It's about time this stuff is getting cleaned up seriously. Both a_pickups.cpp and a_artifacts.cpp are so overstuffed that it has become a chore finding stuff in there.
- Changed the glass shards so that they do not have to override FloorBounceMissile. It was the only place where this was virtually overridden and provided little usefulness.
- made 'out' variables work.
- fixed virtual call handling for HandlePickup.
- added a String class to allow attaching methods to the builtin string type. This works by checking if the left side of the member accessor is a string and just replacing the tyoe in this one place, all the rest is automatic.
- refactored the ModifyDamage interface to be more scripting friendly.
In general it should be avoided having to call directly into chained inventory functions because they are very problematic and prone to errors. So this got wrapped into a single handler (on AActor, not AInventory!) which will later make it easier to refactor the parameters of ModifyDamage to work better for scripting and avoid the chaining.
Two reasons for this:
1. if this has to be routed through the VM each recursion will cost 1000 bytes of stack space which simply is not good.
2. having the virtual function only care about the item itself but not the entire inventory chain is a lot less error prone for scripting.
Since the scripting interface needs a separate caller function anyway this seemed like a good time to change it. The same will be done for the other chained inventory handlers as well.
Needless to say, this is simply too volatile and would require constant active maintenance, not to mention a huge amount of work up front to get going.
It also hid a nasty problem with the Destroy method. Due to the way the garbage collector works, Destroy cannot be exposed to scripts as-is. It may be called from scripts but it may not be overridden from scripts because the garbage collector can call this function after all data needed for calling a scripted override has already been destroyed because if that data is also being collected there is no guarantee that proper order of destruction is observed. So for now Destroy is just a normal native method to scripted classes
- implemented multiple-return-value assignment. Due to some grammar conflicts the originally intended Lua-inspired syntax of 'a, b = Function()' could not be done, so it's '[a, b] = Function()'
- changed Dehacked weapon function lookup to check the symbol table instead of directly referencing the VM functions. Once scriptified these pointers will no longer be available.
- removed all special ATAGs from the VM. While well intentioned any pointer tagged with them is basically unusable because it'd trigger asserts all over the place.
- scriptified A_Punch for testing pass-by-reference parameters and stack variables.
- split FinishActor into several functions. While DECORATE can, ZSCRIPT cannot do all this in one go.
- split the state finalization into several class-specific virtual functions.
The reason this is not set by default is because before that anyone could call A_WeaponReady within their Deselect state which would have allowed players to fire even when dead
- Converted P_MovePlayer and all associated variables to floating point because this wasn't working well with a mixture between float and fixed.
Like the angle commit this has just been patched up to compile, the bulk of work is yet to be done.
This was implemented by adding a new inventory flag INVENTORY.NOTELEPORTFREEZE so that the effect can both be activated for other items and deactivated for the two that currently have it.
Introduce AActor::TakeInventory, which unifies DoTakeInv from ACS and DoTakeInventory from Decorate, and AInventory::DepleteOrDestroy, which is extracted from the DoTakeInv core function, and use both where they're needed.
I don't know if the differences between DoTakeInv and DoTakeInventory were intentional, so I kept both behaviors.
- "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Some of the changes were downright wrong and some were pointless, so undo
everything that doesn't look like an actual improvement.
Conflicts:
src/CMakeLists.txt
src/b_think.cpp
src/g_doom/a_doomweaps.cpp
src/g_hexen/a_clericstaff.cpp
src/g_hexen/a_fighterplayer.cpp
src/namedef.h
src/p_enemy.cpp
src/p_local.h
src/p_mobj.cpp
src/p_teleport.cpp
src/sc_man_tokens.h
src/thingdef/thingdef_codeptr.cpp
src/thingdef/thingdef_function.cpp
src/thingdef/thingdef_parse.cpp
wadsrc/static/actors/actor.txt
wadsrc/static/actors/constants.txt
wadsrc/static/actors/shared/inventory.txt
- Added register reuse to VMFunctionBuilder for FxPick's code emitter.
- Note to self: Need to reimplement IsPointerEqual and CheckClass, which
were added to thingdef_function.cpp over the past year, as this file no
longer exists in this branch.
