Re: [Alephmodular-devel] GUI: 0.4 planning

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

I really need to draw up a diagram of things just so I can keep things 
straight in my head for organization.


Preferences I was thinking of as a relatively platform ignorant core 
object with access to a file and arbitrary groups of data. This would 
have accessors to read/write the data.

Aside of this we would have some code that would list off appropriate 
preferences, fill in any other data that's needed (For instance a list 
of external map files to select from)

And then we'd need some code to actually display a dialog box.


Unfortunately, I seem to have just lost the ability to compile 
AlephOne-SDL again. Or I'd go check out the setup network game dialog. 
Codewise I'm not quite seeing what you were getting at. I see a lot of 
SDL code for assembling its dialog box.
...
Ah I see. You have to create the dialog box using SDL code. But to 
actually tie the controls to current values you're able to overload an 
existing function... fill_in_game_setup_dialog(...)

A useful refinement of each GUI for themselves. A half step towards 
what I was thinking of for Cross-platform code. (Which would be one 
dialog description and poof, there it is for each platform.)

-Jeremy