RE: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question

[Brian Palmer]

Alex,

I don't see the point of what you are trying to do. IIRC, all of
FreeLoader's code is organized like the UI stuff - you just make generic
calls and the abstraction code handles the details. It's kind of like C++
objects, only not. Take, for instance, FreeLoader's file system code, it is
the exact same way. You just call generic routines like open, close, read,
and write, and the file system code checks what file system it is and
redirects the function call accordingly.

Unless I don't understand what you are proposing, it sounds like you want to
just lump all the UI code into one huge file. And I think that is a step
backward from the current design. I'll admit that checking the UI type on
every call and calling the GUI code or the TUI code isn't the most efficient
way. And you could make it more efficient by setting up pointers to
functions.

But unless you are talking about removing the GUI code altogether (it isn't
used currently) you will still have to do the checks to see if DrawBox(),
etc. needs to go to the TUI code or the GUI code. Now don't get me wrong, I
don't think removing the GUI code is the right thing to do. It is a very
good starting point for someone to make a graphical menu system for
FreeLoader. It would be very cool someday to be able to set a company logo
or something as background image in the boot screen.

I'd like to know more about what you are thinking...

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:17 PM
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question

Hi Brian,

No, it would keep the same GUI as it has now, since people seem 
comfortable with it. (I did get a lot of requests for the NTLDR-like 
interface and I might code one in as an optional interface since it's 
only 30 lines of code, but that's beside the question at the moment).

The reasoning is like I said earlier, tidying up the code and reducing 
complexity in the software, which are very important parts of good 
development and a scalable codebase.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

Brian Palmer wrote:
> So are you going to implement a GUI for it then? Or what is the reasoning
> behind this change?
>
> -Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
> Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:18 PM
> To: ReactOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question
>
> Brian/Art
>
> I just want to make all drawings calls directly "Tui" instead of 
> "Ui"->CheckMode->"Tui" and combine gui.c/tui.c/tuimenu.c and gui/ui/tui.h
> Nothign else would change.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
>
> Brian Palmer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So in what way do you propose changing it? How will it work after you're
> > done?
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
> > Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:36 PM
> > To: ReactOS Development List
> > Subject: [ros-dev] Freeldr Question
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Freeldr currently contains an ugly (imo) wrapper around the GUI where 
> > every drawing operation is supposed to have multiple "modes" (some fancy 
> > 3d gizmo whizmo GUI and the normal text-mode interface). I would really 
> > like to simply this interface and make the drawing operations much 
> > simpler and just draw, instead of going through all the hoops they do 
> > now. But before I do, does anyone have any objections? Is anyone working 
> > on  fancy 3D GUI for Freeldr, or can I go ahead with my changes? Note 
> > nothing would change to the user, everything will look and act the exact 
> > same way as it does now.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Alex Ionescu

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