[glob2-devel] Ideas and rewrite

[Stéphane Magnenat]

Hi,

I'm very happy to see discussions about improvements in glob2's 
architecture, and I thank every participant to those discussions.

I would like to suggest that the generalisation/theming/scripting aspect 
should be taken more into account in the discussions. For instance, now 
that we have a nice streaming interface, we could probably, based on 
this interface, have a way to access glob2's GOM (Game Object Model) 
which would be an inline, C++ accessed version of the game structure 
text dump. Unfortunatly it is not that much trivial, because dumping the 
whole game state through a filter would be quite slow. We could neither 
simple store pointers to objects, because between two calls objects 
could have died.

But perhaps we can either add support for such features to streams or we 
can have helper that can returns properties of specific objects, such as 
globules and buildings. Imagine the following scripting features (Table 
is a property (name => value) table in the scripting language (C++ in 
this example ;-))):

unsigned getTeamsCount(void)
unsigned getUnitsCount(unsigned team)
Table getUnit(unsigned team, unsigned unit)
unsigned getBuildingCount(unsigned team)
Table getBuilding(unsigned team, unsigned building)

This is quite easy and straightforward to implement with a custom stream 
that create the property table from the save() method in units and 
buildings.

I'm really convinced that documenting, cleaning, adding generalisation 
and scripting all go in the same good direction. This was just a quick 
insight into this feeling ;-)

Have a nice week-end,

Steph