[Scummvm-devel] Merging remaining GSoC branches (Attention PORTERS!)

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Thu Oct 28 23:28:40 CEST 2010


Am 28.10.2010 um 18:05 schrieb Johannes Schickel:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> so what is the status of that branch? I am eager to merge it, or at least the modularization parts of it. Maybe if you told us wha thte undesirable bits are, we could either peform a partial merge, or help resolving the issues?
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I feel especially in the modularization parts we need some more
> improvements, of course those can be done after a merge too.
> 
> Most important is the most unintuitive way of adjusting the mouse
> coordinates in the SDL backend for example. Currently the graphics
> managers attach themselves in the *global* event dispatcher and eat up
> mouse move etc. events and adjust the coords according to the
> currently setup scaling mode for example and push them back as
> synthetic events. That is IMHO horrible design.

Agreed, that sounds rather bad.

Thanks for the info!

> 
> I had planned to tackle that but I can't give any time estimation on
> that, so in case we want the branch merged right now fine with me.

Well, I have no problem with waiting longer, as long as I know what I am waiting for ;). At least then I can work on it myself if I feel the desire to do so, as opposed to sitting by w/o having any idea about what's causing the holdup :).


Bye,
Max



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