- Implemented a new tilemap system for 8x8 tiles in the ScreenEditor, allowing for on-demand texture creation and caching of tiles.
- Combined multiple sheets into a single tilemap, improving memory efficiency and rendering performance.
- Updated tile drawing logic to extract and cache tiles from the atlas, ensuring textures are created only when needed.
Benefits:
- Enhances performance by reducing unnecessary texture creation.
- Improves user experience with faster tile rendering and management in the editor.
- Refactored multiple editor classes to ensure that ImGui::End() is always called after ImGui::Begin(), enhancing state management and preventing potential rendering issues.
- Updated the DungeonEditor, GraphicsEditor, ScreenEditor, MessageEditor, MusicEditor, and SpriteEditor to follow this pattern, improving code consistency and reliability.
Benefits:
- Improves the stability of the editor UI by ensuring proper handling of ImGui state.
- Enhances code readability and maintainability by standardizing the usage of ImGui functions across different editor components.
- Implemented title screen editing capabilities, including loading and rendering of title screen layers.
- Added inventory item icon management, allowing for the display and selection of item icons within the inventory menu.
- Updated the inventory creation process to ensure proper ROM loading and error handling.
- Introduced new canvas components for title screen and inventory item icons, improving the user interface for editing.
Benefits:
- Enhances the functionality of the screen editor, providing users with tools to edit title screens and manage inventory icons effectively.
- Improves user experience by ensuring robust error handling and visual feedback during inventory management.
- Added functionality to enable SDL audio streaming in the Emulator class, allowing for improved audio handling.
- Introduced environment variable checks to configure audio streaming on initialization.
- Updated audio backend to support native audio frame queuing and resampling, enhancing audio performance and flexibility.
Benefits:
- Enhances audio playback quality and responsiveness in the emulator.
- Provides users with the option to utilize SDL audio streaming for better audio management.
- Modified CMake configurations across multiple files to use `$<TARGET_FILE:libprotobuf>` for whole-archive linking on Windows, ensuring all symbols are included correctly.
- This change enhances compatibility and reliability of the build process when using gRPC.
Benefits:
- Improves build stability on Windows platforms by ensuring proper linking of the protobuf library.
- Updated CMake configuration in both CI and release workflows to include the preprocessor definition `/D__PRFCHWINTRIN_H` alongside the existing definition for `google_protobuf_undef_DWORD`.
- This change ensures compatibility with Windows-specific intrinsics during the build process.
Benefits:
- Improves build reliability on Windows platforms by addressing potential issues with intrinsic functions.
- Introduced detailed refactoring plans for the in-app test dashboard and the zelda3 library, addressing architectural issues and improving modularity.
- The test dashboard plan outlines a decoupled architecture, enhancing maintainability and build efficiency.
- The zelda3 library plan proposes a migration to a core shared library structure, improving incremental build times and clarifying domain boundaries.
Benefits:
- Enhances the overall structure and maintainability of the codebase.
- Facilitates future development and testing efforts by establishing clear architectural guidelines.
- Deleted the `agent.sh` script, which provided background agent functionality for YAZE, as it is no longer needed.
- Removed the `create_release.sh` script used for creating release tags, streamlining the release process.
- Eliminated the `test_apu_boot.sh` script for APU/SPC700 boot sequence testing, as it is outdated.
Benefits:
- Cleans up the scripts directory by removing unused and deprecated scripts, improving project maintainability.
- Added support for .gitignore patterns to the build_cleaner script, allowing it to respect ignored files during maintenance tasks.
- Implemented auto-discovery of CMake libraries marked for auto-maintenance, improving the automation of source list updates.
- Introduced functions for extracting includes and symbols from source files to suggest missing headers based on usage.
- Updated README to reflect new features and usage instructions.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by automating maintenance tasks and ensuring proper header management.
- Enhances code organization and maintainability by integrating with existing project structures.
- Changed include paths for SNES color and palette headers to reflect new organization under the 'types' and 'util' directories.
- Ensured consistency in include paths across the graphics subsystem.
Benefits:
- Improves code organization and maintainability by adhering to the updated project structure.
- Modified CI configuration to use the D-Bus portal for file dialogs on Linux for improved reliability.
