Status:
It works well, but there are still a few details to improve/fix
More details about the changes:
- New dependency on Arabica and Libxml2 to parse the XML
- Loading the old format is still supported for this release, but won't be supported anymore in the next one
- Games are now only saved in the new format
- In training mode, the player is now created externally, like in the other modes
- Avoid using GameIO (the one from game/) whenever possible
- Do not use a FILE* argument anymore when loading a game
- Throw and catch exceptions correctly when a game cannot be loaded or saved
- The non-regression tests now use a new method to print the game history
This display string is used in the ncurses and Qt interfaces.
Display strings are types "wdstring" instead of plain "wstring" in a few places (not all of them) to help recognize them.
- Added a reference to the web site in the About box
- Fixed an encoding problem on an error message
- Explained better the error message saying to select a dictionary
- New PlayWordMediator class, to encapsulate the behaviour of the controls
used to play a word
- The Training mode now has input fields to play words directly, without
choosing them in the search results
But we don't need to sort them all the time, and in general we don't even need to keep all the rounds.
This commit greatly improves the search performance by filtering the results in 3 different ways, depending on the context:
- A limit to the number of results can be given (useful for the training mode). The kept results are the best ones, not the first ones found by the search.
- When only the best round is needed (when the AI is playing with level 100, or when preparing the rack for an explosive game), we don't need to keep rounds with a lower score
- When the AI has a level lower than 100, it is still possible to skip many rounds
The search limit in training mode is configurable (defaulting to 100) and can be deactivated.
- Allow displaying letter points on the board with an option (on by default)
- Fixed the tab order on the preferences window
- Improved the behaviour and default size of the preferences window
- Improved the error message when the dictionary cannot be loaded at startup
- Updated the french translation
- Made some Game fields private
- Added more constness
- Removed logiv from the History class
- Used BOOST_FOREACH to simplify loops
- Remove useless annotations and doxygen blocks
- Added some constness
- Marked Training::setRack() as deprecated
- Improved compilation order in game/
