- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Updated CMake configuration to always include the ImGui Test Engine when tests are enabled, removing conditional checks for UI tests.
- Simplified feature flag management by enabling JSON and gRPC by default, with a minimal build option to disable only the most expensive features.
- Enhanced status messages to provide clearer feedback on build configurations and feature availability.
Benefits:
- Streamlined integration of the ImGui Test Engine for testing purposes.
- Improved clarity in feature flag settings, making it easier to manage build configurations.
- Moved the declaration of `AgentControlServer` to a forward declaration in the header file for better clarity and organization.
- Updated the `EditorManager` constructor to initialize the version string and popup manager context.
- Added conditional compilation for gRPC-related includes and commented out the agent control server initialization for future reference.
- Ensured consistent definition of `IMGUI_DEFINE_MATH_OPERATORS` across multiple files to prevent potential issues with ImGui usage.
Benefits:
- Improved code organization and readability.
- Enhanced maintainability by clarifying the initialization process and managing includes effectively.
- 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 include paths in several source files to reflect the new directory structure, ensuring consistency across the project.
- Deferred the linkage of the yaze_test_support library to the test.cmake file for better dependency management and ordering.
Benefits:
- Improved organization of include paths for better maintainability.
- Enhanced modularity by managing test dependencies separately.
- Introduced a new file dialog implementation using nativefiledialog-extended for better file handling on Windows and Linux platforms.
- Updated CMake configuration to link the new file dialog library and include necessary directories.
- Enhanced the editor library to conditionally link a test support library when testing is enabled.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience with native file dialogs for file operations.
- Streamlined testing support in the editor library, enhancing modularity and maintainability.
- Refactored CMakeLists.txt to streamline project configuration and improve readability.
- Introduced new utility functions in `utils.cmake` for setting compiler flags and managing dependencies.
- Added `dependencies.cmake` to centralize third-party dependency management, enhancing modularity.
- Updated CI workflows to include new build options and improved logging for better feedback during configuration.
- Implemented precompiled headers in various libraries to speed up compilation times.
Benefits:
- Improved maintainability and clarity of the build system.
- Enhanced build performance through precompiled headers.
- Streamlined dependency management for easier integration of third-party libraries.
- Removed the `HandleEntityDragging` function to streamline entity dragging logic directly within the `OverworldEditor`.
- Implemented centralized drag-and-drop functionality for entities, improving user interaction during editing.
- Updated the `OverworldEntityRenderer` to manage hovered entities more effectively, enhancing the overall editing experience.
- Cleaned up unused code and improved readability across the entity handling components.
- Introduced a new method `set_dirty` in the `Rom` class to manage the dirty state of ROM data.
- Updated `DungeonCanvasViewer` to process texture queues before drawing, improving texture readiness and rendering performance.
- Refactored `ObjectDrawer` to utilize `TileInfo` instead of `Tile16`, enhancing tile data handling and consistency across the codebase.
- Improved the `ObjectParser` to read tile data as `TileInfo`, ensuring accurate parsing and memory management.
- Added performance optimizations in the `Room` class to track changes in properties and reduce unnecessary rendering.
- Enhanced logging for debugging purposes during tile drawing and object rendering processes.
- Updated method name from SendMessage to SendChatMessage in both the implementation and header files to better reflect its purpose in the network collaboration context.
- Ensured consistency in method signatures across the codebase.
- Streamlined the canvas documentation by consolidating multiple guides into a single comprehensive overview.
- Updated the canvas architecture section to reflect new features and interaction modes, enhancing clarity for users.
- Improved API patterns and integration steps for editors, ensuring consistency across documentation.
- Removed outdated content and added new sections on automation and debugging, aligning with recent code changes.
- Adjusted file paths in the documentation to match the current project structure, ensuring accurate references.
- Added a new "Layout Override" section in the DungeonCanvasViewer, allowing users to enable or disable layout overrides for dungeon rooms.
- Implemented a checkbox to toggle the override and a slider to select the layout ID when enabled.
- Removed the previously disabled room layout drawing code to streamline the rendering process.
