- Added TextureAtlas class to manage multiple textures packed into a single large texture, improving rendering performance and reducing GPU state changes.
- Implemented methods for allocating regions, packing bitmaps, and drawing regions from the atlas.
- Removed the DrawDungeonTabView function from DungeonCanvasViewer as it is no longer needed with the new EditorCard system.
- Updated CMake configuration to include texture_atlas.cc in the build process.
- Refactored Room class to eliminate dependency on Arena graphics sheets, transitioning to per-room graphics for rendering.
- Introduced a new document detailing the APU timing issue that prevents music playback due to handshake failures between the CPU and APU.
- Analyzed the CPU-APU handshake process, identifying points of failure and root causes related to cycle inaccuracies in SPC700 emulation.
- Proposed a comprehensive refactoring plan to implement cycle-accurate instruction execution, centralize the APU execution loop, and use integer-based cycle ratios to eliminate floating-point errors.
- This document serves as a critical resource for developers addressing audio emulation challenges.
- Added comprehensive Doxygen-style comments for key functions in tracker.cc, including AllocSpcBlock, GetSpcAddr, and LoadSpcCommand, to improve code readability and maintainability.
- Documented the purpose and parameters of various structs in tracker.h, such as SongSpcBlock, SongRange, and SpcCommand, providing clarity on their roles in the music data handling process.
- Improved overall documentation quality to assist developers in understanding the music tracking system's architecture and functionality.
- Introduced a new DUNGEON_EDITOR_COMPLETE_GUIDE.md that details the features, architecture, and usage of the Dungeon Editor.
- Documented critical bug fixes, including segfaults and loading order issues, along with their resolutions.
- Enhanced the guide with a structured overview, quick start instructions, and troubleshooting tips for users.
- Updated the architecture section to reflect the new card-based system and self-contained room management.
- Included detailed testing commands and expected outputs to assist developers in verifying functionality.
- Deleted the old D1-dungeon-editor-guide.md and F1-dungeon-editor-guide.md files to streamline documentation.
- Introduced a new DUNGEON_EDITOR_GUIDE.md that consolidates features, architecture, and usage instructions for the Dungeon Editor.
- Updated the development guide to include new naming conventions and clarified rendering processes.
- Enhanced the overall structure and content of the documentation to reflect the current production-ready status of the Dungeon Editor.
- Removed conditional feature flags for minimal builds, ensuring all features (JSON, gRPC, AI) are enabled for both CI and release configurations.
- Updated CI and release workflows to reflect the change from minimal build to full build mode, enhancing consistency across environments.
- Adjusted summary outputs in CI workflows to clarify the build mode being used.
- Replaced the deprecated DungeonEditor with DungeonEditorV2, implementing a card-based architecture for improved UI management.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to reflect changes in source file organization, including renaming dungeon_editor files to their V2 counterparts.
- Refactored DungeonCanvasViewer to support per-room layer visibility settings and updated related methods for rendering and layer management.
- Enhanced testing framework to accommodate the new DungeonEditorV2 structure, including updates to smoke tests and integration tests.
- Removed legacy dungeon_editor files to streamline the codebase and prevent confusion with the new implementation.
- Indented the inclusion of the net library in CMake for better readability.
- Updated room ID validation in DungeonEditorV2 to use a constant value for room limits.
- Enhanced the LoadDoors, LoadTorches, LoadBlocks, and LoadPits methods in the Room class to include detailed logging and improved data handling from ROM, preparing for future implementations of door, torch, block, and pit loading.
- 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.
- Changed CMake flags in the CI workflow to enable building the application instead of Z3ED for Windows and Linux configurations.
- Added undefinitions for Windows macros in imgui_test_harness_service.cc and screenshot_utils.cc to prevent conflicts with protobuf generated code.
- Implemented controls for toggling visibility of background layers BG1 and BG2 in the DungeonCanvasViewer.
- Added a dropdown for selecting the type of BG2 layer, allowing for different rendering effects (Normal, Translucent, Addition, Dark, Off).
- Updated rendering logic to respect visibility settings and apply the selected alpha values for BG2 layer rendering.
