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Bugs, Problems, Things that are missing or would be nice:
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- rethink user interface (keys)
* remove xcthugha control panel. make something better.
text in control panel is one step
* show and hide control panel while running
* make a small preview window
* interface is not updated when CoreOption changes (new random palette)
* make an "external interface" to cthugha:
listen at a port for command like
"change flame up-slow",
"sound channels 2", "sound file something.mp3",
"query flame" (to get a list of possible flame values)
...
Then use this interface for an extra user interface (maybe running or
displaying on a different machine). Also use this interface for
communication when doing sound reading in an extra process.
Some parts of the sound server could be reused.
Problem: Cthugha must send automatic changes to the interface,
or interface must query the current values from time to time.
a keymap would be relative easy then: (with different "modes",
so that one key can have different meanings):
key 'a' mode 0: change flame up-slow
key '1' mode 0: change mode 1
key 'a' mode 1: change display down
...
* different interfaces
- on-screen - as it is now to svgalib and xcthugha without control panel
- on-term - xcthugha with text-on-term or cthugha-server
- extern - a new interface program(s) communicating with xcthugha
- sound related stuff
* when using 'xmp' and closing cthugha normally then
no text will be displayed afterwards,
using ^C works???
* sound server is not working well (ignore for now)
* find a good value describing the "speed of the sound"
* sound reading code is not very stable (and nice)
* there are reports about errors, that I can not explain
maybe --snd-method solves some of them
* CD player and mixer are not very good
* better (faster, more reliable) sound reading (dma, mmap, ...)
* select sound input at runtime (dsp, file, ...)
* playlist for files
* sound formats: I only can test 8bit unsigned and 16bit signed le
Is the rest working?
* Generate random noise you can listen to
- code stuff
* use threads (instead of processes with shared memory)
this would make it hard to compile cthugha on non-linux machines
threads and Mesa seems to be a little bit problematic
* check for "endianes" errors
* change "load" code.
* clean up tab directory
* endianess and int/long is not always defined clearly
what if it is neither big/little endian -> use the value
of the BYTE_ORDER from endian.h if possible
- ideas for new flame/display/...
* like jump, but on a circle
* Movement on the inside of a ring
* load xStream files (XSE) directly (make compiler)
* load arbitrary image files
* multiple entries in .cmd files
* set parameters for cmd_* files at runtime
* random palettes
* better inclusion of images
images as background, images mapped on 3D objects,
images as backside of 3D effects (one side of a plane the buffer
the other side some nice picture)
* make flames smoother and "slower" - I think they fade out too fast,
so too much of the buffer remains black
- OpenGL
* Use Images - prepare textures from PCXs in advance
* use GLX instead of glut
* print screen for GL
* light effects
- X11 stuff
* react to geometry in the normal way
* support all visual types (Cthugha on a mono display - does it make sense?)
Which ones are working?
- Strange errors
* credits are not displayed when no other text is displayed before
* 32bpp mode is extremely slow, why? seems to be an XServer problem
- cthugha-server: sometimes connections stay active
- check network code
- inclulde code from John Morton (network, remote control)
- in configure.in: check for -lsocket, -lnsl
network code is not working on Sun
- color ncurses
- continuing (after ^Z) is not working for cthugha, when using --exec
- control 3D movement also with joystick
- speedups
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