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2010.09.08

* Fixed old import in engine.
* Added Ubuntu apt-get install command to DEP file.
* Fixes for examples.
* Added a check for inventory items before using an item.

2009.11.02

* Documentation changes from 2009-11-02.

2009.10.31

* Updated Rain and Snow weather types.
* Added a new exception for dew point errors.
* Improved string representation of Isomyr errors.
* Added dew point function.

2009.10.30

* Added more unit tests for custom date time.
* Reorganized the util subpackage.
* Added a getOrdinal utility.
* Reorganized the world/universe modules.
* Added temperature conversion functions.
* Added wind chill and heat index functions.

2009.10.29

* Added solar system and star abstraction.
* Stubbed out a season object.
* Added a month object for use by the DateTime object for calendar
customization.
* Added basic weather types.
* Stubbed out weather pattern type object and a weather pattern object.
* Stubbed out a function for procedurally generating temperature values.

2009.10.28

* Updated TODO with save game notes and map creation/editor notes.
* Added sound explorations to a sandbox directory.
* Updated TODO with more thoughts about sound and added a section for distance.
* Added footsteps example.
* Added sound module.
* Updated footsteps example to emit sounds.

2009.10.26

* Updated TODO with thoughts about in-game sound.
* Committed a few simple changes from the other day.

2009.10.20

* Updated TODO.

2009.10.19

* Started adding a clock class that can drive time-based events.
* Added more example ideas.
* Updated TODO.
* Updated DateTime to track seconds for year, month, and day values.
* Renamed Calendar to DateTime and Clock to Calendar.
* Added scale discovery method to calendar object.
* Added event management for time changes and time scale changes.
* Added stubbed events and subscribers for hour and season changes.
* Coped some of the two rooms example to a new time example.
* Added missing unit test subpackage.
* Renamed example files and added a player skin.
* Updated example python file.
* Renamed time module to calendar to avoid Python stdlib name collision.
* Updated example with time notification.
* Updated AnimatedSkin.
* Added animated grandfather clock to example.
* Renamed setWorld to setStartingWorld.
* Updated the other two examples with recent API changes.

2009.10.18

* Added time and calendar placeholder classes.
* Added unit tests for time class.
* Added time-multiplier constants.
* Replaced the poorly named time-tracking variables to tick-tracking variable
names.
* Renamed Engine.start to Engine.run.
* Added more game speeds.
* Added code to Time and Calendar classes.
* Created stub for engine test file.

2009.10.17

* Moved room change text notifications out of the view and put them in the
event handler.
* Added text notification for when using items.
* Fixed some bad indenting.
* Added a text object to store textual data for various actions on things.
* Changed pickUp and drop methods to return the items that are acted upon.
* Added drop and pickup messages to the respective subscribers.
* Updated the open ground example with the changes to the engine API.
* Added a universe subpackage and moved the universe module there.
* Moved world and scene classes into their own module.
* Moved universe.Time to engine.GameTime.
* Added universe subpackage placeholder modules.
* Moved particle classes into physics module and removed particle module.
* Renamed FallingThing to FallableThing.

2009.10.16

* Added a class for tailing text in the sandbox.
* Improved the tailing text class with lines-based data instead of
string-based.
* Fixed the justify text method.
* Removed unused functions.
* Copied tailing text buffer into gui.textarea.
* Copied the tailing text sandbox code into new sandbox code for exploring the
creation of a pygame text area widget.
* Updated the sandbox code to do scrolling text in a pygame window.
* Incorporated latest sandbox code into the text area gui component.
* Removed display setup code from universe (it doesn't belong there, as that's
an abstraction for in-game elements, and display is out-of-game).
* Updated view to manage display and the engine to initilize pygame.
* Added tests for tailing text buffer.
* Changed the logic in the buffer's justifyText method.
* Added the ability to include a welcome message.

