- Updated multiple editor components to check visibility flags before rendering cards, ensuring that only visible cards are displayed.
- Refactored card rendering logic in GraphicsEditor, ScreenEditor, MessageEditor, MusicEditor, SpriteEditor, and Emulator to enhance user experience and performance.
- Improved maintainability by centralizing visibility checks and ensuring consistent behavior across different editor types.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the rendering process, leading to a more efficient UI experience.
- Enhances code clarity and maintainability by standardizing visibility handling across editors.
- 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 EditorManager and various editor components to utilize EditorCardRegistry for card registration and visibility management, enhancing dependency injection and modularity.
- Refactored card registration logic across multiple editors, ensuring a consistent approach to managing editor cards.
- Improved UI coordination by delegating visibility checks and card management to the new registry, streamlining the user experience.
Benefits:
- Simplifies card management, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhances maintainability by clearly defining roles for card handling and editor operations, aligning with the overall architecture improvements.
- Updated EditorManager to initialize PopupManager in the constructor, ensuring safe access to popups during menu operations.
- Refactored MenuOrchestrator to utilize PopupID constants for popup management, improving clarity and maintainability.
- Enhanced PopupManager to register popups with structured definitions, allowing for better organization and future expansion.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the initialization process, preventing potential crashes due to uninitialized components.
- Improves the organization of popup management, leading to a more intuitive user experience and easier maintenance.
- Removed the save as menu and new project menu from EditorManager, delegating their functionality to PopupManager for better separation of concerns.
- Introduced a command palette in UICoordinator, enhancing user experience with fuzzy search capabilities for commands.
- Updated UI components to improve clarity and maintainability, ensuring a more efficient workflow for users.
Benefits:
- Enhances the organization of UI elements, leading to a more intuitive user experience.
- Improves code maintainability by consolidating UI management responsibilities within dedicated components.
- Updated EditorManager to include ShortcutManager in the UICoordinator initialization, improving UI responsiveness.
- Refactored menu handling in MenuOrchestrator to delegate more responsibilities to UICoordinator, streamlining the UI flow.
- Removed unused menu items and comments, clarifying the code structure and enhancing maintainability.
Benefits:
- Improves the organization of UI components, leading to a more efficient user experience.
- Enhances clarity in the codebase by reducing clutter and focusing on essential functionalities.
- Refactored session management methods in EditorManager to enhance clarity and maintainability.
- Adjusted context handling for session switching and duplication, ensuring proper session IDs are set.
- Updated the editor dependencies to use IRenderer instead of Renderer, aligning with the new graphics interface.
Benefits:
- Streamlines session management logic, leading to a more organized codebase.
- Improves compatibility with future graphics enhancements by adopting the IRenderer interface.
- Removed the SessionCardRegistry class and its associated methods, streamlining card management within the editor.
- Updated EditorManager to utilize EditorCardRegistry for card operations, enhancing session awareness and visibility control.
- Refactored related components to ensure compatibility with the new card management structure.
Benefits:
- Simplifies card management, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Improves maintainability by clearly defining roles for card handling and editor operations.
- Removed redundant window management methods from EditorManager, reducing code bloat and improving maintainability.
- Inline delegation for window management functions has been implemented in the header file, enhancing performance and clarity.
- Updated MenuOrchestrator to include new commands for showing the command palette, memory editor, and resource label manager, improving user interaction.
Benefits:
- Simplifies the EditorManager class, leading to a more organized codebase.
- Enhances user experience by providing quick access to additional functionalities through the menu system.
- Implemented methods in EditorManager to show the hex editor, AI agent, and chat history, enhancing the editor's capabilities.
- Updated MenuOrchestrator to include new menu items for accessing the hex editor, AI agent, chat history, and other UI elements.
- Improved user interaction by providing quick access to essential features through keyboard shortcuts.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the user experience by integrating additional editor functionalities.
- Enhances the overall architecture by clearly defining roles for UI and editor operations within the MenuOrchestrator.
- Expanded MenuOrchestrator to include additional UI visibility controls and editor action delegations, improving user interaction and functionality.
- Introduced methods for showing global search, performance dashboard, and ImGui metrics, along with editor actions like undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, and find.
- Updated the EditorManager to support new functionalities, including session management and layout presets.
Benefits:
- Streamlines user experience by providing quick access to essential features and enhancing the overall architecture of the editor.
- Improves maintainability by clearly defining roles for UI and editor operations within the MenuOrchestrator.
- Introduced EditorCardRegistry class to centralize card registration and management, enhancing session awareness and visibility control.
- Refactored EditorManager to delegate card-related operations to EditorCardRegistry, improving separation of concerns and maintainability.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files for the EditorCardRegistry component.
