It proved to be too fragile in its current implementation. It broke
pointers to incomplete structs and switch enum checking, and getting it
to work for other things was overly invasive. I still want the encoding,
but need to come up with something more robust.a
This fixes the dependency issues between qwaq and ruamoko. qwaq is
actually older than ruamoko. That little language feature test has come
a long way.
However, I'm considering moving to non-recursive make, but...
It doesn't look good, but it does have panel based windows working, and
using objects. Won't build reliably right now due to qwaq being in tools
and thus building before ruamoko, but I'll fix that next.
It seems that xterm automatically disables it when ncurses shuts down and
mate-terminal does not, or maybe a different version of something. Still,
good to clean up properly.
Now they reflect the curses functions they wrap. The externally visible
builtin names are not changed because the parameters are in x, y order
rather than curses' y, x order.
If the window is invalid and recovery is done, string ids will leak if
acquired before validation.
Afterwards, make the rest of the builtin wrappers consistent: extract
parameters, validate, [acquire resources], generate command.
Now that the initial prototype seems to be working well, it's time to
implement more commands. I might have to do some wrappers for actual
command writing (and result reading) as it looks like there will be a
lot of nearly identical code.
So far, no threading has been set up, and only window creation and
printing have been updated, but the basics of the design seem to be
sound.
The builtin functions now no longer call ncurses directly: the build
commands and write them to a command buffer.
Commands that have return values (eg, window creation) write their
results to a results buffer that the originating builtin function
reads. Builtin functions that expect a result "poll" the results buffer
for the correct result (marked by the same command). In a single
UI-thread environment, the results should always be in the same order as
the commands, and in a multi-UI-thread environment, things should
(fingers crossed) sort themselves out as ONE of the threads will be the
originator of the next available result.
Strings in commands (eg, for printing) are handled by acquiring a string
id (index into an array of dstring_t) and including the string id in the
written command. The string id is released upon completion of the
command.
Builtin functions write commands, acquire string ids, and read results.
The command processor reads commands, releases string ids, and writes
results.
Since commands, string ids, and results are all in ring buffers, and
assuming there is only one thread running the builtin functions and only
one thread processing commands (there can be only one because ncurses is
not thread-safe), then there should never be any contention on the
buffers. Of course, if there are multiple threads running the builtin
functions, then locking will be required on the builtin function side.
I expect I will need several messaging buffers, and ring buffers tend to
be quite robust. Replacing the event buffer code with the macros made
testing easy.
id and z seem to always be 0.
Ironically, it turns out that the work needed for "int id" and "large"
struct nil init wasn't strictly necessary to get to this point, but
without having done that work, I wouldn't know :)
Such declarations were being lost, thus in the following, the id field
never got added:
typedef struct qwaq_mevent_s {
int id;
int x, y, z;
int buttons;
} qwaq_mevent_t;
With this, the VA is very close to being safe to use in a threaded
environment (so long as each VM is used by only one thread). Just the
debug file hash and source paths to sort out.
Other than consistency with printf(), I'm not sure why we went with the
printed size as the return value; returning the resultant strings makes
much more sense as dsprintf() (etc) can then be used as a safe va()
typedef is meant to create a simple renaming of a potentially complex
type, not create a new type. Keeping the parameter type alias info makes
the types effectively different when it comes to overloaded function
resolution, which is quite contrary to the goal. Does expose some
breakage elsewhere, though.
Other than its blocking of access to certain files, it really wasn't
that useful compared to the functions in qfs, and pointless with access
to qfs anyway.
The progs execution code will call a breakpoint handler just before
executing an instruction with the flag set. This means there's no need
for the breakpoint handler to mess with execution state or even the
instruction in order to continue past the breakpoint.
The flag being set in a progs file is invalid.
