| CharlesShoults |
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| 06/28/07 09:31 AM |
| 64.47.54.5 |
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Re: New game in development - Battletech Live
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I began working with multi-threaded applications last night. I got rid of the icon that I borrowed from classicbattletech and replaced it with one from the MechCommander 2 source code and turned it into an icon in the system tray. We don't want everything within the game to be sequential. It slows down the application as a whole and makes you have to wait on a lot of things while performs updates and such. When the game loads, it opens the standard application window and the systray icon. If you click the close box in the corner of the main window, it closes that form but leaves the systray icon. Using that icon, you'll be able to bring up the main application window, access a configuration panel where you can select themes, resolution and a number of other options, access the email, forum and support sections, each running in a separate thread. I don't yet know if anything can be done to take advantage of multi-core processors, but I can enable support for 64-bit processors, although I don't know how much of a benefit they provide.
Current Worklog
The gray background for the application will be going away so the program will have no frame and be a non-rectangular shape. The current hurdles are maintaining shadows and adding a grip so that the application can still be repositioned on screen.