Benefits:
- Streamlines card management within the editor, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhances the overall architecture by clearly defining roles for card handling and editor operations.
- Added UICoordinator class to centralize UI drawing operations and state management, improving separation of concerns within the editor.
- Refactored EditorManager to delegate UI-related tasks to UICoordinator, enhancing maintainability and clarity.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files for the UICoordinator component.
Benefits:
- Streamlines UI management, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhances the overall architecture by clearly defining roles for UI handling and editor operations.
- Added MenuOrchestrator class to handle menu construction and coordination, improving separation of concerns within the editor.
- Refactored EditorManager to delegate menu-related tasks to MenuOrchestrator, enhancing maintainability and clarity.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files for the MenuOrchestrator component.
Benefits:
- Streamlines menu management, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhances the overall architecture by clearly defining roles for menu handling and editor operations.
- Introduced YAZE_PROTOBUF_WHOLEARCHIVE_TARGETS to streamline linking of Protobuf targets, excluding "lite" variants.
- Updated CMake configurations across various components (yaze, yaze_core_lib, yaze_editor, yaze_net, yaze_agent, z3ed) to utilize the new whole-archive targets for MSVC builds.
- Improved test suite linking to ensure all Protobuf symbols are included during the build process.
Benefits:
- Enhances compatibility and maintainability of Protobuf linking, leading to a more robust build configuration.
- Introduced EditorRegistry, ProjectManager, and RomFileManager to streamline editor operations and improve code organization.
- Refactored EditorManager to delegate responsibilities to the new classes, enhancing maintainability and clarity.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files for the extracted components.
Benefits:
- Improves separation of concerns within the editor, leading to a more modular and manageable codebase.
- Enhances the overall architecture by clearly defining roles for editor management, project handling, and ROM file operations.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by allowing for multiple Protobuf targets, enhancing compatibility and maintainability.
- Improves session management capabilities within the editor, leading to a more organized and efficient user experience.
- Enhance Protobuf target handling in CMake configuration
- Updated CMake files to support multiple Protobuf targets, improving flexibility in linking.
- Adjusted target link libraries across various components (yaze, yaze_core_lib, yaze_editor, etc.) to utilize the new
- Moved `app/gfx/resource/arena.cc` to the GFX_CORE_SRC section and added `app/gfx/render/background_buffer.cc` to the GFX_CORE_SRC section.
- Removed `app/gfx/render/background_buffer.cc` from the GFX_RENDER_SRC section to streamline dependencies.
- Updated target link libraries to ensure correct linking of GFX components.
Benefits:
- Improves organization of graphics source files, enhancing maintainability and clarity in the build configuration.
- Added caching for ccache and CMake dependencies in CI and release workflows to improve build performance.
- Updated installation commands to include ccache across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments.
- Enhanced CMake configuration steps to utilize ccache for faster builds and added statistics reporting.
Benefits:
- Reduces build times and improves efficiency in CI processes, facilitating quicker feedback and integration.
- Updated CI and release workflows to enable building the emulator (YAZE_BUILD_EMU), Z3ED (YAZE_BUILD_Z3ED), and additional tools (YAZE_BUILD_TOOLS).
- Ensured consistent build configurations across different platforms to enhance testing and deployment capabilities.
Benefits:
- Improves the completeness of builds in CI and release processes, facilitating better testing and integration of all components.
- Adjusted the order of method calls in BuildModernMenu to improve readability and maintainability.
- Moved the separator method call to follow the item addition for better logical flow.
Benefits:
- Enhances code clarity and organization within the menu building logic of the EditorManager.
- Updated CMake files to conditionally link against libprotobuf based on the YAZE_PROTOBUF_TARGET variable across various modules (core, net, agent, z3ed).
- Ensured consistent use of the static MSVC runtime to align with vcpkg static triplets.
- Improved clarity in build logs by adding status messages for whole-archive linking conditions.
Benefits:
- Enhances modularity and compatibility of the build system with protobuf.
- Streamlines the build process for different platforms by ensuring appropriate linking based on configuration options.
- Modified CMake settings to ensure consistent use of the Homebrew LLVM/Clang installation on macOS.
- Added a new toolchain file to specify the correct compiler and header search paths, resolving potential conflicts.
- Updated CMake presets to enable the EMU build and set appropriate compiler flags.
Benefits:
- Enhances build reliability and compatibility on macOS by utilizing the Homebrew LLVM toolchain.
- Streamlines the build process with improved configuration management.
- Updated CMake configuration to align Windows static builds (MSVC, clang-cl) with vcpkg's /MT runtime.
- Added conditional linking for libprotobuf when YAZE_WITH_GRPC is enabled, enhancing modularity.
- Addressed potential macro conflicts by undefining SendMessage in the conversational agent service files.
