Weekly development report 2021-11-27

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)

The stable version back to its natural state. No bugs reported or found there. Something wait to discover. :)

The development version of the game going forward in its normal speed. In this week, mostly by fixing various small bugs, but it also brings a few large changes:

• Tab traversal in the set crafting order menu should now work properly.
• Closing the set crafting order menu with Escape key also should now work.
• The same with closing the detailed info about the selected crafting recipe.
• Small updated to the setting crafting order button: it now shows what kind of crafting order will be set, instead of just “Craft”.
• Probably the first change which break some compatibility with the previous versions of the game. The configuration file for keyboard shortcuts changed its format on the same as the normal configuration file uses. Unfortunately, it will reset all custom shortcuts. That the only problem with it, the advantage is that now the file is more flexible and stable. It is also easier to add or remove keyboard shortcuts from the game.
• Fixed resetting keyboard shortcuts for the player's ship's movement actions.
• The default keyboard shortcuts for setting the player's ship's speed fixed, too.
• Modifying the game: the maximum length of the items' index name set to 64 characters. Should be enough for many items. :)
• Under the hood, back to preparations of the game for formal verifications. Again, changed one small thing which caused a whole avalanche of the changes around the code. As usual, the code formatting work is very slowly moving forward.

Because since the last development release was almost four weeks, it is time for another. Around 24 hours after this post, a new development version of the game will be available for download.

TASHY2

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

The work on updating the code documentation for various Options_To_String functions is finished for now. All should have some simple examples how to use them. A few others subprograms got fixed their documentation either. A few new problems reported by AdaControl tool fixed. The biggest changes this week are added two new types, Variable_Name and Unbounded_Variable_Name (let's follow Ada loooong names convention :)). They are used to setting names for various Tcl or Tk variables, like for example Tk_Image identifiers. I've started conversion of various options' fields for Tk widgets to these new types. It's slowly moving forward, especially because the change also require updates to the unit tests for changed Tk widgets. And the percentage of proved gnatprove tests are still on this same level. Just the amount of proofs is raising. :)

Hunter

Graphical File Manager for Linux (written in Ada)

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

• Fixed refreshing the currently selected directory or file preview after closing the search dialog.
• Added translations for the search dialog in the console version of the program.
• Added translations for creating new files, directories or links in the console version.
• Fixed the information text when creating a new link in the console version.
• Updated both, root and Polish translations files.
• 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

Same as in the previous week, the work on the pages related to the Ada Linux Package Repository. The tutorial for creating a simple Debian package updated with some clarifications and fixes for typos. The packages' requirements for the repository updated with information about required packages' dependencies. And new page with information about xUbuntu 21.10 repository created.

From under-the-hood, the page got some style updates, mostly related to showing inline and blocks of code. Now it should look a bit better. :)

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