Game.LambdaHack.Client.UI.Frontend

Display game data on the screen and receive user input using one of the available raw frontends and derived operations.

Connection and initialization

data FrontReq :: * -> * where

The instructions sent by clients to the raw frontend, indexed by the returned value.

Constructors

FrontFrame :: {..} -> FrontReq ()

Show a frame.

Fields

• frontFrame :: FrameForall

FrontDelay :: Int -> FrontReq ()

Perform an explicit delay of the given length.

FrontKey :: {..} -> FrontReq KMP

Flush frames, display a frame and ask for a keypress.

Fields

• frontKeyKeys :: [KM]
• frontKeyFrame :: FrameForall

FrontPressed :: FrontReq Bool

Inspect the fkeyPressed MVar.

FrontDiscard :: FrontReq ()

Discard a key in the queue, if any.

FrontAdd :: KMP -> FrontReq ()

Add a key to the queue.

FrontAutoYes :: Bool -> FrontReq ()

Set in the frontend that it should auto-answer prompts.

FrontShutdown :: FrontReq ()

Shut the frontend down.

newtype ChanFrontend

Connection channel between a frontend and a client. Frontend acts as a server, serving keys, etc., when given frames to display.

Constructors

ChanFrontend (forall a. FrontReq a -> IO a)

chanFrontendIO :: ClientOptions -> IO ChanFrontend

Initialize the frontend chosen by the player via client options.

Re-exported part of the raw frontend

frontendName :: String

The name of the chosen frontend.

Internal operations

data FrontSetup

Machinery allocated for an individual frontend at its startup, unchanged for its lifetime.

getKey :: ClientOptions -> FrontSetup -> RawFrontend -> [KM] -> FrameForall -> IO KMP

fchanFrontend :: ClientOptions -> FrontSetup -> RawFrontend -> ChanFrontend

display :: RawFrontend -> FrameForall -> IO ()

defaultMaxFps :: Int

microInSec :: Int

frameTimeoutThread :: Int -> MVar Int -> RawFrontend -> IO ()

lazyStartup :: IO RawFrontend

nullStartup :: IO RawFrontend

seqFrame :: SingleFrame -> IO ()