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Balder2d detailed changelog.
http://balder.sourceforge.net/

History entries are in reverse chronological order (newest entries first).

10 Dec-2007
    - Reuben added definition for textDisplaceY into balder3dtypes to control the
    vertical displacement of text in widgets.
    - Reuben redesigned the sub-menu page background and saved it in menuskin.png
    instead of pagebackground.png.
    - Reuben reformatted the paramaters for the skinned widget constructors so that
    they are all more uniform.
    - Reuben replaced all old guichan gcn::Slider's with the new SkinnedSlider's.

4 Dec-2007
    - Reuben added skinnedslider.cpp/h too allow for skinned slider bars in the menu.
    - Reuben added Inno Setup script file for making windows installation program.

3 Dec-2007
    - Reuben changed the fullscreen option in the menu to control both the menu screen
    and the game screen.
    - Reuben moved all of the widgets in the /menu/ dir to /menu/widgets/

1 Dec-2007
    - Bjorn fixed the bug where AI selection box and color sliders didn't work because
    refreshKeys() was being called first thing in the action handler and setting them
    right back where they were before, thus they could not get changed.

30 Nov-2007
    - Reuben replaced all standard gcn::checkbox objects in the menu system
    with WidgetSkinnedCheckBox.
    - Reuben add frame size controls to WidgetSkinnedCheckBox.
    - Reuben add widgetskinnedcheckbox.cpp/h and menuskin.png

19 Nov-2007
    - Reuben removed ending slashes from the python search paths because they
    cause an issue with python when it goes to import modules.

18 Nov-2007
    - Bjorn fixed bug in windows script paths by using raw python strings so that
    single backslash characters are not interpreted as escape characters.

08 Nov-2007
    -Reuben cleaned up some temporary log points.

06 Nov-2007
    - Reuben renamed the Windows installation instructions to
    Balder2D-Win-README.txt.

05 Nov-2007
    - Reuben removed Boost FS lib flags from Balder2D-Win.cbp.
    - Reuben added some more temp log points.

24 Oct-2007
    - Reuben added filepathmanager.cpp/h to Balder2D-Win.cbp project file.
    - Reuben added some log file check points for tracking an AI bug.

24 Oct-2007
    - Bjorn fixed the bug where life, time, and score limits were not set
    unless the option was toggled via the checkbox.
    - Bjorn added a function to imageloader to unload (SDL_FreeSurface()) an
    image, instead of letting it be called directly
    - Bjorn made it so imageloader will only load an image once, after that it
    will just return the previously loaded reference
    - Bjorn tweaked the soundmanager to load sound files correctly, using the
    full path as obtained from filepathmanager.
    - Bjorn fixed a crash from double deletion of the font image in renderer
    - Reuben changed the main window caption icon to use /balder2d.xpm.

23 Oct-2007
    - Bjorn fixed a bunch of memory leaks in ArtificialCotroller::DoControl
    - Bjorn fixed a few other minor leaks, but there are still many in
    gamemanager (players, spawns, entities are not deleted)

11 Oct-2007
    - Bjorn added an arg parser to filepathmanager and a method to get the full
    path to the config file.
    - Bjorn added FilePathManager class to abstract calls to physicsfs and
    provide utility methods to get the search path and find the real path of
    a file.
    - Bjorn made the artificialcontroller set up iterate through the search
    path and add all scrip directories to the python path.

10 Oct-2007
    - Bjorn added physfs dependancy in order to make file opening independant
    of the location of the binary.
    - Bjorn added changes so that images (both sdl and guichan) are loaded
    through the imagemanager methods.  These methods use physfs to locate
    the desired file and then pass the full path to the SDL and Guichan
    image loading functions.
    - Bjorn eliminated the need for boost::filesystem.  The directory search/
    enumeration is now done using physicsfs.

08 Oct-2007
    - Reuben separated the CodeBlocks project file into two project files, one
      for Windows and one for Linux, as the environment variable may vary.
    - Reuben modified the CodeBlocks Project file to include the PhysFS lib.

19 Aug-2007
    - Bjorn set bindNextKey to false at the beginning of the action handler
      for the player setup menu and refreshed the keys so that doing anything
      other than pressing a key to bind will cancel the keybinding.

16 Aug-2007
    - Bjorn fixed the crash when using the keyboard to select keybinding
      buttons due to uninitialized value of bindNextKey.
    - Bjorn updated SConstruct to remove gne library path.
    - Reuben updated: /src/menu/playersetup.cpp & /src/menu/playersetup.h
      Updated: void PlayerSetupMenu::keyPressed(gcn::KeyEvent &keyEvent) so
      that the parameter keyEvent is no longer constant.  This allows the
      function signature to match that of the function keyPressed in the
      class gcn::KeyListener for proper overloading.
      Bug Fixed: Key Bindings in the Player Setup menu now work again.

