This is so embarrassing...
I must have tested this when I implemented the basic undo feature, but must have broken it at some point somehow and never re-tested this edge case...
Also loving the comprehensive manual.
I think so too!Keyboard first should always be the standard.
Glad someone appreciates it; I put a lot of effort (and love) in it!
Yes, multi-monitor support is non-existent in the current version. It also doesn't remember which screen was the window on between restarts, etc.
I think you missed this part of the readme:
Edit: Right, so you might wanna try this (remove the space after the colon; I had to put a space there otherwise a smiley got auto-inserted there... eh...)
No I hadn't missed any part of the readme.
Not sure what goes wrong there, man. Yes you must be using the `gridmonger` branch of nim-glfw, otherwise you'd get compilation errors, so that's fine. I'm using a custom version of glfw statically compiled and linked against the main exe. The sources are bundled in nim-glfw.
Look around here: https://nim-lang.org/
It is mandatory. I personally *love* indentation-as-syntax; the Python (and Nim) style is my favourite.
playing an old-school dungeon crawler and running this on a second monitor to map the dungeon as you go would be cool as fuckHey guys, I've just unleashed a dungeon mapping tool I've been working on for the past couple of years. It's intended to aid manual mapping via an efficient keyboard-driven (and attractive!) interface. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you
"bbbbut there's Grid Cartographer bro, why did u bother lulz?" Well, I literally learned about GC the next day after I came up with the bright idea to do this. Checked out a few videos of the thing, and decided that my design goals are different enough that I still want to write my own (never used GC myself, by the way). Plus, after more than two decades of writing software commercially for other people, a man needs a project he can call his own. I guess that's as good a reason as any.
While the Game Link feature in Grid Cartographer is certainly cool and technically impressive (and so are other auto-mappers, such as Where Are We?, Gold Box Companion, and The All-Seeing Eye), I'm really really really against auto-mapping of any kind — to me, mapping these games one cell at a time is half the fun! So, depending on your stance on this pressing issue, you might absolutely love Gridmonger, or perhaps not care about it at all (but if you ask me, you should definitely give creating your own maps a go!)
Well, and did I mention it's free?????????
You luddites should be pleased to hear that it runs fine on Win7 (probably XP too, but didn't bother to check). There's a Mac version as well, and eventually I'll do a Linux build (I'm just too lazy to set up a dev environment on my Raspberry Pi...)
Anyway, here's a few screenshots as bait; if you're interested, it has its own website with all the info you'll ever need, including a very comprehensive manual.
https://gridmonger.johnnovak.net/
Comments, bug reports, feature requests, etc. are always welcome (but don't ask for auto-mapping or full mouse support, I just don't care about these things). It should be pretty solid, I've completed Eye of the Beholder I and about half of Uukrul with it.
I'll probably update some of themes slightly over the next couple of days, but I wanted to release it TODAY, otherwise I might sit on it for another year...
Pleasant dungeoneering to y'all!
Maybe my perspective is warped since i'm stuck in Bazel land (an industrial level build system not commonly used by "normal" people), but at least with a well written CMake file, your dependencies are deployed correctly no matter the platform (or fail descriptively most of the time). Also resolving dependencies in C++ are relatively straight forward, imo.
C++
CMake
That's not the problem here, mate...
As I said, the project is *untested* by me, the author, on Linux. You'd likely get problems with *any* project written in *any* language if you tried to use it on an *untested* platform for the first time...
Having said that, the issues are obviously very small, and 7h30n has figured out how to compile it correctly already. And so will I when I get to it. Please be patient or roll up your sleeves a bit more, then tell me what was needed
PS: try meson instead if you're stuck in C++ land instead of that CMake garbage. That's what we use in DOSBox Staging, and it's quite sane.
Make sure to read the comprehensive manual.
Thanks man, glad you're enjoying it.
It's scrollable if the text doesn't fit, in which case a scrollbar appears on the right side. You can either drag that to scroll, but it's easiest to scroll with the mouse wheel. That's what I do. Note you can also make the whole comment appear in a tooltip by pressing Space, or just simply hovering over the cell with the mouse pointer.
Yeah for "tunnel" style maps it's best to fill the whole map with "floor" type cells first, then use the "draw wall repeat" tool only. So forget about the draw tunnel tool in that case, that's what I recommend. The draw wall repeat tool takes some practice, but it's really powerful:
Ah, I misunderstood! Yeah, searchable notes (via full-text search) and showing notes belonging to a particular category (e.g., numbered notes) are important features (and interesting technical challenges). I will definitely add that; I'm planning to do it as an extra toggleable left pane. I'm just busy with other stuff, but it will happen in 2024.
Glad to hear you're enjoying it. Yeah, it's for a very specific type of person, but I believe if you're in the "target market", there's no substitute.
Perfect, a left pane just for numbered notes would be great. Right now this has revitalized my interest in self-mapping games. I've done a few in the past and I love the act of mapping, but keeping track of all the paper and stuff is a pain (as is erasing when I inevitably mess up). I'll keep my eye out!
I'm exactly the same, I love mapping and paper mapping is fine... until you need to correct your mistakes, then it's a major pain to redraw things. Hence I came up with this tool, and I needed a hobby project anyway as a proof-of-concept for some things (e.g., alternative GUI approaches; I wrote my own UI library for this, it only needs OpenGL support from the OS and that's it).
