Developer Diary: 2008-01-30

There is still something subtly sodomised in the display of the status window (updates are getting lost/delayed/something like that), but I can't be bothered spending any more thought on it right now.

On the up side, dungeon levels are now dynamically allocated, which casts off one of the most infuriating remaining shackles on the design. The next step is to create the file management code, which will contain the following classes (at least):

• Lockfile, a simple wrapper around open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);.
• FILE_wrapper, the classic FILE * wrapper from TC++PL.

and the following public functions:

• check_name_hygeine(), used to reject names containing (among other things) characters I know to be filesystem metacharacters on Unix and Mickeysoft.
• get_basename(), which turns the player's UID and their character's chosen name into a base name for the creation of lockfiles, level files, saved game archives, and so forth.

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