2009.10.15

* Added TODO thoughts about module organization for the emerging game GUI.
* Started a section for thoughts on complex interactions.
* More thoughts.
* Moved player images of two room example into their own directory.
* Fixed jerky player animation in two room example and slowed the frame
sequence down (doubled the elements).
* Removed player images that are not used.
* Created gui subpackage.
* Moved View class to gui.scene.SceneView.
* Moved title-displaying and inventory-displaying code into their own view
classes.
* Created a View class that incorporates all GUI view components.
* Renamed gui.scene to gui.view.
* Moved gui view components into their own module.
* Module import cleanups.
* More module import cleanups.
* Set the version number to the right value.
* Removed empty API doc.
* Updated dependencies with links.
* Updated feature history file.
* Updated installation doc and setup.py.
* Updated usage file.
* Added license and manifest files.
* Added a text area gui component.
* Added code to the sandbox for figuring out a good model to use in pygame for
scrolling text.

2009.10.14

* Updated TODO.
* Update the background tile slicer to add vertical padding to the finished
slices.
* Started working on scene transitions for the open ground example.
* Updated the two-room example to use the renamed portal keyword argument.
* Fixed directions and destination locations in open ground example.
* Added launchpad logo resources.
* Removed titlebar from top-level dir.
* Added new title bar resources and updated the examples with it.
* Moved the inventory box over a little bit.
* Removed unnecessary player method for changing scene.
* Added an event and a handler for a player using an intory item.
* Reverted some "cleanups" in the engine imports.
* Removed old TODO comments.
* Added events and handlers for picking up and dropping items.
* Removed old event handlers.
* Changed divideVectors to use the origial int result (instead of the new float
result; engine doesn't support floats yet).
* Renamed player_control to playerControl.
* Added a unit test for the current transform function.
* Code clean up and reformatting.
* Renamed view_draw to viewDraw.
* Added missing unit test file.
* Code cleanup.:
* Updated the sandboxed transform code with a test case, comparing it against
the currently used transform function's test case.
* Updated TODO.
* Added dependencies file.
* Started replacing vector code with numpy arrays.
* Updated docstrings and comments.
* Added thoughts about time, seasons, weather, etc., to the TODO.
* More thoughts on world simulation and code organization.
* Added missing resource files.
* Added missing titlebar image for open ground example.

2009.10.13

* Updated open ground example background slicer to produce a series of images
from a given background.
* Added sliced backgrounds.
* Removed unused file.
* Renamed variable.
* Updated the openground example with tile coords and a mapping from one tile
to another.
* Added functions for loading scenes and connecting them (the latter is still
incomplete).

2009.10.12

* Updated TODO.
* Changed the division vector operation to use floats.
* Added bugs to the TODO.
* Added a sandbox directory and some placeholder files.
* Added more placeholder files to the sandbox.
* Added sandbox code for a simple isometric transformation.
* Added sandbox code for a parameterized version of the simple iso transform.
* Made the sandbox a module so I can import code from other sandbox code.
* Added sandbox code that renders transforms on a pygame screen.
* Updated the transform function to return a list, not a numpy matrix.
* Updated the subscribe docstring.
* Updated the transformation function to rotate about arbitrary points.
* Removed duplicate translation matrices and replaced with a translation matrix
function.
* Added a floor grid in the sandbox.
* Started working on a sandbox example that included walls with the room floor.

