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>
I don't have write access, but through conversation with @Jennigma in the forum I've made a few changes above.
- I gave a first pass up to the Editing Keymaps part, then skimmed after there.
- I rearranged some sentences to try to fit more with the "voice" of the Keyboardio brand from its website, to the emails and tweets. It's a soft, friendly and inviting voice. Specifically I used a lot more "We", and tried to gracefully include lines like "uncompromising typists" and "heirloom-grade" (these distinctions left a powerful first impression on me). To be honest, I could spend A LOT more time doing that brand writing, it's so much fun. If there are parts that could be more "branded" let me know.
- I changed a few instances of "Keyboardio" to "Model 01", but perhaps not consistently, when I saw that "keyboardio" is lowercase in the Arduino board manager I wondered if I have over capitalized. If I thought a part of the software could apply to future Keyboardio-brand products I left it as "Keyboardio", and if it seemed very specific to this product I used "Model 01".
- I softened some parts, like removed the IDE part in the first paragraph, moving that to the Arduino introduction below.
- The only completely-removed line was about requiring cleverness and following instructions. I feel like those aren't required. The offers for support I've seen online suggest the non-clever would also get the help they need! Besides, the non-clever just use whatever flavour of rubber domes Dell is shipping this month amiright?! haha.
* Added Arduino IDE install instructions
Completed a first draft of the IDE install instructions through flashing the board with the unedited sketch.
Also made a couple edits as suggested by @algernon, and a few other refinements I noticed.
* typo
Wanted to post this in the partial state so folks can start reviewing what I've done and making suggestions. This is a first draft of the intro section, and the outline for the rest of the document.
This converts the Style Guide to Markdown. Some small changes were
applied, mostly in the beginning, up until "Local Variables", roughly. After
that, only striked through sections were removed, and the wording was kept.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
James Cash
noseglasses
Jennifer Leigh
Jesse Vincent
Jesse Vincent
Gergely Nagy