15 Aug-2007
    - Reuben updated: /src/menu/gamesetup.cpp
      Updated: mapDropDown width to 400.

3 Aug-2007
    - Reuben updated: /src/menu/menu.cpp
      Updated: twinkleAnimation() to run at a faster speed of 1ms.

2 Aug-2007
    - Reuben updated Windows Development Evironment Installation instructions
      a little.  (The different library versions that have been released needs
      more testing for compatibilty and instructions need to be made for them.)
    - Reuben updated Code::Blocks project file for use with Code::Blocks
      version: svn build rev 4338
      build: Jul 31 2007, 18:36:03 - wx2.8.4 (Windows, unicode)
    - Reuben updated: /bin/menu/twinkle1.png
    - Reuben added: /bin/menu/pulse1.png
    - Reuben updated: /src/menu/menu.cpp
      Updated: twinkleAnimation() to run at a faster speed of 100ms.
      Added: pulseAnimation() to play as an animation on the menu screen.
    - Reuben updated: /include/menu/menu.h
      Added: pulseAnimation().

18 July-2007
    - Bjorn applied a patch from Alexander Clausen which adds support for
      pausing the game using the Pause key.

16 July-2007
    - Bjorn removed the 'rc1' from the version string in the menu
    - Bjorn patched the source to run with guichan 0.6.1 (too bad 7.0 is out now)

29 Dec-2006
    - Bjorn replaced the rest of the gcn::Button 's in the menu with skinned
    buttons.

12 Dec-2006
    - Bjorn fixed entities drawing in score box by setting the screen clipping
    rectangle to be the background image clipping when drawing entities.

1 Dec-2006
    - Reuben updated probe death with transparencies and damage effect
    - Reuben made new level "Alpha Quarant".
    - Reuben made the buttonskins.png more transparent.

30 Nov-2006
    - Bjorn changed background animation scheme to have a static image and
    then place animation widgets over animated portions.  Hopefully this
    will be faster.
    - Bjorn fixed a bug in skinnedbuttonwidget where parent constructor was
    not called, resulting in some un-initialized values in the widget
    - Reuben adjusted skinnedbuttonwidget.cpp so when initialized
    buttonState is assigned the value buttonUp.
    - Reuben updated buttonskins.png with new skin.
    - Reuben cleaned up code in animationwidget.cpp and animationwidget.hpp.
    They no longer have setAnimation() and getAnimationFileName() as internal
    methods due to a possible memory leak.  They weren't needed in any case.
    - Reuben added skinnedbuttonwidget.cpp and skinnedbuttonwidget.hpp to
    allow for skinned button support.
    - Reuben modified Main Menu buttons to utilize the skinnedbuttonwidget
    instead of the regular button widget.
    - Reuben added buttonskins.png which contains the buttons skins.
    - Bjorn fixed a bug in the collision mask where pixels pixels just
    outside the width or height of the map could be tested, resulting
    in a crash (on some machines)

29 Nov-2006
    - Bjorn added the "luna" map
    - Bjorn made entities "wrap around" when they go off the edge of the map.
    - Reuben adjusted labels on the sound and video menu so that captions are
    now capitalized.
    - Reuben adjusted the opacity of pagebackground.png from 80% to 60%.
    - Reuben dropped the gradient from white to black in pagebackground.png and
    made it just gray (0x7f7f7f).
    - Reuben re-arranged the menu items again for a cleaner look.
    - Reuben added a label to the main menu to display the program version.
    - Reuben added support for multiple animation strips in the same image file
    to the animationwidget.cpp source code via use of the animationStripLocation
    variable.
    - Reuben added animated background support to the submenu pages.
    - Reuben added pagebackground.png which is the submenu pages background.
    - Reuben re-arrange the menu layouts so that they would fit into the new
    skinned submenu pages.

27 Nov-2006
    - Reuben updated menubackground.png with a new base frame.

23 Nov-2006
    - Reuben added support for animations via animationwidget.cpp and
    animationwidget.h.
    - Reuben added support for animated menu backgrounds.
    - Reuben added sample animated menu background.  I will add a real menu
    background soon.
    - Reuben made submenu pages transparent.

15 Nov-2006
    - Reuben made a Code::Blocks project file for Windows builds.  Added file:
    Balder2D.cbp
    - Reuben composed a document containing instruction on how to set up a
    Win32 Development Environment for Balder2D.  Added file:
    Balder2D Win32 Development Environment Setup Instructions.txt

12 Oct-2006
    - Bjorn made projectile velocity adjustable via the config file.
    - Bjorn changed probe velocity to projectile addition to be AddProbeVelocity
    - Bjorn made sure to call RefreshKeys() when the player setup menu is
    created so that everything is correct when it is first displayed (ie, key
    binding buttons are hidden if player 1 is computer controlled).
    - Bjorn fixed label bug for keybinding menu, label sizes were not adjusted
    when labels were changed, now they are.

