[Adonthell-devel] Config file stuff committed

[ksterker]

Hi all,

I have just committed the new configuration code. The classes defined in 
base/configuration.h contain the main functionality and low level stuff. 
base/configio.h contains a class that takes care of loading and saving. That 
means, configuration itself does not depend on libxml, so we could easily 
replace that part by simply providing different load/save routines. Not that 
this will be neccessary, but its cleaner that way.

There is a test script (/test/configtest.py), that shows the various features 
of the configuration code. It'll create a sample config file 
(~/.adonthell/adonthellrc) and do some further tests.


One point that is still open is the following: how can we notify the different 
modules whenever an option has changed. My idea is to allow each module to 
register a callback that is connected to a certain section of the configuration 
file. Whenever a change is made to that section, that callback is called. This 
would allow the module to re-read its configuration and make the neccessary 
adjustments. Perhaps, we can even pass the name of the option that has changed 
to the callback, so that a module does exactly know which option was changed in 
the first place.

Cheers,

Kai

P.S. Now I'll really concentrate on characters and all associated stuff. 

How's the mapengine going, Alex?