EpisodeBrowser - GUI interface to locally stored TV series

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2022-08-04	Add comments.	John Ankarström

2022-08-03	Use Pascal case for all functions.	John Ankarström

2022-08-02	Improve wstring_owner, rename to wchar_ptr.	John Ankarström
	The user-defined conversion function makes the interface a lot simpler AND safer.
2022-07-31	Make WsoFromSz and WsoCopy static member functions of wstring_owner.	John Ankarström

2022-07-31	Limit use of Hungarian notation.	John Ankarström
	I don't hate Hungarian notation. It has some very nice qualities. But it also adds a lot of typing. That said, not using it feels a bit... unsafe. I might go back on this decision. We'll see.
2022-07-30	Add wstring_owner, replacing std::wstring.	John Ankarström
	std::basic_string is nice, but it is not very ergonomic if everything you really need is to automatically free C strings at end of scope. I suppose I could have used std::unique_ptr for this, but I suspect the ergonomics would be worse.
2022-07-30	Add non-throwing variants of Query methods.	John Ankarström
	Pl has also been refactored, so that the unnecessary throw and catch have been removed.
2022-07-26	Use 's' instead of 'str' for as prefix for managed strings.	John Ankarström

2022-07-26	Remove ANSI compatibility.	John Ankarström
	Even though it is a fun challange in many ways, I think that, realistically, it is probably not worth the complexity. The Prolog backend isn't ANSI-compatible either.
2022-07-24	Fix PL_get_tchars.	John Ankarström
	See c6cd2f1.
2022-07-20	Simplify templates.	John Ankarström

2022-07-19	Add comments.	John Ankarström

2022-07-19	Use Prolog string buffer marks.	John Ankarström
	Speaking of unclear documentation, it is not obvious whether it is necessary for programs calling into Prolog to manually mark and release strings. I suppose that it should be, if the same logic that applies to terms apply to strings. On the other hand, the stack in which the strings are stored belongs to Prolog, and there is nothing that would prevent Prolog from cleaning up the strings when called at a later time. I am not sure. But better safe than sorry, I guess. The Mark class acts like the Frame class. The constructor and destructor are equivalent to the PL_STRINGS_MARK and PL_STRINGS_RELEASE macros. Unlike for 34c3280, I did not notice any differences in memory usage after this change. Perhaps that is because it has no effect; perhaps it is because Prolog's stack is very big.
2022-07-19	Fix Prolog memory leaks.	John Ankarström
	Apparently foreign frames ARE needed when calling Prolog from C. The official documentation is very terse and could make this clearer. To summarize, whenever a term is created (e.g., PL_new_term_refs), its reference count is increased by one. It is garbage-collected when its reference count hits zero. But the reference count is never decreased unless (a) control returns to Prolog after executing a foreign predicate -- which does not happen in my application -- or (b) the foreign frame in which the term was created is closed. In other words, terms must be created within a foreign frame. This is achieved by initializing a Frame object before creating the term and destroying it once the term has served its purpose. The destructor for Frame does not DISCARD the frame, only CLOSE it. The former would also invalidate all data bound by the terms, which is usually undesirable.
2022-07-17	Update type names and variable prefixes.	John Ankarström

2022-07-17	Add const to pointers, update spacing.	John Ankarström
	It seems that "right-spaced" pointers are more widely used among C++ programmers.
2022-07-17	Add const to places.	John Ankarström
	Note that I did NOT add const to non-pointer/non-reference arguments in function declarations (without a following definition), as they do not mean anything there.
2022-07-17	Use SWI-Prolog's wide-character functions.	John Ankarström
	This avoids the use of TsmFromSz.
2022-07-16	Rewrite TszFromSz as TsmFromSz.	John Ankarström
	I.e. using std::basic_string<TCHAR> instead of TCHAR *. This removes all unmanaged frees.
2022-07-15	Split defs.h into separate header files.	John Ankarström
	This is feasible now that the makedeps script exists to automatically manage build dependencies (see 6034fe2, d00f8b3).
2022-07-15	Add support for Prolog exceptions.	John Ankarström

2022-07-15	Don't crash on Prolog exceptions.	John Ankarström
	In the future, it may be desirable to convert Prolog exceptions to C++ exceptions.
2022-07-15	Reimplement Pl with variadic templates	John Ankarström
	This is a bit safer and about as complex.
2022-07-15	Change declaration style.	John Ankarström

2022-07-10	Convert to C++.	John Ankarström
	I already hit upon some object-oriented programming patterns in *listview.c, so I felt that it would be natural to use this as an opportunity to learn C++.