[Buzztard-user] buzztard project status 01/10/2004

[Stefan K. <ko...@im...>]

hello everyone,

as usual - the summary of the month.

#1 buzz compatibillity
As I had shortly mentioned - we reached two important milestones regarding the
buzz compatibillity - we can fully decode the buzz song files including the
compressed waves. Secondly, we can run buzz machines. Still the buzz machine
wrapper needs a lot of work.

#2 bugfixes
This month we did not just added new feature, we concentrated on adding
unit-test and stabilising the code. We now have about 45 unit-tests and fix alot
of the memory management. The current code should be much stabler now.
It already pays back that we have decided to base the project on gobject. This
technology helps alot to *know* if there are meory leaks or not.

#3 new stuff
Despite all the fixing there is new stuff. First we have reorganized, fixed and
extended the reference docs. There are now three cross lined doc packages
(bt-core, bt-cmd, bt-edit).
Next is that we have some stuff for user-guides inplace. If the packages are
build on a system that has scrollkeeper that this is used (mean you find the
docs among other gnome apps).
Then we have application settings. Again we have platform independence layer.
When GConf is available it is used. Alternativly a plainfile config mechanism
taskes over (e.g. on the windows platform).
Finally the plugin-mechanism for song-io works. We have already set up a
sub-project for the buzz-song importer. The code compiles and alredy does a few
things (detects the file types). We now just need someone who rewrites all the
code from the buzz-song-loader test (C++ -> GObject)

#4 current work
Right now we have changed the file format a bit. All nodes with ids support
property hashtables. This is needed for e.g. storing application data into the
song. One of the next steps is to use that to draw the machine view.

We plan to gather at the end of october again to do more concentrated hacking.
Look at the webpage from time to time.

Have fun,

buzztard core developer team
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