2006-11-03 v0.10 Tels - 143 tests

• require Perl v5.8.1 (anything older is untested and unsupported!)
• bundle and use Module::Install
• update the distribution
• rename reset_ID() to resetID() to mark it as internal
• add POD correctness and coverage tests
• fix all POD errors and ommisions, fix spellings and some grammer

############################################################################## Older revision history:

2003-03-02 v0.01 Tels - 166 tests (first version)

• added Game::3D::Point, w/ 3D center
• added Game::3D::Area, Point plus 3D size and shape
• added Game::3D::Thingy, id, name, state, active/inactive, has outputs and can receive/send signals
• added Game::3D::Signal, export the signal names
• added Game::3D::Link to link two thingies together (in more complicated ways than just connecting the output from thingy #1 to thingy #2), features count, initial delay, resend delay, one-shot, invert, fixed output signal etc
• added Game::3D::Physical, isa Area and Thingy, plus mass
• added Game::3D::Living, a living thing (like NPCs etc)
• added Game::3D::Marker, isa Point and a Thingy
• added Game::3D::Trigger, isa Area and a Thingy

2003-03-06 v0.02 Tels - 181 tests

added

• basic tests for Trigger.pm
• Area: has rotation()

fixed

• Game::3D::Point::center() renamed to pos()

2003-03-08 v0.03 Tels - 180 tests

added

• Thingy: load() and _construct(), load hirarchy and objects from text file
• example text-adventure game in ./examples showing class-hirarchy and level loading code
• forgot to include trigger tests Caveat: Some classes like Trigger, Living, Marker, Physical etc might be gone

  from the next version, since they can be replaced by text-definitions in the object hierarchy, completely!

2004-02-29 v0.05 Tels - 73 tests

• removed anything except base classes: Thingy.pm, Link.pm and Signal.pm
• Links are by default OR gates, but can be switched to AND gate type
• Thingy: keep inputs
• Thingy: on DESTROY, remove links to and from us, and ourself from parent Thingy
• Thingy: del_input(), del_output(), unlink()
• Link: react to DIE, KILL, ACTIVATE, DEACTIVATE and don't relay them
• Thingy: react to DIE and KILL signals
• Thingy: don't relay ACTIVATE and DEACTIVATE signales

2004-03-02 v0.06 Tels - 83 tests (not released)

• Sensor.pm: sense state change and trigger on them
• Thingy: inputs(), outputs(): IDs if input/output objects
• 3D.pm: wrote a lot of documentation to cover basics and details
• added: World.pm:contains everything

2004-03-05 v0.07 Tels - 102 tests

• added Template.pm
• World.pm: update(), render(), register(), unregister(), thinkers()
• Thingy.pm: as_string()

2004-03-20 v0.08 Tels - 111 tests

• SIGNAL_xxx to SIG_xxx
• removed SIG_KILL
• added 15 states (STATE_0..STATE_15) and signals so that you can send these to objects to change their state
• added 15 signales (SIG_NOW_0..SIG_NOW_15) so objects can announce when they finished changing their state
• SIG_ON and SIG_OFF (and their aliases) switch between STATE_0 and STATE_1
• World: cache time upon update, added method time()
• added an update() routine to Thingy so that state transitions can happen

2004-03-21 v0.09 Tels - 129 tests

• Thingy: + added get(), and fixed is() and make() for fields + also Link, Sensor: call kill(), not DESTROY() + kill() sends out SIG_KILLED + don't output empty arrays/hashes in as_string() + also Template: store states as key 'state_0', not under 'states->[0]' + only unregister with world if actually contained in a world
• Templtate: + fixed bug in from_string(), can now read more than one template in a row + simplify as_string() output, from_string() reads back this format + honour field 'base' to set base class ('Thingy', 'Link' etc) + init_thing() has inheritance ('Foo::Bar' inherits defaults from 'Foo') + fixed bug in init_thing() regarding existing fields + init_thing() can deal with typeless defaults ("foo" vs STR="foo")
• Signal: + added SIG_UNKNOWN + map signal names <=> signal numbers (signal_name(), signal_by_name())
• World: + load templates really from a file, added tests for that + find_template()
• added some more doc for methods in World, Template etc

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