18 Sep-2006
    - Bjorn fixed the keybinding bug (keybinding was totally broken by the menu
    refactor).
    - Bjorn added a spawn animation.
    - Bjorn added drawing some circles outside of the probe to further highlight
    which way the probe is aiming

9 Sep-2006
    - Bjorn removed networkmanager and references to it from the new branch
    - Bjorn created a no_network branch for creating packages w/o any network
    dependancies.
    - Bjorn added the packer subdirectory (for package generation) to CVS
    - Bjorn added a script to run balder2d when it is installed in a system
    wide directory on a linux machine.
    - Bjorn added a method to ConfigManager to generate a config file if the
    requested config file does not exist.
    - Bjorn added the ability to use an alternate config file, specified on
    the command line as the first argument.

8 Sep-2006
    - Bjorn added some menu files that somehow got missed when he refactored
    the menu system.

20 Aug-2006
    - Bjorn did a major refactoring of the menu code.  Each submenu is now its
    own file (well, almost,  the multiplayer menus will have to be broken up
    if they get worked on again).  Almost everything that used to work seems
    to be working again.  Some testing is required to make sure this didn't
    introduce new bugs.

26-June-2006
    - Reuben made some changes to the menu layout.
    - Reuben cleaned up the code in menu.cpp some.
    - Reuben added the "Network ID" to the Network Game menu for lounge chat.
    - Reuben setup a text box in the client/host lounges for logging chat text.
    - Reuben made the lounge chat "Send" button dump text to the chat log.
    - Reuben added the SetStringValue() and GetStringValue() methods to the
    configmanager.cpp source code.

22-June-2006
    - Reuben added code to the Probe::fire() method to allow for an option to
    be set in the config file that will either shoot projectiles with a fixed
    speed or with a speed based off of the probes current speed and direction
    of movement.  New option in config file is named:
    "Calculate_Projectile_Velocity_With_Probe_Velocity".

20-June-2006
    - Bjorn added a new map (liptoid)
    - Bjorn fixed a bug where the sound volume was not set from the config file
    unless the volume slider was changed.
    - Bjorn made separate sliders for sound and music volume.

13-June-2006
	- Reuben updated the "config.xml" with some notations for future
	reference.
	- Reuben updated the "config.xml" with some additional settings for
	multiplayer mode.  New settings include: server port, client port,
	connection time out (in seconds) and maximum connections allowed.
	- Reuben added new functionality to the NetworkManager class to allow
	it to actually activate a server or connect a client.
	- Reuben updated the menu to allow the network connection interface to
	output connection attempts status to the user.  This includes connection
	failure reasons and connection time-out indication.  User can cancel
	connection attempts in mid-process without the program locking up.

2-June-2006
    - Reuben added Code::Blocks project file for Windows builds.
    - Reuben added the new NetworkManager.cpp and NetworkManager.h files.
    - Reuben introduced a new dependency, RakNet from www.rakkarsoft.com.
    This allows for network capabilities in the game.

24-May-2006
    - Reuben made it so that sample maps in the network game lounges update.
    - Reuben re-arranged the buttons on the Network Game menu, the Host
    Lounge and the Join Lounge.
    - Reuben re-arranged the Multiplayer menu to allow a "Host" option.
    - Reuben designed and added both the "Host Lounge Menu" and the "Join
    Lounge Menu".

22-May-2006
    - Reuben updated the general layout of the Multiplayer Menu.  Added
    "Host" button.
    - Reuben updated the todo.txt list with new networking goals, main menu
    background, player options menu updates.  Some finished items were also
    marked as done.

19-May-2006
    - Bjorn ripped out all the GNE network code in preparation for a network
    overhaul.

29-Apr-2006
    - Bjorn fixed the timer bug so it displays 0:00 at the end of the game.
    - Bjorn fixed the bug where the explosion animation plays twice when
    a probe runs out of life - however, probes for players that disconnect in
    a multiplayer game will now simply dissapear, rather than exploding.

12-Apr-2006
    - Reuben adjusted the jamfile.mingw to include the library flag -mwindows
    to allow the program to be run as a MS Windows app without having to run
    through the MS Windows CLI.  This prevents the DOS Prompt box from
    openning in the background during runtime.


11-Apr-2006
    - Reuben adjusted the sample map widget to allow the image that's
    loaded to keep its original aspect ratio rather then changing it to the
    aspect ratio of the sample map widget.
    - Reuben adjusted the sample map widget to center the sample map
    inside of the widget rather then posistioning it at the actual X and Y
    coordinates of the widget.

7-Apr-2006
    - Reuben got the scaling to work for the X and Y deminsions properly.
    - Reuben got scaling to work for the sample map.  Must work on
    scaling proportions to get them to return the proper value.

6-Apr-2006
    - Reuben edited the menu to render the sample map on to the game
    set up menu.
    - Reuben added samplemapwidget.cpp and it's header file to the project.
    NOTE: That the sample map doesn't scale the map down to size yet.

28-Mar-2006
    - Reuben modified the windows setup script to allow for the installation
    of Python 2.4 and Psyco 1.5.  It includes the options to download and
    then install its components.

26-Mar-2006
    - Reuben added LEGAL.TXT.
    - Reuben revised the script for compiling a Windows setup program to
    allow it to creat a start menu shortcut regardless of whether or not the
    'Create Desktop Shortcut' option is selected.

