[Ktechlab-devel] Cleaning up the simulator

[Julian Bäume]

On Friday 26 March 2010 19:05:09 P Zoltan wrote:
>   Related to commit
> 
> "
> move all simulation related classes
> 
> The simulator will be provided as a plugin. This part still needs to be
> ported and saveral things have to be refactored.
> 
> TODO:
>   * strip Component to a bare minimum needed for simulation
>   * do actual porting work
> "
> 
>   First of all, I wanted to do the same thing ;)
> 
>   However, the classes in the components subdirectory and the component
> class is the view / controller for the objects simulated in a circuit. So
> as I've understood, the SVG files will replace the view, and there will be
> one generic controller, for all the classes. This means that all these
> should be removed later.
> 
>   The problem is with the logic (digital) classes, where the classes also
> contain the model (generally a very simple one). The models should be
> extracted from the component class, and the rest can be removed.
I'm on that.. I already removed CNItem as a base class and made it a QObject. 
And I removed all GUI related methods and attributes from Component. May be, 
Component and Element should be merged after cleaning up Component. I will 
prepare something and ask Alan to comment on that.. 
 
>   My question is how should be the Simulator class implemented? It's good
> enough a singleton as it was? The problem becomes tricky when we consider
> the plugin structure... Or should we use come class from ktechlatform?
For now, I would like to change the code as little, as possible. So I'd prefer 
using a singleton, again.

Another thing I want to discuss is removing all GPSimProcessor calls and 
references from the simulator. I prepared a patch, that does this and without 
this, we won't have any PIC support in the simulator, but at least it compiles 
for me, now ;) (it doesn't link, because I haven't finished the other classes 
in that directory, yet.. ) Is it okay to temporarily remove PIC support and 
bring that feature back later?

bye then
julian