malware-dev / mdk-mockups

A set of community driven mockup classes to enable the simulation of Space Engineers ingame scripts in Visual Studio

MDK-Mockups

A set of community driven mockup classes to enable the simulation of Space Engineers ingame scripts in Visual Studio

This repository is add-in to MDK-SE.

Currently just getting set up, the intent of this repository is to gradually build up a set of mockup classes so you can test-run your MDK scripts in Visual Studio, thus having the full debugging capacity of that IDE on hand.

This repository was set up based on the request of members of the community. While I will probably eventually be contributing myself too, I will for the most part take a more advisory position as I have too many running projects already to take on yet another. This means that this repository is very dependent on the community. If the community will not contribute, this repo will be too narrow to be helpful for many. This means that we need your help to do it.

Currently in experimental stage

The project is currently in a highly fluent state. The structure has not yet been finalized and there is likely to be breaking changes for a while as we find a base team and decide how we want this to work.

Please Help

Like I said, I can't do the heavy lifting on this project. Please contact me on Keen's discord if you want to help getting the basics of the repo up and running. We need you.

Getting Started - Use

Getting Started - Contribute

mdk-mockups's Issues

Use of newer code conventions prevents breaks inclusion in C# 5.0 script project.

Since the in-game Programming Block only supports C# 5.0, I set the language version of the project to 5.0.

Unfortunately, as the Mockups use C# 6.0+ conventions such as auto-initialized readonlys and string interpolation, I cannot include the mocking framework as a shared project.

I think it makes sense to enforce C# 5.0 code compliance to allow easy inclusion in Programming Block compatible projects.

Full support for Air Vents.

Simply implement controls for the Mocked properties provided by MockAirVent.

Create generic UI presentation kit for mockups

... so one does not necessarily have to know WPF to add UI support to block mockups.

UI runtime

Make a UI application to display runtime information, potentially allowing certain runtime edits for testing purposes.

Full support for Programmable Blocks.

Implement properties provided by MockProgrammableBlock as well as the ability to run the embedded program once (with optional parameters).

Load Space Engineers blueprints into mockups

Allow the loading of grid blueprints so it's not necessary to manually create mocked-up grids.

MockTextSurface content renderer UI element.

Render (as close as possible) the expected output of the text or sprite bank content of the IMyTextSurface.

Implementing internal script rendering is less important as these are not controllable by Programmable Blocks. Perhaps just a placeholder to indicate we expect a script output.

Once it's available for a single IMyTextSurface (LCD) then implement a selector for IMyTextSurfaceProvider.