[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/12634 Introducing EditorKit, a framework for creating data editors

[James Paige]

This is great! I am delighted-- and yes, I agree, EditEdit was the wrong
way to do built-in editor menus

This also makes me think about other non-reload lumps that I would like to
eventually convert to reload

On Sat., Nov. 13, 2021, 11:05 p.m. Ralph Versteegen, <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Phew, that took me at least 5x longer than expected, since starting a
> fortnight ago.
> This is something I've always wished we had. In particular, I wanted to
> make it easy to create editors for RELOAD docs, such as achievements. Next
> up I'm converting Platform Options. There are going to be many benefits.
> One goal is to allow changing/improving the appearance and UI of editors,
> for example using different fonts (and even text encodings) for editor text
> and game strings.
>
> I intend, over time, to rewrite almost every menu in Custom using
> EditorKit; I've tried to make it as flexible as possible to allow this. In
> contrast because Editor Editor is data-centric it's very restrictive and
> wouldn't be possible. I think it would still be cool to allow users to
> define their own data editors using editedit, but I don't think we want any
> builtin editors built that way.
>
> The biggest things missing are support for switching records, and submenus.
>
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 at 16:41, <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> teeemcee
>> 2021-11-13 19:41:29 -0800 (Sat, 13 Nov 2021)
>> 809
>> Introducing EditorKit, a framework for creating data editors
>>
>> EditorKit is intended to be flexible enough to reimplement almost every
>> existing
>> editor easily with minimal code. It's flexible because menu items are
>> defined
>> with code, not data.
>>
>> It's implemented on top of standardmenu and ModularMenu, which does
>> create some
>> inflexibility, but they can be extended to overcome that.  It's based on
>> how the
>> Debug Menu and General Game Data menu are implemented: you just Extend
>> EditorKit, add a define_items() method which lists the menu items, and
>> write
>> some code to load/save data if needed and you're done.
>>
>> Currently only basic data type editing is done (except floats), plus
>> partial
>> set of directives config settings and RELOAD node datatypes. No special
>> support for switching records or lists of items yet.
>> ---
>> U   wip/SConscript
>> A   wip/editorkit.bas
>> A   wip/editorkit.bi
>>
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