2009.10.11

* Changed the event.subscribers data structure from a list to a dict of lists.
* Updated all the event functions to account for the new data structure.
* Updated the notify method correlate the passed event class and the event
class that the subscriber is interested in, only notifying upon positive
correlation.
* Removed now unneeded event class attribute on subscribers.
* Added code to the player scene-change subscriber and remove the
event_change_scene method from the Player object.
* Updated docstrings.
* Added an exception for unknown subscribers.
* Added view updating code to player scene change subscriber.
* Added a setView method to the scene class.
* Removed player scene checks from engine loop, now that the event listener for
the scene changes is in place.
* Removed a TODO from an inline comment in the source code.
* Removed TODO items that have been completed.
* Renamed PlayerSceneChangeEvent to PlayerTouchPortalEvent and
PlayerSceneChangeSubscriber to PlayerTouchPortalSubscriber.
* Added an event and handler for player inventory updates.
* Moved info panel and font code out of engine and into the view object.
* Updated subscribe to be able to take lists of subscriptions.
* Tweaked the subscribe function some more.
* Removed the scene object-passing in the view class.
* Removed commented out code.
* Moved event handler registration out of the engine and into the world object.
* Updated examples.
* Added universe object and re-worked world and engine objects accordingly.
* Added a worldFactory function for creating world and its universe in one
stroke.
* Renamed world module to universe.
* Created thing module with Thing and ThingOfThings abstractions in it.
* Subclassed world and universe from ThingOfThings.
* Subclassed Physical object from Thing.
* Cleaned up formatting in suite module.
* Updated TODO.
* Removed setup/setUp method.
* Renamed all positions to locations.
* Formatted vector module and changed names of functions.
* Added more unit tests for vector util.
* Replaced old vector code iterative math with maps.
* Renamed copyVector to replaceVector.
* Renamed direction to reverseDirection.
* Renamed vectorToFace to vectorToDirection.
* Updated vectorToDirection to operate on more than just unit vectors.

2009.10.10

* Renamed the Simulator class to Responder.
* Refactored the Engine init method.
* Added the manually-tweaked background image for the open group example.
* Added an event subscription/notification system based upon the Zope event
system.
* Fixed some typos in the engine code.
* Tweaked docstrings.
* Fixed some old code in the view class.
* Adjusted the player scene-change event to take the portal as an argument
instead of the next scene.
* Added an event handler module and moved the IsomyrSubscriber class into it.
* Added a handler for a player changing scenes.
* Updated the subscriber base class with an event class attribute that needs to
be set by all subclasses so that the subscribers are only notified by the event
with which they are associated.

2009.10.09

* Merged changes of the last few days from various shelved states of code (none
ever committed).
* Fixed relationship mixin tests.
* Branched Isotope trunk to the new Isomyr trunk.
* Renamed all occurrences of [Ii]sotope to [Ii]somyr.
* Renamed view methods to use camelCase.
* Renamed engine's display attribute to view.
* Cleaned up simulator class variable names.
* Renamed displayUpdate to updateDisplay.
* Added lots of code comments in anticipation of refactoring the view code.
* Moved isometric.view_update code into the view object and refactored the hell
out of it.
* Moved updatable object logic to a method on the scene object.
* Refactored cumbersome view method into several methods.

2009.10.06

* Removed old comment.
* Changed not-equals to standard idiom.
* Added mismatch error for when frames per cycle and frame sequence length
doesn't match.
* Updated skin image count error.
* Added more checks when setting the controller and images in a skin.
* Parameterized velocity magnifier for NPCs.
* Added globbing support to image loader.
* Moved all frame data into skin class.
* Added more checks in directed animated skin.
* Added large animations for a character (downloaded from
http://www.inet2inet.com/inetforums/index.php?showtopic=54).
* Made forced color key in image loader optional.
* Added small image set for south-facing explorer.
* Remove old explorer images.
* Updated TODO.
* Added east-facing small animations for explorer player.
* Added velocity modifier to MovableObject.
* Fixed all the object arguments.
* Cleaned up some old references to pos.
* Updated the TODO with ideas for changes to world and the addition of a
universe.
* Moved the player factory from the world to the scene.
* Shuffled velocity magnifiers around.
* Added setUp method for ease of configuring additional attributes.
* Moved child/parent methods into a mixin.
* Removed thing classes.
* Renamed event_collision to eventCollision and event_touch to eventTouch.
* Added constants for object sides.
* Updated the original example to work with the latest API changes.
* Updated the engine to use the player velocity modifier.

