[Implemented] Suggestion: Disband the Misc Library

[akj]

I suggest that with the introduction of the new System library, the Misc library should now be eliminated and it's functions moved to other libraries.

Thus:-

Delay, ElapsedMilliseconds, OSVersion should be moved to the System library

DoubleClickTime should be move to either the System library or the Mouse library

Random, RandomData, RandomSeed should be moved to the Math library

Alpha, AlphaBlend, Blue, Green, RGB, RGBA, Red should be merged with the Palette library to create a new Colour library

[jassing]

Just curious... does it bother you it's listed under "misc" or is there a problem with it?

[akj]

@jassing:

I think that the name Misc or Miscellaneous is merely a catch-all for items that cannot be classified under a more descriptive library.
If anything can be classified accurately then it should be so.

For example, if one day you needed to know which library contained a function to retrieve Windows' version number, I bet that Misc would be low down on your list of likely libraries and might not even occur to you at all.

[IdeasVacuum]

+1

[c4s]

+1

...Simply because it makes sense: In the past I already searched for Alpha() etc. in the Drawing library and Random() in Math numerous times.

[SFSxOI]

There's a Misc library? Oh gee whiz....why didn't someone say something, oh the number of times i wanted to do something miscellaneous....

(by the way, I agree on the suggestion so +1)