Weekly development report 2022-02-05

Welcome to the weekly development report or what was done in my Open Source projects in the last week. As with the new month, two more projects are archived on GitHub and GitLab as I don't plan to work on them in the nearest future: tkGruvbox and YASS.

Steam Sky

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

And another two small bugs found in the stable version. Fortunately, same as in the previous week, they are mostly cosmetic issues, thus shouldn't be too annoying. :) I better will wait one more week, to check other things, before prepare a new, a bit more stable release.

In the development version, the work, same as in previous week, mostly focused on adding new icons to the game:

• Added a few new icons to the game, and updated existing ones, to be more visible (mostly by changing colors). At least this week is something to show. That is not only a visual change. The new icons are vector graphic images, while the old ones were a font. This trigger some changes to the game theming code too. That is the main reason why everything is going so slow.
• The changes in icons also triggered changes in the game documentation, in modding guide exactly. It should be now updated to the new version of icons too.
• Technobabble: some code refactoring, as preparation for apply formal verification of the code.
• Standard under-the-hood work: code cleanup and generally making it conformant with my own coding style. :)

Nish

The experimental command shell written in Nim

As mentioned in the previous week, the project is now the second the most important here for me. :) Thus, there is also some work done. This week focused mostly on adding various configuration options to the shell.

• Added option to set the maximum amount of the shell's command's history entries.
• Added command to show all available subcommands for the options command.
• Added help for various subcommands related to the shell's configuration options.
• Added type of value to the shell's configuration options and showing it in the command options show output.
• Added better exceptions handling. Now it should show a lot more info than earlier.
• Added default value for each the shell's configuration's option and showing it in the command options show output.
• Added command options reset to reset value of the selected configuration's option (or all of them) to their default values.
• Added help related to the command options reset.
• Added configuration option to enable or disable saving invalid shell's commands to the shell's history either.
• Some code refactoring: added pragmas to various procedures and functions, mostly related to the shell's options. Also, some code reorganization, like move all shell's command history database related things to the one procedure.

TASHY2

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

This time copy and paste from the previous week. The whole week spent on fixing the problems reported by gnatprove.

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

Continuation of the work started in the previous weeks. Thus, almost the same report as the earlier:

• Added closing the delete dialog and rename items dialogs in console version with Escape key.
• Added accepting the user entry with Enter key in rename dialog in console version.
• Added better counting size of the available programs' menu when setting the default application for the selected item in console version.
• Standard, copy+pasted from the last weeks: some work with fixing issues reported by the AdaControl. Removed here the last line, so some things are changed. :)

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