Weekly development report 2024/04/13

And the last report for the stable version of 9.0 series is here. As almost usual, it is an empty report, so all bugs will be included in the next big version of the game. :)

In the development version, this was the last week with any visible changes to the game. Currently, I have indecisive results of tests of the game on Windows. Sometimes it works properly, sometimes it crashes. It would be nice if someone will check it too, and post results here. After all, here will be a new development release very soon. :) But before it happens, here is a list of changes from the last week:

• Finished work on better looking general information about the player's ship. It is more colorful now and also should be better aligned.
• Almost finished updating the look of the dialog for assigning orders to the player's ship's crew members. Some small changes are still to do, but they should be done before the release.
• Related to the task above: added a colored version of icon to assign orders to the player's ship's crew members.
• As always, the documentation for modding the game was updated with information how to modify the newest icon.
• Fixed crash when trying to show information about an error on Windows.
• Fixed crash when starting a new game on Windows.
• And as usual, some code was moved to Nim. Now, the general information about the player's ship's crew members are in the new home. And work started on the code related to showing their inventory.
• Plus some code cleanups in the old code were done too.

As mentioned above, it is time for the next development release. :) In around 24 hours since this post, it will be available for download. After then, be prepared for four boring reports about fixing errors, etc.