24-Mar-2006
    - Reuben made windows installer script for compiling a windows installer
    file..
    - Reuben made README.TXT.
    - Reuben made balder2d.ico.

23-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn reduced the projectile lifetime to 200 frames (was 400).
    - Bjorn added checks so that you can't configure keybindings/AI scripts for
    more players than are set by "Number of Players" in the options menu.
    - Bjorn changed the ammo indicators so they rotate around the probe, rather
    than aligning with the aiming angle.  This makes it easier to see.
    - Bjorn added menu.ogg and default.ogg to the music menu.  These are not
    necisarily final choices, just want to see how they fit as a starting point.
    - Reuben added code to SoundManager::PlayMusic() to set the music names
    "NONE", "None" and "none" as reserved names that will prevent the game
    from playing music during that map.

22-Mar-2006
    - Reuben made the main menu save all options to file as soon as one is
    changed except for values in number fields.  You must either change a
    option, start a new game, or exit the program for number fields to save
    their value.
    - Reuben made the music check box in the main menu toggle the music on
    and off in the menu imediatly.
    - Reuben made it if music is enabled and music ends it repeats in both
    the game and at the main menu.
    - Reuben made it so when the main menu comes up it play the menu music.
    When game play starts it plays the music specified in the
    <Music name="" /> tag in the maptags.xlm file.  If the tag doesn't exist,
    the game playes the music named "default".  When the game returns to the
    main menu it starts to play the "menu" music once again.
    - Reuben made it so SoundManager::PlayMusic() checks to see if the music
    option is enabled.
    - Bjorn made aiListBox fire "changeAIScript" event directly when clicked,
    instead of having next/previous or returning to the options menu cause it.
    - Bjorn hid keybining button/labels for computer players
    - Reuben PlayMusic(const char *name) and StopMusic() to the
    SoundManager.
    - Bjorn added menu/sampleprobewidget which is now added to the player
    setup menu, and is drawn by the gui, rather than blitting a probe sprite
    on top of the menu, which ended up showing on top of the AI dropdown.
    - Bjorn moved the AI selector box to the top of the player setup screen
    - Reuben added the 'music' directory and set the soundmanager to load
    music from is rather then the sounds directory.
    - Reuben reconfigured the way the soundmanager checks to see if the game
    should be playing sounds.

21-Mar-2006
    - Reuben added sound toggle based off of the value in the config file.
    - Reuben added sound and music check box options storage capability in
    the config file.
    - Reuben fixed bug with ArtificialController::ShutDown().  When
    ShutDown() was called in Windows binary the program terminated prematurly
    instead of returning to the main menu.
    - Reuben patched a bug in the main menu where only some options were
    saved on program exit and the rest were saved on game start.  Now all
    options are saved on program exit and game start.
    - Bjorn ran a code reformatter (astyle), just for fun, on player.cpp  Yea
    that pretty much obfuscates all the changes, but it looks nice :p.
    - Bjorn aligned the livesleft and score indicators to the right side of the
    stat box.
    - Bjorn added a new font for lives left.
    - Reuben patched a bug in the lives remaining counter in the stat box to
    hide the lives remaining counter when the game settings are set to
    unlimited lives per round.
    - Reuben update co-ax map background.
    - Bjorn fixed a bug in Probe::AddImpulse() where push power would remain
    charged when bumped off a wall, or blown up.
    - Bjorn fixed a bug in Probe::AddImpulse() where being bumped off a wall
    was different in the horizontal or vertical directions, from a diagonal,
    because of failing to use the magnitude of the collision velocity, and
    simply adding x and y componants in stead.
    - Bjorn bugfix for my own dumbassness (x^2 != x*x)
    - Reuben added a "Player Lives Remaining" counter to the players stat box.
    - Reuben removed the health and ammo indicators from the players stat box.
    - Reuben added a vertical bar graph to the players stat box for probe push
    off speed indication.
    - Bjorn fixed the Probe-Probe collisions, so exploding probes don't collide
    - Bjorn fixed ArtificialController::py_IsLineOfSight so that it tests
    evenly along x or y, avoiding missing walls when x's are close together
    but y's are not.
    - Bjorn did some more work on the ai scripts, so computer players will
    try to collect powerups.

20-Mar-2006
    - Reuben added the map Co-Ax to the map's directory.  It must have texturing
    layered onto the background.
    - Reuben changed the method in which the config file is saved so were is
    saves on program exit as well as start game.
    - Bjorn added a mock ArtificialController in 'ac.h' to the bin/scripts/test/
    directory, which will initialize the python interpreter and add the 'balder'
    module, which many of the scripts require.  The unit tests for the scripts
    should now be run by running the 'runtests' executable in the test directory.
    - Reuben added broken functionality to the menu to save the selected AI
    script to the config file.  NOTE: must work on this some more for it to
    work properly.
    - Reuben added functionality to the menu to load the selected AI script
    from the config file.
    - Reuben added ConfigManager::SetControlType(int, const char*).

