Weekly development report 2021-06-26

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)

In the stable version, looks like all the problems which I know are fixed. Probably a whole other world of bugs is hidden somewhere. :) Anyway, as the game is more stable, time for the next release. In around 24 hours since this post, it will be available everywhere where the game is. And probably one day later I will find something again. :)

The development version is going in it own pace. And generally in forward:

Work on redesign of bases schools screen is finished for now. There are no visible changes since the last week, thus the previous screenshot is still valid.
In-game help got update with information about the new school.
The screen with the saved games to load was redesigned either. I'm still not sure do I should add something there or leave in the current state. After removing unneeded buttons, the whole screen looks a bit empty now.
One of the paper-cuts things: now during buying or selling items on trade screen, the game shows not only max amount to buy or sell but also overall cost or gain of the buying or selling.
As always, technobabble: some problems reported by the static analysis tool were fixed. Also, some other work under-the-hood was done too. But one thing here could be interesting for players also. I started playing with the compiler optimization flags, especially with linking time optimization. While the Linux version of the game got minimal change in size, then the Windows version was reduced from 24 MB to 7 MB. I must say it is a pretty impressive change. o.o Now, the Windows version is around 90% smaller than the previous, based on GTK. :D In the next week I will be playing with the other setting too. We will see if it will have any impact on the game also.

TASHY2

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

The bindings for the Tk image bitmap commands are added to the library. Same as unit tests for them and the full code documentation (I hope, useful). Also, the code documentation for package Tk.Image.Photo is finished. Added binding for the Tcl C API Tcl_EvalFile function to the Tcl package. And as usual, unit test for it. And started the main work of this week: redesign the demo program. The previous version was just a window with one button, the new will be a simple calculator. At this moment work just started, but as a side effect of it, there will be some changes in the library API too. Mostly related to simplify some tasks. From the other work: I reviewed the code a bit and added in a few places default values to some types and arrays. This should make the library a bit more stable. And started fixing some missing code documentation too.

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

This week was almost complete copy of the previous week:

Continue work on setting the program in console version. It is now possible to set all the program's keyboard shortcuts in the console too. It was required some more work on how the keys are handled in the console version, but now everything should work properly.
Started work on setting the user defined commands in console. At this moment it can only show existing commands, no ability to add a new or edit any existing.
Bug with showing long directories names during confirmation of their deletion in the console version was fixed too.
Another bug, this time in the graphical version of the program was fixed: it is now possible again to add the user defined commands to the program.
Standard, copy+pasted from the last weeks: a lot of work with fixing problems reported by the AdaControl. Some things probably never changes. :)

YASS

Yet Another Static Site (generator) (written in Ada)

AdaControl still reports problems in the Config package. Thus, the whole week was spent here on fixing them. Also, the code documentation was reorganized to this same manner as it is done in my other projects. And I've started some fun with the compiler flags. For now, only setting rpath on Linux was added to the project yass.gpr file and the build script was updated to the new version of the project's configuration.

Docker Ada

Various Docker images files related to the Ada programming language

Just small change here. I finally found a solution to not working linking time optimization (especially on MinGW). If someone has that same problem: when GCC fails to link the executable with -flto set on file lto-wrapper then you have to install make package. Quite obvious. Yes, that's sarcasm. Anyway, all the Adabuild images were updated by adding make package. The project documentation was updated either. Again, this project is going to sleep for now.