- Updated CMake commands in both CI and release workflows to include the NFD_PORTAL option.
- Removed OpenSSL from vcpkg.json to streamline dependencies.
Benefits:
- Enhances build reliability across different platforms.
- Simplifies dependency management in the project.
- 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.
- Introduced PaletteManager to handle all palette-related operations, including color modifications, undo/redo functionality, and batch processing.
- Updated PaletteEditor and PaletteGroupCard to utilize PaletteManager for managing palette states and modifications, streamlining the editing process.
- Enhanced user interface with confirmation popups for discard actions and error notifications for save failures.
Benefits:
- Centralizes palette management, improving consistency and reducing code duplication across editors.
- Enhances user experience by providing clear feedback on unsaved changes and simplifying color operations.
- Implemented initialization for music-related editor cards, including Music Tracker and Instrument Editor, with appropriate registration and default visibility settings.
- Updated MusicEditor to manage card visibility dynamically and added methods for drawing specific editor views.
- Improved EditorCardManager to handle recent category tracking, enhancing user navigation through editor categories.
Benefits:
- Streamlines access to music editing tools, improving user experience and workflow efficiency within the editor environment.
- Updated EditorManager to pass visibility flags directly to memory and assembly editors, enhancing the responsiveness of the editor interface.
- Simplified visibility checks by retrieving flags from the EditorCardManager, ensuring accurate updates based on user interactions.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the editor update process, improving user experience by ensuring editors reflect their visibility state accurately.
- Updated EditorManager to support new card-based editors, including Emulator, Hex, and Assembly editors.
- Added centralized registration of editor cards with EditorCardManager, improving visibility management.
- Implemented methods to retrieve editor types from categories and manage card visibility dynamically.
- Enhanced initialization processes for various editors to ensure proper card registration and default visibility settings.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience by organizing editor cards and providing quick access to new editor functionalities.
- Streamlined editor management, making it easier to switch between different editing contexts and enhancing overall workflow efficiency.
- Simplified CMake build commands in CI and release workflows by removing the redundant `--config ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}` flag.
- Updated test commands to eliminate the build configuration flag, streamlining the testing process.
Benefits:
- Enhances clarity and reduces potential confusion in build and test commands, improving overall workflow efficiency.
- Implemented steps to install NASM on Windows runners, required for BoringSSL in gRPC.
- Updated PATH for NASM to ensure it is accessible during the build process.
- Enhanced dependency retry logic to include NASM installation.
Benefits:
- Ensures proper setup for Windows builds, improving compatibility with gRPC requirements.
- Updated EditorManager to handle sidebar drawing for card-based editors, improving consistency across editor types.
- Removed individual toolbar implementations from GraphicsEditor, ScreenEditor, and SpriteEditor, as sidebar functionality is now centralized.
- Enhanced EditorCardManager to manage card visibility and selection more effectively, including improved UI feedback for empty card categories.
Benefits:
- Streamlined editor interface and improved user experience by consolidating sidebar management, making it easier to navigate and manage editor cards.
- Introduced several new commands to the emulator, including:
- `emulator-set-breakpoint`: Set breakpoints for debugging.
- `emulator-clear-breakpoint`: Remove breakpoints by ID.
- `emulator-list-breakpoints`: List all active breakpoints.
- `emulator-step`: Step through CPU instructions.
- `emulator-run`: Run the emulator until a breakpoint or for a specified number of frames.
- `emulator-pause`: Pause execution for inspection.
- `emulator-reset`: Reset the emulator to its initial state.
- `emulator-get-registers`: Retrieve current CPU register values.
- `emulator-get-metrics`: Get performance metrics of the emulator.
Benefits:
- Enhances debugging capabilities and provides more control over emulator execution, improving the development experience.
- Introduced methods to determine if an editor is card-based and to retrieve its category.
- Implemented a sidebar toggle shortcut (Ctrl+B) for managing card visibility.
- Added functionality to hide current editor cards when switching editors.
- Updated editor initialization to register global shortcuts for activating specific editors.
- Enhanced the Update method to draw a sidebar for the current category editor.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience by organizing editor cards and providing quick access to editor categories.
