UnrealWiki Dev Journal 27-09-2004

UnCodeX Tribes:V ponderings:

Interfaces

Currently, there's only one root for the class tree. I'm going to add a new root item "Interfaces" that contains all interfaces.

Interfaces don't have parents, so this would be the best choice.
Things to think about:

• auto expand Object works differently with more than 1 root node
• no create subclass menu item for interfaces

Defines

I may have to redesign my complete parsing system. Maybe have to move it to a single pass parser. Right now I first construct the class tree, after that I analyse all the classes. This might not be possible anymore because of the #if ... #endif macros.
I'm pretty sure it's not possible to have a different class name, however, it might be possible that the parent class can be changed using these macros. So I would have to construct the tree and analyse the packages at the same time so all #defines are catched. The best method might be to mimick the way the unrealscript compiler does it: per package. This ofcourse would re-introduce the package order mechanism. This would be the nicest solution.

The other solution would be to extend the package scanner to parse through the whole source file every time just to capture the #define, #if...#endif macros.
Another thing I need to know is if the #define macros are system wide, or only for the subclasses. Most #defines are afaik in the Object class, so that would automatically make them system wide.
Also I would need to implement a expression evaluator for the #if macro.

Imports

Depending on what the import directive does I might have to implement this too. Mostlikely it's just identical to the #import macro, which will simply import type declarations. In this case I don't need to change anything (except to ingore the import lines).