- Introduced PaletteManager to handle all palette-related operations, including color modifications, undo/redo functionality, and batch processing.
- Updated PaletteEditor and PaletteGroupCard to utilize PaletteManager for managing palette states and modifications, streamlining the editing process.
- Enhanced user interface with confirmation popups for discard actions and error notifications for save failures.
Benefits:
- Centralizes palette management, improving consistency and reducing code duplication across editors.
- Enhances user experience by providing clear feedback on unsaved changes and simplifying color operations.
- Implemented initialization for music-related editor cards, including Music Tracker and Instrument Editor, with appropriate registration and default visibility settings.
- Updated MusicEditor to manage card visibility dynamically and added methods for drawing specific editor views.
- Improved EditorCardManager to handle recent category tracking, enhancing user navigation through editor categories.
Benefits:
- Streamlines access to music editing tools, improving user experience and workflow efficiency within the editor environment.
- 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.
- Simplified CMake build commands in CI and release workflows by removing the redundant `--config ${{ env.BUILD_TYPE }}` flag.
- Updated test commands to eliminate the build configuration flag, streamlining the testing process.
Benefits:
- Enhances clarity and reduces potential confusion in build and test commands, improving overall workflow efficiency.
- Implemented steps to install NASM on Windows runners, required for BoringSSL in gRPC.
- Updated PATH for NASM to ensure it is accessible during the build process.
- Enhanced dependency retry logic to include NASM installation.
Benefits:
- Ensures proper setup for Windows builds, improving compatibility with gRPC requirements.
- 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 several new commands to the emulator, including:
- `emulator-set-breakpoint`: Set breakpoints for debugging.
- `emulator-clear-breakpoint`: Remove breakpoints by ID.
- `emulator-list-breakpoints`: List all active breakpoints.
- `emulator-step`: Step through CPU instructions.
- `emulator-run`: Run the emulator until a breakpoint or for a specified number of frames.
- `emulator-pause`: Pause execution for inspection.
- `emulator-reset`: Reset the emulator to its initial state.
- `emulator-get-registers`: Retrieve current CPU register values.
- `emulator-get-metrics`: Get performance metrics of the emulator.
Benefits:
- Enhances debugging capabilities and provides more control over emulator execution, improving the development experience.
- 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.
- Changed the compiler configuration for Windows jobs in CI and release workflows from MSVC to Clang.
- Updated CMake commands to utilize the Ninja generator and set the C and C++ compilers dynamically based on the matrix configuration.
- Simplified artifact paths in the packaging steps to reflect the new build structure.
Benefits:
- Improved compatibility and performance by leveraging Clang for Windows builds, enhancing cross-platform consistency.
- Introduced a new document detailing the architecture of the z3ed AI agent system, covering features like learned knowledge, TODO management, and advanced routing.
- Added a debugging guide for the AI agent, outlining the gRPC-based debugging service, available tools, and practical debugging workflows.
- Updated existing documentation to reflect recent improvements in the emulator's audio system and overall debugging capabilities.
Benefits:
- Provides clear guidance for developers on the AI agent's architecture and debugging processes, enhancing usability and understanding of the system.
- Facilitates faster onboarding and better collaboration by offering structured documentation and real-world examples.
- 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.
- Updated CI and release workflows to determine the number of parallel jobs based on available CPU cores, enhancing build efficiency.
- Added checks for `nproc` and `sysctl` commands to dynamically set the core count, defaulting to 2 if neither is available.
- Improved logging to indicate the number of parallel jobs being used during the build process.
Benefits:
- Optimized build performance by utilizing available resources more effectively, leading to faster build times.
- Added a step to free disk space on Linux runners, removing unnecessary software and displaying disk usage before and after cleanup.
- Improved build logging by adding status messages indicating the build configuration and the number of parallel jobs used.
- Updated test suite execution messages for better clarity during CI runs.
Benefits:
- Optimized CI resource usage and improved visibility into the build process, aiding in troubleshooting and efficiency.
- Updated CMake configurations to conditionally link OpenSSL only when gRPC is not enabled, preventing duplicate symbol errors.
- Added support for whole-archive linking of protobuf on Windows across core, net, agent, and z3ed components to ensure all symbols are included.
- Improved status messages to reflect the use of gRPC's OpenSSL when applicable.
Benefits:
- Enhanced compatibility and stability of the build process across different platforms and configurations.
- Added new source files for test commands and conversation tests to the agent's command handling structure.
- Removed the obsolete GUI command handler, redirecting users to the command registry for GUI automation commands.
Benefits:
- Enhanced testing capabilities and modularity within the agent's command management, facilitating future feature additions.
- Added FTXUI components (screen, dom, component) to the agent's CMake configuration, enabling advanced UI capabilities.
