Is there any developer documentation available? I'd like to contribute to Mudlet development, but the source is a bit hard for me to follow (I'm not much of a C++ developer).
A few questions:
What's the flow from user input to the MUD?
What about in the opposite direction?
How are events/triggers dispatched and matched?
How is script reloading/editing handled?
What are the naming conventions? Files named T* would imply templates to me, but they seem to be classes in most cases
What's the overall process diagram/flow?
I poked through the source and didn't find it that easy to follow. I think with a proper set of developer documentation it'll be much easier to find contributors.
I don't have enough time to write developer docs. However, if you want to make a notable contribution I'm willing to help you to some extend once I see that it's worth the effort. By the way, T = type.
Oneymus wrote:Browsing through Sourceforge does reveal this file. It might answer some of your questions, though I'm unable to make much sense of it.
Yeah, I saw that as well. Heiko, does that graph still apply, at least in some sense of the word? It looks like it might have been designed before development really started.
I too would like to help, but I don't see any documentation in the code. I am not proficient developer by any means, but I am a web designer/developer. I want to try my hand at C++. It has been years since I had a programming class and would like to try to help with mudlet.
If we could get a little instructions on setting it up and some doc would be great. I know that programmers HATE to document their code but to help us out it would be nice for some base docs. I would even be willing to document the code once I understand the notation being used and QT.
My suggestion is to clean up the forums and create a new thread for setting up your development environment and compiling. Another new thread for where to download the code, bug reports, etc...
