Final Report Wrapup

For this last week, I worked on flattening out the bugs from the tpweb program. Most of them were a lot simplier than last week, so I was able to address more of them. I won't attempt to list them all but for this session I tried more adamantly to stick to the philosophy of updating to Github after every little change, instead of dumping all the changes after a weeks time, so the full list of changes are here: (http://github.com/StupidIncarnate/tpclient-pyweb/commits/master). I will say that the philosophy of it does change things slightly in terms of work progress, in that it allows for a better reward system and thus more motivation to progress, but I still feel weird about uploading tiny changes to the svn, because inevitably I'll have to patch them, instead of uploading when a specific portion of the code is more solid.

The main changes I made, however, were dealing again with click functionality, path display, and basic order operations. I also managed to download the newly patched python libs, and though that broke things for a time, it was less of a hassle to patch than when I first took up the project.

I did manage, as well, to implement several improvements I've been intending to address. Namely, putting a load icon at several points in the program when a player submits an order, updates an order, or removes one. That way the player knows that the order was addressed, and does not have to sit there questioning while the server updates itself. I also added a color coding system that distinguishes owned objects, ie green for ally objects and red for enemy ones. It seems to clear up some confusion while playing as to what objects are under a player's control.

Since this is the last post, I suppose I should address my progress overall throughout the program. In terms of my proposal, I did manage to cover all the main points that I had planned to address, those being support of the tp04 standard and several gui improvements. I also managed to implement several other changes that were not proposed, such as the redesign of the gui look and several other minor tweaks to make playing more efficient. The only thing that I regret is not having time to address the design panel for mtsec and cache support that was reimplemented during this last week. So I'll have to deal with those after the program. But other than that, I suppose I accomplished much, though I feel relieved that the program is over rather than any sort of accomplishment toward my achievements. But that's just how I am. It was the same for college.