- Enhanced debug logging to provide detailed information about bitmap states and rendering processes for both background layers.
- Deleted the ManualObjectRenderer and DungeonRenderer classes to streamline the codebase and reduce redundancy.
- Updated DungeonCanvasViewer and DungeonEditorV2 to remove references to the deleted renderers, ensuring proper functionality without them.
- Enhanced the rendering logic in DungeonCanvasViewer to directly handle object rendering and background layers, improving performance and maintainability.
- Added debug logging to track rendering processes and ensure proper graphics loading.
- Added an option to conditionally build development tools in CMake, enhancing flexibility for local development.
- Improved error handling in the CI workflow for packaging artifacts across Windows, macOS, and Linux, ensuring binaries and assets are correctly identified and managed.
- Refactored test manager methods to return appropriate errors when gRPC features are not enabled, improving clarity in feature availability.
- Included filesystem header in dungeon test harness for enhanced file operations.
- Removed the abseil dependency from vcpkg.json for Windows platform.
- Updated CMake configuration to prevent finding system-installed protobuf and abseil, ensuring gRPC uses bundled versions.
- Modified todo_manager.cc to convert paths to strings for consistency.
- Updated vision_action_refiner.cc to explicitly convert stripped whitespace strings to std::string.
- Added undefinitions for Windows macros in z3ed_network_client.cc to avoid conflicts with method names.
- Updated the builtin-baseline in vcpkg.json to '01f602195983451bc83e72f4214af2cbc495aa94' for consistency with the latest vcpkg release.
- Enhanced the CI workflow by separating CMake configuration steps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, improving clarity and error handling.
- Improved error reporting for CMake configuration failures across different platforms, ensuring better diagnostics in CI logs.
- Changed vcpkgGitCommitId to '01f602195983451bc83e72f4214af2cbc495aa94' for both CI and release workflows, reflecting the latest vcpkg release (2024.10.21).
- Ensured consistency across workflows by updating the vcpkg commit ID in all relevant sections.
- Separated CMake configuration steps for Windows and Unix environments, enhancing clarity and error handling.
- Improved error reporting for CMake configuration failures, ensuring better diagnostics in CI logs.
- Updated the reporting mechanism for configuration outcomes to reflect the success or failure of both Windows and Unix configurations.
- Documented fixes for CI/CD workflows, including artifact management and build diagnostics for Windows.
- Highlighted improvements in the graphics editor, including palette management and synchronization across editors.
- Updated system requirements for Windows, macOS, and Linux to reflect recent changes.
- Enhanced the Tile16 editor with new palette coordination and performance optimizations.
- Added workflow_dispatch inputs for customizable build types and artifact uploads.
- Implemented detailed diagnostics for vcpkg setup, build processes, and post-build checks on Windows.
- Enhanced error handling and reporting for vcpkg-related issues during builds.
- Improved artifact upload conditions and added summary information for better visibility in CI results.
- Enhanced the release workflow to better manage artifacts for Windows, macOS, and Linux, ensuring correct paths and improved error handling.
- Added environment variable settings for package paths to streamline subsequent steps.
- Improved artifact size reporting based on successful builds, providing clearer feedback in the CI process.
- Refactored artifact download steps to organize and list release artifacts more effectively.
- Added detailed CI/CD reliability improvements, including retry mechanisms and enhanced error reporting for Windows vcpkg setup and dependency installation.
- Updated Dungeon Editor status to EXPERIMENTAL, highlighting the need for thorough testing and outlining implemented features.
- Introduced a comprehensive A Link to the Past ROM reference, detailing graphics systems, palette management, and memory mapping.
- Improved changelog to reflect recent fixes and ongoing development status across various editors.
- 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.
- Introduced a new vcpkg-configuration.json file to define the default registry and baseline for vcpkg.
- Updated vcpkg.json to include a schema reference, a new builtin-baseline, and refined dependency specifications for SDL2, abseil, yaml-cpp, and zlib, ensuring compatibility with Windows platform.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to provide clearer logging and error messages for vcpkg integration, including detailed status reports for toolchain and triplet settings.
