- 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 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.
- Modified include paths in multiple source files to reflect the new directory structure, ensuring all references are correctly aligned with the updated project organization.
Benefits:
- Enhanced maintainability and clarity of the codebase by standardizing include paths.
- 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.
- Implemented default palette application during graphics data loading to ensure immediate visibility of graphics sheets.
- Refactored GraphicsEditor to queue texture creation without palette management, improving performance and clarity.
- Introduced NotifySheetModified method in Arena to handle texture updates across all editors, ensuring consistency in graphics rendering.
- Enhanced logging for better tracking of graphics sheet modifications and texture operations.
- Registered multiple emulator cards (CPU Debugger, Memory Viewer, PPU Viewer, Audio Mixer) with the EditorCardManager for improved access and organization.
- Updated EditorManager to support the new Emulator editor type in context-sensitive card controls.
- Improved GraphicsEditor loading process with enhanced logging and palette management for graphics sheets.
- Refactored MessageEditor to streamline font bitmap creation and texture queuing, ensuring better performance and clarity in the rendering loop.
- Removed individual card shortcuts for dungeon and graphics categories to prevent hash table overflow, consolidating functionality into a Card Browser.
- Introduced a context-sensitive card control feature that dynamically displays relevant cards based on the active editor.
- Updated PaletteEditor to clarify its use of internal tabs instead of separate cards.
- Registered multiple cards in MessageEditor and OverworldEditor, improving visibility and management of editor functionalities.
- Added new UI components for the emulator, including dedicated panels for CPU and APU debugging, improving user interaction and debugging capabilities.
- Implemented a caching mechanism for rendered objects in the DungeonCanvasViewer to optimize performance and reduce rendering time.
- Updated the CMake configuration to include new UI source files, ensuring proper organization and build management.
- Enhanced the theme manager with improved color definitions for better visibility and consistency across the UI.
- Refactored the emulator interface to delegate rendering tasks to the UI layer, streamlining the codebase and improving maintainability.
- Changed the type of dictionary variable from int to int8_t for better type safety.
- Updated the handling of dictionary entries in message parsing to ensure correct formatting and prevent parsing errors with command arguments.
- Refactored message data parsing logic to use index-based loops, improving clarity and correctness in handling command arguments.
- Enhanced the documentation in message_data.h to provide a comprehensive overview of the message data system and its components.
- Added new tests to validate the correct parsing of messages with commands and arguments, ensuring robustness against previous bugs.
- Updated the testing guide to clarify the testing framework's organization and execution methods, improving user understanding.
- Refactored CMakeLists to include new platform-specific files, ensuring proper integration of the rendering backend.
- Modified main application files to utilize the new IRenderer interface, enhancing flexibility in rendering operations.
- Implemented deferred texture management in various components, allowing for more efficient graphics handling and improved performance.
- Introduced new methods for texture creation and updates, streamlining the rendering process across the application.
- Enhanced logging and error handling in the rendering pipeline to facilitate better debugging and diagnostics.
- Updated file dialog references across the application to utilize a new `util::FileDialogWrapper` for consistent file handling.
- Refactored existing code to replace direct calls to `core::FileDialogWrapper` with the new utility class, enhancing modularity and maintainability.
- Introduced `util::PlatformPaths` for cross-platform directory management, ensuring consistent access to user directories and application data paths.
- Added new utility functions for file operations, improving the overall file handling capabilities within the application.
- Updated CMake configurations to include new utility source files, streamlining the build process.
- 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.
- Updated code style in message_data.cc and message_data.h for uniformity, specifically adjusting spacing around references and pointers.
- Improved readability by ensuring consistent use of `const` and reference qualifiers in function signatures.
- No functional changes were made; this commit focuses solely on code style enhancements.
- Introduced yaze_load_messages function to load messages from ROM data, enhancing message management.
- Updated message data structures to use std::string_view for improved performance and clarity.
- Refactored message parsing logic to utilize modern C++ features like ranges and optional, improving readability.
- Adjusted various functions to streamline message handling and ensure consistency across the codebase.
- Replaced platform backend references with a dedicated Window class for better encapsulation of window and audio device management.
- Updated various files to include the new window header, enhancing clarity and reducing dependencies on the platform backend.
- Removed obsolete platform backend code to streamline the codebase and improve maintainability.
- Refactored controller and editor classes to utilize the new window management system, ensuring consistent handling of window creation and rendering.
- Updated ReadAllTextData to return a vector of MessageData instead of modifying an external list, improving data management.
- Added support for special elements in ParseMessageData to enhance message parsing capabilities.
- Introduced DisplayTextOverflowError function for better error handling in message saving.
- Refactored MessageEditor to utilize the new ReadAllTextData signature and improved expanded message handling.
- Cleaned up unused functions and variables in MessageEditor for better code organization.
- Combined TextCommands and SpecialChars into a single vector for streamlined matching in FindMatchingElement.
- Removed unnecessary logging in ParseMessageToData for cleaner error handling.
- Updated FindRealDictionaryEntry function signature for improved readability.
- Enhanced DrawCurrentMessage to strip newline characters from input before parsing.
- Added command parameter input in DrawTextCommands for better user interaction.
- Cleaned up unused ToString methods in MessageData and TextElement structures.
- Introduced MessagePreview class to handle message rendering and preview logic.
- Updated MessageEditor to utilize MessagePreview for drawing messages and managing font graphics.
- Refactored drawing methods to improve organization and clarity, including the addition of DrawFontAtlas and DrawExpandedMessageSettings.
- Enhanced message handling by integrating new dictionary entry lookup and improved bitmap updates for message previews.
- Cleaned up unused functions and variables to streamline the codebase.
- Added SNES header include to message_data.cc for better integration.
- Simplified dictionary token formatting in ReadAllTextData function.
- Removed unused ImportMessageData function from message_data.h.
- Streamlined bitmap updates and rendering in MessageEditor, replacing instances of Renderer::GetInstance() with Renderer::Get().
- Enhanced message preview functionality with improved scrolling and drawing logic.
- Adjusted canvas sizes for better layout consistency.
Updated MessageEditor, RoomEntrance, and Overworld classes to use WriteByte instead of Write for byte values. Refactored ROM class by removing Write and toint16 methods, moving constants, and updating operator[]. Modified Overworld methods to return absl::Status and handle errors. Updated Inventory and OverworldMap methods to use ReadWord instead of toint16.
- Removed `FindMatchingCharacter` declaration from `message_data.h`
- Added default values to `DictionaryEntry` and `MessageData` members
- Marked several methods in `DictionaryEntry`, `MessageData`, and `TextElement` as `const`
- Updated `TextElement` constructor to take `const std::string&`
- Added string constants for text descriptions in `TextElement`
- Updated `TextCommands` vector to use new string constants
- Declared new function `FindMatchingCommand`
- Included `<array>` header in `message_editor.h`
- Changed `width_array` in `MessageEditor` to `std::array` with default initialization
- Removed `list_of_texts_` and `all_dictionaries_` vectors from `MessageEditor`
- Added default values to `GameEntity` members
- Initialized `sheets` array in `PseudoVram`
- Initialized `map_parent_` and `all_tiles_types_` arrays in `Overworld`
