ckx/gameconsole_xna

XNA 4 port of XNA Game Console by vos

gameconsole_xna's Issues

Highlight & copy from console

Text from the console should be copyable.

Filter output

Need a way to filter command output if the command is logged, behavior similar to piping grep in unix.

Auto-complete arguments

Arguments should autocomplete if a command is sitting in the input box.

Command aliases

Map aliases to commands, for example "p" or "get" might execute a command titled "print". Aliases should be set in AddCommand.

DefaultValue / CurrentValue properties on Commands

Add new properties for DefaultValue and CurrentValue in the Command class, optionally settable when you run AddCommand.

"Skeleton" entries for Unavailable Commands

Some commands aren't usable when a game is initially launched, because they rely on members of classes which aren't instantiated yet (especially for debug stuff). I dislike that these commands are not added to the commands output, so in one game project, I wrote a helper function to add unavailable commands to the console.

            InitialConsoleCommands.Add("Scene", new List<string[]>() { new string[2] { "list_scene_entities", "Lists all entities currently in a scene." } } );
            InitialConsoleCommands.Add("DrawSystem", new List<string[]>() { new string[2] { "draw_hitboxes", "Draws all hit / hurt boxes on screen." },
                new string[2] { "draw_wireframe", "Enables wireframe mode."} });

            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, List<string[]>> kvp in InitialConsoleCommands) {
                foreach (string[] sa in kvp.Value) {
                    devConsole.AddCommand(sa[0], delegate {
                        devConsole.Log($"Unavailable command. {kvp.Key} object is required before usage.");
                    }, sa[1]);
                }
            }

This is a problem that might be better solved in the game console library. A simple "AddUnavailableCommand" would do.

• Unavailable commands should be indicated as "Not yet usable" or something in the output of commands
• When a new command is added to the main commands map, it should iterate over all the unavailable commands, and remove the appropriate "unavailable" element.

While doing this, consider loading commands from a data file to make the whole skeleton command process simple across different projects (and to keep command documentation out of code).