[Kde-games-devel] A new highscore manager - KScoreManager

[Matt Williams]

Some of you may have noticed that I've been fighting with KScoreDialog for the 
last day or two. Now between me, Albert and Fela we've managed to find a way 
to fix all the reported bugs in time for 4.1 so that people are no longer 
tearing their hair out. But as anyone who's taken a look at the source code 
will have realised, it's a bloody mess inside. Much of the guts of the class 
dates back to 1998 and after changing maintainers several times and even 
going without maintainers sometimes it's grown unruly.

And so my plan is this: I'm going to fix up the bugs in KScoreDialog as best I 
can in time for 4.1, but for 4.2, I'm going to write a new highscore 
management system. I'm going to keep it in much the same spirit as 
KScoreDialog (i.e. a simple highscore management system, not designed to 
handle worldwide scores or anything) but I'm going to clean up the API and 
make the workflow much nicer. I'm also going to rewrite the background stuff 
to make it maintainable.

Attached is the current API for the class (named KScoreManager). I haven't 
written any of the .cpp yet because I wanted to make sure the API made sense 
first. Yes, the file is about 80% comments but I'd appreciate it if people 
were to look through the API and code examples in the comments and tell me 
the places where I'm being stupid :). After a little bit of API review here 
I'll probably import it into playground until 4.1 gets branched off at which 
point I'll move it to trunk.

Comments? Complaints? Insults?

Regards,
Matt Williams
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