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

[Matt Williams]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 02:37:18 Matt Williams wrote:
> 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

Okay, given everyone's comments, attached is the latest version. I'll be 
adding this to plaground/games later today if all is well.

Regards,
Matt Williams
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