- Modified CI workflows to utilize manifest mode for vcpkg installations, improving dependency management and build reliability.
- Enhanced SDL2 and gRPC configurations to prioritize vcpkg packages, ensuring faster builds and clearer fallback mechanisms.
- Improved overall CMake structure for better readability and maintainability, including updated messages for build configurations and warnings.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to conditionally enable features based on the build type, optimizing for minimal builds in CI.
- Enhanced CI workflows with retry logic for vcpkg setup and dependency installation, improving reliability.
- Added detailed logging and error reporting for CMake configuration and build steps to facilitate troubleshooting.
- Streamlined the installation of dependencies across platforms, removing unnecessary packages and ensuring compatibility.
- Introduced a summary report for build status and artifacts, enhancing visibility into the CI process.
- 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.
- Introduced new shortcut categories for graphics, screen, and sprite editors, improving accessibility and organization.
- Updated DungeonEditorV2 and other editor classes to register cards with the EditorCardManager, allowing for better control and visibility management.
- Refactored shortcut registration for dungeon, graphics, screen, and sprite editors, ensuring consistent user experience across the application.
- Improved initialization processes to handle dynamic card visibility and shortcuts effectively.
- Added EditorCardManager to handle registration, visibility, and management of editor cards.
- Integrated card shortcuts and dynamic menu sections for improved user experience in the dungeon editor.
- Registered multiple dungeon-related cards with associated shortcuts for quick access.
- Enhanced DungeonEditorV2 to utilize the new card management system, allowing independent control of editor cards.
- Updated UI components to support card-based editors, improving layout and usability.
- Introduced ManualObjectRenderer class to facilitate manual rendering of dungeon objects for debugging purposes.
- Integrated manual renderer initialization in DungeonEditorV2, allowing for testing and debugging of object rendering.
- Added methods for rendering simple blocks, test patterns, and debugging graphics sheets.
- Updated dungeon_editor_v2.cc and dungeon_editor_v2.h to include the new manual renderer functionality.
- Updated DungeonCanvasViewer and DungeonEditor to render room objects as primitives temporarily for debugging purposes.
- Enhanced object interaction with new context menu options for deleting, copying, and pasting selected objects.
- Implemented drag-and-drop functionality for moving selected objects within the dungeon.
- Added texture processing for background layers and deferred texture commands to optimize rendering performance.
- Refactored code for clarity and maintainability, ensuring better handling of object interactions and rendering logic.
- Added 'doNotUpdateVcpkg: false' to the vcpkg setup in both CI and release workflows to ensure that vcpkg is updated during the installation process, enhancing dependency management consistency.
- Removed specific vcpkg Git commit ID from the CI workflow for Windows.
- Simplified the installation steps for dependencies across different operating systems.
- Enhanced CMake configuration to streamline the build process for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Consolidated dependency installation into a single step for better clarity and efficiency.
- Introduced a step to set up vcpkg specifically for Windows runners, ensuring consistent dependency management.
- Updated CMake configuration to utilize the vcpkg toolchain file, enhancing cross-platform build compatibility.
- Removed vcpkg from the CI workflow, transitioning to FetchContent for dependency management.
- Updated the build matrix to eliminate the Windows x86 build due to cpp-httplib incompatibility.
- Streamlined installation steps for dependencies across different operating systems.
- Enhanced CMake configuration for improved clarity and efficiency in the build process.
- Updated documentation to reflect changes in CI/CD pipeline and dependency handling.
- Removed the `builtin-baseline` from `vcpkg.json` to prevent version database mismatches.
- Updated the CI workflow to synchronize with the stable vcpkg commit `c8696863d371ab7f46e213d8f5ca923c4aef2a00`.
- Adjusted the CI build matrix to remove the x86 Windows build due to cpp-httplib incompatibility.
- Added compiler definitions in `cmake/grpc.cmake` to prevent Windows macro pollution in protobuf-generated headers.
- Introduced a production-quality audio backend abstraction layer, enabling seamless integration with SDL2, SDL3, and custom platforms.