19-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn added runtest.cpp, which should allow unit tests to be run on scripts
    by including ArtificialController, which initializes the 'balder' module.
    - Bjorn modified balderai script so the probes don't try to fire through
    walls, and don't fire as fast at far away targets (needs work still)

18-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn added balder.IsLineOfSight and balder.IsWall python mappings which
    map to py_IsLineOfSight and py_IsWall methods of ArtificialController
    - Bjorn fixed the ArtificialController::ShutDown() function to properly
    empty the controlled probe list.
    - Bjorn restructured the scripts directory
    - Bjorn added some python exception handling to the ArtificiallController
    DoControl method.  Now if a script fails, the traceback and exception are
    printed, and the probe is removed from the list of probes to control.
    - Bjorn made ArtificialController have all static methods and a private
    constructor, so it can no longer be instantiated.  Instead, it now has
    methods "Initialize" and "ShutDown".
    - Bjorn moved python module and function loading functions into
    ComputerProbeControl structure, and put ComputerProbeControl in its own file.

17-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn updated the probe sprite to let the amo show through a bit better.
    - Bjorn tweaked the ammo positioning in the probe for better visibility.
    - Bjorn changed PROJECTILEWIDTH and PROJECTILEHEIGHT in probe.h to
    AMMOWIDTH and AMMOHEIGHT, to avoid any possible conflicts  with
    PROJECTILEWIDTH and PROJECTILEHEIGHT defined in projectile.h.

17-Mar-2006
    - Reuben added AI Script selection control to the Player Options menu.
    Note: It's not fully functional yet as it doesn't save the selection
    to the config file yet.

16-Mar-2006
    - Reuben changed DrawAmmo() to draw the amount of ammo that the probe
    has around the inside of the probes sprite.  The first piece of ammo
    will always be aligned with the probes gun.
    - Reuben DrawAmmo() to draw the amount of ammo that the probe has across
    the top of the probes sprite.
    - Reuben added function for layering the ammo indicator into the probes
    that are rendered onto the screen.  It's not finished.  As they are
    rendered on the top left corner of the probes sprite.

14-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn commented out the registering of the 'balder' module.  More
    thought is required here. For now it imports in the other scripts
    from the balder.py file; but if constants change, this would have to
    be updated.
    - Bjorn added two new AI scripts, "randomai" and "simple_aimer".
    - Bjorn fixed the python glue code so that if the AI script throws an
    exception, it gets cleared, and doesn't kill the python interpreter.
    - Bjorn added the ability to specify different ai scripts for different
    probes.

11-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn fixed the "still able to fire when you're blowing up" bug.
    - Bjorn fixed a bug where removed players were still trying to be
    controlled by the AI.
    - Bjorn changed AI scripts so computer probes now aim at the
    closest enemy probe.
    - Bjorn updated the mingw jamfile to add the python include and link stuff.

10-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn added some cleanup stuff to gamemanager, I'm sure more is needed.
    - Bjorn wrote a simple AI script which causes computer controlled
    probes to aim for player two and fire.
    - Bjorn added python bindings to artificialcontroller

4-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn implemented a "random" AI for computer controlled probes

3-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn added AI framework.
    - Bjorn added code to play a sound when shields are raised (though  this
    sound does not exist yet).
    - Bjorn changed it so shields regenerate after a hit is taken.  This
    should balance the shield powerup with the other two a bit more.
    - Bjorn made the extra spreadfire projectiles start a bit more spread out.
    - Bjorn updated the spreadfire indicator so it is easier to see.
    - Bjorn tweaked the probe sprite a bit so hopefully it is easier to see
    where the gun is aiming.
	- Bjorn updated the hit animation to be a bit more transparent.

2-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn made shields draw around shielded probes.
    - Bjorn increased the erased area around all sprites, which should
    eliminate artifacts when we draw effects outside the probe radius.
    - Reuben added an indicator so that players may know when their probes
    are recharging ammo faster with the powerup 'fast ammo recharge'.  The
    players probe flashes a modified color once every 3 secs if the powerup
    is in effect.
    - Reuben added an additional layer to the probe sprites rendered to
    show when a spread fire powerup has been aquired by a probe.

1-Mar-2006
    - Bjorn updated the probe sprite so it looks more badass and added some
    extra guns to be drawn when a spreadfire is picked up.
    - Bjorn adjusted the life indicator on the probe so that it can never be
    larger than the probe radius, and full life takes up 2/3 of the probe radius
    - Reuben added player life indication into the probes that are rendered
    onto the game screen.

28-Feb-2006
    - Reuben removed sight from menu.cpp to renderer.cpp.  I modified
    the code to allow the menu to load the sample probes sprite directly.

27-Feb-2006
    - Reuben removed constant variables from probe.h.
      - const probe_color BLUE = 1;
      - const probe_color YELLOW = 2;
      - const probe_color RED = 3;
      - const probe_color GREEN = 4;
    - Reuben added sample probe to the 'Players Option' menu for color
    sampling.
    - Reuben fixed minor bug with sample probes sprite id.  Changed sample
    probes sprite id from 'probe' to 'sampleprobe'.  I did this to avoid
    crash after playing game and returning to the players options menu.

