[Libvisual-devel] Ideas and plans for the upcoming weeks.

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

Heya,

Well since i'm in the middle of a move i will be offline
for a few weeks starting thursday, maybe friday.

I will have access to my computer so development won't stop!

I want to discuss a few items that i'd like others to give a
thought about before i start implementing during the time offline.

* Events:
	I want to make an event system for several kinds of
	events. Being user input events like keyboard and mouse
	and videosize events for now. I want to model the event
	system like that off SDL. If someone has a better idea
	on this and/or more suggestions for events that should be
	included please comment.

* Song info:
	It would be nice to have a system that sets song info
	like songname, artist, album, time elapsed etc etc, i
	haven't yet thought about this so if someone can
	come up with a nice API *Woohoo* :)

* Morph plugins:
	I've already discussed this with JC in private, the general
	idea around morph plugins is that they allow transistion
	from one plugin to another, the api is very easy and clean
	so i won't add much to this, if someone has a comment anyway
	go ahead.

* Internal changes:
	Currently i let the application developer manage the plugin
	lists, i want to move this into an visual_init and
	visual_quit that does this for you, i will add extra
	api calls that allows the developer to merge multiple
	plugin paths into one plugin registry list.

* Audio:
	Most notable change to the audio framework is that it'll include
	both a future and history buffer. 

* Random:
	- Function to detect mmx, sse.
	- FPS timing and caps helper functions.

* Auto scheduler:
	I might start on the effect auto scheduler which provides auto
	mated mixing, switching and morphing of plugins hinted using
	the plugin SCHED flags. Not sure how much time i'll put into
	it at this moment tho, we'll see.

* Plugin:
	More general framework for loading plugins, instead of a
	plugin framework for every plugin type.

This is it for now, after those weeks offline i want to dive into
openGL problems, and how we can make the framework rock for opengl
plugin as well, i'll need a lot of help this because i'm basicly
an opengl clueless person. I think Vitaly might be of great help
here *hint hint* :)

Please if you have comments comment fast, i'll be offline for
a few weeks after this week.

Cheers,
Dennis