[Alephmodular-devel] Random musings online and thoughts towards 0.4

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

I've decided to toss some of my random thoughts and explorations and 
notes regarding Marathon and AlephModular into my Sourceforge diary. 
Consider them proto-notes and curiosities. It's not like AM has a lot 
of documentation yet. (It probably should in some fashion)

Right now I just started it off with a couple explorations of the 
rendering code, looking at details that a display class would need to 
deal with.

Head to http://sourceforge.net/users/brefin/ and check the View Diary & 
Notes link.


As to 0.4, I definitely want to address the basic hardware abstraction 
layer. Files, sounds, screen. I'd also like to settle some of the other 
basic support areas. wad files, preferences (internally, not gui). 
Further inspection needs to be done on areas like shell.cpp and 
interface.cpp and the preferences gui. Most notably and difficulty, 
abstracting the event loop.

I'll try and come up with a better document in the coming days. But 
something I'm curious about now is whether any of the programmers we 
have here have an interest in researching and planning a particular 
area of code? There is a reason this project's status on SourceForge is 
listed as 'planning' we need to develop/derive our own architecture for 
this if we want the modules :)

-Jeremy Parsons.