Re: [RFC] New menu design based on MVC

[Bean]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Colin D Bennett<address@hidden> wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote on Thursday 25 June 2009:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:07:18PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The current menu system is a little chaotic, the various components
>> > are mixed together which make it difficult to maintain and extend.
>> > Therefore, I propose a new design which seperates model, view and
>> > controller.
>
> I would definitely like to get my graphical menu stuff committed before you
> make such changes... :-)

Hi,

Oh, glad to know that, please commit your patches soon.

>
>> Isn't Colin already working on a redesign of the menu?
>
> Yes, but I haven't drastically changed the design of the core menu system
> except to add the concept of a "menu viewer" so that the text menu and
> graphical menu viewers can be treated uniformly at a higher level.
>
> In fact, I am nearly ready to commit my graphical menu changes.  I was hoping
> to track down an apparent memory leak that shows up when switching themes many
> times in a row, but I don't have to let that prevent me from committing the
> current state of things.  I know Vladimir (phcoder) has done some work to get
> an SDL video driver working for grub-emu; I am hoping that I can somehow use
> memory debugging tools to track down my memory leak.
>
> Does anyone have an idea if a tool like Valgrind would work with grub-emu to
> find the source of memory leaks?  I guess it should if grub-emu is using
> libc's malloc() and free() functions, right?
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
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Bean