Safe at second

I wish baseball was still scheduled to occur. It seems that without Opening Day happening, Mother Nature in Wisconsin decided that winter shall continue, blizzards and all.

Though there are no close-saves at second going on right now, I can save and load maps, including walls and camera locations, as well as calculate on these cameras.

This is an arbitrary U(ish)-shaped room I created, along with three cameras. After a little bit of messing around with the X & Y coordinates (again), I got this as a result, using a read file stream.

This is cool and all, but doesn’t do any good if the user can’t save their progress if they have to come back to it. So I set that up, too.

As you can see, this file contains the same data as the input file, in the same order. This is huge, as these functions drive a lot of the front-end, user interface work I have. I can also clear the current screen, erasing all elements of the current room, allow the user to create a new room from scratch, exit the program, which I was reluctant to add, and print the drawing, which saves the current room as an image instead of a text file, as shown below.

Though this isn’t as fun as watching the Brewers get to the playoffs, yet again, this is still pretty cool. Now that I have a working program, it felt good to take a Seventh Inning stretch over the holiday weekend, as we look to round the turn towards home.