that's it. I think operationally it seems rare, but the engine data wasn't entirely meant to be used behind the scenes
I had anticipated it's use in game threads, scene graphs, etc
multi-line
ahh ok Shift-Enter
ahh ok Shift-Enter
so when iterating over the collection, you now have to check for a generation that equals LAST_GENERATION
if it does, then this is a disabled cell, so we skip it
did I misunderstand this?
now you have to include the handle generations in that work
this code wasn't entirely worked out either :)
the iterator hasn't been implemented yet
My understanding is that nothing (outside of, possibly, some debug functionality) will need to iterate the valid handles (where different types of handles are used for, to say, vertex buffers, shaders, meshes, materials, etc). The game (or for some handles - the render thread) keeps track of the handles it uses, and iterates over its own structures.
but they will iterate what the handles point to
if you can't make a new handle
then you can't effectively make a new item in the collection
anyway, there is clearly a problem with this design. Perhaps we should redesign it from first principles
this is with the data-oriented way of doing things?
@cmr ohi!
@cmr: still keeping this pretty quiet seeing as we have lots still to figure out
@kvark gw might be on IRC soon
@kvark perhaps you could ask him - he has tons of experience with this design
@bjz btw, the whole handler management thing is not required to get something rendering
It will probably be easier with something more concrete
sorry
@bjz halp! Even if I introduce
GlProvider trait, I can only implement it for Glfw, but we have a Window, not the context.... And the reason we are not capturing the whole context is because we want to leave event management to the user (which makes perfect sense). Piston doesn't have this problem since they are managing events internally, so they are just capturing the whole thing...
Off for today... G'night!
Also let me know what you think about #10. I believe that if #9 and #10 were implemented before I got the triangle, my path to it would be sufficiently more clear ;). I marked both as milestone because they are directly related to the topic of the speech at Game Tech.