Sometimes you have to use a bigger hammer...

This evening I spent awhile trying to hammer the SWIG'ed c# wrapper into something usable and less ugly. I've fixed all the "known" issues with the wrapper not wrapping some modules or functionality. The reduction in ugliness is related to the C-style enum and data type names. Things such as:

• TCOD_BKGND_NONE
• TCOD_key_status_t
• TCOD_NOISE_MAX_OCTAVES

While for C users there is nothing wrong with them, users of higher level languages expect identifiers with less capital letters and underscores. After spending an hour or two trying to do it "nicely", I finally settled with adding somewhere around 200 lines like:

%rename (NoiseMaxOctaves) TCOD_NOISE_MAX_OCTAVES;

While a few VIM macros made this less painful that first glace would suggest, it still took awhile. It isn't a very elegant solution it works.

Now that I can type the constants without wanting to cry, I'm working on converting the C# libtcod-net demo program to use the new API. It started with about 400 compiler errors and I still have 230 to go, so it will take a while. It also means converting magecrawl (and by extension all the users of libtcod-net) will take awhile.