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1 | Jexer Work Log |
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8c236a98 KL |
4 | July 15, 2017 |
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6 | I think I have cleaned up most of the window show/hide/activate mess | |
7 | in TApplication. Demo4 has some cool interactions between a | |
8 | background TDesktop and several foreground TWindows, which helped | |
9 | expose bugs. | |
10 | ||
11 | July 9, 2017 | |
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13 | While working on TWindow.hide/show I decided that I am sick of | |
14 | TApplication's active window handling. TApplication makes lots of | |
15 | assumptions, things are too fragile between modal and not, and one | |
16 | cannot easily say window.activate(). So I will also be changing that | |
17 | too. ... Code is still a bit of a mess, but hooks are in place at | |
18 | least for show/hide/activate. | |
19 | ||
20 | July 8, 2017 | |
21 | ||
22 | Qodem 1.0.0 released last month, I had a vacation, and a Jexer user | |
23 | (nikiroo) started opening up pull requests. :-) So back unto the | |
24 | breach we go! | |
25 | ||
26 | TButton is now animated so that there is some feedback when selected | |
27 | via keyboard. StringJustifier was written which permits TText's to | |
28 | have left/centered/right and full justification. TDesktop is now in | |
29 | too which can act as a permanent max-sized window without borders. | |
30 | ||
31 | Next up is Viewport, an interface to collect scrollbar API, and then a | |
32 | cleaner API for scrollable widgets and windows. After that is more | |
33 | window API: hide/show/maximize/restore, and unclosable windows. I am | |
34 | cherry-picking bits from @nikiroo's PRs, which will likely break them | |
35 | before it fixes things, but I will find some way to get Niki credited | |
36 | with those pieces. | |
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e685a47d KL |
38 | March 21, 2017 |
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40 | I am starting to gear up for making Jexer a serious project now. I've | |
41 | created its SourceForge project, linked it back to GitHub, have most | |
42 | of its web page set up (looks like Qodem's), and released 0.0.4. And | |
43 | then this morning saw an out-of-bounds exception if you kill the main | |
44 | demo window. Glad I marked it Alpha on SourceForge... | |
45 | ||
46 | Yesterday I was digging around the other Turbo Vision derived projects | |
47 | while populating the about page, and made a sad/happy-ish realization: | |
48 | Embarcadero could probably get all of them shut down if it really | |
49 | wanted to, including Free Vision. I uncovered some hidden history in | |
50 | Free Vision, such that it appears that Graphics Vision had some | |
51 | licensed Borland code in it, so there might be enough mud in the air | |
52 | that Free Vision could be shut down the same way RHTVision was. But | |
53 | even worse is the SCOTUS ruling on Oracle vs Google: if APIs are | |
54 | copyrighted (regardless of their thoughts on fair use), then any | |
55 | software that matches the API of a proprietary project might find | |
56 | itself subject to an infringement case. So that too could shut down | |
57 | the other API-compatible TV clones. | |
58 | ||
59 | Fortunately, Jexer (and D-TUI) is completely new, and has no API | |
60 | compatibility with Turbo Vision. Jexer could be a new root to a whole | |
61 | generation of TUI applications. | |
62 | ||
a7986f7b KL |
63 | March 18, 2017 |
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65 | TStatusBar is working, as is "smart" window placement. Overall this | |
66 | is looking quite nice. Found a lot of other small paper cut items and | |
67 | fixed them. It looks absolutely gorgeous on Mac now. | |
68 | ||
69 | Tomorrow I will get to the public wifi and get this uploaded. | |
70 | ||
71 | Time to call this 0.0.4 now though. We are up to 32,123 lines of | |
72 | code. | |
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55d2b2c2 KL |
74 | March 17, 2017 |
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76 | Jexer is coming back to active development status. I had a lot of | |
77 | other projects ahead of it in the queue, mostly Qodem but also Jermit | |
78 | and of course lots of actual day job work keeping me too tired for | |
79 | afterhours stuff. But here we are now, and I want to get Jexer to its | |
80 | 1.0.0 release before the end of 2018. After that it will be a | |
81 | critical bit of function for IWP and NIB, if I ever get those going. | |
82 | I need to re-organize the demo app a bit so that it fits within 80x25, | |
83 | and then get to TStatusBar. | |
84 | ||
85 | A status bar will be an optional part of TWindow. If it exists, then | |
86 | it will be drawn last by TApplication and get events routed to it from | |
87 | TWindow's event handlers. This will have the nice effect that the | |
88 | status bar can change depending on which window is active, without any | |
89 | real extra work on TApplication's part. | |
90 | ||
91 | Putting together a proper TODO now, with release and regression | |
92 | checklists. I think I will see if jexer is available at SourceForge, | |
93 | and if so grab it. Perhaps I can put together some good Turbo Vision | |
94 | resources too. At the very least direct people to the Borland-derived | |
95 | C++ releases and Free Vision. | |
96 |