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Rewrite entire randomizer in C++

David Greeson requested to merge c-plus-plus-randomizer into master

Summary

The time has finally come. I've been happy enough with my python prototyping that I'm finally ready to conver this project to c++ and maintain it like that from here. The work to get it compiled and running in Windows ended up being a ton of trouble, but I've finally been able to deliver an installer executable with all bundled dependencies as well as set the icon correctly.

Slight UI Tweak

I reorganized the layout of the UI, and I'm much happier with this new layout over the previous one I used. Now, the left column has all the non-stat related randomization configuration, the middle column contains the randomization configurations, and the right column has the modification configurations.

New Seed Feature

Now you can specify a seed that guarantees the same outcome of randomization given the same UI configuration. For example, if you generate a rom titled foo-abcedfg.gba using seed ffoobarr, and then deselect randomization of "Playable" units, the outcome will be different because the total number of random numbers pulled from the string will be different.

Performance Improvements

  • The final binary decreased from 69MB to 208KB
  • Average Memory usage decreased from 37.6MB to 19.2MB
  • Not really a "performance" improvement, but since it's statically linked to Qt, it uses the system default theme instead of the ugly default light theme.

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