Close the remaining cold-read gaps: bind, labels, menus and main's shape
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Three more Haiku-class cold reads of the chapters, each against the
amended text. What each surfaced is now shown rather than described: the
akbasic_host_register_type()/akbasic_host_bind() boot calls, the
declare_play() label listing, the akgl_UiMenu static and its
handle_event signature, one control-handler pair, and main()'s
ATTEMPT/HANDLE_DEFAULT/FINISH_NORETURN shape with the CATCH-inside-
ATTEMPT rule stated. By the fourth read the generated player.c and
enemies.c compiled untouched and every remaining guess was a tuning
value the chapters deliberately leave open.

Co-authored-by: andrew <andrew@aklabs.net>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XiGgpHuXUm2mR4Wzndw3dc
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@@ -125,7 +125,38 @@ writes `x` and `y` directly is the mover, and in this game that will be BASIC.
**Error handling is the house protocol.** Every function returns
`akerr_ErrorContext *`, `PASS` propagates, `ATTEMPT`/`CATCH`/`CLEANUP` brackets
anything that must unwind. libakgl's docs/04-errors.md teaches it; this chapter
just uses it. The status codes this game raises are `AKERR_NULLPOINTER`,
just uses it, with two rules that keep the fragments compiling: **`CATCH` is
only legal inside an `ATTEMPT` block, and `PASS` everywhere else** — swap them
and the compiler objects about a stray `break` — and `main()` alone ends its
block with `FINISH_NORETURN(errctx)` instead of `FINISH`, because `FINISH`
expands a `return` of the context that an `int`-returning function cannot
compile:
```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
static int FAILED = 0;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
(void)argc; (void)argv;
ATTEMPT {
/* CATCH each stage in order: startup, assets, the script boot,
* the spawns, then the frame loop. */
} CLEANUP {
/* ...teardown, every call wrapped in IGNORE()... */
} PROCESS(errctx) {
} HANDLE_DEFAULT(errctx) {
LOG_ERROR_WITH_MESSAGE(errctx, "galaga could not run");
/* Set a flag rather than returning: leaving a HANDLE block early
* skips FINISH's release and leaks the context's pool slot. */
FAILED = 1;
} FINISH_NORETURN(errctx);
return FAILED;
}
```
The status codes this game raises are `AKERR_NULLPOINTER`,
`AKERR_VALUE`, `AKERR_KEY`, `AKERR_IO`, `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS`, `AKGL_ERR_SDL`
and `AKGL_ERR_HEAP` — there is no code this tutorial invents.
@@ -285,8 +316,32 @@ Each of the four lines under the comment closes a trap:
invisibly. This one line cost this example its first screenshot.
Input goes through a control map: push a control per key with handlers that set
flags, and let the actor's update hook read the flags. The full recipe is in
`examples/galaga/player.c` and libakgl docs/16-input.md; the shape is:
flags, and let the actor's update hook read the flags. A handler receives the
map's target actor and the event, and returns through the error protocol like
everything else — this pair is the whole pattern, repeated per key:
```c wrap=galagagame requires=akgl
static bool MOVELEFT = false;
akerr_ErrorContext *left_on(akgl_Actor *obj, SDL_Event *event)
{
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
(void)obj; (void)event;
MOVELEFT = true;
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
}
akerr_ErrorContext *left_off(akgl_Actor *obj, SDL_Event *event)
{
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
(void)obj; (void)event;
MOVELEFT = false;
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
}
```
(The example keeps the flags in its `galaga_Game` struct rather than statics;
either works.) The bindings themselves are pushes onto map 0:
```c wrap=galagagame requires=akgl
static akerr_ErrorContext *galaga_player_controls(void)
@@ -673,10 +728,53 @@ case GALAGA_SCREEN_VICTORY:
CATCH(errctx, akgl_ui_frame_end(akgl_renderer));
```
The playing screen is two `akgl_ui_label()` calls — score top-left, lives and
wave top-right — formatted into `static` buffers, because the UI borrows label
The playing screen is two `akgl_ui_label()` calls — a widget call per label,
not a struct — formatted into `static` buffers, because the UI borrows label
text until `frame_end` and a local buffer would be dangling by the time it
draws. The title and end screens are an `akgl_ui_menu()` at the center.
draws:
```c wrap=galagagame requires=akgl
static char HUD_SCORE[64];
static char HUD_LIVES[64];
static akerr_ErrorContext *declare_play(void)
{
int count = 0;
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
PASS(errctx, aksl_snprintf(&count, HUD_SCORE, sizeof(HUD_SCORE),
"SCORE %06d", galaga_game.score));
PASS(errctx, aksl_snprintf(&count, HUD_LIVES, sizeof(HUD_LIVES),
"LIVES %d WAVE %d", galaga_game.lives, galaga_shared.wave));
PASS(errctx, akgl_ui_label("score", HUD_SCORE, AKGL_UI_ANCHOR_TOP_LEFT, NULL));
PASS(errctx, akgl_ui_label("lives", HUD_LIVES, AKGL_UI_ANCHOR_TOP_RIGHT, NULL));
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
}
```
The title and end screens are an `akgl_ui_menu()` at the center, fed an
`akgl_UiMenu` that lives in a `static` for the same borrowing reason. The
struct is an id, the item strings, a count, the selected index, the
`activated` output flag, and a style (`NULL` for the default):
```c wrap=galagatypes requires=akgl
static akgl_UiMenu TITLE_MENU = {
"titlemenu", { "START", "QUIT" }, 2, 0, false, NULL
};
static akerr_ErrorContext *declare_title(void)
{
PREPARE_ERROR(errctx);
PASS(errctx, akgl_ui_menu(&TITLE_MENU));
SUCCEED_RETURN(errctx);
}
```
Route events to the menu with
`akgl_ui_menu_handle_event(&TITLE_MENU, event, &consumed)` — the menu for
whichever screen is up, a `bool` out-parameter reporting whether the event was
taken. Up and down move `selected`, return sets `activated`.
The big **GALAGA** headline is direct text rather than a label: