- Updated the sidebar UI in EditorCardRegistry to improve visibility and theming consistency using ThemeManager.
- Refactored SettingsEditor to register multiple settings cards, enhancing modularity and organization of settings.
- Improved the layout and interaction of category tabs, ensuring a more intuitive user experience.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the settings management process, leading to a more organized and efficient user interface.
- Enhances maintainability by clearly defining card registration and visibility logic within the editor framework.
- Updated include paths for various GUI-related headers to improve organization and clarity.
- Introduced new components for better modularity, including PaletteEditorWidget and EditorCardManager.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new components, ensuring consistency across the GUI subsystem.
Benefits:
- Enhances maintainability and readability of the GUI code.
- Facilitates future enhancements and optimizations within the GUI subsystem.
- Updated include paths for various graphics-related headers to improve organization and clarity.
- Introduced new types for SNES color, palette, and tile management, enhancing the structure of the graphics subsystem.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new types, ensuring consistency across the codebase.
Benefits:
- Improves maintainability and readability of the graphics code.
- Facilitates future enhancements and optimizations within the graphics subsystem.
- Updated file paths for performance-related headers to reflect new directory structure under `app/gfx/performance/`.
- Introduced new `PerformanceDashboard` and `PerformanceProfiler` classes for comprehensive performance monitoring and reporting.
- Enhanced performance metrics collection and visualization capabilities, including real-time updates and detailed reports.
- Improved memory usage tracking and optimization status analysis within the graphics system.
- Ensured compatibility with existing components by updating include directives across multiple files.
- Added a new document, E5-debugging-guide.md, providing comprehensive strategies for debugging and testing the `yaze` application, including logging practices and testing frameworks.
- Updated E2-development-guide.md to include a new section on debugging and testing, detailing quick debugging methods using command-line flags for specific editors and UI cards.
- Enhanced the main application to support command-line flags for opening specific editors and cards on startup, improving the developer experience.
- Refactored the Controller class to handle startup editor and card initialization based on command-line inputs.
- Added critical logging for graphics buffer management in LoadAllGraphicsData to prevent data corruption during ROM loads.
- Updated logging levels from INFO to DEBUG across various components for consistency and to reduce log verbosity.
- Refactored texture creation and palette application logic to allow editors to manage their own rendering, improving flexibility and user experience.
- Improved background buffer handling to ensure fresh bitmap creation only when necessary, optimizing performance.
- Enhanced debugging output for canvas and performance tracking, aiding in better diagnostics during development.
- Integrated logging functionality across various components, replacing standard output with structured logging for improved traceability.
- Added z3ed AI Agent test suites for enhanced testing capabilities, including connectivity and command parsing tests.
- Updated the Settings Editor to allow configuration of logging behavior, including log levels and file output options.
- Enhanced the Test Dashboard with tabbed views for better organization of test results, including GUI automation tests.
- Added new tabs for Theme Management, Editor Behavior, Performance Settings, and AI Agent Configuration in the SettingsEditor.
- Implemented UI elements for theme selection and management, including current theme display and available themes grid.
- Introduced editor behavior settings such as auto-save options and recent files limit.
- Added performance settings for graphics and memory management.
- Updated keyboard shortcuts section with a placeholder for future customization features.
- Deleted the PerformanceMonitor implementation and header files as functionality has been fully integrated into gfx::PerformanceProfiler.
- Updated all relevant source files to replace PerformanceMonitor and ScopedTimer with their gfx counterparts, ensuring consistent performance monitoring across the application.
- Added performance monitoring capabilities using ScopedTimer in the DungeonEditor, PaletteEditor, ScreenEditor, MessageEditor, MusicEditor, SpriteEditor, and SettingsEditor classes to track loading times.
- Enhanced the Load methods in each editor to include timing for critical operations, improving performance analysis and optimization.
- Removed unnecessary debug output in the Sprite class to clean up the codebase.
Simplified `ExperimentFlags` by removing unused flags and updated
`Controller` to no longer inherit from it. Refactored `FlagsMenu`
to separate flag categories into individual methods for better
organization. Enhanced settings editor with a new "Font Manager"
tab and updated `DrawGeneralSettings` to use the new flag category
methods. Added `DrawFontManager` function for font management.
