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Program logic is currently glued with the GUI. Separation is needed.

Create a board class that overrides the Fl_Widget class, and use it to replace the Tiles, since they take up a lot of graphical memory, if the window is large enough.

The Main.cpp file is too big (>1000 lines of code). Consider refactoring.

• Dynamic menu creation #5
• Separate logic from GUI #10

Program needs a configuration file (and parser). Maybe json or something?

This is a comment thread for a better rule creation system and implementation.

Things that it needs to take care of:

• rule parsing
• rule representation

The original implementation involved a single std::vector<int> which held positive numbers separated by a -1. Format is of the following: S/B, where S indicates the number of cells neighbouring such that the cell survives the iteration; B indicates the number of cells neighbouring a cell such that birth occurs. For example, Game of Life would be represented by the rule "2, 3, -1, 3"

Make menubar creation dynamic (i.e. using some configuration)

Use RLE format for serialization.

The configuration system is messy, and needs to be redesigned and/or better implemented. There are too many global variables. We need one variable that stores everything else in a dictionary or something similar.

Also consider splitting functions into separate files because the main file is over 1k lines long, and takes ages to scroll through. Reference to #6.

Refactor to use std::bitset instead of vectors. Makes it (possibly) more efficient.