News/2018

Monthly update for April, 2018

Continued working on UFORadiant in April. The goal is to make it work on Gtk3. This is a long and tough journey, help is welcome!

At a point I successfully broke the compilation on Windows - simply because our Code::Blocks bundle contains way too old Gtk library. So half the month was spent on evaluating new compilation methods for Windows users. The winner became an MSYS2 + Code::Blocks combination as that looks to be the easiest way to set up an up-to-date environment even for less experienced people. If you'd like to give it a try, check out our Compile_for_Windows atricle.

Commits:

• Eliminate deprecated GTK function/macro calls
• Eliminate deprecated GDK function/macro calls
• Add MinGW-W64 compiler definitions for CodeBlocks
• Add libcairo to UFORadiant LDFlags in CodeBlocks project
• Fix openal linking in Code::Blocks
• Fix order of linking Zlib in CodeBlock projects
• Reorder units in CodeBlocks project
• Update Code::Blocks projects to use SDL2
• Change CodeBlocks Compiler to mingw-w64-i686
• Silence expansion-to-defined GCC warnings
• Update CrashDump URL

In total, 11 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in April.

2018-05-13 — geever

Monthly update for March, 2018

This month was mostly around modernizing the code under UFORadiant (the map editor).

• Prefix ld parameter for g++ in CodeBlocks project files
• Add cairo library to CMake configs
• Disable a new (and annoying) GCC 7.x warning
• Fix some doxygen issues
• Update doxygen configuration files
• Resolve more GTK2 deprecation warnings
• Replace deprecated GDK text combobox widget
• Resolve deprecated GTKTooltips
• Convert GDK Graphic Context to Cairo drawing
• Fix some windows specific GTK direct access
• Remove direct access to GTK structures
• Replaced deprecated GDK_key constants
• Resolve deprecated glib thread and mutex wanings in UFORadiant
• Update BugTracker URL in UFORadiant
• Mute some -Waddress warnings
• Don't include individual GTK/GDKheaders

In total, 16 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in March.

2018-04-27 — geever

Development update for January-February, 2018

• Fix #5674 container backgrounds on equipment UI are not visible
• Fix soldierlist on baseequip screen get ghost records
• Resolve patch #5640 Improve happiness calculation from missions
• Fix #5543 mansion won via target zone reduces nation happiness
• #5679 Updated French translations by Damyen
• Fix socket leak #5678
• Fix minor memory leak #5678
• Reset antimatter cargo in Transfer UI
• Re-organized base section Lua modules

In total, 13 commits were made in the UFO:AI repository in January & February.

2018-03-09 — geever