Just a quick update. I've now added support for different screen resolutions to the game. Since it is a 2D scroller with a native resolution of 800x600, it did not seem feasible to mess about actually changing the size of blocks, and I didn't want to display different amounts of the map depending on the resolution, so I'm plumped for just a black screen with an 800x600 viewport in the middle of whatever resolution the screen is.

This might not be an ideal solution but it was really just to address the issue that some laptops I've tested on don't seem to like anything except their normal resolution and it works around this problem.

The next thing for tonight is to decide on a format for a config or ini file that can contain options like screen sizes, a list of levels and so on. I'm considering using XML for this, but I don't know anything about it really.

The other option is to come up with a sort of scriptable config language that supports a kind of registry like tree structure read from a text file that can hold strings, ints etc. The problem with a straight x=y ini format is that one of the things I need the config file to contain is a list of the levels, as well as single values like ScreenWidth or whatever, so I'm thinking about building a static lib that can parse a text file like that into a tree structure of some kind and be queried for values. This could then be used in any projects that require configuration.

Perhaps reinventing the wheel but that's the nice thing about doing this for a hobby rather than a job.

environment
{
	Skins-Folder		= Skins/;
	Default-Skin		= Default/;
	Default-Cursor-File	= Cursors/Default/;
	Font-FileName		= Fonts/tahoma14;
	Font-Size		= 14;
	Font-Color		= argb(128, 0, 64, 128);
}

ConfigFile SkinConfigFile;
SkinConfigFile.LoadScript(GetAppPath() + "environment.dftgui");
ConfigClass* Environment = SkinConfigFile.GetClass("environment");
SkinFolder = *Environment->GetValue("Skins-Folder");
std::string DefaultSkin	= *Environment->GetValue("Default-Skin");
std::string FontFileName = *Environment->GetValue("Font-FileName");

ConfigValue* Value = Environment->GetValue("Font-Size");
int FontSize = 0;
int FontColor = 0;

if(Value)
	FontSize = Value->ParseInt();

Value = Environment->GetValue("Font-Color");
if(Value)
	FontColor = Value->ParseColor(); // parses both rgb() and argb().

ScreenX 800
ScreenY 600
SoundHardware 0

Levels
{
    levels/level1.orc
    levels/level2.orc
    levels/level3.orc
}