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[alway]

Na, use SDL as Virex suggested. I haven't used it myself, but I seem to recall copying memory to a texture being relatively trivial from what snippets I've occasionally run across. It should be much faster than a hacky libtcod implementation in any case.

[Siquo]

Every time someone says SDL I feel the urge to shout "No, use SFML!". So there you have it.

[Virex]

SFML is probably better, but SDL is C-based, while SFML is C++-based. Plenty of languages can call foreign C functions, but not C++ functions, hence SDL is likely availible in whatever language you're using, while SFML is only available in the most popular languages.

So the verdict is 'use libtcod with a 1x1 tileset' for now?
Hrm. If there's lots of dots, it might be slow enough that it interferes with the simulation...

Libtcod uses SDL to do the drawing, so I'd say using SDL directly would be more efficient and easier.

[Siquo]

... there are other languages?



But: good point.

[GlyphGryph]

I don't think I can be a programmer anymore. I need to get out of this industry.

I just don't have a good enough memory for this.

[Skyrunner]

I don't think I can be a programmer anymore. I need to get out of this industry.

I just don't have a good enough memory for this.

Why's that? D:

[GlyphGryph]

I've been programming for years, and I STILL have trouble remember basic syntax if I haven't used it for the last week. I mean, I have ways to cope (basically sample code sheets and reference files I can review, plus a list of "common tasks", currently 6 pages long, that I need to do regularly but will never, ever remember the syntax for).

I am bad at psychology, and I am bad at remembering syntax. These are huge handicaps in the IT industry, where you usually use the one to help you figure out the other and here I am, terrible at both.

Blugh.

[eerr]

Describe your programming to yourself. It's really not that hard out loud.

[Skyrunner]

Well, GG, as long as you know what's what, I'm sure syntax is a secondary thing. You can always look it up, like you're doing now. You just need to know what you're doing and how you'll do it.

[Nadaka]

Syntax highlighting and code completion. If you know how to program, you don't necessarily need to know the code that does it. Which is somewhat bad advice.

[Siquo]

Yep. I still have to look up how to initialise an array in c++ (I hardly use them), and in PHP I need to look up every other command because they've been implemented by monkeys ramming their heads on keyboards. Don't worry about it

[GlyphGryph]

Syntax highlighting and code completion. If you know how to program, you don't necessarily need to know the code that does it. Which is somewhat bad advice.

Code completion is surprisingly unuseuful for the way I forget things, and syntax highlighting certiainly helps with using those ref docs...

Anyways, thanks for the reassurances, all. I feel a bit better about it now, at least.

[Willfor]

90% of programming is simply knowing that running to google is a very good option to take. Google and frequent comments to yourself, BANG you're a good programmer.

[Mego]

90% of programming is simply knowing that running to google is a very good option to take. Google and frequent comments to yourself, BANG you're a good programmer.

This is so true. Nobody will scoff at you for doing a quick Google search for something that slipped your mind. And if some asshat does, then he initiated war against a programmer. He will most certainly lose.

[MagmaMcFry]

Stuck on a coding problem here: Given a set of k linear inequalities of the form a * x_i + b * x_j >= c, how do I find the x = (x₁, ..., x_n) with minimal length which satisfies all the inequalities?