Benefits:
- Improves compatibility and reliability of builds on Windows platforms.
- Enhances the flexibility of the build system by conditionally linking libraries based on configuration options.
- Updated CMake configurations across core, net, agent, and z3ed to conditionally apply /WHOLEARCHIVE linking for libprotobuf based on the compiler ID.
- Added status messages to indicate when /WHOLEARCHIVE linking is skipped for clang-cl, improving clarity in build logs.
Benefits:
- Improves compatibility and clarity in the build process for Windows environments using different compilers.
- Ensures that necessary symbols are included when using MSVC, enhancing build reliability.
- Created a comprehensive document detailing the implementation status of the Screen Editor, including sections for Title Screen, Overworld Map, and Dungeon Map editors.
- Document outlines current statuses, functionalities, issues, and next steps for each editor, providing clarity on ongoing development efforts.
- Highlights critical issues with vanilla ROM tilemap loading and outlines priorities for future work.
Benefits:
- Enhances project documentation, aiding developers in understanding the current state and challenges of the Screen Editor.
- Serves as a reference for future development and troubleshooting efforts.
- Added a new composite bitmap to render BG1 and BG2 layers with transparency.
- Enhanced the Create method to initialize the composite bitmap and set its metadata.
- Updated the LoadTitleScreen method to include the composite bitmap in texture creation.
- Introduced RenderCompositeLayer method to manage the layering of background graphics.
Benefits:
- Improves visual fidelity of the title screen by allowing both background layers to be rendered together.
- Enhances the flexibility of rendering options for the title screen, supporting dynamic visibility of layers.
- Enhanced the discover_cmake_libraries function to identify decomposed libraries and handle special cases for source variables.
- Updated gui_library.cmake to utilize auto-maintenance markers, streamlining the management of source lists for GUI components.
- Commented out hardcoded CMake source blocks, allowing for dynamic discovery of source files.
Benefits:
- Simplifies the maintenance of GUI library sources by automating updates and reducing manual configuration.
- Improves clarity and efficiency in the build process for GUI components.
- Updated the discover_cmake_libraries function to support new marker comments for auto-maintenance.
- Improved variable extraction logic to handle decomposed libraries and subdirectory detection.
- Removed hardcoded CMake source blocks in favor of auto-discovery, streamlining the management of graphics library sources.
Benefits:
- Simplifies the maintenance of CMake files by automating source list updates.
- Enhances build efficiency and clarity by reducing manual configuration requirements.
- Added checkboxes for toggling visibility of title screen background layers (BG1 and BG2).
- Implemented a new method for rendering the composite view of the title screen.
- Introduced functionality for loading and saving custom maps from external binary files, enhancing user flexibility in map management.
Benefits:
- Improves user experience by allowing dynamic control over layer visibility during title screen editing.
- Expands the capabilities of the ScreenEditor with custom map handling, facilitating easier map modifications and sharing.
- Changed the bitmap depth for message previews from 64 to 8 to support indexed palette mode.
- Updated logging to reflect the new depth in message preview creation.
- Enhanced Bitmap class with a new method to update surface pixels, ensuring proper pixel data handling in rendering.
Benefits:
- Improves compatibility with indexed palette formats in message rendering.
- Enhances the clarity of logging for bitmap creation processes.
- Added methods for applying palettes based on metadata, allowing for flexible palette handling in different bitmap types.
- Introduced a new BitmapMetadata struct to track source format and palette requirements.
- Enhanced ApplyStoredPalette and SetPaletteWithTransparent methods for improved palette application and transparency handling.
- Updated SDL surface pixel management with a new UpdateSurfacePixels method for better pixel data handling.
Benefits:
- Improves the rendering capabilities of the Bitmap class by supporting various palette formats.
- Enhances user experience with more intuitive palette management in graphics operations.
- Added functionality for managing the overworld map, including loading, rendering, and saving map data for both Light and Dark Worlds.
- Introduced new canvas components for overworld map editing, allowing users to select and paint tiles directly onto the map.
- Enhanced the ScreenEditor with controls for tile flipping and palette selection, improving the user interface for overworld map management.
Benefits:
- Expands the capabilities of the ScreenEditor, providing users with tools to edit and manage the overworld map effectively.
- Improves user experience by enabling intuitive tile editing and visual feedback during map modifications.
- Added yaze_core_lib to the target_link_libraries for the yaze_emulator in emu_library.cmake, ensuring proper linkage of core functionalities.
- Updated Arena constructor to initialize background layers directly, improving clarity and performance.
Benefits:
- Enhances the emulator's build configuration by ensuring all necessary libraries are linked.
- Improves the initialization process in the Arena class for better resource management.
- 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.
- 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.
