Store all the captured data in a structured data format

lezsakdomi commented 6 years ago

For ex. in memory, using arrays. Or in JSON. Or in YAML. etc...

... rather than writing it immedieately to STDOUT

Advantages:

Could be exported/imported easily for separate editing (see #18 )
Allows splitting the program into more smaller modules (see #62 )
Makes it possible to capture all output of (even different than xinput) programs (see #75 )
Makes the program more portable (no issues yet, but see the distribution milestone)
Implies more robust error handling (not required yet, but bugs are always there)
And possibly many more

nonnymoose commented 6 years ago

Do you want to store images in memory too? I don't think that that would work...

lezsakdomi commented 6 years ago

Maybe. I wouldn't state. Maybe it's a good point, to have an option for it? (The size of images can grow unexceptedly fast)

lezsakdomi commented 6 years ago

Best to start writing buffer to disk when memory gets full or some threshold reached

nonnymoose / xsr