Update notes and feature ideas

Ideas.md

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 The major milestones of the game are roughly:
 
 * [x] Prototype: make a simple SDL painting program that does nothing special.
-* [ ] Simple Platformer: be able to toggle between "edit mode" and "play mode"
+* [x] Simple Platformer: be able to toggle between "edit mode" and "play mode"
   and control a character who can walk around your level and bump into the
   solid geometry you've drawn (no objects yet, just the basics here).
 * [ ] Add Doodads (buttons, doors, the player character themself, enemies, ...)
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       have some natural limiter where players have to spend time in Play Mode
       to be able to change the map.
 
+# Edit Mode Features
+
+* [ ] A menu bar along the top of the screen with normal drop-down menus.
+  UI toolkit widgets needed:
+  * [ ] Menu: a pop-up menu, like one summoned by a right-click action.
+  * [ ] MenuButton: a Button widget that opens a Menu when clicked.
+  * [ ] MenuBar: a Frame widget that automatically finds the top of your
+    window and makes it easy to fill it with MenuButtons.
+* [x] A status bar that shows your cursor position and other useful details.
+* [x] A palette window that shows you your current palette as a series of
+  radio buttons, and you can toggle between the palette choices.
+  * Palettes are saved with the level file and the list is dynamic.
+  * Colors are not tied to behaviors. Each "Swatch" on the palette has its own
+    color and a set of boolean flags for `solid`, `fire` and `water` behaviors.
+  * [ ] User interface to edit (add/remove) swatches from the palette.
+* [ ] A Toolbox window with radio buttons to select between various drawing tools.
+  * [x] Pencil (the default) draws single pixels on the level.
+  * [ ] Rectangle would draw a rectangular outline.
+  * [ ] Line would draw a line from point to point.
+* [ ] A way to adjust brush properties:
+  * [ ] Brush size, shape (round or square).
+* [ ] Tools to toggle "layers" of visibility into your level:
+  * A drop-down menu with options like "Show all solid", "Show all fire",
+    "Show all decoration", etc.
+  * When layers are applied, adjust the way the pixels in the Grid are drawn on
+    screen. Any pixel that doesn't fit the layers requested should draw in a
+    muted color like light grey, and the layers requested should show in a
+    vibrant color.
+  * Use case: a full-color level can have _many_ solid pixels (grass, dirt,
+    walls) rendering in all kinds of colors. But you want to see how the collision
+    burden will be for the level and you can toggle on "Show all solid pixels"
+    and every solid pixel becomes bright red and all the non-solid pixels turn a
+    muted grey. This way I can easily see the difference between the colors and
+    behaviors of the pixels in my level.
+
+For creating Doodads in particular:
+
+* [ ] Make a way to enter Edit Mode in either "Level Mode" or "Doodad Mode",
+  i.e. by a "New Level" or "New Doodad" button.
+* [ ] Create a "frame manager" window to see and page between the frames of the
+  drawing.
+* [ ] Ability to work on canvases with constrained size (including smaller than
+  your window). This will use a Canvas widget in the UI toolkit as an abstraction
+  layer. Small canvases will be useful for drawing doodads of a fixed size.
+
 # File Formats
 
 * The file formats should eventually have a **Protocol Buffers** binary

README.md

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 * [x] Create a user interface toolkit which will be TREMENDOUSLY helpful
   for the rest of this program.
   * [x] Labels
-  * [ ] Buttons (text only is OK)
+  * [x] Buttons (text only is OK)
       * [x] Buttons wrap their Label and dynamically compute their size based
         on how wide the label will render, plus padding and border.
       * [x] Border colors and widths and paddings are all configurable.
-      * [ ] Buttons should interact with the cursor and be hoverable and
+      * [x] Buttons should interact with the cursor and be hoverable and
         clickable.
-  * [ ] UI Manager that will keep track of buttons to know when the mouse
+  * [x] UI Manager that will keep track of buttons to know when the mouse
     is interacting with them.
-  * [ ] Frames
+  * [x] Frames
       * Like Buttons, can have border (raised, sunken or solid), padding and
         background color.
-      * [ ] Should be able to size themselves dynamically based on child widgets.
+      * [x] Should be able to size themselves dynamically based on child widgets.
-  * [ ] Windows (fixed, non-draggable is OK)
+  * [x] Windows (fixed, non-draggable is OK)
-      * [ ] Title bar with label
+      * [x] Title bar with label
-      * [ ] Window body implements a Frame that contains child widgets.
+      * [x] Window body implements a Frame that contains child widgets.
-      * [ ] Window can resize itself dynamically based on the Frame.
+      * [x] Window can resize itself dynamically based on the Frame.
-* [ ] Create a "Main Menu" scene with buttons to enter a new Edit Mode,
+* [x] Create a "Main Menu" scene with buttons to enter a new Edit Mode,
   play an existing map from disk, etc.
-* [ ] Add user interface Frames or Windows to the Edit Mode.
+* [x] Add user interface Frames or Windows to the Edit Mode.
   * [ ] A toolbar of buttons (New, Save, Open, Play) can be drawn at the top
     before the UI toolkit gains a proper MenuBar widget.
-  * [ ] Expand the Palette support in levels for solid vs. transparent, fire,
+  * [x] Expand the Palette support in levels for solid vs. transparent, fire,
     etc. with UI toolbar to choose palettes.
+* [ ] Add a "Canvas" widget that will hold level drawing data and abstract it
+  out such that the Canvas can have a constrained width and height, position,
+  and "scrollable" viewport area that determines rendered pixels. Will be VERY
+  useful for Doodads and working on levels smaller than your window size (like
+  doodads).
 
 Lesser important UI features that can come at any later time:
 
 * [ ] MenuBar widget with drop-down menu support.
-* [ ] Checkbox and Radiobox widgets.
+* [x] Checkbox and Radiobox widgets.
 * [ ] Text Entry widgets (in the meantime use the Developer Shell to prompt for
   text input questions)