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Nope. I stopped using GNOME when 3.x landed and bounced around a lot before settling on a sort of hybrid install that used bits and pieces from XFCE and standalone aspects. Cinnamon wasn’t bad but had quite a few bugs in it that made it impractical for daily use.
They also take community contributions so that definitely helps 🙂
Terminal customization in the GUI is limited but I haven’t checked the settings files yet. Of course, you can always install a different terminal!
Display scaling definitely works better so my eyes are much happier. 🙂
The new version of PopOS does lean too much on Flathub for my liking (I greatly prefer the native system package manager) and it does have a nasty bug where it causes my screen to flicker after it comes back on from where the power manager shut it off, requiring a reboot to correct. Pretty annoying, that one.
We’ll get it figured out! It is weird that
TCHARis inwinnt.hinstead of something more sensible liketchar.h. The latter has support functions butTCHARitself is elsewhere. Maybe I need to clean up the Windows API as well (not happening! Too much work!)? 😛Yeah, Unicode will be a tad hairy due to inconsistent support. I remember that with BOSS, it took a ton of trial and error to determine what was Unicode compliant but support has improved immensely since then. The existing code doesn’t use the wide-character versions, either
In the main standard, we have cwctype and cctype for UTF-8. As we know from prior investigation,
wchar_tis implementation defined and thus not portable. There doesn’t exist equivalents for UTF-16, I don’t think, but I’ll need to do some more digging to make sure. We’ll also want to check to see what’s supported by the in-game engine for the in-game text.PopOS 24.04 landed yesterday for everyone. Update went without a hitch but you need to redo all of the settings since it replaced GNOME with Cosmic. Not too difficult over here as I kept things simple with this in mind (it was supposed to be released last year). Got most of them but still have a few left 🙂
Quite nice, really. Pretty different but still user friendly. Going to need to play with things as time allows to see how I like the changes
Probably wouldn’t have been a bad idea to wait a while but I wanted to get out of the holding pattern 😛
Great, thanks. Been forever since I had to worry about pointer arithmetic 😛
Probably should grab my old C textbook that’s on the bookcase as a refresher 🙂
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`ui/ directory is done and processing. Going to update the system as a large update just landed yesterday. 🙂
Since we’re not using windows.h, it looks like we’ll need to set the architecture manually for some reason. Shouldn’t need to but I’ll add a note that
_AMD64_needs to be set in the build script forwinnt.h.Another note: the book UI is incomplete as it doesn’t set the book data. The Book class holds book data but nowhere in the code-base is the
bookdata_tstruct actually used. Looks like it’s an incomplete feature. We’ll probably want a separate tracker item to keep up with this stuff.New tracker item: https://github.com/Walrus-Tech/MWEdit/issues/46
Feel free to add things to it as you come across them!
Had to back out some of the compatibility changes regarding
iscsym(). The function is supposed to take an integer/character but is being passed a character array instead. A few other uses just checked a single character so I left those in place. I’ve added notes in the code to investigate further to see what’s going on. There’s a good chance something will break with these functions so I can back the changes out if needed. The single character changes look good but we’ll find out. We can probably fix it by just checking the character the code comments say is being checked. I’ll leave that for another commit, though, so I don’t clutter the include commit too much. I’ve already got enough unrelated changes in it as it is.The code also checks a single character using the pointer version. Pointers always confused me so here’s that line:
if (!iscsym(*pID) && !(*pID == ' ')) {
pID is defined asconst TCHAR *pID. So*pIDis an array of the array, if I’m reading that correctly?Still becoming reacquainted with these things. Coming along, though.
For reference, they show up in
ui/edit_undo.cc,ui/script_dlg.cc, andui/utils.cc200 USD for a TKL mechanical….? That’s insane. You can get a really nice full layout mechanical keyboard for that price!
Ugh. Had something similar when I was browsing Discogs yesterday on the tablet: the click area for the sidebar stretched into the list area in portrait mode and had to put it in landscape to get it to function correctly. Not a fan of landscape as it’s more difficult to hold and browse that way.
Translation support is on the list! Haven’t used Weblate before but have certainly come across it. I can certainly add a note to the tracker to investigate it more. Once gettext has been implemented, we’d be able to apply to use the 160,000 string plan as an open source project. 🙂
Sorry that progress has been so slow lately. The code is in pretty rough shape and I can only do so much. I was really hoping to be further along after a year of work. No matter! I’ll get it shaped up, even if it takes me two hundred years!
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Issue updated with more information 🙂
Going through some old stuff and re-discovered Ortham’s (previously known as WrinklyNinja, name changed while I was away from the overall community) list of links: https://blog.ortham.net/buddah/
A lot of the tools on it are old and haven’t been updated in a decade but there may still be some useful stuff we can use for reference. Specifically, the BSA stuff as I haven’t found a good reference for the BSA format outside of UESP (Fallout and Starfield have alluded me so far).My preference is not to lean too heavily on existing code for reference, however. That risks us using the same algorithms when we could do things differently to get the same result. Personally, I’d prefer a breakdown of the actual formats and processes so I’ll keep investigating.
