feat(prefs): add a GUI control for the sparse part-file setting (/eMule/CreateSparseFiles) - #662
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Visually confirmed locally (macOS build): the checkbox appears on the Files preferences page right below "Preallocate disk space for new files", as intended. |
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Thanks @LSalami — the wiring is clean and the Three things before merge. 1. ID collision. #665 landed since you opened this and took 2. The tooltip is inverted. It says a sparse file "reserves its full size on disk immediately" — that's preallocation, i.e. the checkbox directly above. A sparse file reserves no disk space; it's created at full logical length ( 3. The setting is a no-op outside Windows, and the checkbox doesn't say so. On POSIX both branches are the same call — I'd document it rather than gate it: what matters is the core's platform, which amuleGUI can't know without a new EC capability tag, so a compile-time Points 2 and 3 fold into one tooltip rewrite:
Optional, not a blocker: additionally hide the checkbox under Mechanical: #665 touched both the catalogs and the ID space, so this now conflicts in |
…-only effect got3nks's review on amule-org#662, both real issues: 1. The tooltip had it backwards. A sparse file reserves *no* physical disk space up front -- it's created at full logical length but grows physically as data lands, the opposite of what the old wording said ("reserves its full size... immediately"). Rewritten with the exact corrected text from the review. 2. The setting is a no-op outside Windows: PlatformSpecific.cpp and PartFile.cpp both call CFile::Create(name, true) on POSIX regardless of this preference, and part files end up sparse anyway once chunks land at offsets. Documented in the tooltip and a code comment rather than gating the checkbox behind __WINDOWS__ -- a remote amuleGUI has no EC capability tag to know what platform the core it's driving runs on, so a compile-time gate would be wrong in both directions. The ID collision with amule-org#665 (IDC_AMULEAPI_GUEST_ENABLED etc. took 10489-10491, the same range IDC_CREATEFILESSPARSE was using) was already resolved during the rebase -- moved to 10492. po/ regenerated last, after the tooltip fix, so the corrected string (not the wrong one) is what lands in the catalogs. Verified: built and ran both amule and amuleGUI, full unit test suite passing (28/28, including the new CredentialsTest from amule-org#665).
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All three fixed in e7fad85 (the ID collision got resolved as part of the rebase itself, moved to 10492):
Verified: built and ran both amule and amuleGUI, full unit test suite passing (28/28, including the new CredentialsTest from #665). |
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Verified all three points on the rebased head — ID is 10492 with no collision (and the stale #643 comment is gone), the tooltip matches verbatim, and the catalogs carry the corrected msgid with zero trace of the old inverted wording, so the regen-last ordering held. Thanks.
Two things and it's ready:
1. Add the non-Windows hide (the item I'd previously marked optional). One caveat on how: don't wrap the wxCheckBox creation in muuli_wdr.cpp in the #if. The NewCfgItem(IDC_CREATEFILESSPARSE, …) binding would then have no widget, Cfg_Tmpl::ConnectToWidget returns false, and PrefsUnifiedDlg logs "Failed to connect Cfg to widget…" plus "Failed to transfer data from Cfg to Widget…" every time Preferences opens.
Keep the control and the binding unconditional, and just hide it — same idiom already used a few lines up in PrefsUnifiedDlg.cpp:
#if !defined(__WINDOWS__) && !defined(CLIENT_GUI)
// Monolithic non-Windows: this build is its own core and the setting is
// a no-op on POSIX, so hide it. Still registered, so the value keeps
// round-tripping through the config and EC.
if (wxWindow *sparse = FindWindow(IDC_CREATEFILESSPARSE)) {
sparse->Show(false);
}
#endif2. Rebase and re-run scripts/update-po.sh last — it's conflicting again after #665, and CI can't complete while the branch is dirty.
