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OK. Here we go. What we do is recurse down through the panel structure (so we're following our panels in a time-like fashion), collecting drawing objects as we go. Characters and sound effects will be completely specified as drawing primitives; text will be generated into graphic files using _maketext, and each and every object in the lot will be fully specified during this phase.

%characters = (); @visible = (); @visible_next = (); $panelnumber = 0; scan_layout ($cartoon); sub scan_layout { my $panel = shift; See Scanning a panel for layout items } See Miscellaneous functions for doing layout

Let's define the instantiate_character subroutine:

See Instantiating a visible character

So now, just for documentation and debugging, we write our final XML out to stdout. There will (later) be a follow-on step which will generate map HTML so we can include links in our cartoons, but that'll come later.

open O, ">layout.xml"; xml_write (O, $cartoon); print O "\n"; close O;

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