- Updated the layout management to ensure proper handling of layout IDs and visibility settings.
- Enhanced the overall user interface for better control over dungeon layout visualization.
- 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.
- Updated DungeonCanvasViewer to disable room layout drawing to reduce visual clutter, enhancing clarity during object placement.
- Enhanced BackgroundBuffer to skip empty and floor tiles, preventing overwriting of drawn elements and improving rendering efficiency.
- Refined Bitmap palette application to ensure correct transparency handling and marked bitmaps as modified for texture updates.
- Streamlined ObjectDrawer by removing unnecessary debug logs and simplifying object drawing logic, improving performance and readability.
- Adjusted Room rendering methods to utilize palette indirection for accurate color application, ensuring consistent visual output across rooms.
- Added a sub-menu for toggling visibility of object outlines based on type and layer, allowing for more granular control over displayed objects in the dungeon canvas.
- Implemented checkboxes for filtering object outlines by type (Type 1, Type 2, Type 3) and layer (Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2) in the debug menu.
- Updated the drawing logic to respect the new filtering options, ensuring only the selected objects are rendered on the canvas.
- Improved the visibility of object ID labels by making them smaller and less obtrusive, enhancing the overall clarity of the canvas display.
- Added detailed comments to clarify the canvas coordinate system and scaling model for dungeon rendering.
- Implemented persistent debug overlays for room and texture information, allowing real-time visibility of room properties and texture states.
- Introduced a context menu with options for debugging, including toggling visibility of room info, texture info, and object bounds.
- Updated canvas drawing methods to ensure correct handling of unsized dimensions and scaling, improving rendering accuracy.
- Refactored coordinate conversion functions to return unsized pixel coordinates, preventing double-scaling issues.
- Refactored DungeonCanvasViewer to utilize LoadLayoutTilesToBuffer for rendering layout tiles, improving the separation of concerns in the rendering process.
- Updated ObjectDrawer to draw using 8x8 tiles instead of 16x16, enhancing tile rendering accuracy and efficiency.
- Modified Room and RoomLayoutObject classes to support room-specific graphics buffers, ensuring correct tile usage during rendering.
- Removed legacy methods and classes related to tile handling, streamlining the codebase and improving maintainability.
- Introduced advanced room properties UI in the Dungeon Editor, allowing users to set effects and tags for rooms through dropdown menus.
- Updated the rendering logic to visualize room layouts, including walls, floors, pits, water, and doors, with appropriate color coding for clarity.
- Improved texture management by processing texture updates immediately to ensure objects appear correctly in the editor.
- Organized ROM address constants into a new header file for better maintainability and clarity in the codebase.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new constants, ensuring a cleaner and more consistent naming convention.
- Introduced a new Debug Controls card in the Dungeon Editor V2, allowing runtime control over debug logging and log levels.
- Implemented UI elements for enabling/disabling debug logs, selecting log levels, and managing room rendering and texture processing.
- Updated the DungeonEditorV2 class to include visibility management for the Debug Controls card and integrated it into the control panel.
- Enhanced logging functionality in the LogManager to support runtime adjustments for debug logging.
- Deleted outdated DUNGEON_EDITOR_COMPLETE_GUIDE.md and DUNGEON_EDITOR_GUIDE.md files to streamline documentation.
- Introduced a new F2-dungeon-editor-v2-guide.md that consolidates features, architecture, and usage instructions for the Dungeon Editor V2.
- Documented recent refactoring efforts, including critical bug fixes and architectural improvements.
- Enhanced the guide with structured sections for quick start, testing, and troubleshooting, reflecting the current production-ready status of the Dungeon Editor.
- Updated related source files to support new documentation structure and features.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Updated Emulator to support optional lazy initialization of the renderer, enhancing flexibility during runtime.
- Introduced a new method in IRenderer for creating textures with specific pixel formats, improving texture management for the emulator.
- Refactored texture command processing in Arena to handle empty queues more gracefully.
- Enhanced SDL2Renderer to support the new texture creation method, ensuring compatibility with emulator requirements.
