X-Git-Url: https://git.nikiroo.be/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fworklog.md;h=2573fb2cd6ae5701841b21ad0fca893213810bd4;hb=42873e30bf487bc0b695d60652dba44f82185dbb;hp=a169b68cddb6d99c9386a40052d1694f33548df7;hpb=2fef9c6eaa2ba32e7a14ea1e469ec471b05019a2;p=fanfix.git diff --git a/docs/worklog.md b/docs/worklog.md index a169b68..2573fb2 100644 --- a/docs/worklog.md +++ b/docs/worklog.md @@ -1,6 +1,50 @@ Jexer Work Log ============== +August 7, 2017 + +Had trouble sleeping, what with a bunch of imaginative thoughts for +this release. jexer.backend will be the ultimate destination for +jexer.session and most of jexer.io. TerminalReader will be the +interface for keyboard and mouse events. cmScreenConnected and +cmScreenDisconnected will be new events to represent a screen +appearing/disappearing, and MultiBackend will be a new backend +multiplexer that goes full XRandR. Several new demos demonstrating +multi-screen support will be coming along. + +August 6, 2017 + +Time to clean up more API, particularly between Backend and Screen. +Both of these will be interfaces soon, so that one could easily +subclass JComponent and implement both Screen and Backend. The +original code evolved out of Qodem, where screen.c and input.c were +two different things leading to ECMA48Screen and ECMA48Terminal, but +now there is really no need to keep them separate. It also +complicates the constructors, as these are basically friend classes +that have used package private access to get around their artificial +separation. + +When I get this done it should be a lot easier to do any of: + +* Pass a JFrame or JComponent to SwingBackend and have it add itself, + like any other Swing widget. + +* Construct a SwingBackend and add it to any regular JComponent. + +* Have multiple TApplications running inside the same Swing + application, including having actions affect each other. (Will also + need to ensure that TWidgets/TWindows are not in different + TApplication collections.) + +* Build a Backend/Screen multiplexer, so that one could have a ECMA48 + TApplication listening on a port and a local Swing monitor for it. + +* Build a Backend/Screen manager, so that one could have multiple + ECMA48 screens acting as a single large screen (e.g. XRandR). + +Now I need to decide which package will collect Backend, SessionInfo, +and Screen. jexer.io has some java.io stuff, so it stays anyway. + July 28, 2017 Got very busy with my meatspace life, now getting a chance to come