/eMule/CreateSparseFiles was a functional, EC-wired preference (already exposed via the Web UI as files.create_normal) but had no control in either amule or amuleGUI -- users could only change it by hand-editing amule.conf (amule-org#653). Adds a checkbox on the Files preferences page, next to "Preallocate disk space for new files", and moves the pref from the untracked s_MiscList into the same NewCfgItem(IDC_*, Cfg_Bool(...)) wiring every other GUI-behavior checkbox on that page already uses -- no bespoke TransferToWindow/OnOk logic needed, PrefsUnifiedDlg.cpp is shared between amule and amuleGUI so the same one control works in remote mode too, and EC round-tripping was already in place (ECSpecialMuleTags.cpp already reads/writes this pref via the CreateFilesSparse()/ CreateFilesNormal() accessors). Kept the checkbox in the stored key's native "sparse" sense (checked = sparse = today's default) since Cfg_Bool binds 1:1 with no invert option; the tooltip spells out what turning it off does rather than introducing a polarity flip Cfg_Bool doesn't support. Verified for real: built and ran both amule and amuleGUI, confirmed a fresh config writes CreateSparseFiles=1 (matching the existing default), and that a hand-edited CreateSparseFiles=0 loads back unchanged (not silently reset to the default) -- full GUI toggle-and- save wasn't exercisable here due to the same macOS Accessibility limitations documented in amule-org#180, but this is the exact same generic Cfg_Bool/NewCfgItem binding already proven correct for every sibling checkbox on the page, with no per-control logic of its own. po/ regenerated as the final step; the only new msgid is the checkbox label/tooltip themselves.
Mechanical rebase to resolve po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Also resolved a real conflict in muuli_wdr.h: amule-org#643's IDC_SEARCHHISTORYENABLED (10488) landed on master, which this branch had already anticipated and reserved 10489 for.
…-only effect got3nks's review on amule-org#662, both real issues: 1. The tooltip had it backwards. A sparse file reserves *no* physical disk space up front -- it's created at full logical length but grows physically as data lands, the opposite of what the old wording said ("reserves its full size... immediately"). Rewritten with the exact corrected text from the review. 2. The setting is a no-op outside Windows: PlatformSpecific.cpp and PartFile.cpp both call CFile::Create(name, true) on POSIX regardless of this preference, and part files end up sparse anyway once chunks land at offsets. Documented in the tooltip and a code comment rather than gating the checkbox behind __WINDOWS__ -- a remote amuleGUI has no EC capability tag to know what platform the core it's driving runs on, so a compile-time gate would be wrong in both directions. The ID collision with amule-org#665 (IDC_AMULEAPI_GUEST_ENABLED etc. took 10489-10491, the same range IDC_CREATEFILESSPARSE was using) was already resolved during the rebase -- moved to 10492. po/ regenerated last, after the tooltip fix, so the corrected string (not the wrong one) is what lands in the catalogs. Verified: built and ran both amule and amuleGUI, full unit test suite passing (28/28, including the new CredentialsTest from amule-org#665).
…builds got3nks's review on amule-org#662: the setting is a no-op outside Windows, so hide it there -- but as a post-creation Show(false) in PrefsUnifiedDlg's ctor, not by skipping wxCheckBox creation in muuli_wdr.cpp. Gating the creation would leave NewCfgItem(IDC_CREATEFILESSPARSE, ...) with no widget to connect to, and Cfg_Tmpl::ConnectToWidget would fail silently every time Preferences opens (logging "Failed to connect Cfg to widget..." / "Failed to transfer data from Cfg to Widget..."). Same #if !defined(__WINDOWS__) && !defined(CLIENT_GUI) / FindWindow + Show(false) idiom already used a few lines up for the CLIENT_GUI-only share-preview hide.
Mechanical rebase to resolve po/ conflicts against master's amule-org#665/amule-org#667 -- no source changes here.
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Done in 5483fd7 — hide-after-creation, exactly as you described, using the same idiom as the CLIENT_GUI share-preview hide a few lines up. Widget stays created and bound unconditionally, so Cfg_Tmpl::ConnectToWidget always has something to connect to. Rebased onto current master and regenerated po/ last (247fc7d) — zero msgid changes this round, this fix is code-only. Verified: built and ran both amule and amuleGUI, full unit test suite passing (28/28). |
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Hide-after-creation is exactly right — the widget stays bound so the Cfg binding never fails, and it sits before the Fit() so the layout collapses cleanly. All four points verified. Merging.
Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: amule-org#642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept amule-org#642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's amule-org#671 (Preferences sidebar) and amule-org#665/amule-org#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet.
Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's amule-org#642/amule-org#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: amule-org#642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept amule-org#642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's amule-org#671 (Preferences sidebar) and amule-org#665/amule-org#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet.
