Richard Jones' Log: pyglet update

Over Christmas and the New Year I've finally had some chances to get my hands dirty and contribute some more pyglet code (beyond the meagre xlib code I added many moons ago). I've been working on the 2D scene code:

• rendering of rect and hex maps to a viewport (usually whole window)
• loading a tileset and map from an XML spec
• running a simple simulator driving a sprite around that map

Points of interest:

• you can have many maps of differing dimensions and offsets in layers
• views may be anchored, allowed to scroll and asked to stick to map boundaries
• map cells may have a tile (image) and/or properties (or nothing)
• map / tileset loading is done through a new generic resource loader which is easily extensible

Still to do:

• events for sprites / tiles -- mouse enter/leave, button press, mouse drag (this has been designed and partially implemented)
• sprite collision
• resource saving

Alex has been incredibly productive working on the layout code (which now has funky event generation), but I'll let him describe that work. It's so cool.

I hope to start the "intro to pyglet" tutorial soon...