Application consists of field and side menu. In the side menu, user chooses a vegetable/fruit to plant. Each plant has an image and name associated with them. Polish and English being the supported languages. Once planted, field recalculates an area trying to find if plants around like it.
I managed to render it inside a WinAPI app. It’s a quick one, just to test for the actual application, which is Garden. You can check out the test app here.
I’ve decided this will be Garden’s application icon
This is the best I can do lol.
So, next thing I have to do is make actual button rendering, embed Lua and I guess that’s it for now? I also have to find some good resources on vegetable neighborhood. That’s crucial.
I’ve been coding this for a while, but as I said, I didn’t have much free time for these things. Now it’s changed.
This project is primarily for my mom. She wanted an easy way to manage creation of her garden. Mainly with regards to “what vegetables can be next to XYZ”. I’m thinking of using Lua for scripting in the vegetable types and their neighborhoods.
So far I created event system and basic field concept. They’ll have images on them and will flare up with particular color (red for bad neighborhood, orange for so-so, green for ok).
I’m not so much in a rush, but I want to finish this thing. Check it out on it’s repo.
I pretty much finished everything I had to (that wasn’t related to my personal projects). As a result, I now have a lot of time and a lot of mental energy.
I thought I could finally start being more productive. And finally pouring that productivity into my applications I wanted to finish. Such as Garden, Chess, or that Garry’s Mod game mode about jumping.
I’ve set up some artificial deadlines for them.
I’ll also start streaming soon and make the Discord server more ‘inclusive’ / generic.
I was thinking of making some video upload utility. Reasoning: I am an admin on a Garry’s Mod server. Once I run out of nitro, I’ll have to rely on third-party video sites to show evidence, in case it’s needed.
The name is a bit funny. I thought of UploadTool. That would run a subdomain or some subdirectory/service called KumorTube on my website. I thought of shortening the name to KumTube. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s really not THAT. I just happen to have a funny second name.
But I’d have to go through all these procedures I have when starting a new project and it’s tiring. I’ll think about this idea later.
Tasks are displayed in a nice, fancy way. I plan on making them even fancier, with animations, but that’s the furthest I can push right now. I think I’ll add a subpage where you’ll see all the days you’ve saved.
Now, saving will be done in a filesystem. I plan on not integrating MySQL of any form into this project, mostly because I got mad when trying to work with Apache. Every single web browser just caches .js files and you can’t develop anything. And Apache is needed for PHP to work, which is required to access a database (since it’s serverside).
Also having progress saved in a filesystem could make this portable. And by filesystem I’m talking about just files in a folder. I don’t think a tree is required, but if there’s to be thousands of entries, I may have to divide folders up (NTFS hates folders with 11k+ files or so).
In general, this is a fun little project to work on and distract myself from things I should be doing.