* feat(gui): remove the global Connect/Disconnect toolbar button Closes #402. Per-network controls already exist (Kad pane's Start/Stop, Servers pane's ED2K connect/disconnect), the connection state is already shown in the status bar, and after discussing relocating it into the Networks view the agreed call (got3nks + ngosang) was simply to remove it -- mirrors what #585 already did on the Web UI side. Removed the toolbar tool, its three skin icons (Toolbar_Connect/ Disconnect/Connecting) and their bitmap wiring, the button-update block in ShowConnectionState(), and the two EnableTool(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) call sites. CamuleDlg::OnBnConnect() itself stays -- CMuleTrayIcon::DoConnectDisconnect() still calls it for the tray icon's own connect/disconnect action, which is unaffected by this change. ShowConnectionState()'s skinChanged parameter was only ever read by the now-removed block, so it's gone too, along with the one call site that passed true and the forceUpdate plumbing that reached it through GuiEvents.cpp's ShowConnState() free function. Left ID_BUTTONCONNECT and muuli_wdr.cpp's muleToolbar() (which still calls it) alone -- that function predates Apply_Toolbar_Skin, is never called anywhere, and touching pre-existing dead code is out of scope for this fix. Verified: built and ran both amule and amulegui cleanly, full unit test suite passing (26/26). Confirmed via the po/ diff that "Connect"/ "Disconnect"/"Cancel" remain in the catalog (still used by other per-network buttons) -- only their now-orphaned toolbar-specific tooltip strings were dropped. Could not get a real on-screen visual confirmation of the toolbar layout -- same macOS Accessibility automation limitations as #180 got in the way of screenshotting the actual app window. * i18n: regenerate po/ catalogs after rebasing onto current master Mechanical rebase to resolve conflicts against master's #642/#643 -- no source changes here. Resolved a real conflict in amuleDlg.cpp's event table: #642 added the Alt+<letter> EVT_MENU block right where this branch removed the EVT_TOOL(ID_BUTTONCONNECT, ...) line; kept #642's block, dropped the connect-button line as intended. Regenerated again via scripts/update-po.sh after later rebasing onto master's #671 (Preferences sidebar) and #665/#662 (amuleapi credentials, sparse part-file setting), which had added strings this branch's catalogs didn't have yet. * feat(gui): turn the per-network Disconnect buttons into Connect/Cancel/Disconnect toggles Relocates the removed global toolbar button's functionality into the ED2K (IDC_ED2KDISCONNECT) and Kad (ID_KADDISCONNECT) panes instead of just dropping it, per got3nks's proposal on #663: each button now mirrors ed2kState/kadState (off/connecting/connected) using the existing connButImg() bitmaps, and can independently connect or cancel/disconnect its own network -- something the old OR-toggled global button never allowed. The ED2K pane also gains a Connect button it never had (previously Disconnect-only). CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() / CKadDlg::UpdateConnectButton() are called from CamuleDlg::ShowConnectionState() alongside the existing UpdateED2KInfo()/UpdateKadInfo() calls, and once from each pane's own ctor/Init() for the initial paint. OnBnClickedED2KDisconnect and OnBnClickedDisconnectKad gained the missing "connect when off" branch; OnBnConnect and the tray icon are untouched. Verified interactively on Windows: both buttons show the correct label/icon for their live state, ED2K disconnect/reconnect works from its own button, and disabling ED2K in Preferences while Kad stays connected confirms the two toggle independently. po/ regenerated via scripts/update-po.sh to match the new button labels ("Disconnect Kad" is now unused and moves to the obsolete section; no new translatable strings). * fix(gui): drop the per-network connect-button state cache got3nks flagged two bugs in review (PR #663): the static cache's early return also skipped Enable(), so the button could get stuck disabled once IsReady()/network-pref state changed without the Connect/Cancel/Disconnect state itself changing (master had two now- deleted escape hatches -- the skinChanged