Unfortunately, it appears as if DBP10 is dramatically sooner than I thought it would be. There's no way I'll be able to get anything ready by march, and I don't relish the prospect of waiting another year.

Perhaps it's an opportunity though. I'm growing increasingly fond of SlimDX, and would enjoy n…

I suppose taking a break from the editor actually did some good afterall. I was constantly dreading working on it, and putting it off to do other things. Recently, however, I sat down and really thought about why that is. The main reason I suppose is obvious and hardly unique to me: GUI programming…

Everything was going pretty smoothly. The emulator core was wrapped up in a nice managed interface, the WPF UI was hosting a winforms control that could be rendered to via SlimDX, xaudio2 output via SlimDX, etc. All the pieces were falling into place... except for the occasional startup crash. I wa…

Disappointed after my XNA module player idea went bust, I was itching for another side project to change things up and keep from getting burned out working on the same thing constantly. Most of the other ideas I had, while simpler than a 4D game to be sure, were full fledged projects in their own r…

Since it's been over a month without a post, I feel compelled to make one, even if just to make sure there's an entry for august. The wheels are still turning, albeit slowly. Another heatwave a while back sapped my motivation, and more recently I've been tempted by other, much simpler, projects. I'…

While the side project is shelved for now, I did discover something interesting that might be useful to other XNA users working with sound. XNA 3.0 added the SoundEffect API to bypass the complexity of XACT. Unfortunately, the sounds must still be authored ahead of time and can only be instantiated…

Oddly enough, undo/redo was actually rather easy to implement. WPF's routed command facility makes it a snap to wire the shortcuts and add the callbacks. The implementation is simply two stacks of an IUndoRedo interface. New actions are pushed onto the Undo stack, and the Redo stack is cleared. If …

It's embarrassing that it took a month to finish just this one control, but I think I can finally put it to rest and move on. It helps to remind myself that this control could be useful in any future WPF app I ever make. Out of the box it can edit any class that provides a string converter, flags a…

Anyone in the Seattle area right now is I'm sure aware of the loathsome heatwave taking place. 90 plus degree temperatures in an area where it's not uncommon to have no AC at all does not foster motivation. I'm not a big fan of the day star to begin with, and record breaking heat is doing little to…

Almost a week since last update, So I thought I'd just talk a bit about the editor.

For some reason, writing one feels kind of like how doing homework felt. Well, minus the procrastination anxiety. It definitely has that fatiguing tedium of a project that you just want to put behind you so you can g…