Re: [CsMain] IMPORTANT: Programmers, Read this

[jorrit <jor...@uz...>]

My first impression when I saw the number of changed files caused by Eric

Sunshine was that he totally rewrote Crystal Space :-)

It seems it is not that dramatic but nevertheless those look like good
and worthwhile modifications.

Thanks Eric.

Greetings,

Eric Sunshine wrote:

> IMPORTANT: Programmers, Read This
>
> If you are writing a program which uses Crystal Space or CSWS, please
> take note that the signatures of the following methods have changed:
>
>     csSystemDriver::Initialize()
>     csApp::InitialSetup()
>
> If you have overridden either of these methods in your local subclass,
> then you must update your subclass to reflect the new method
> signatures.
>
> CAUTION: The compiler will not warn about the conflicting signatures.
> Your program may experience mysterious initialization problems if you
> fail to employ the new signatures.
>
> ==== CVS Updates ====
>
> - Performed a fairly extensive overhaul of csIniFile.  Except for the
>   lowest level I/O functionality, most methods have undergone radical
>   simplification.  Details are as follows:
>
>     - Enumeration methods now return convenient iteration objects
>       instead of working through inconvenient call-back functions.
>     - Reimplemented most functionality of csIniFile, itself, in terms
>       of iterators, thus significantly simplifying the implementation
>       by eliminating a tremendous amount of nearly identical
>       copy/paste code.
>     - Modified clients of csIniFile to work through the new iterator
>       objects.
>     - Added missing 'const' qualifiers to several methods.
>
> - Re-engineered the way the Apple/NeXT ports generation the
>   application's main menu.  Details are as follows:
>
>     - Moved the main menu configuration information for all
>       Apple/NeXT platforms to the new configuration file "next.cfg"
>       which is loaded at run-time.  Removed the NeXTMenu.cfg files
>       which hard-coded menu configuration into the application at
>       compile time.
>     - Rewrote NeXTMenu.cpp to load menu configuration from the new
>       configuration file.  Menu related keywords in configuration are
>       now lower-case rather than upper-case as they were in
>       NeXTMenu.cfg.
>
> - Added several hundred (or more) missing 'const' qualifiers
>   throughout the project.
>
> -- ES
>
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