Talk:WiiLife

I'm happy to see someone working on Life on the Wii!

NAME
      nanosleep -- suspend thread execution for an interval measured in
      nanoseconds

 LIBRARY
      Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

 SYNOPSIS
      #include <time.h>

… should be thread safe. CarstenK 05:01, 26 July 2008 (CEST)

thanks, will try that later today :) -drei000 11:46, 26 July 2008 (CEST)

Bugs

None noted at this time

Feedback and sugestions

General

A great start to a project. In addition to the things you've noted in your TO DO list it would be great ot see the following.

Thanks :) After being away for a month I never really got back to this app, mostly because I didn't want to change all the stuff to C++ in order to use various libraries for drawing menus and stuff. Will be back to be more active soon as holidays approach :) --drei000 20:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Add a GUI

Ability to do the following through a GUI:

-Resume

-Pause

-Reset (takes everything back to the state it was in when WiiLife started)

-Clear

-View controls

-Return to Loader

-Reboot Wii

Have to check out the state of the menudrawing lib, hope I can use one and don't have to do all that stuff by myself :) Especially rule editing is what I had in mind for the menu--drei000 20:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Options for drawing

Ability to draw in different modes:

-Add cells

-Remove cells

-Toggle cells (toggles on to off and off to on with each click)

Ability to hold down B and drag to draw lines etc rather than having to click once for each cell. Maybe add the ability to toggle this on/off.
Ability to "stamp" predefined cell shapes, there are some interesting ones at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Examples_of_patterns

The stamp thing sounds like a really nice addition :)--drei000 20:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Options for display

Ability to change the background colour / colour of cells
Ability to add/remove gridlines (maybe only show gridlines once a certain level of zoom has been reached)

Advanced

2 Player version - As described in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Games_based_upon_Conway.27s_Game_of_Life