force-path and an unconditional EnableTool call -- that used to paper over this). Worse, the cache was function-scope static, surviving widget recreation, so a fresh pane's Init() call could early-return and leave the wxDesigner default label ("Disconnect Kad") on screen. Dropping the cache removes both: SetLabel/SetBitmap/Enable are cheap on a plain wxButton (unlike the old toolbar tool, which had real native-image-list reasons to memoize, see amuleDlg.cpp:1054-ish), and master's own second call site already did an unconditional EnableTool every tick without issue. Second review round (macOS + Ubuntu ARM64, monolithic + amuleGUI) confirmed the toggle works functionally but flagged three cosmetic issues, all fixed here: - No gap between the connect-button icon and its label. The obvious fix, wxButton::SetBitmapMargins(), is NOT portable (wxOSX overrides it, wxGTK inherits the base no-op) -- prefixing the label with a literal space outside the _() call behaves identically on both and introduces no new msgid. - The Kad button was stretched full-width by its sizer's .Expand() flag, while the ED2K one sizes naturally; GTK and macOS then filled the slack differently (centered vs. icon-left). Dropped .Expand() so the two buttons size the same way -- trades away lining up with the "Bootstrap from known clients" button above it, but the two connect buttons reading as the same control matters more. - CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() and CKadDlg::UpdateConnectButton() were near-identical (same 3-state enum, same switch, same three bitmaps). Factored into a shared SetConnectButtonState(button, state, enabled) helper in muuli_wdr.cpp/.h, next to connButImg() which it reuses -- so the icon-spacing fix above lives in one place instead of two. Verified interactively on Windows: re-tested full disconnect/reconnect cycle on both panes, toggling ED2K off and back on via Preferences (existing behavior: needs an app restart to re-enable) with correct state on the fresh post-restart paint, and confirmed by screenshot that both buttons now show a visible icon/label gap and size the same way (Kad no longer stretched). Also confirmed amulegui (CLIENT_GUI) builds clean with these changes; did not perform full interactive remote-daemon testing. * fix(gui): first-paint layout bug + connect-button placement, per review Two more issues from got3nks's Linux/GTK pass on #663. 1. Bug: the ED2K connect button painted with the icon overlapping the label on first show (Kad was fine, only by luck of timing). CServerWnd::UpdateED2KConnectButton() runs after sizer->Show(this, TRUE) in the ctor, so SetBitmap() grows the button's best size after the row was already measured against the text-only label, and nothing re-lays it out until a window resize. Fixed by calling Layout() on the button's parent at the end of the shared SetConnectButtonState() helper -- covers both panes, and stops Kad from relying on being laid out late (its notebook page is only measured once shown, after Init() already set its bitmap). 2. Layout: moved both connect/disconnect toggles to lead their pane instead of sitting among secondary controls, per got3nks's request: - ED2K (serverListDlgUp): toggle now on its own top row, right- aligned via a stretch spacer, directly above the server list. The "Add server manually" form (name/IP/port/Add) moved below the table instead of sharing a row with the toggle; the vertical separator that used to sit between them is gone (no longer needed once they're not adjacent). - Kad (KadDlg): toggle moved out of the "Bootstrap" static box (where it sat under "Bootstrap from known clients") to its own top row above the box, right-aligned the same way as ED2K's. item0 changed from a 1x1 FlexGridSizer (which only ever held the two-column area) to a plain vertical wxBoxSizer so it can hold the new top row plus the existing two-column layout. Both panes now read "primary control on top, secondary/manual controls below" -- matching shape on both tabs. Verified interactively on Windows: screenshotted both panes, confirmed no icon/label overlap on first paint (no window resize needed), and re-ran the disconnect/reconnect toggle cycle on both after the layout change.
