Mid-July Update (Patreon)

Hey guys,

Instead of providing a link to the forums, I can instead write the updates themselves here. I only do the former since it means everyone tends to comment in one place, so there's less chance of me missing anything. I can also provide both. Let me know what you'd prefer I go on with. Forum link is here. 

The update:

I'll start off with what I've been working on, and save any rambling for  after. Hopefully with Homestead going I'll be able to introduce a new  format of actual progress then follow with words.
 

• Organised and renamed about a hundred GUI nodes.
• Split up the Facility Browser script into three smaller scripts to  avoid overburdening it. This was a smarter choice than I intially  realised, as I'll soon be adding a third tab to the window and possibly a  sub-tabbed view to one of those. Each of these scripts are much tidier.
• Renamed all instances of the rather clinical 'Facility Modules' to 'Amenities' instead.
• Created a functioning Card Lister class script to handle all  instances of ordered lists of GUI elements, e.g facilities, staff,  amenities. This was an issue I ran into during my practice project,  needing to make a new series of functions to populate and present  'cards' - graphic items on a list - every time I needed one. This has  been simplified greatly and standardised for use anywhere I need it with  just a couple lines of code, as opposed to about 70.
• Also programmed the Card Lister script to be able to hook up signals  from buttons on those cards to their parent tab's controlling  tabcontainer. Generated cards now have functioning buttons that  automatically know what to do when clicked.
• Created a P_Resource class and a loader function which loads a  directory of resources at startup, creating a new instance of P_Resource  for each one. Things like wood, seeds, raw food, so on. Plan later to  make the loader script work from a JSON so it's possible to edit  client-side.

Not listed but also important things, I set up a private git repo  for homestead (thank you Goldie for that advice). I wasn't clear on the  benefits of solo development using one but I am now, so I have one. I  also have my own Trello I'm using to keep track of what goes where and  the order in which to do things, and in a profound bit of novelty,  things that are completed.
 

I wanted to get more done but had a run of bad pain days. They're easing  off so I'll be back to it tomorrow. Next steps are to create a more  detailed browser of a facility's amenities. Once that's done I'll flesh  out amenities a little more, create a display for resources, and see if I  can get amenities to accept a resource as an input. A herb garden  accepting thyme seeds, for instance. Then it'll be to build the week end  system to calculate changes and start advancing time. I have a couple  ideas of the scripts I'll need to do that, so we'll see what works.