- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Refactor the handling of graphics sheets by introducing a singleton class `GraphicsSheetManager`. This centralizes the management of graphics sheets, replacing direct access through the `Rom` object. Key changes include:
- Updated various methods across multiple classes to use `GraphicsSheetManager::GetInstance()` for accessing and manipulating graphics sheets.
- Introduced standalone functions `LoadLinkGraphics`, `LoadAllGraphicsData`, and `SaveAllGraphicsData` for loading and saving graphics data.
- Refactored the `Rom` class to remove methods and member variables related to graphics sheet management.
- Updated `OverworldEditor` to use `std::array` for `maps_bmp_` and added error handling for `std::bad_alloc` exceptions.
- Improved code modularity and error handling throughout the application.
