Wednesday, August 17, 2011

IdleTime is building and running

It only took an hour or two to get the code building again. Most of the time  was spent getting the code to compile with Visual C++ 2010 Express. Took another hour or two to track down a problem with the stencil shadows. For sum reason I was calling abs() on sum unsigned int's. On that note this ~10 year old code is scary. Turns out I have learn a thing or two about programming since then.

Lesson #1 for old me:
Use "Asserts". There is not one assert in the whole project. Making debugging a nightmare.

Lesson #2 for old me:
Clean up Warnings. The project had hundreds of warnings. Warnings can help you catch dumb code but you will not see the good ones with all that noise.



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