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BIG commit. Major change: old Options class is gone, all content values are loaded and saved automatically. All options updated to reflect this, some changed. Content restrutured a lot: New IContent module, Content module includes more functionality. New ContentLoader module to manage content loading/saving/translation. Translation module moved to content dir and cut down to reflect current usage. File format unchanged except renames: FontOptions -> Font, VideoOptions -> Screen. Font render mode and LCD filter options are now enums. GUI loading needs to create content (and set type for enums), but doesn't save/load value. Some setup of mainSchedule moved to mde.mainLoop. Content callbacks are called on content change now. ContentLists are set up implicitly from content symbols. Not as fast but much easier! Bug-fix in the new MTTagReader. Renamed MT *Reader maker functions to avoid confusion in paths.d. New mde.setup.logger module to allow logger setup before any other module's static this().
author Diggory Hardy <diggory.hardy@gmail.com>
date Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:46:03 +0000
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1 Copyright © 2007-2008 Diggory Hardy
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2 License: GNU General Public License version 2 or later (see COPYING)
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5 Make a special "trace" logger which keeps the last 20, say, trace messages and only output them when asked to do so, which might happen when an exception is caught. It might output them via the normal mechanisms, but only when asked (and not all messages may be in the correct order: trace messages might be logged later than they were added to the list).
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7 Use debug scope(failure) to output log messages in many places.
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10 GUI:
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11 -> Widgets:
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12 -> scripted widgets
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13 -> decent rendering/theme system
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14 -> events:
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15 -> Click events: widgets only receive clickEvent for left-button press, other button events handled alternatively from WidgetManager?
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16 -> Click callbacks: replace with "drag callback" notifying widget of release position (and widget)?
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17 -> possibly better for drag-and drop support
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18 -> Keyboard widget focus/selection:
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19 -> a widget is highlighted
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20 -> pressing an arrow key replaces widget with widget.nextInDirection (widget, direction)
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21 -> on non-parents, nextInDirection returns parent.nextInDirection (this, direction)
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22 -> on parent widgets, if widget is a child and not right against relevent edge,
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23 then tries to return next descendant in direction (only non-parent widgets are returned)
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24 else does same as non-parent widgets
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25 -> some widgets may popup a menu when activated
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26 -> caveats:
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27 -> all widgets need a highlighted state to show focus
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28 -> may require moving through a lot of widgets
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29 -> with complicated substructures, may not be very intuitive
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30 -> limit to popup menus?
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31 -> these keyboard events only passed if activated by code outside the WidgetManager and no text input callback is active?
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33 Content:
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34 -> Per-content undo support?
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37 Extend content with a validator function/delegate, specific to each class, which takes the new value and returns it or a corrected version of it. Not so good to do it generally from Content, since setting a new value via usual method will re-trigger validator and callbacks (e.g. bad validator could cause infinite loop).