I’ve been bored lately so I think I’ll give a solid update on where things are going with Fizzure currently:
- To debug code that will probably end up in the theming, plugins and networking areas of Fizzure, I’ve created a simple program called provingGrounds. Source on google code is available Here.
So far we’ve made some headway as far as how we want the networking code to function, however we’ve had some complications actually getting those ideas to work in practice. I’m switching off client development to Ryan while I work on proving grounds. If he manages to get networking code working, I’ll update my code to make it working and I’ll add new functionality from there.
As far as theming goes, we’re going to set up a system where there is an installer created directory(My DocumentsFizzureThemes, Plugins) that users can drop folders containing themes or plugins into. Fizzure can pull from these directories and of course what it’ll do with the items inside is obvious – check against established filenames for themes and plugins, and then use any files that match in the appropriate areas. It’s really pretty simple and this will make it easy for us to create other drag and drop files if we need them.
