Development

The software is written in C/C++, using Qt framework version 5.6 and is developed in Qt Creator IDE. All the Qt tools are free to use for open source projects and can be downloaded from the Qt website.

Github

The application source code is available at Github - https://github.com/matoom/frostbite. If you want to contribute to the Frostbite project on Github, you have to fork the repository as described in the following guide https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo.

Setting up the project

Following steps are necessary to set up the project in Qt Creator IDE:

• Open Frostbite.pro in Qt Creator;
• Load the environment settings -> No -> Select Desktop project;
• In environment.h -> change project path for offline mock file - #define MOCK_DATA_PATH "C:/Projects/FrostBite/support/mock.xml";
• in main.cpp -> set MainWindow::DEBUG = true;
• Build for debug target;
• Run project in debug mode.

High level architecture

The entry point to the application is main.cpp which runs the mainwindow.cpp gui.

Everything starts from the MainWindow -> MainWindow::loadClient():

• windowfacade.cpp - everything related to game windows
• toolbar.cpp - handles items on the toolbar
• commandline.cpp - the client command line
• tcpclient.cpp - everything related to game connection and data handling
• scriptservice.cpp - handles scripting processes
• menuhandler.cpp - handles client main menu logic
• xmlparserthread.cpp - parse SF protocol as XML