26-Feb-2006
    - Bjorn fixed the exploding projectile artifact bug.
    - Bjorn removed probestate, projectilestate, and playerinputstate from
    the source tree as they never contained any real source.

25-Feb-2006
    - Bjorn made probes spawn "randomly" (still deterministic) when no
    suitible spawn location can be found.
    - Bjorn fixed Collisionmask so that it will return false for points with
    negative values, instead of causing a segmentation fault.
    - Bjorn removed old, commented out, collision code, as well as some other
    bits of commented old crusty stuff that was not needed.
24-Feb-2006
      - Reuben modified the way the ConfigManager::GetPlayerColor()
      loads a 24 bit color.
      - Reuben modified the way the ConfigManager::SetPlayerColor()
      saves a 24 bit color.
      - Reuben added the action 'colorChange' to menu.cpp and then
      connected 'redSlider', 'greenSlider' and 'blueSlider' to
      'colorChange' on change.

23-Feb-2006
      - Reuben modified the way the ConfigManager::GetPlayerColor()
	operates.  Instead of taking a SDL_PixelFormat objects address
      to get an alpha color component, it expects you to supply an
      8 bit alpha color component.
      + const probe_color ConfigManager::GetPlayerColor(int conrtoller,
      Uint8 cAlpha)
      - Reuben added the Red, Green and Blue Slide controllers to the
      'Player Options' menu.  They currently load settings from the
      config file, but do not save settings to the config file.
	- Bjorn added the redspectrum image to the player setup menu.
	- Bjorn made the Player Setup container larger, so there was a
	100 pixel border on the right as well as the left (insteaf of 150).
	- Bjorn switched the positions of the 'Player Setup' and
	'Sound and Video' menus in the options menu.

22-Feb-2006
	- Bjorn shrunk balderfont.png to allow more room in the menus
    - Reuben removed colorspectrum.png and added:
       + redspectrum.png
       + greenspectrum.png
       + bluespectrum.png

20-Feb-2006
    - Reuben modified configmanager.cpp to format a 24 bit color from the
    config file to a 32 bit color including an 8 bit alpha component.

18-Feb-2006
	- Bjorn added "press Esc to return to main menu" to the text displayed
	when the game ends.
    - Bjorn added experimental joystick support.  Joystick controls are
    hard coded to use joystick 0 to control the second player (controller[1])
    in *addition* to any keys that player might have mapped.
    Button0=fire, button1=stick/push, left/right on the direction pad rotate.

15-Feb-2006
	- Bjorn changed the score displays to only be outlined in the probe color
    - Bjorn made probes draw a filled circle of the probe color and then blit
    the new probe blank on top of it.
    ** note, this introduced a new library dependancy, SDL_gfx **
    - Bjorn changed the way entities are rendered.  They now have a "DrawOnto"
    method which takes a surface, (in our case, the screen) and draws the
    correct frame in the correct spot.
	- Bjorn tweaked the frame calculations to make aiming match match better.
	- Bjorn replaced the blue probe with a semi-transparent blank in preparation
	for the new probe render scheme.
    - Reuben added bin\menu\colorspectrum.png to the project.

13-Feb-2006
    - Reuben modified lines 260 and 278 in gamemanager.cpp under the functions
       + player_id GameManager::CreateNewPlayer()
       + bool GameManager::CreateNewPlayer(player_id, int, bool)
    to allow the GameManager to load the colors saved in the config file as
    the players color of choice.
    - Reuben added two additional functions to configmanager.cpp and
    configemanager.h that allows the player to save their probe color or
    to load their probe color to the congig file.
       + const probe_color ConfigManager::GetProbeColor(int controller)
       + void ConfigManager::SetProbeColor(int controller, probe_color newColor)

07-Feb-2006
    - Reuben changed the assignments on line 25 and 64 in powerup.cpp to
    casts rather then assign and truncate to avoid compiler warnings.

5-Feb-2006
    - Bjorn tweaked the time delay for freindly projectiles to not
    destroy each other, and tested to make sure they are freindly.
    - Bjorn fixed the bounce collision detection to only test pixels
    on the circle around the edge of an entity, using a better
    algorithm to determine what pixels to test than before.

25-Jan-2006
    - Bjorn made the id of the last player remaining display when only one
    remains.
    - Bjorn made player scores display according to their player ID so that
    when a player is eliminated, their scores will be left visible.

13-Jan-2006
    - Bjorn fixed a clock display bug where there are less than 10 seconds.

02-Jan-2006
	- Bjorn made a clock display for timed games.
	- Bjorn made "Game Over" and an optional additional message display
	when one of the game mode conditions are met.  The game then
	waits for escape to be pressed and then returns to the main menu.
	- Bjorn added a DisplayText method to the Renderer.
	- Bjorn made the game end when the time runs out.
	- Bjorn made the game end when only one player remains.
	- Bjorn made probe lives limited to the number set in game setup.
	Players are removed from the game when they run out of lives.
	- Bjorn made the game end when the maximum score is reached.
	- Bjorn made game type values hidden when the game type is disabled.
	- Bjorn changed game type options to check boxes.
	- Bjorn addded a setValue method to the NumberField class.

