Keep a set of preferences in the midend.

This commit introduces a serialisation format for the user preferences
stored in game_ui, using the keyword identifiers that get_prefs is
required to write into its list of config_item. As a result, the
serialisation format looks enough like an ordinary config file that a
user could write one by hand.

The preferences for the game backend are kept in serialised form in
me->be_prefs. The typical use of this is to apply it to a just-created
game_ui by calling midend_apply_prefs(), which deserialises the prefs
buffer into a list of config_item and passes it to the backend's
set_prefs function, overwriting the preference fields (but no others)
of the game_ui.

This is duly done when creating a new game, when loading a game from a
save file, and also when printing a puzzle. To make the latter work,
document_add_puzzle now takes a game_ui (and keeps ownership of it
afterwards), and passes that to the backend's compute_size and print
functions.

The backend's own get_prefs and set_prefs functions are wrapped by
midend_get_prefs and midend_set_prefs. This is partly as a convenience
(it deals with optionally constructing a game_ui specially to call the
backend with), but mostly so that there will be a convenient place in
the midend to add standard preferences applying across all puzzles.
No cross-puzzle preferences are provided yet.

There are two external interfaces to all this, and in this commit,
neither one is yet called by any frontend:

A new pair of midend functions is exposed to the front end, called
midend_load_prefs and midend_save_prefs. These have a similar API to
midend_serialise and midend_deserialise, taking a read/write function
pointer and a context. So front ends that can already load/save a game
to a file on disk should find it easy to add a similar set of
functions loading/saving user preferences.

Secondly, a new value CFG_PREFS is added to the enumeration of
configuration dialog types, alongside the ones for the Custom game
type, entering a game description and entering a random seed. This
should make it easy for frontends to offer a Preferences dialog,
because it will operate almost exactly like three dialogs they already
handle.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nullfe.c b/nullfe.c
index 971250e..9a57832 100644
--- a/nullfe.c
+++ b/nullfe.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void print_line_width(drawing *dr, int width) {}
 void print_line_dotted(drawing *dr, bool dotted) {}
 void status_bar(drawing *dr, const char *text) {}
 void document_add_puzzle(document *doc, const game *game, game_params *par,
-			 game_state *st, game_state *st2) {}
+			 game_ui *ui, game_state *st, game_state *st2) {}
 
 void fatal(const char *fmt, ...)
 {