, fields and methods can be structures themselves which declare things.
15:07
Using a filesystem view for maps is going to be bad. That view is highly tied into File which is not very extendable.
17:44
However, if there were a way to have say a tab which shows either the files on the disk or internal files in the JAR. Well, JFileChooser can be embedded into a panel, so I could carve out a custom dialog of sorts.
18:34
Aha! With this new dialog I can have internal maps, ones on the disk, and random maps. So all of the expected map types can work out.
20:29
For random map generation, the only major things affecting the major layout of the map will be player positions and the random seed. Those mentioned will affect the terrain that is placed. Each map will be divided into segments which represent a "base". Expansions value will change how many of those non- main bases will have resources in them. Islands will determine how those segments connect to each other (none being no connections, thus no islands) while lots will enforce that mains are never connected. Resources will just modify the amount of resources available to mains and expansions. Setting resources to none will result in no resources being available.
20:58
I have not tested my stuff in Wine in awhile, I wonder if it all still works good.
21:18
And it works the same as it does on Linux, and that makes Java awesome.