[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Technical questions (numbered tile markers )

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:54:33PM +0200, Teemu Kurppa wrote:
> I came up with some questions, when I was implementing a patch for 
> numbered tile markers. 
> 
> 1. GTK key events
> Numbered tile markers can be used to mark important locations (among
> other things) on the map and then jump between them. Obviously, number
> keys are good candidates for shortcut keys to markers 1-10. I chose
> shift+<num> to set a marker and ctrl+<num> to jump to a marker. 
> 
> However, it seems that I can't implement this kind of behavior in truly
> portable way. Xserver and thus GTK work in somewhat irritating way, when
> producing key events. For example, if I press shift+8 (or ctrl+8), GTK
> doesn't produce key event for a key code GDK_8 with SHIFT_MASK
> set. Instead it produces a key event for a key code GDK_parenleft or
> something else, if your keymap has been modified (xmodmap -pke tells
> what). 
> 
> Does anyone know a good solution to this problem ? If not, we have to
> implement keyboard shortcuts for some particular keymap, and inform
> players how to change their keymaps, if they differ.

I'm also in favor of ALT-n and CTRL-n.

> 4. Documentation 
> I have thought some future directions for tile markers. Is there some
> standard place, where to put general descriptions and thoughts in addition
> of freeciv-dev ? 

> README.tile_markers ? 

Either that or in the header file (markers.h).

> And is there CVS for Freeciv manuals ? So that I could add the description
> and examples of the marker usage. 
> 
> 5. Code Style Guide 
> Some version of style guide is needed quickly. 

> It would be helpful, if recommended usage of indent is described.

grep indent freeciv_hackers_guide.txt

> In similar way, that the usage of patch and diff is described in
> "How to Contribute" section on web pages.

        Raimar

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