- Removed unnecessary include statement from general_commands.cc to streamline the code.
Benefits:
- Improved modularity and extensibility of the agent's UI features, facilitating future enhancements.
- Introduced a new source file for general commands in the agent's command handling structure.
- This addition enhances the command management capabilities of the CLI, allowing for more comprehensive command processing.
Benefits:
- Improved modularity and extensibility of command handling within the agent, facilitating future feature additions.
- Rearranged the order of include statements in themed_widgets.h for better organization and readability.
- Simplified the definition of StatusType by removing redundant braces, enhancing clarity in the code structure.
- Adjusted formatting in function declarations for consistency.
Benefits:
- Improved code maintainability and readability through better organization and formatting.
- Changed the include path for Hyrule Magic from "app/zelda3/hyrule_magic.h" to "util/hyrule_magic.h" in tracker.cc.
- This adjustment improves the modularity of the codebase by aligning the include structure with the new organization of utility headers.
- 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.
- Replaced direct command handling in ModernCLI with a centralized CommandRegistry singleton.
- Removed SetupCommands method and associated command handler logic, simplifying command execution and registration.
- Updated ShowHelp and ShowCommandSummary methods to utilize CommandRegistry for fetching command metadata and descriptions.
Benefits:
- Streamlined command management, enhancing maintainability and clarity in the CLI structure.
- Improved command registration and execution consistency through a unified registry approach.
- 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.
- Added methods for managing breakpoints, including adding, removing, listing, and enabling/disabling breakpoints.
- Introduced watchpoint management methods, although integration is pending.
- Implemented execution control features such as stepping through instructions and running to breakpoints.
- Enhanced disassembly capabilities to retrieve and display instruction details from memory.
- Updated header file to include new debugging functionalities, ensuring clarity and modularity.
Benefits:
- Improved debugging capabilities for the emulator, facilitating better development and testing workflows.
- Enhanced user experience by providing detailed control over execution and memory analysis.
- 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.
- Added support for advanced features in the ConversationalAgentService, including learned knowledge and TODO management, conditional on Z3ED_AI being enabled.
- Implemented methods for injecting learned context and pretraining prompts into user messages, enhancing the conversational experience.
- Updated header files to include necessary components for advanced features, ensuring modularity and clarity in the service's capabilities.
Benefits:
- Improved user interaction by providing contextually relevant responses.
- Enhanced maintainability and extensibility of the agent's functionality.
- 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.
- Updated audio buffering strategy to ensure smooth playback by always queuing samples and implementing dynamic rate control.
- Introduced Hermite interpolation for audio resampling, providing better quality than linear interpolation.
- Adjusted audio debug logging for improved monitoring of audio states and buffer management.
Benefits:
- Improved audio playback quality and reduced glitches.
- Enhanced clarity in audio debugging and monitoring processes.
- 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.
- Removed experimental test option and modular build option from CMakeLists.txt to simplify configuration.
- Added a definition for YAZE_GUI_TEST_TARGET in the test CMakeLists.txt to mark GUI test targets.
- Updated yaze_test.cc to conditionally register E2E tests only for GUI test targets, enhancing clarity in test registration.
Benefits:
- Streamlined CMake configuration for testing.
- Improved organization of test registration logic for GUI targets.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to always include GUI test sources when tests are built, removing the conditional check for YAZE_ENABLE_UI_TESTS.
- Added a headless test entry for the entire GUI suite, ensuring consistent execution without a GUI.
Benefits:
- Simplified configuration for GUI tests, enhancing clarity and usability.
- Improved test execution flexibility by allowing headless operation.
- Updated CI and release workflows to enable tests during full builds, ensuring comprehensive testing before releases.
- Added notes to clarify that the builds match release configurations and included a summary of features enabled in the build.
- Improved status messages for better visibility of build configurations and features.
Benefits:
- Enhanced testing coverage for pre-1.0 releases.
- Improved clarity in build configurations and feature availability.
- 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.
- Added conditional compilation for ImGui test engine features in `test_utils.cc` and `test_utils.h`, enabling the loading of ROMs and opening of editors only when the YAZE_ENABLE_IMGUI_TEST_ENGINE flag is set.
- Improved modularity by managing includes based on feature flags, enhancing the flexibility of the testing framework.
Benefits:
- Streamlined testing process for ImGui-related functionalities.
- Enhanced code organization by isolating ImGui test engine dependencies.
- Updated TestConfig to include ImGui test speed options, conditionally compiled based on the YAZE_ENABLE_IMGUI_TEST_ENGINE flag.
- Enhanced command line argument parsing to support new test speed options: --fast, --normal, and --cinematic, improving flexibility for UI testing.
Benefits:
- Improved configurability for testing scenarios involving ImGui.
