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-Design of SDL::Rect
+Grant Progess Reports 1-3: Sept - Nov
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />you say things,<br />I hear,<br />but don't listen,<br /><br />you show things,<br />I see,<br />but don't understand,<br /><br />you write things,<br />I read,<br />but don't know.<br /></i></div><br />Lately we have been working on cleaning up the XS name spaces of SDL perl. After some bumps and falls we came up with a separated Rect module. Rect is one of the most simple C struct as shown below. <br /><br /><script src="http://gist.github.com/185940.js"></script><br /><br />Using the awesome <a href="http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DMR/CookBookB-19960430/perlobject.map">perlobject.map</a> as a reference I was able to create a <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/a1b835c168ec184abc01edbc01862ffa15624c26/lib/SDL/Rect.pm">blessed perl</a> object in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/a1b835c168ec184abc01edbc01862ffa15624c26/src/Rect.xs">XS</a>. So now SDL::Rect->new(...) gave us a blessed reference ready to go. And as an icing it would destroy itself properly no matter where it was used. But once I brought it into our existing code base, garu pointed out the extending it was a little bit of a mess. So far to extend Rect we have to something like below. Any comment or advice would be much appreciated.<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://gist.github.com/185938.js"></script><br /><br /><br />Have at it I am a big boy. You can grab the code like this.<br />Only If you don't already have a local git repo:<br /><br /><blockquote>mkdir SDL<br />cd SDL<br />git init .</blockquote><br />Then do this or skip to this if you already have a local git repo<br /><blockquote>git pull git://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl.git experimental</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-3340771783563950133?l=yapgh.blogspot.com'/></div></div></div>
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+As you know I have received a TPF grant to write a SDL Perl Manual.<br />
+<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_716654272"><br />
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+<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/2010q3-grant-proposal-manual-f.html">http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/2010q3-grant-proposal-manual-f.html</a><br />
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+<a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/accepted-grants-for-2010q3.html">http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/accepted-grants-for-2010q3.html</a><br />
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+I have been a bit busy with that and not been able to update my blog. Anyway here are some of the back dated Grant Updates. These updates where also posted on <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/">http://news.perlfoundation.org/</a><br />
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+<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 1: Sept 2010</div><br />
+<ul><li>1st drafts <ul><li>Preface </li>
+<li>Chapter 2: First SDL Application</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Started work on Chapter 3: Drawing</li>
+<li>Outlines for the first 7 chapters have been completed</li>
+<li>Book build framework has been setup</li>
+<li>Released SDL 2.514 (2.515 will be released on 16th of September) <ul><li>This code is the one that will be used in the book for chapter 02</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Got more of the Drawing chapter done (It will be done by the end of the week) </li>
+<li>Added several more code examples for other chapters</li>
+</ul>Progress: 2.75 chapters / 11 chapters = approx 25%<br />
+Kartik's work can be followed at:<br />
+<ul><li><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></li>
+</ul><br />
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+<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 2: October 2010</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: left;">Since last time:<br />
+<ul><li>We have released SDL 2.518 <ul><li>Game Loop support completed</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>Chapters:<br />
+<ul><li>2nd Drafts for: <ul><li>Preface to Game Loop ( Chapter 0 - Chapter 04)</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Chapters completed: 5/11 => 45%</li>
+</ul>Extra:<br />
+<ul><li>cfedde has made a script to extract code listings for readers to try examples with out having to retype them.</li>
+</ul>Coments:<br />
+<ul><li>I am receiving a lot more help from the community, most notable from cfedde for proofreading.</li>
+<li>I will be fleshing out the next 6 chapters shortly and work will begin on them soon</li>
+<li>I am pleased with the progress so far, and I feel the quality is improving due to the pacing.</li>
+</ul>Our work can be seen at:<br />
+<ul><li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></li>
+</ul></div><br />
+<div style="text-align: center;">REPORT 3: November 2010</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+This is the progress so far:<br />
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+- SDL 2.523 Releases:<br />
+ - Adds stability and better memory management for the game loop<br />
+<br />
+- 2 chapters have been completed <br />
+ - Pong Chapter (Contributed by garu)<br />
+ - Additional Modules<br />
+- 1 extra chapter has been added<br />
+ - Puzz(le) Chapter (Contributed by Blaizer)<br />
+<br />
+- 2 Chapters are in the Works<br />
+ - Tetris Code has been mostly done (contributed by FROGGS)<br />
+ - Needs to be fixed <br />
+ - Needs write up<br />
+ - Sound and Music Effects code is done<br />
+ - Needs to be fixed<br />
+ - Needs write up<br />
+<br />
+Our work can be seen at:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.pdf</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html">http://sdlperl.ath.cx/releases/SDL_Manual.html</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
+Regards,<br />
+YAPGH</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4413645254021668635?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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