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Cripes! 2.0 -- See the Class Layout

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Monday, December 1, 2008
Just popping in. No progress on Cripes since yesterday, I've been too busy finishing my C++ class lab project (due today, of course) and homework (also due today). Hmm, sounds familiar? I waited until the last day to apply to USC, too. How.. disturbing.

Both homeworks are finished now, at least, and I feel good about them.

~Jonathan

EDIT: I may be saving up for an Xbox 360. Everyone I know seems to have one, and they all like it. I think Mirror's Edge was the final straw.

EDIT (time: 10:19pm PST): Just got back from class. I think I'm going to take the night off and play some Wii, I've been a bit stressed lately.

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Cripes!, the Snipes clone


I've been hard at work on the Keyboard class for the past few days. It's taken me longer than I thought to wrap my head around how to approach interactive keyboard input, but I'm getting there. The Keyboard class now has an Update() method to scan for keyboard events and toggle its internal boolean array accordingly; a WaitForKeypress() method that blocks while waiting for a keydown event; and a Pressed() method that returns the number of keys currently down. The Pressed() method is mainly to help work around the fact that if one key is held down, then another key is pressed and released, the initial key stops sending repeating keydown messages. It does, however, send a message when it is released.

So far it works pretty well, the only problem being that holding the arrow key down causes the world to scroll blazingly fast. I'm pretty sure that's just a problem with how I'm responding to input, not with the Keyboard class itself. Browsing through MSDN while I type this reveals that a waitable timer combined with WaitForMultipleObjects() may solve that, though it's just an idea for now.


College Application - USC


About four hours ago, I finally finished my application to the University of Southern California. The deadline is December 1st.. that'd be today. Cutting it a bit close, eh? Here's hoping I get in! :)

~Jonathan

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