- Enhanced user experience by allowing more granular control over test execution speed.
- Added option to export compile commands for clangd and other Language Server Protocol (LSP) tools by setting CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS to ON in CMake.
- Updated yaze_test.cc to conditionally include ImGui test engine headers based on the YAZE_ENABLE_IMGUI_TEST_ENGINE flag, improving modularity and organization.
Benefits:
- Enhanced development experience with better integration of LSP tools.
- Improved code organization by managing includes based on feature flags.
- Removed direct inclusion of `emulator_commands.h` in non-gRPC contexts to streamline dependencies.
- Updated CMake configuration to conditionally include emulator command sources only when gRPC is enabled, enhancing modularity.
- Ensured consistent handling of emulator commands across different components.
Benefits:
- Improved code organization and maintainability by clarifying the inclusion of gRPC-related features.
- Enhanced flexibility in managing command handlers based on compilation flags.
- 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.
- Introduced preprocessor macros for feature flags in CMake, allowing conditional compilation based on the presence of gRPC and JSON features.
- Updated the agent source file list to include gRPC-dependent sources only when gRPC is enabled, enhancing modularity and maintainability.
Benefits:
- Improved flexibility in enabling/disabling features at compile time.
- Streamlined source management for better organization of gRPC-related components.
- Added `AgentControlServer` to manage gRPC connections for emulator control.
- Introduced `EmulatorServiceImpl` with methods for starting, stopping, and controlling the emulator, including button presses and memory operations.
- Created new command handlers for pressing, releasing, and holding emulator buttons.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files and proto definitions for the emulator service.
Benefits:
- Enhanced control over the emulator through gRPC, allowing for remote interactions.
- Improved modularity and maintainability of the emulator's command handling.
- Streamlined integration of new features for emulator control and state inspection.
- Renamed `turbo_mode()` to `is_turbo_mode()` for clarity in the Emulator class.
- Improved input handling in the Snes class by adding button state management and ensuring proper initialization of input controllers.
- Implemented multiple audio resampling methods (linear, cosine, cubic) in the Dsp class, allowing for enhanced audio quality during playback.
- Updated the user interface to include options for selecting audio interpolation methods and added keyboard shortcuts for emulator controls.
Benefits:
- Improved code readability and maintainability through clearer method naming and structured input management.
- Enhanced audio playback quality with new resampling techniques.
- Streamlined user experience with added UI features for audio settings and keyboard shortcuts.
- Updated CMake configuration to conditionally link the yaze_test_support library for both yaze and yaze_emu targets, ensuring proper integration with TestManager.
- Enhanced status messages to provide clearer feedback on the linkage status and potential issues if the target is not found.
Benefits:
- Improved clarity and maintainability of the CMake configuration.
- Enhanced modularity by managing test dependencies more effectively.
- Improved the CMake configuration to conditionally link the yaze_test_support library for the yaze target when tests are enabled, providing clearer feedback on linkage status.
- Updated the file dialog implementation to include specific filters for ROM files and all files, enhancing user experience during file selection.
- Added status messages to inform users about the linkage of test support and potential issues if the target is not found.
Benefits:
- Enhanced clarity and maintainability of the CMake configuration.
- Improved user interaction with file dialogs through better filtering options.
- Enhanced audio backend initialization by adding comments for clarity and ensuring a moderate buffer size for optimal latency and stability.
- Updated the emulator's run logic to start in a running state by default and refined the auto-pause mechanism to only trigger during window resizing, removing aggressive focus-based pausing.
- Implemented adaptive audio buffering to maintain smooth playback, adjusting the number of queued samples based on current buffer status.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience with more intuitive audio handling and reduced latency.
- Enhanced stability during window operations, preventing crashes on macOS.
- Streamlined audio processing for better performance and responsiveness.
- Added conditional linkage of the yaze_test_support library for both yaze and yaze_emu targets when tests are enabled, ensuring proper integration with TestManager.
- This change enhances the modularity of the CMake configuration by managing test dependencies more effectively.
Benefits:
- Improved organization of test support linkage in the CMake configuration.
- Enhanced maintainability by ensuring that test dependencies are only included when necessary.
- Included the JSON library directory in the test CMake configuration to support JSON functionalities in tests.
- This addition enhances the testing environment by providing necessary dependencies for JSON handling.
Benefits:
- Improved testing capabilities by integrating JSON support.
- Streamlined CMake configuration for better modularity in test setups.
- 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.
- Added new include directories for ImGui and SDL to the test CMake configuration, enhancing the testing environment.
- Updated the linkage to include ImGui and SDL targets, ensuring proper integration for GUI tests.
Benefits:
- Improved support for GUI testing by integrating necessary libraries.
- Streamlined the CMake configuration for better modularity in test setups.