…able, Web UI label CI gate (#655) (#696) * refactor(amuleapi): make /preferences field names self-explanatory (#655) Rename 45 of the 119 fields GET/PATCH /api/v0/preferences exposes so each one states what it does without a lookup table, and nest the two unrelated remote-control subsystems instead of prefixing every field. amuleapi has not shipped and the protocol stays at v0, so the old names are simply removed rather than dual-emitted. The EC protocol is untouched: every tag number, presence-vs-value encoding and thePrefs:: accessor stays as-is, so amulegui / amulecmd / amuleweb remain compatible. All translation happens at the webapi boundary, the same way extended_udp_port_enabled already inverts EC_TAG_CONN_UDP_DISABLE. Highlights, by the class of problem each fixes: - Misleading names: security.obfuscation_supported -> obfuscation_enabled (it is a writable preference, while _supported / _available elsewhere means a read-only build capability); message_filter.friends / .secure / .all -> accept_from_friends_only / accept_from_known_clients_only / filter_all_messages; directories.exclude_regex -> exclude_patterns_use_regex (a modifier on exclude_patterns, not a second list); files.preview_prio -> prioritize_first_last_chunks. - Missing units: core_tweaks.srv_keepalive_timeout -> server_keepalive_timeout_ms (its two siblings already said _ms), connection.slot_allocation -> upload_slot_kbps, filebuffer -> file_buffer_bytes, online_signature.update_frequency -> update_frequency_seconds, webserver refresh -> refresh_seconds. - Magic numbers: connection.proxy_type and security.can_see_shares (now shared_files_visibility) become enum strings. A new PrefTakeEnum helper maps them to the wire ints and also replaces the hand-rolled inline mapping ip2country.source was using. - Structure: remote_controls.{webserver,amuleapi}.{...} replaces the nine webserver_* / amuleapi_* prefixes. Both sub-objects still pack into the single EC_TAG_PREFS_REMOTECTRL group, and passwords stay write-only. - Abbreviations spelled out: dl / ul / prio / cat / srv / autoconn. files.create_normal is deliberately left alone. It is the one field whose positive name requires inverting its meaning, so it gets its own change. The Web UI moves with the API in the same commit: field keys, the derived prefs_field_* dictionary keys in both locales, and dotted category paths for the nested objects. Two labels copied verbatim from the desktop are reworded ("Slot Allocation" -> "Upload speed per slot (KB/s)"), and the keepalive field now scales to minutes like the desktop slider instead of showing a bare millisecond count. check-i18n.mjs gains a check that every preferences field resolves to a real label, and is wired into the i18n workflow. These label keys are derived from the field names, so before this a renamed field with no dictionary entry would have rendered the raw key with nothing failing. Verified: full macOS build clean, 28/28 ctest green, curl phases 05 (73) and 15 (117 incl. new nested remote_controls and enum coverage) pass against a live daemon. Documented and emitted key sets diffed to zero. * refactor(amuleapi): drive /preferences from one declarative field table (#655) The 119 fields on /api/v0/preferences were described three times, in three different idioms: a hand-written EC decode per category in Refresher, a w.Key/w.Value pair per field in the GET emitter, and a PATCH applier that had grown two parallel helper families -- 87 call sites on the generic PrefTake* helpers plus 22 more on connection-local lambdas doing the same job with their own error strings and a different return convention. A field touched in two of the three and missed in the third compiled cleanly. Replace all three with a walk over one table (PrefsSchema.{h,cpp}). Each row names a field's JSON category and key, its EC tag, its type, how EC encodes it, and whether it is readable, writable or neither. Adding a preference is one row; renaming one is one token. What used to be special-case code is now a column: - `invert` -- extended_udp_port_enabled, whose EC tag (EC_TAG_CONN_UDP_DISABLE) is negatively named. This is also what makes the deferred create_normal -> create_sparse_files flip a one-value change instead of two structurally different edits on the read and write paths. - `enc` -- presence-tag vs value-tag booleans, which the core serializer mixes (57 presence, 9 value) and which every reader previously had to know. - `access` -- read-only capabilities and live status, write-only passwords and the ip2country trigger, and the amuleapi passwords that belong to /auth/passwords and are rejected here. - `gated_by` -- the 409 when files.mmap_enabled is set against a core built without mmap. - `read_group` -- connection.upnp_available, the one field whose EC tag lives in a different group ([General]) than its JSON category implies. Rows carry the address of their backing member, and the PREF_* macros static_assert that the declared PrefType matches the member's real C++ type, so a mis-typed row fails the build rather than misbehaving at runtime. One field genuinely cannot be described: remote_controls.webserver .guest_enabled and .guest_password share a single EC tag, which carries the enable bool as its value and the password hash as a child. There is no 1:1 field-to-tag mapping to write down, so its PATCH packing stays hand-written and the schema marks it Bespoke. Its GET emission is still