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[Derakon]

Hunh, I wouldn't have expected that to be efficient. Interesting. Thanks for describing your approach, anyway. It's possible the Qt front-end for Pyrel would want to steal it.

[nppangband]

Originally Posted by AnonymousHero

The great thing is that it's a really dumb implementation which seems to be performing quite well. The standard QGraphicsScene is (apparently) easily capable of handling thousands of little "items" (as they call them) in a scene(*), so I just create MxN QGraphicsSimpleTextItem-derived instances and (at the window-open event) position them appropriately for the MxN grid. That's all setup, so when I want to write something I just look up the "character" (QGraphicsSimpleTextItem) at the appropriate place and change its "text" and foreground color. After a whole line is "written"/cleared/whatever I just call "invalidate" on the QGraphicsScene on the portion I updated and it takes care of the rest!

Now, there is a caveat which I haven't mentioned and that is that I haven't yet tried the torture-test which is "center on player" and then go running around (mainly due to lack of arrow key handling ), but given that the current implementation is so unbelievably dumb, I'm not expecting much trouble there.

(*) Using all manner of interesting stuff like BSPs for optimizing exactly which items get redrawn on invalidation/re-paint.

Hi Anonymoushero,

I was looking through the QT examples, and I found this:

http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/...ine-rogue.html

It appears to be just moving around an "@" with direction keys, in a roguelike settings. This code will probably be pretty useful to me soon.

I should post my start to a QT port soon. I am focusing on developing a menubar and toolbars for the game. I haven't actually incorporated any angband code yet. My next step will be to get the port to load the edit files, and close them up on exit.

[nppangband]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Hunh, I wouldn't have expected that to be efficient. Interesting. Thanks for describing your approach, anyway. It's possible the Qt front-end for Pyrel would want to steal it.

I am finding QT to be quite well documented. I faced a little learning curve the first couple days, but now that I am getting used to it things are moving along nicely. Plus there are countless examples out there to learn from.

It is amazing that can be done with just a couple lines of code in QT that takes hundreds or thousands of lines in the Angband "game engine".

[Derakon]

If you need them, Pyrel has fairly optimized drawing routines that aren't specific to any given front-end library here. This handles issues like:

* Deciding which subset of the map to display (centering on @ but taking map boundaries into account)
* Drawing text, including pairs of left/right-aligned items (e.g. for inventory display: item name on one side, weight on the other)
* Mapping from pixel space to the map grid

The qtPyrel subclass of that class has Qt-specific code for performing drawing operations. Note that window setup is handled by other files.