24-Dec-2005
	- Bjorn added numberfields for time, lives, and score in game setup.
	- Bjorn added methods to the numberfield class to get the value, and
	made it only accept numerical input and display right justified.

23-Dec-2005
	- Bjorn added the NumberField class to the menu.
	- Bjorn moved map selection to a submenu "Game Setup" of the Options
	menu. Also added three game types to this menu. These are radio
	selections.

11-Sept-2005
	- Bjorn changed "mutiplayer" in the main menu to "join network game".

28-Oct-2005
	- Bjorn added/implemented serialize and deserilalize methods for
	projectiles and powerups.  Also added necesarry logic to the
	network manager, and update functions in the gamemanager so that
	these entities are propegated over the network when a client joins.
	- Bjorn made the powerup spawn interval load from the config file.
	- Bjorn made the recharge accellerator powerup be times 3 instead of 2.

13-Oct-2005
	- Bjorn fixed a bug where powerups would spawn outside the
	boundaries, (accidentally using width instead of height)
	- Bjorn made probes gain health when picking up a powerup that
	the probe already has.

12-Oct-2005
	- Bjorn added effects for the shield and recharge acceleration
	powerups.
	- Bjorn added sprites for more powerups and made generation
	random.  Also selects the graphic for each powerup.
	- Bjorn got the spreadfire powerups working.  Powerups
	are lost when the probe is destroyed.
	- Bjorn fixed a segfault resusting from projectiles fired
	into walls.

7-Oct-2005
    - Bjorn made random (seeded from the frame number) powerups
    appear every certain number of frames (hard coded, needs to go
    in config).

6-Oct-2005
	- Bjorn added a powerup entity and a factory to produce it

22-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn made clients quit when the server disconnects
	- Bjorn changed some static_cast to reinterpret_cast to
	compile with gcc 4.0.  This also appears possibly to have
	fixed synchronization problems somehow.
	- Bjorn added a test map with just an empty area

18-Sep-2005
    - Bjorn fixed the map selection to load from the config file.
    - Bjorn added deletion of probe_factory and projectile_factory
    when GameManager is deleted.

15-Sep-2005
    - Bjorn fixed an uninitialized rotation state for probes.

14-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn added UpdatePlayer and UpdateProbe methods to GameManager
	- Bjorn changed the network scheme so that entities can
	serialize and deserialize themselves to and from a given buffer.

09-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn removed some (hopefully) unecisarry mutex locks in
	networkmanager to avoid deadlock occuring.

07-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn added some more mutex locking to
	NetworkManager::DeliverEvents() to hopefully fix some server crashes.

05-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn added client notification to destroy probes and players
	when other clients disconnect.
	- Bjorn added code so that when a client disconnects from the
	server, the probes which were under the control of that client
	(which is also now kept track of) are destroyed and removed from
	the game along with the player objects that controlled them.
	(this only happens on the server, notifying other clients still
	needs to be implemented)

04-Sep-2005
	- Bjorn fixed the code so that the server no longer crashes when
	the client disconnects.  This is accomplished by checking that a
	connection is still connected before sending anything over it and
	(hopefully) removing the connection from the connection list.

30-March-2005
	- Bjorn made the client wait to deliver events until packets for that frame
	arrive from the server.

29-March-2005
	- Bjorn addded numbering of inputstate packets and started to implement
	tracking by number on the client so it can be assured that all packets for
	a frame have arrived before the frame is processed.

25-March-2005
	- Bjorn changed input event scheduling on the server to be for the following
	frame to help avoid missed input events.

24-March-2005
	- Bjorn added sending input over the network.
	- Bjorn fixed new player creation to occur in the correct frame, so now
	(assuming packets arrive on time) as long as no one touches any controls
	clients can join and everyone will stay synchronized.  If a player creation
	packet arrives after the frame that the player was created in, an error will
	be printed; eventeully this should result in a complete update request.
	- Bjorn fixed a	bug where the starting frame was not being set on the client
	- Bjorn made sound volume loaded from and saved to the config file.

23-March-2005
	- Bjorn added reading velocity and stuck status to spawn locations.
	- Bjorn changed probe creation and respawning to take into account stuck
	status (and velocity in the case of respawn).

22-March-2005
	- Bjorn changed the timing scheme so that the game will run faster if it gets
	behind the frame it should be at.  This will helps client synchronization.

23-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn added a third player/probe creation method which takes position and
	velocity parameters for the probe, which are now sent from the server to the
	client so the starting position and velocity of the probes are synchronized.

22-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn made the probe creation on the client work.  The client now recieves
	updates and creates all of the probes which exist on the server, and then
	reqeusts creation of as many new probes as hhere are local players on the
	client.  The server creates those probes and sends back player id's for
	each.

