Re: [Super-tux-devel] Re: [Super-tux-commit] supertux/src high_scores.cpp,1.11,1.12 high_scores.h,1.5,1.6

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Segunda, 19 de Abril de 2004 16:20, o Ingo Ruhnke escreveu:
> Ricardo Cruz <rm...@us...> writes:
> > Anyway, do you think high_scores.* should be merged with
> > configfile.* ? If nobody says anything, I'll do that.
>
> Highscores should be striped out (well, they already are mostly gone)
> since they serve no purpose at all the moment, ie. I can just reenter
> levels as much as I like an get more and more scores, a highscore
> doesn't make much sense there.
>
 I have already talked with you about that and you have a good point, players 
can have the points they want by just jumping into a laptop, for instance.
 But the solution is not necessarily to get ride of them, we should give 
scores in a smarter way avoiding that kind of situations.

> About merging them with configfile, I consider that a very bad idea,
> highscores is something that should be shared with other users and
> which should never ever be editited by the user, while configfiles are
> the inverse, ie. not shared and often hand edited.
>
 I mean file merging only... Both files are small and I don't like to see much 
files.

> If you need some work, try to cleanup the event passing in the menu
> code, so that its easy to add configurable keys, configurable joystick
> buttons and so that the menu state is more clear, currently there is
> lots of code that catches events and menu code catching the same
> events too, since nobody really knows who should catch what ending up
> in chaos and often even the wrong menus are displayed, since
> back-arrowing/escape pressing goes weird.

 Agreed that work is necessary, but I have stuff to do.

Ricardo Cruz

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