>> Yep, that's what always happens to my projects too :-)  Right this moment 
>> I am about 60% through writing a game, but now I have an idea for a 
>> better one which I want to start on right away!  I have no incentive 
>> really to finish off the first game.
>
> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
> another idea... *jealous*

Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement AI 
and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could turn 
out to be more than 40% though... :-)

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>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
>> another idea... *jealous*
> 
> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
> last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement 
> AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could 
> turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
> 

Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
"A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's been 
80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its release."

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>>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
>>> another idea... *jealous*
>>
>> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
>> last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement 
>> AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could 
>> turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
>>
>
> Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
> "A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's been 
> 80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its release."

Hehe, I made the unusual (for me) step this time to record each day what I 
had done.  Most of the work I did during August and the beginning of 
September.  I had a break at the end of September for several reasons, and 
then had another burst of progress during most of October.

Since then I have been much busier at work with several trips away and I've 
been trying to organise moving to a new apartment at the end of November, 
and I'm out of the country all next week for a training course!  I don't 
really see myself getting much more done in 2007...

Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty 
small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

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>>>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before 
>>>> having another idea... *jealous*
>>>
>>> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for 
>>> the last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to 
>>> implement AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much 
>>> finished...  AI could turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
>>>
>>
>> Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
>> "A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's 
>> been 80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its 
>> release."
> 
> Hehe, I made the unusual (for me) step this time to record each day what 
> I had done.  Most of the work I did during August and the beginning of 
> September.  I had a break at the end of September for several reasons, 
> and then had another burst of progress during most of October.

Hey, I was planning to make some program to record what I was doing 
every *five minutes*. I usually look for some docs online or whatever 
and end up reading lots of totally unrelated things[1]. The popup saying 
WHAT ARE YOU DOING would remind me I was supposed to be doing something 
else.

[1] http://xkcd.com/214/

> Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty 
> small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

BTW, that's not something *I* am doing. Just a funny example I 
remembered of a "suspended" project.

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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty
> small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

GTK+ interfaces these days are XML-generated code which is parsed and built in
run-time.  They tend to be pretty small in contrast to code them directly pure
C GTK+ API.  Still, even the most heavy hand-coded C interfaces in GTK+ are not
as large as the GTK+ libs themselves.  Your application interface code will
always be in the K marks.

How about comparing the GTK+ lib to the DirectX or Windows.Forms libs instead?

btw, of course I couldn't run the game.

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> How about comparing the GTK+ lib to the DirectX or Windows.Forms libs instead?

If you'll do the comparison, add things like Java Swing to the mix (or 
better: SWT).

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