19-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn did some more work on client initialization:
		Clients now send a request for game state and the server responds
		by sending the "update complete" packet that will eventually signal
		to the client that the server has sent all of the necesarry information.
	- Bjorn also changed the list of network connections to be a map, using
	the initial network remoteAddress of the reliable (tcp) connection for
	the key.

18-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn did more work on requesting and sending initial game state.

17-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn added a GameStatePacket and moved some of the packet source to
	packets.cpp instead of having everithing in the header.

16-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn fixed connections so the client can connect and get the map name
	without causing a crash on either side.
	- Bjorn added a very basic log class to use instead of std::cout << for all
	messages.  This way logging capabilities can easily be extented.

15-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn moved GNE initialization and shutdown into main, so now at least
	the network stuff doesn't break anithing that used to work.

01-Feb-2005
	- Bjorn started network stuff, added packets and a connection listener

28-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn made the map selection dropdown only list directories that actually
	contain all of the files needed for a map (or at least named that way).
	- Bjorn added a multiplayer menu.

27-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn made map selection a drop down menu item instead of a text box.

22-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn fixed the bug where blits did not work in fullscreen mode in windows.
	- Bjorn  fixed a bug where probes could push off faster than the supposed
	maximum speed.

17-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn made push off speed variable.
	- Bjorn made probes have a lasting explosion so one exploding probe can
	destroy multiple other probes.

15-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn made the volume control slider and fullscreen checkboxes in
	the sound/video options menu work.  Fullscreen mode shows no sprites
	though for some reason.
	- Bjorn made keybinding on the player setup menu actualy do something.

11-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn made it possible to stick to walls and push off with the same key.
	- Bjorn made keybindings be displayed it the player configuration menu.  No
	actual binding is possible there yet however.

10-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn added a player setup and sound/video sub menus to the options menu

09-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn doubled the number of probe animation frames (for turning/aiming).

06-Jan-2005
	- Bjorn added a text feild it the options menu to select the map to use.
	- Bjorn added sound options to the options menu to toggle on or off sound
	or music and adjust the volume.  None of these controls do anything yet
	however.

24-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn fixed a bug where a dying probe that was hit would restart its
	explosion sequence and give another 3 points to the player firing that
	shot.
	- Bjorn made scores be displayed in the status information for each probe.
	The current scheme is 1 point for a hit, 3 for a kill, -1 if you hit
	yourself, and -1 for dying.
	- Bjorn added the options menu and an option to set the number of players.

22-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn added a gui menu system

21-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn moved a few probe "constants" to the config file. more will follow.
	- Bjorn made the ConfigManager stuff static.

20-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn made the background color of each status display match (sorta)
	the probe color for that player.

18-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn added a status display area with indicators for ammo and life
	remaining for each probe.
	- Bjorn added convenience function to the renderer to blit an arbitrary
	surface to the screen at some location (mostly for HUD/status stuff).

17-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn added the maptags.xml file for maps.  This file currently
	defines the dimensions of the map, and contains a list of spawn
	locations for the map.
	- Bjorn made the map to load configurable (via config.xml).  Maps are
	now loaded from the maps/mapname directory.

16-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn made number of players configurable via config.xml and fixed bug
	where having a keybinding not found in the config file would cause the
	game to crash when input tried to use a null pointer as a key.

11-Dec-2004
	- Bjorn update the game field, adding a bit more geometry.
	- Bjorn changed how players initially spawn (so they use spawn locations)
	and how they respawn (no longer moving and now "stuck") so players can
	choose which direction they want to move after they respawn.
	- Bjorn made 3 players start by default. Still need to make this variable.

27-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn added a circular linked list of spawn locations so that afte a
	probe is destroyed it will respawn in the next location, checking to make
	sure that spot is not already occupied (prevents spawning on top of other
	probes).

26-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn added sounds support.  All sounds are in the sounds/ directory.
	The sound manager plays the "sounds/music.ogg" file as music and proobes
	now play sounds for all actions, if the sound file exists for that action.

25-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn added animation to the projectiles and a hit animation to the probes

24-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn added different color probes and death (exploding) animations for
	dying probes.
	- Bjorn changed the input class so that there is one Input instance in the
	game which is responsible for doing input for all players.  It loads
	keybindings from the ConfigManager and maps them to the local players.
	- Bjorn added a publically accessible ConfigManager to the GameManager.

23-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn added the ConfigManager class which uses tinyxml to load and parse
	a config file.  Also added the config file config.xml and the source for
	tinyxml to the repository.

19-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn fixed probe starting locations so they depend on id.
	- Bjorn made sticking to walls work and changed the keybindings a bit.
	- Bjorn reduded the speed at which probes turn and made them respawn with
	some velocity.
	- Bjorn made probes transfer momentum between each other when colliding.
	- Bjorn fixed the bug where entities with overlapping bounding boxes would
	have parts of one entity erased by the other.

17-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn made entities collide with each other.
	- Bjorn Created history.txt

16-Nov-2004
	- Bjorn imported the source into the balder2d cvs module.