Recently a proposed change to the firmware required a change to one of
the event handlers'/hooks' signatures.
Up to now, we only supported a single overload/implementation of a
event handler of a specific type. This means that changing handler signatures
was only possible by adding a handler method with a similar name and
a different signature like
EventHandlerResult
onKeyswitchEvent(Key &mappedKey, byte row, byte col, uint8_t keyState);
and
EventHandlerResult
onKeyswitchEvent2(Key &mappedKey, KeyAddr key_addr, uint8_t keyState);
As this was regarded as unacceptable confusion of the users of our
programming interface, this commit introduces some changes to the
event handler management.
Important changes:
* handlers can now be overloaded,
* handler signatures can be versioned,
* individual versions can be declared as deprecated,
* we now abort the compile if a handler reimplementation with a bad signature
is found,
* or if two or more handlers with correct signatures are detected that
are furtheron considered as ambiguous.
Impact on resources:
The proposed changes only affect the way things are handled at compile time.
No changes in terms of PROGMEM or RAM are to be expected.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fleissner <fleissner@inpartik.de>
After talking with Jesse, this changes the license to GPLv3 (only), where
appropriate, and adds copyright headers to all files that were missing them.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
With this redesign, we introduce a new way to create plugins, which is easier to
extend with new hook points, provides a better interface, uses less memory, less
program space, and is a tiny bit faster too.
It all begins with `kaleidoscope::Plugin` being the base class, which provides
the hook methods plugins can implement. Plugins should be declared with
`KALEIDOSCOPE_INIT_PLUGINS` instead of `Kaleidoscope.use()`. Behind this macro
is a bit of magic (see the in-code documentation) that allows us to unroll the
hook method calls, avoid vtables, and so on. It creates an override for
`kaleidoscope::Hooks::*` methods, each of which will call the respective methods
of each initialized plugin.
With the new API come new names: all of the methods plugins can implement
received new, more descriptive names that all follow a similar pattern.
The old (dubbed V1) API still remains in place, although deprecated. One can
turn it off by setting the `KALEIDOSCOPE_ENABLE_V1_PLUGIN_API` define to zero,
while compiling the firmware.
This work is based on #276, written by @noseglasses. @obra and @algernon did
some cleaning up and applied a little naming treatment.
Signed-off-by: noseglasses <shinynoseglasses@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Vincent <jesse@keyboard.io>
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@keyboard.io>
Florian Fleissner
Gergely Nagy
noseglasses