[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 0.13.0 plans

[Filippos K]

IMHO, having a "standard" key for save/load for every engine would be great, and
would be extremely useful especially in small devices. F5 sounds like a good solution
I believe.

The only games I know that F5 is used are Police Quest 1 (as a shortcut for
the siren, if memory serves well) and Drascula (as a shortcut for one of the standard
actions, which are assigned to F1-F8. F5 is "Open" I think)

Filippos

> From: max at quendi.de
> To: sev at scummvm.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:26:31 +0100
> CC: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] ScummVM 0.13.0 plans
> 
> 
> Am 15.12.2008 um 07:24 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:
> 
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > I would like to drop a short notice that I am going to initiate the
> > release cycle this month. The release should be around end of  
> > February.
> >
> > We already have enough new code and games, still some work needs to be
> > done with GUI, but even without that it looks pretty decent.
> 
> Well, there are a few things that should be cleaned up / fixed before  
> a release, IMO:
> 
> * In SCUMM, the F5 and F6 menus have lots of overlap. I really would  
> like to get rid of the whole F5-Menu in SCUMM (saves some more code  
> size, too). The only thing missing for that is the "Help" menu. While  
> I am unsure about how useful that is in reality, we shouldn't just  
> drop it out of laziness. So, there should be a way to add custom  
> buttons to the GMM...
> 
> * How to trigger the GMM: F6 was always meant only as a temporary  
> assignment. There is a FIXME in line 395 of backends/events/default/ 
> default-events.cpp about this, too. One option would be to change this  
> from F6 to F5. BUT I am told some games use F5 (and also F6) for  
> internal stuff...
> 
> At the very very least, this assignment should be moved from  
> DefaultEventManager into the backends. Then backends and their PORTERS  
> can decide when to send EVENT_MAINMENU. E.g. when a special button  
> combo on the game controller is pressed...
> 
> For the SDL backend, we could either map F6 or map F5 to this. But  
> some games, I am told, use F5 / F6 already. (Can somebody please  
> remind me which that are again?) So maybe we should let engines  
> (temporarily) override this? Or can somebody think of a good global  
> hotkey we could use?
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > For the curious ones of you, we will not announce DW1/2 support in
> > 0.13.0. We are going to settle down the freeware plans first.
> > Unfortunately it looks like we have to reinitiate most of the contacts
> > as Ender simply ignores our requests to pass all the correspondence.
> > Similar thing is with LEC lawyers' mails. Looks like we pretty lost
> > those leads. :(
> 
> Indeed. I still hope Ender re-appears to briefly "hand over the keys",  
> but my hopes are not high :-(
> 
> Bye,
> Max
> 
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