table-driven. Equivalence was checked against a captured GET /preferences from the previous build: the EC decode and the GET emitter each produce byte-identical output, and the final key set matches at 119/119. PATCH is covered by curl phase 15 (117/117, unchanged) plus direct checks that every type, the inverted field, the nested categories and each error path still behave. Error bodies are now uniform ("<key> must be a bool") where they used to be per-category ("connection field must be a bool"); no test or doc asserted the old wording. Two new tests pin the table's own invariants: no duplicate fields, every category resolving to an EC group, members present exactly for the rows that round-trip a value, enum rows carrying a name table, capability gates naming a real sibling bool, and the emitted count staying at the documented 119. A second test asserts the three irregularities above stay at one field each, so a second one appearing is caught rather than copied. Net: -1437 / +842 lines, with the prefs handling in Api.cpp down 912 lines and Refresher.cpp down 212. * feat(amuleapi)!: state the sparse-file preference positively (#655) files.create_normal becomes files.create_sparse_files, and its meaning inverts: create_sparse_files == !create_normal. This is the one field in the payload whose positive name could not be reached by renaming alone, so the issue asked for it on its own commit. Every layer except EC already spoke in terms of "sparse". The config key is /eMule/CreateSparseFiles, the core stores s_createFilesSparse (default on), PartFile.cpp reads CreateFilesSparse(), and the desktop checkbox added in #662 is labelled "Create new files as sparse files". Only the EC tag is named for the negative case -- EC_TAG_FILES_CREATE_NORMAL is an empty tag present only when sparse is off -- and amuleapi was the one consumer that took that name and published it outward, leaving the Web UI saying "non-sparse" where the desktop says "sparse" for the same setting. EC is untouched: same tag number, same presence semantics, same thePrefs::CreateFilesNormal(). The negation is undone at the webapi boundary instead, exactly as extended_udp_port_enabled already does for EC_TAG_CONN_UDP_DISABLE. Thanks to the schema table this is one column: PREF_BOOL("files", "create_sparse_files", EC_TAG_FILES_CREATE_NORMAL, PrefEnc::Presence, /*invert=*/true, ...) The snapshot default flips to true to match the core's own default, and the Web UI label moves to the desktop's positive wording, which also flips the checkbox's rendered state for an unchanged setting. Verified end to end against a daemon's own config file rather than just the API's echo, since a polarity change is precisely where a self-consistent API can still be wrong: CreateSparseFiles=1 -> GET create_sparse_files: true PATCH false -> CreateSparseFiles=0 in amule.conf CreateSparseFiles=0 -> GET create_sparse_files: false PATCH true -> CreateSparseFiles=1 in amule.conf The schema-invariant test caught this change on its own: it enumerates which fields may invert, so adding a second one failed until the list was updated deliberately. That is the check working, and the list now names both tags and why each is negative. Note for clients: this is the one field where renaming the key without flipping the value yields the opposite behaviour. Nothing ships with the old name -- amuleapi is unreleased and the protocol stays at v0 -- so no compatibility shim is carried. * fix(amuleapi): keep the enum index unsigned in the prefs decoder CECTag::GetInt() returns uint64_t, so copying it into an std::int64_t narrows, which bugprone-narrowing-conversions flags on a new line. Keep the index unsigned: the >= 0 half of the range check was dead weight anyway, and the remaining bound is the only one that matters.
Closes #653.
/eMule/CreateSparseFileswas a functional, EC-wired preference — already exposed via the Web UI asfiles.create_normal— but had no control in eitheramuleoramuleGUI. The only way to change it was hand-editingamule.conf.What changed
s_MiscListinto the sameNewCfgItem(IDC_*, Cfg_Bool(...))wiring every other GUI-behavior checkbox on that page already uses.No bespoke
TransferToWindow/OnOklogic was needed —PrefsUnifiedDlg.cppis shared betweenamuleandamuleGUI, so the one control works in remote mode too, and EC round-tripping was already in place (ECSpecialMuleTags.cppalready reads/writes this pref via the existingCreateFilesSparse()/CreateFilesNormal()accessors).Polarity
Kept the checkbox in the stored key's native "sparse" sense (checked = sparse = today's default), since
Cfg_Boolbinds 1:1 with no invert option. The tooltip spells out what unchecking it does, rather than introducing a polarity flip the binding class doesn't support.Testing
Built and ran both
amuleandamuleGUIlocally. Confirmed at the config-file level:CreateSparseFiles=1, matching the existing default.CreateSparseFiles=0loads back unchanged on the next launch (not silently reset to the default).Full GUI toggle-and-save wasn't exercisable here — macOS Accessibility automation for this dialog hit the same limitations documented in #180. This is the exact same generic
Cfg_Bool/NewCfgItembinding already proven correct for every sibling checkbox on the page, with no per-control logic of its own, so I'm confident in the mechanism; happy to have this double-checked in review/CI.po/regenerated as the final step — the only new msgid is the checkbox's own label/tooltip.