Instead of having several AI* classes, it turned out to be easier to
have a namespace: this allows me to define the classes in llcommon but
add (new) 'add' and 'add_modal' functions to 'AIAlert' in llui.
This is needed to avoid a collision with the 'add' functions in
LLNotificationsUtil.
The new add/add_modal makes it a lot easier to just show a caught
alert, prepending or appending new text: it turns out that that is
way more common then a re-throw.
Adjusted code as appropriate.
In order to remove code duplication, and as prove of concept,
I redid the linden_genepool archetype export and import (from the Edit
Appearance Floater), using AIXML and AIAlert.
The import/export code did shrink significantly, and became a lot
simpler. Although a new file pair (aixmllindengenepool.{cpp,h}) is
added to define the (de)serialization of the linden_genepool XML format,
that code is now centralized in one place, and still a lot simpler.
As a bonus however, every possible error is now semi-automatically
reported to the user with all details that might help to overcome
the problem, like file names and system errors.
The AIXML* classes provide an Object Oriented way to serialize objects
to and from an XML file. Documentation is added at the top of aixml.cpp
These classes will be used by AIMultiGrid.
A system to throw errors that allow for easy error reporting to the user
by showing a translated pop-up alert box with the error message.
The messages use strings.xml for translation and allow the usual
replacement args (ie [FILE] is replaced with a filename).
The exceptions can be cascaded, by adding more (translated) text
when caught and then re-throwing the result.
Macros are being used to support adding a function name prefix
to a message of the current function that the exception is thrown
from.
The syntax is:
<macro>(<line>); to show 'line'
<macro>(<alert>, <line>); to append 'line' to a caught alert.
<macro>(<line>, <alert>); to prepend 'line' to a caught alert.
where <macro> is one of:
THROW_ALERT, THROW_MALERT, THROW_FALERT, THROW_FMALERT,
THROW_ALERTE, THROW_MALERTE, THROW_FALERTE, THROW_FMALERTE, where
M = modal, F = Function name.
and where <line> is one of:
<xmldesc>
<xmldesc>, AIArgs<args>
where <xmldesc> is a string literal that will be looked up
in strings.xml, and <args> is:
(<key>, <replacement>)[<args>]
There are more variations of the macros to throw an arbitrary
class (append _CLASS), include an int code (append C) or
to store the current errno as code (append E).
For example, THROW_MALERTC(code, ...), or THROW_FALERT_CLASS(Foobar, ...),
where the ... is the same as for the macros above.
Documentation and example usage has been added to aialert.h.