2009.10.05

* Created a script for chopping up a large area into small backgrounds for
individual scenes.
* Added a starting point background that was procedurally cut from the full
background image but whose canvas was manually resized afterwards.
* Created a new world instance with the background and a walking man.
* Tweaked the directed animation class to optionally take only 6 images,
whereupon the other missing 6 would be created as mirror images.
* Added a new exception.
* Parameterized frames per cycle for animated walks.
* Added vector constants for directions.
* Set attributes on walking actor for directional images.
* Remove the code that forced a directional jump; in-place jumps are now
possible.
* Added a setController method so that skins have direct access to the world
object they represent.
* Updated the setSkin method to set the controller as well.

2009.10.04

* Updated the tutorial so that each object that had a skin explicitly sets the
skin for that object.
* Removed skin_group from view_update isometric function and thus the
display_update and redraw_diplay engine functions as well.
* Removed skin_group reference from draw_info_panel.
* Removed the rest of the skin_group code.
* Removed all references to objtype, now that the skin groups has been removed.
* Added a missing exception.
* Updated TODO with thoughts about examples to create.
* Cleaned up and reorganized TODO.
* Renamed time methods.
* Renamed physics classes and functions.
* Reformatted particle module and renamed its classes and methods.
* Added MovableObject.
* Split up Actor into Actor and WalkingActor.
* Juggled object methods around for improved semantics.
* Renamed Avatar to Player.
* Renamed Monster to NPC.
* Created new Monster class with stubbed out respond method that will
eventually contain logic for attacking.
* Created a placeholder for the next example.

2009.10.03

* Moved the Keys class into a new config module.
* Moved Portal object into objects module.
* Moved actor classes into objects.
* Renamed scene module to world and created a world object there.
* Started a test case for Things.
* Added more methods to the world object for setting and getting scenes.
* Removed misc patch file.
* Reformatted sprites.
* Added addPlayer method to world.
* Added exceptions module.
* Replaced the buggy Scene.remove_object with a robust removeObject method.
* Renamed avatar move method to updatePosition.
* Renamed tick method to act.
* Split out gravity action code into fall method.
* Split walking animation out of act method into its own method.
* Cleaned up the isometric module.
* Removed direct access to player from engine (now gets it from world object).
* Moved time object into world module and instance onto world class.
* Updated TODO.
* Cleaned up tutorial a little more.
* Renamed the new_scene and new_pos variables to current_scene and
current_position.
* Removed surface attribute from engine and referenced the world surface
instead.
* Removed the surface attribute from the View object.
* Renamed get_image to getImage and used it in the engine code where images[0]
was being accessed directly.

2009.10.02

* Lots more cleanup... lost track of it all.
* Renamed tutorial to examples.
* Changed the image loader utility function to a class, thus allowing the
tutorial to be run from the top-level directory.
* Refactored the tutorial into functions.
* Moved the vector module into util and started a test module for it.
* Added a test runner.

2009.10.01

* Started new trunk with version 0.9 if Isotope (2005 release).
* Added ChangeLog and TODO files.
* Formatted README.
* Added admin scripts.
* Added setup.py and meta.py files.
* Added a util subpackage.
* Added a testing subpackage.
* Added a docs directory and moved the .pdf file there.
* Added usage, prelude, install docs.
* Removed old install instructions from README.
* Updated the doctest admin script.
* Fixed import in setup.py.
* Updated TODO.
* Added a placeholder for the API doc.
* ReSTified the README.
* Add a tests subpackage.
* Renamed misc objects module to particle module and consolidated code from
special objects module.
* Renamed isotope.py to engine.py.
* Moved view and simulator classes out of elements module and into engine.
* Deleted elements module.
* Updated the tutorial to use the new module locations.
* Formatted the tutorial code.
* Reformatted engine module.
* Reformatted skin module.
* Added a new method to the scene object.
* Reformatted scene module.