- Implemented APU handshake debugging features for improved monitoring of CPU-APU communication during audio processing.
- Upgraded gRPC to version 1.67.1, resolving MSVC template issues and enhancing compatibility with modern compilers.
- Added MSVC-specific compiler flags to optimize Windows build performance and reduce build times significantly.
- Updated documentation to reflect new audio system architecture and build instructions, ensuring clarity for developers.
- Changed the vcpkgGitCommitId in the CI workflow from 'c8696863d371ab7f46e213d8f5ca923c4aef2a00' to '4bee3f5aae7aefbc129ca81c33d6a062b02fcf3b' to ensure the use of the latest vcpkg version for dependency management.
- 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.
- Updated gRPC configuration to use version 1.67.1, improving compatibility with modern compilers and fixing MSVC template issues.
- Enhanced warning messages for missing vcpkg gRPC installation, providing clearer instructions for faster builds.
- Introduced a new dungeon test harness tool to capture and dump the state of WRAM and CPU/PPU registers, aiding in emulator testing and development.
- Organized source groups in CMake for better structure and clarity in the input and UI systems.
- Introduced a new input management system utilizing SDL2 for continuous polling of SNES controller states, enhancing responsiveness and gameplay experience.
- Replaced the previous ImGui-based event handling with a more robust input manager that supports multiple backends and configurations.
- Added a dedicated input backend for SDL2, allowing for flexible key mapping and improved input handling.
- Updated the Emulator class to integrate the new input manager, ensuring seamless interaction with the emulator's UI and game logic.
- Refactored keyboard configuration UI to facilitate easy remapping of SNES controller buttons, improving user accessibility.
- 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.
- Removed the `validate-vs-build.yml` GitHub workflow as it was redundant.
- Enhanced the `verify-build-environment.ps1` script to include checks for Git configuration settings (`core.autocrlf` and `core.longpaths`) to prevent common issues on Windows.
- Updated build instructions in `B1-build-instructions.md` to emphasize the use of the verification script for troubleshooting and automatic fixes.
- Improved documentation in `B2-platform-compatibility.md` to reflect filesystem abstraction changes and ensure consistent cross-platform behavior.
- Eliminated the kLogInstructions flag and associated logging functionality, as the DisassemblyViewer is now always active and utilizes a more efficient sparse address-map recording method.
- Updated relevant code across multiple files to reflect the removal of the deprecated feature, ensuring cleaner and more maintainable code.
- Adjusted UI elements and serialization methods to remove references to the obsolete logging feature, streamlining the user experience.
- Introduced a new audio backend system with SDL2 support, allowing for flexible audio management and improved performance.
- Added APU handshake tracking capabilities to monitor CPU-APU communication during audio program uploads, enhancing debugging and transfer diagnostics.
- Updated the Emulator class to integrate the new audio backend, ensuring compatibility with existing audio handling.
- Implemented an APU Debugger UI for real-time monitoring of handshake status, port activity, and transfer progress, improving user experience for debugging audio issues.
- Refactored audio-related code to streamline audio sample queuing and management, enhancing overall emulator performance.
- Replaced direct calls to GetConfigDirectory with PlatformPaths::GetConfigDirectory across multiple files to standardize configuration directory access.
- Updated RecentFilesManager, EditorManager, and various agent components to handle potential errors when retrieving the configuration directory.
- Enhanced file loading functions to utilize the new LoadFileFromConfigDir method for improved clarity and error handling.
- Introduced new methods in file_util.h for better file management practices, leveraging std::filesystem for cross-platform consistency.
- Introduced BreakpointManager and WatchpointManager classes to manage CPU breakpoints and memory watchpoints, respectively.
- Implemented functionality for adding, removing, enabling, and disabling breakpoints and watchpoints.
- Added support for conditional breakpoints and logging memory access history for watchpoints.
- Enhanced the Emulator class to integrate breakpoint and instruction logging callbacks for improved debugging capabilities.
- Updated DisassemblyViewer to record executed instructions and manage instruction limits for performance optimization.
