Ski season

I’m officially decked out with everything I could possibly need for the upcoming season! Including:

The mountain will be open by the time I get back from my Bali holiday. Can’t wait!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Posted in Life | No Comments »

New ConsoleWrapper version

I took the time today to make a few small changes to ConsoleWrapper which should improve usability and stability, namely:

A simple caret to show cursor position and improve text editing capability – as well as the ability to use the expected left/right, home/end, and backspace/delete keys. Note that it currently displays as a | character inserted into the text, so it will push characters to the right of it across by one position. It didn’t seem too distracting in my testing however.
Improved stability when re-acquiring the graphics device. This should prevent crashes when another application temporarily takes full-screen possession of the device.
Added very basic Ctrl+C support. I still cannot pass keystrokes to my internal CMD process, and so I cannot yet provide true interrupt functionality. Ctrl+C will simply kill the current console and spawn a new one. This has the unsatisfactory behaviour of spewing a new set of startup text, and the current directory is also lost. This is a very temporary solution to a common request. Hopefully a more satisfactory solution can be found soon.

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | Posted in Console Wrapper | No Comments »