All further Auto4 status/todo stuff should be managed on the bug tracker.

Originally committed to SVN as r841.

aegisub/auto4-status.txt

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-Aegisub Automation 4 branch build
-Alpha-quality
-
-Please install in a folder separate from your main Aegisub installation.
-
-What works:
-- UI-wise:
-  o Scanning the automation/autoload/ dir for scripts and loading them
-  o Rescanning said dir
-  o Macros not in right-click menu
-  o Reloading scripts on command
-  o Adding arbitrary other scripts to the local-scripts list (ie. bound to
-    subtitles rather than the application)
-  o Storing locally loaded scripts into subtiles on save
-  o Restoring locally loaded scripts from subtitle file on load
-  o Graceful recovery from (most) errors
-  o Scripts with errors are not retained, but marked as "has errors"
-  o Nice presentation of script debug-output
-- Scripting-wise
-  o Global script info variables are read
-  o Macros:
-    # Registration function
-	# Processing function
-	# Validation function
-	# Config dialogs
-  o Export filters:
-    # Registration function
-	# Processing function
-  o Basic subtitle manipulation:
-    # Getting subtitle data from a line
-	# Storing subtitle data back into a line
-	# Appending lines to script
-	# Inserting lines at random positions in the script
-	# Deleting lines and (UNTESTED) ranges of lines
-	# All of the above needs more testing
-  o Setting undo-points
-  o Table of selected lines is correctly filled
-  o Parsing karaoke tags
-  o Modifying subtitles/setting undo points *should* be impossible in
-    Validation functions
-  o text_extents (currently identical to Auto3 version, meaning it also has
-    the same strange inaccuracies)
-  o include() function
-  o Making debug-output
-
-What's broken:
-- UI-wise:
-  o No support for right-click menu macros
-  o Macro appearance in menus doesn't look too nice (needs a separator before
-    the macros)
-  o All functions in the program (including stuff unrelated to Automation)
-    should mark what kind of operation is put into the undo/redo buffer, but
-	this seems to be lost somewhere and isn't properly displayed.
-- Scripting-wise
-  o active_line parameter to macro validation and processing functions seems
-    to not be filled correctly
-  o Lua needs a string library for processing UTF-8 strings natively, as well
-    as a regex library for working with Unicode strings. Perhaps even
-	introduce a new userdata type for storing widestrings?
-  o Stored options for export script config dialogs aren't supported yet.
-
-What's missing:
-- UI wise:
-  o Apart from things relying on other Features being implemented in
-    scripting, nothing I can think of.
-- Scripting-wise:
-  o Override (un)parsing of tags
-  o Subtitle Format reader/writer features
-  o File streams (required for subtitle format features)
-
-Things to try:
-- Test, test, TEST!
-  Write some scripts that do more or less useful things.
-  Try to break stuff.
-  Report bugs.
-- Config dialogs definately need more testing, whether all controls
-  behave sensibly etc.