Some housekeeping work in the repo

Oleksii-Kshenskyi / btagsil

BTAGSIL = a Bullshit Text Adventure Game where Sky Is the Limit

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Some housekeeping work in the repo #30

Closed Oleksii-Kshenskyi closed 1 year ago

Oleksii-Kshenskyi commented 1 year ago

OUTDATED, PLEASE READ COMMENTS BELOW FOR MORE INFO

Now that I'm using a TUI library, I should implement some basic TUI first.

The requirements:

A bigger (80%-ish) window that would output all the text responses from the game.
A smaller (10-20%-ish) window that features an input prompt, this is where the user inputs commands/actions for the game to process/react to.
Test the ability to change the color of the window borders themselves and the text that the game outputs.
Figure out if it's possible to create a completely new window for the game (try using SDL2 as the renderer).

Oleksii-Kshenskyi commented 1 year ago

Decisions on UI in BTAGSIL

After a few days of experimentation with FTXUI, I've decided to:

Remove FTXUI from BTAGSIL;
Move Creating a UI into the Ideas Milestone;
Postpone the idea of Creating a UI for BTAGSIL until at least 0.3.0;
Prioritize getting a relatively stable and content-filled prototype ready first before deciding on implementing any kind of UI;
Think about creating a mini-framework for several possible entry points that each use a different UI. One may use console, the other might use a TUI, the third might use a GUI. Even if there's currently one "UI" (that is, just console I/O), there still has to be a skeleton for just adding more entry points in the future and for it all to just work. This should probably be a separate issue.

Oleksii-Kshenskyi commented 1 year ago

The reason for the decisions above is that after several days of experimentation with FTXUI, I realized that my use case, although trivial, is still not directly supported by FTXUI and moreover, it may not be directly supported by any TUI/GUI frameworks. Therefore, creating a functioning and easy to use UI that does exactly what I want may be its own milestone as it could take significant time and effort. And maybe it's even worth it to create a graphical UI with the "terminal" rendered and created on my own by myself using some sort of a graphics library like SDL2/GLFW/etc. However, whatever I decide, this should be thought about and implemented in the future, not right now when I don't even have a basic game prototype ready.

Oleksii-Kshenskyi commented 1 year ago

Branch 30 should be merged anyway, it contains some housekeeping commits for the nearly-empty repository.

Oleksii-Kshenskyi commented 1 year ago

What PR #34 actually did:

Re-introduced LICENSE and README.md into the repo after they were lost during the switch from Rust to C++;
Removed FTXUI completely from the project;
The main source file now uses Boost.HOF for some basic functional piping action, this is only meant to confirm that Boost.HOF is correctly included into the project and is working fine.