- Streamlined editor management, making it easier to switch between different editing contexts.
- Changed the compiler configuration for Windows jobs in CI and release workflows from MSVC to Clang.
- Updated CMake commands to utilize the Ninja generator and set the C and C++ compilers dynamically based on the matrix configuration.
- Simplified artifact paths in the packaging steps to reflect the new build structure.
Benefits:
- Improved compatibility and performance by leveraging Clang for Windows builds, enhancing cross-platform consistency.
- Introduced a new document detailing the architecture of the z3ed AI agent system, covering features like learned knowledge, TODO management, and advanced routing.
- Added a debugging guide for the AI agent, outlining the gRPC-based debugging service, available tools, and practical debugging workflows.
- Updated existing documentation to reflect recent improvements in the emulator's audio system and overall debugging capabilities.
Benefits:
- Provides clear guidance for developers on the AI agent's architecture and debugging processes, enhancing usability and understanding of the system.
- Facilitates faster onboarding and better collaboration by offering structured documentation and real-world examples.
- Moved palette_editor and palette_group_card files to a dedicated palette directory for better organization.
- Updated CMake configuration to link the new palette editor files and added support for the yaze_agent library when not in minimal build.
- Refactored include paths in various editor files to reflect the new structure, ensuring proper linkage and modularity.
Benefits:
- Improved code organization and maintainability by grouping related files.
- Enhanced functionality with the integration of AI features through the yaze_agent library.
- Updated CI and release workflows to determine the number of parallel jobs based on available CPU cores, enhancing build efficiency.
- Added checks for `nproc` and `sysctl` commands to dynamically set the core count, defaulting to 2 if neither is available.
- Improved logging to indicate the number of parallel jobs being used during the build process.
Benefits:
- Optimized build performance by utilizing available resources more effectively, leading to faster build times.
- Added a step to free disk space on Linux runners, removing unnecessary software and displaying disk usage before and after cleanup.
- Improved build logging by adding status messages indicating the build configuration and the number of parallel jobs used.
- Updated test suite execution messages for better clarity during CI runs.
Benefits:
- Optimized CI resource usage and improved visibility into the build process, aiding in troubleshooting and efficiency.
- Updated CMake configurations to conditionally link OpenSSL only when gRPC is not enabled, preventing duplicate symbol errors.
- Added support for whole-archive linking of protobuf on Windows across core, net, agent, and z3ed components to ensure all symbols are included.
- Improved status messages to reflect the use of gRPC's OpenSSL when applicable.
Benefits:
- Enhanced compatibility and stability of the build process across different platforms and configurations.
- Added new source files for test commands and conversation tests to the agent's command handling structure.
- Removed the obsolete GUI command handler, redirecting users to the command registry for GUI automation commands.
Benefits:
- Enhanced testing capabilities and modularity within the agent's command management, facilitating future feature additions.
- Added FTXUI components (screen, dom, component) to the agent's CMake configuration, enabling advanced UI capabilities.
- Removed unnecessary include statement from general_commands.cc to streamline the code.
Benefits:
- Improved modularity and extensibility of the agent's UI features, facilitating future enhancements.
- Introduced a new source file for general commands in the agent's command handling structure.
- This addition enhances the command management capabilities of the CLI, allowing for more comprehensive command processing.
Benefits:
- Improved modularity and extensibility of command handling within the agent, facilitating future feature additions.
- Rearranged the order of include statements in themed_widgets.h for better organization and readability.
- Simplified the definition of StatusType by removing redundant braces, enhancing clarity in the code structure.
- Adjusted formatting in function declarations for consistency.
Benefits:
- Improved code maintainability and readability through better organization and formatting.
- Changed the include path for Hyrule Magic from "app/zelda3/hyrule_magic.h" to "util/hyrule_magic.h" in tracker.cc.
- This adjustment improves the modularity of the codebase by aligning the include structure with the new organization of utility headers.
- Removed the DYAZE_USE_MODULAR_BUILD option from build presets documentation.
- Updated the agent guide to reflect the recent completion of version 0.2.2-alpha, highlighting new emulator debugging infrastructure and its benefits for AI agents.
