Weekly development report 2021-11-20

Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source projects in the last week.

Steam Sky

Roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme (written in Ada)

I'm not sure if I should be happy about that, but finally I found something to fix in the stable version. :) It not always delete saved games files after finishing the game. This mean, in around 24 hours after this post, the new version will be available for download.

In the development version of the game, busy week as usual:

• The work on more informative headers for various dialogs finished for now. This took the most time in this week.
• Fixed the same problem with not deleting saved games files like in the stable version.
• The help topics list now properly scrolls to the currently selected help topic when launching the help window from another screen in the game.
• The most visible things in this week: added option to assign the crew members during setting the crafting order. This should reduce a bit micromanagement related to the crafting.
• Another thing related to the setting crafting order UI: small, but worth mentioning: the button for setting the crafting order now change it label based on the type of crafting order to set. For example, for deconstructing it will be Deconstruct for crafting will be Craft.
• In-game help updated with information about the new assign system during setting crafting orders.
• Also, in-game help got some fixes for various typos there.
• Fixed crash when showing the selected workshop menu when it has set crafting order.
• As always, code cleanup with static code analyzer. It again triggered some big changes to the code, not visible for players. At least, I hope not visible. :)

TASHY2

Ada binding to Tcl/Tk, the new version of TASHY

After some tries, I decided that the new approach to the conversion of Colors_Names enumeration values to String isn't the best option. The colors name in Tk are (fortunately) regular, thus they can be easily converted from and to Ada Strings. Thus, I used the same approach as in Tk.Bind package. This is now done, same as the proper unit tests for subprograms which convert values. The various Color_Type types used by packages are merged into one type and added subprograms to convert the type to Ada String also. And unit tests for them. :) After that, all fields in various records related to the colors changed from Tcl_String type to Color_Type. This task is finished for now too. From the other things: the code documentation for a few subprograms updated either.

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

The most work this week was in the console version of the program:

• The main menu of the program in the console version is now fully translated and translatable.
• This of course, triggered an update of translations of the program.
• Fixed refreshing the preview window after closing the bookmarks' menu in the console version.
• Fixed typo in the error message when the user is trying to enter non-existing directory from Enter your destination option in bookmarks menu in the console version.
• Standard, copy+pasted from the last weeks: some work with fixing problems reported by the AdaControl. Some things never changes.

www.laeran.pl

Yass project to generate this website

The work on the pages related to the Ada Linux Package Repository slowly moves forward. The main page has now more information about the available Linux distributions and CPU architectures also added documentation about packages requirements and tutorial how to create Debian package for a simple program.

From under-the-hood, the default template for pages got option to set custom link for Back button. This should reduce amount of needed templates in the future (when I finish basic work on Ada Linux Package Repository).

Ada Linux Package Repository

Various Linux distributions repository with programs and libraries related to Ada programming language

The work on the repository documentation continues. But this was mentioned in the section above. :) From the packages: added new repository for Raspbian distribution. Also, Debian and Ubuntu repositories now also available for arm64 architecture. This triggered fixes for packages python3-e3-core and extrafont to made them more various CPU architectures friendly. At this moment there is "small" problem with Debian Testing repository: due to some problems, packages libxmlada and gprbuild are removed from the official Debian repository. I hope it is temporary, as far I see the work on fix is under the way. So, here also everything should back to normal too.

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