   Tool Development
  How do I get started in tool development, along the lines of a 2D map-making tool? My biggest question is how to I code it so I can have the UI, and an overview of the level, in a window?   
  There is actually a book out about this subject.  Forget its full name but it's something like, "game tool development".  It's new, within the last year I believe, it uses C# and WinForms if I remember correctly.   ;Quote:Original post by Mike2343There is actually a book out about this subject.  Forget its full name but it's something like, "game tool development".  It's new, within the last year I believe, it uses C# and WinForms if I remember correctly.Not to mention that it was written by one of our very loved Graham. And it's called Game Engine Toolset Development. I sugges you to read both John Hattan's review and the Amazon reviews if you want to get a clear idea of whata this book contains.;  I fell in loooove with Python and WxWindows when making a level/script editor for my 4E4 contest entry, which by the way never got done in time.. The level editor has about twice the functionality, playability and roughly 3k lines more of code in it :)I can only recommend using Python for rapid development of tools   