- Enhanced the CLI help output to include a more structured command summary and improved descriptions for better user understanding.
- Replaced direct command handling in ModernCLI with a centralized CommandRegistry singleton.
- Removed SetupCommands method and associated command handler logic, simplifying command execution and registration.
- Updated ShowHelp and ShowCommandSummary methods to utilize CommandRegistry for fetching command metadata and descriptions.
Benefits:
- Streamlined command management, enhancing maintainability and clarity in the CLI structure.
- Improved command registration and execution consistency through a unified registry approach.
- Introduced a new hierarchical WhichKey feature that allows users to navigate commands using a Spacemacs-style interface.
- Added functionality for breadcrumb navigation and auto-close after a specified duration.
- Implemented keyboard input handling for prefix keys to enter submenus or execute commands.
- Updated the CommandManager header to include new methods and state variables for managing WhichKey navigation.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience by providing a more intuitive command navigation system.
- Enhanced accessibility of commands through visual grouping and structured navigation.
- Added methods for managing breakpoints, including adding, removing, listing, and enabling/disabling breakpoints.
- Introduced watchpoint management methods, although integration is pending.
- Implemented execution control features such as stepping through instructions and running to breakpoints.
- Enhanced disassembly capabilities to retrieve and display instruction details from memory.
- Updated header file to include new debugging functionalities, ensuring clarity and modularity.
Benefits:
- Improved debugging capabilities for the emulator, facilitating better development and testing workflows.
- Enhanced user experience by providing detailed control over execution and memory analysis.
- Moved background rendering functionality from the editor to a dedicated GUI module, enhancing modularity and separation of concerns.
- Introduced layout helpers for consistent theme-aware sizing across the GUI, improving UI consistency and maintainability.
- Updated CMake configuration to reflect the new structure, ensuring proper linkage of the background renderer and layout helpers.
Benefits:
- Improved organization of GUI components, facilitating easier updates and enhancements.
- Enhanced user interface consistency through theme-aware layout management.
- Added support for advanced features in the ConversationalAgentService, including learned knowledge and TODO management, conditional on Z3ED_AI being enabled.
- Implemented methods for injecting learned context and pretraining prompts into user messages, enhancing the conversational experience.
- Updated header files to include necessary components for advanced features, ensuring modularity and clarity in the service's capabilities.
Benefits:
- Improved user interaction by providing contextually relevant responses.
- Enhanced maintainability and extensibility of the agent's functionality.
- Updated CMake configuration to conditionally link the yaze_test_support library when tests are enabled, alongside the existing ImGuiTestEngine.
- Improved status messages to provide clearer feedback on linked libraries during the build process.
Benefits:
- Enhanced testing capabilities for the editor by integrating additional support libraries.
- Improved clarity in build output regarding linked test infrastructure.
- Updated audio buffering strategy to ensure smooth playback by always queuing samples and implementing dynamic rate control.
- Introduced Hermite interpolation for audio resampling, providing better quality than linear interpolation.
- Adjusted audio debug logging for improved monitoring of audio states and buffer management.
Benefits:
- Improved audio playback quality and reduced glitches.
- Enhanced clarity in audio debugging and monitoring processes.
- Deleted the MenuManager class implementation and header files from the project.
- Updated CMake configuration to reflect the removal of MenuManager, simplifying the editor's UI management.
Benefits:
- Reduced code complexity by eliminating unused components.
- Improved maintainability of the editor's UI structure.
- Removed experimental test option and modular build option from CMakeLists.txt to simplify configuration.
- Added a definition for YAZE_GUI_TEST_TARGET in the test CMakeLists.txt to mark GUI test targets.
- Updated yaze_test.cc to conditionally register E2E tests only for GUI test targets, enhancing clarity in test registration.
Benefits:
- Streamlined CMake configuration for testing.
- Improved organization of test registration logic for GUI targets.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to always include GUI test sources when tests are built, removing the conditional check for YAZE_ENABLE_UI_TESTS.
- Added a headless test entry for the entire GUI suite, ensuring consistent execution without a GUI.
Benefits:
- Simplified configuration for GUI tests, enhancing clarity and usability.
- Improved test execution flexibility by allowing headless operation.
