[Scummvm-devel] String fragments and system strings in SCI
Max Horn
max at quendi.de
Wed Sep 16 00:03:46 CEST 2009
Hi Willem,
thanks for the write-up. This seems to coincide with how I understood
the situation, so I feel less confused now :).
Based on all this, I would agree that storing all string as reg_t
arrays is the way to go. It should be rather easy and solve the
fundamental issue for good.
So, we could turn the StringFrags object into a class like
Common::String, which provides methods to modify the string it
represent, but internally does all storage in a reg_t array. I.e. turn
the imperative style code in stringfrag.cc into a C++ class. To be
more explicit, this class would offer methods for...
* converting to/from Common::String
* accessing a char at a certain position
* concatenation, extracting substrings, etc. etc.
I think it should be possible to implement this cleanly and quickly :).
Cheers,
Max
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