Things are slowly moving along with coding. It's taking me ages to get used to the Xcode environment. Setting everything up seems to take forever and there's a whole bunch of annoying linking errors that are infuriatingly frustrating to sort out, even for my nearly empty starting project. I was stuck for two hours trying to figure out why one header file (signal.h) kept having parsing errors even when nothing included it; turns out that it was clashing against the standard C header file of the same name, darnit.
But now I've got SDL up and running and hopefully Boost soon. I haven't used Boost before so this is a good excuse to use it. I'm planning on basing Diagonal heavily around signals (or events or messages; I still don't know which of those three terms is the most appropriate), so it makes sense to try to use boost::signal to start with. I'm a bit concerned it might be overly feature rich for what I need, and there might be performance issues if it's core to the whole system, so I'm going to encapsulate it into a signal class of my own. This will also give me a chance to play around with templates and operator overloading again, which I'm still not that comfortable (I'm a C coder at heart, although one that likes OO design).
In other possible interesting news I accidently stumbled across Dan Marchant a.ka. Obscure's blog post earlier today about Grand Theft Auto Syndrome and found it both interesting and something I agree with. Just putting in a plug for Dan's insightful blog.
Additional:
I just noticed that my journal has broken the 40,000 view mark. Huzzah! I wonder how many of those views were from me checking for comments...