Create higan-sdl frontend. #130
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Bike-shedding: "higan-sdl" is specific and descriptive, but I wonder if a better name might be "higan-skel" since it's, like, a minimum viable UI. |
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Ah, right, I see what's going on, this is an SDL-based version of byuu-ui. That's cool, and I can imagine it would be useful and interesting for some people, but for #28 I really want an SDL-based version of higan-ui, without the icarus integration and all that stuff - just take a path to a system folder, deserialise it into a Node tree and start it up (I assume that's how it'd work, one of my motivations is to find out whether it would work like that). I'm not demanding this must be that, but that's where I'd like to head in the long-term. |
Done. It now loads system folders instead of ROMs. For now, I've simplified the codebase down to a single file, removing most of the unnecessary bits entirely. (It might still be worth breaking into multiple files, I just wanted a look at how radically simple this could get.) This may not be surprising but the byuu-ui-like bits were almost entirely in addition to the parts that we need for higan-ui-like behavior. The only thing that got noticeably uglier is the hardcoded input stuff.
Part of why I emphasize the SDL portion here is because it's not just a bare bones frontend, it's a bare bones SDL2 frontend. A bare bones frontend that uses Ruby would be technically superior, but at that point you could just remove all of the configuration bits on higan-ui and come to basically the same code. The choice of SDL feels to be more about familiarity than practicality. I am utterly ambivalent though and can rename it to whatever, that's just my two cents. |
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This is a simple frontend written using SDL2, mostly to serve as an example. It uses machine folders just like Higan UI, but uses hardcoded keyboard mappings (at least for now) for input.
This is a simple frontend written using SDL2 mostly as an example. It is still a prototype mostly and should not be merged yet (maybe not ever?) but is submitted for review/general interest for now.