- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Added a helper method, MakeCardTitle, to generate session-aware titles for editor cards based on the current session context.
- Updated various editor files to utilize the new MakeCardTitle method, ensuring consistent card naming across multiple sessions.
- Refactored card initialization in AssemblyEditor, GraphicsEditor, DungeonEditorV2, OverworldEditor, and SpriteEditor to support dynamic session titles, enhancing user experience and clarity.
- Removed PushID and PopID calls in EditorManager to prevent ID stack corruption, relying on window titles for uniqueness.
- Updated ImGui window size and position settings to use FirstUseEver for maximizing on first open, enhancing user experience.
- Replaced AgentUI::PopPanelStyle with ImGui::PopStyleColor in multiple locations for consistency in style management.
- Ensured all EditorCard instances consistently call End after Begin, improving code clarity and preventing potential rendering issues.
- Introduced a new language definition for the 65816 assembly language, improving syntax highlighting and code editing capabilities.
- Updated the AssemblyEditor to utilize the new language definition and integrated a toolset for file management actions, enhancing user experience.
- Refactored the file handling logic to support dynamic file opening and saving, ensuring better resource management within the editor.
- Removed deprecated tab view code, transitioning to a more modular card-based layout for active files, improving UI responsiveness and organization.
- 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.
- Added option to enable modular build with `YAZE_USE_MODULAR_BUILD`.
- Updated CMake configuration to support modular libraries for core, editor, graphics, GUI, and emulator functionalities.
- Refactored existing libraries to separate concerns and improve build times.
- Introduced new utility library `yaze_util` for low-level utilities.
- Adjusted CI and release workflows to accommodate the new build system.
- Updated various source files to reflect new include paths and modular structure.
- Enhanced YAML configuration handling in the agent component.
- 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.
- Integrated performance profiling using ScopedTimer in GraphicsEditor and ScreenEditor for better timing insights.
- Implemented batch texture updates in GraphicsEditor and ScreenEditor to reduce individual texture update calls, improving rendering efficiency.
- Enhanced tile rendering in ScreenEditor with pre-allocated vectors for batch operations, optimizing drawing performance.
- Added safety checks and validation in various components to prevent crashes and ensure data integrity during rendering operations.
- Updated Bitmap and Arena classes to support improved texture management and synchronization, enhancing overall graphics performance.
- Deleted clipboard-related files (clipboard.cc, clipboard.h, clipboard.mm) to streamline the codebase.
- Added a performance dashboard in the EditorManager to monitor performance metrics and improve user experience.
- Integrated performance monitoring capabilities across various editors, allowing for detailed timing of critical operations.
- Updated the graphics system with batch processing for texture updates, significantly improving rendering performance.
- Introduced a memory pool allocator for efficient memory management during graphics operations.
- Introduced a new PerformanceProfiler class for detailed timing and performance measurement across graphics operations.
- Implemented a smart tile cache with LRU eviction in the TileCache structure to optimize memory usage and improve tile rendering efficiency.
- Updated various graphics components to utilize the new caching system, reducing redundant texture updates and enhancing overall performance.
- Added dirty region tracking in Bitmap for efficient texture updates, minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed during rendering.
- Enhanced existing methods to leverage performance monitoring, providing insights into operation durations and potential bottlenecks.
- 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.
- Eliminated all references to PNG and ZLIB dependencies in CMake configuration and project files.
- Updated documentation to reflect the removal of PNG support and related functionalities.
- Adjusted build scripts and source files to remove unused code related to PNG handling, ensuring a cleaner codebase.
- Introduced conditional compilation for PNG clipboard operations in graphics_editor.cc, providing user feedback when PNG support is disabled.
- Added <cstring> header in file_dialog.cc to support string manipulation functions, enhancing functionality.
- Implemented conditional compilation for image copy and retrieval functions in clipboard.cc, clipboard.h, and clipboard.mm, enabling PNG support when YAZE_LIB_PNG is defined.
- Updated graphics_editor.cc and overworld_editor.cc to handle PNG data copying to the clipboard, including error handling for cases when PNG support is disabled.
- Enhanced user feedback by providing alternative actions when PNG export is unavailable, improving overall user experience.
- Added DrawDungeonMapScreen method to encapsulate the logic for rendering the dungeon map, improving code organization and readability.
- Refactored DrawDungeonMapsTabs to utilize the new DrawDungeonMapScreen method, reducing code duplication.
- Updated various drawing operations for better clarity and efficiency, including adjustments to tile rendering and grid display.
- Removed commented-out code to clean up the implementation.
- Eliminated the SharedRom class to enhance modularity and reduce global state management.
- Updated various classes to directly manage ROM instances, improving clarity and encapsulation.
- Added new functions for loading messages and colors from ROM, enhancing functionality.
- Refactored Canvas and Editor classes to utilize direct ROM references, streamlining interactions.
- Improved documentation and comments for better code understanding and maintainability.
- 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 various graphics loading functions to ensure consistent use of semicolons in ASSIGN_OR_RETURN statements.
- Changed set_filename method in Rom class to accept std::string_view for improved efficiency.
- Enhanced code readability and maintainability across multiple files by standardizing syntax.
- Updated tab item handling in GraphicsEditor and ScreenEditor to ensure proper opening and closing of tab items.
- Improved layout management by replacing deprecated macros with ImGui table functions for better readability and maintainability.
- Adjusted palette display function signature in color handling to return a boolean for success status instead of absl::Status.
- Enhanced tile rendering functions for consistency and clarity in the graphics editing workflow.
- Replaced instances of Renderer::GetInstance() with Renderer::Get() for consistency across the codebase.
- Updated various rendering methods to streamline bitmap updates and enhance performance.
- Removed unused includes and comments to improve code clarity and maintainability.
- Removed unused methods and streamlined color handling in the PaletteEditor.
- Introduced a quick access tab for palette categories and improved custom palette editing with context menus.
- Enhanced color picker functionality and added recently used colors feature for better user experience.
- Updated palette drawing methods to improve clarity and maintainability.
Update various editors to replace instances of GraphicsSheetManager with gfx::Arena for accessing graphics sheets. This change enhances memory management and performance by centralizing graphics data handling within the Arena class. Clean up related code for improved clarity and maintainability.
