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97394f6cdb WIP Finishing Up Texture Caching System
Apart from putting the cached bitmaps in a better place, this about
finishes up the texture caching optimization and IT IS FAST!

When I spam drag a lot of pixels around the FPS may drop to the 40's but
once the caches are warmed up the FPS returns to 60 and stays there,
even if the screen is very busy with pixels.

An undocumented debug feature: set the environment variable
DEBUG_CHUNK_COLOR='#00FFFF' to set a bitmap background color besides
white to be used when caching the chunks. It helps to visualize where on
the screen the bitmaps are being used. May go away in the future.

Changes:

- Found that the old default chunk size of 1000 was slow to generate
  bitmap images to cache. The 100px test size was fast and 128 sounds
  like a good middle ground number to pick for now.
- Fixed all the problems with scroll behavior and offset by inverting
  the sign of the scroll behavior. Scrolling to the Right and Down
  actually subtracts X,Y values instead of adds them.
2018-10-17 23:01:21 -07:00
279a980106 WIP Texture Caching
NOTICE: Chunk size set to 100 for visual testing!
NOTICE: guitest references a bmp file that isn't checked in!

BUGS REMAINING:
- When scrolling the level in Edit Mode, some of the chunks will pop
  out of existence randomly.
- When clicking-dragging to draw in Edit Mode, if the scroll position
  is not at 0,0 then the pixels drawn will be offset from the cursor.
- These are to do with the Scroll position and chunk coordinate calc
  functions probably.

Implements a texture caching interface to stop redrawing everything
pixel by pixel on every frame.

The texture caching workflow is briefly:

- The uix.Canvas widget's Present() function iterates over the list of
  Chunk Coordinates that are visible inside of the current viewport
  (i.e. viewable on screen)
- For each Chunk:
  - Make it render and/or return its cached Texture object.
  - Work out how much of the Chunk will be visible and how to crop the
    boxes for the Copy()
  - Copy the cached Texture instead of drawing all the pixels every
    time like we were doing before.
- The Chunk.Texture() function that returns said Texture:
  - It calls Chunk.ToBitmap() to save a bitmap on disk.
  - It calls Engine.NewBitmap() to get a Texture it can hang onto.
  - It hangs onto the Texture and returns it on future calls.
  - Any call to Set() or Delete() a pixel will invalidate the cache
    (mark the Chunk "dirty") and Texture() will rebuild next call.

The interface `render.Texturer` provides a way for rendering backends
(SDL2, OpenGL) to transport a "texture" of their own kind without
exposing the type details to the user.

The interface `render.Engine` adds two new methods:

* NewBitmap(filename string) (Texturer, error)
* Copy(t Texturer, src, dst Rect)

NewBitmap should open a bitmap image on disk and return it wrapped in a
Texturer (really it's an SDL2 Texture). This is for caching purposes.
Next the Copy() function blits the texture onto the screen renderer
using the source and destination rectangles.

The uix.Canvas widget orchestrates the caching for the drawing it's
responsible for. It queries which chunks are viewable in the Canvas
viewport (scroll and bounding boxes), has each chunk render out their
entire bitmap image to then cache them as SDL textures and then only
_those_ need to be copied out to the renderer each frame.

The frame rate now sits at a decent 60 FPS even when the drawing gets
messy and full of lines. Each unique version of each chunk needs to
render only one time and then it's a fast copy operation for future
ticks.

Other changes:

- Chunker now assigns each Chunk what their coordinate and size are, so
  that the chunk can self reference that information. This info is
  considered read-only but that isn't really enforced.
- Add Chunker.IterViewportChunks() that returns a channel of Chunk
  Coordinates that are visible in your viewport, rather than iterating
  over all of the pixels in all of those chunks.
- Add Chunk.ToBitmap(filename) that causes a Chunk to render its pixels
  to a bitmap image on disk. SDL2 can natively speak Bitmaps for texture
  caching. Currently these go to files in /tmp but will soon go into your
  $XDG_CACHE_FOLDER instead.
- Add Chunk.Texture() that causes a Chunk to render and then return a
  cached bitmap texture of the pixels it's responsible for. The texture
  is cached until the Chunk is next modified with Set() or Delete().
- UI: add an Image widget that currently just shows a bitmap image. It
  was the first test for caching bitmap images for efficiency. Can show
  any *.bmp file on disk!
- Editor UI: make the StatusBar boxes dynamically build from an array
  of string pointers to make it SUPER EASY to add/remove labels.
2018-10-17 20:52:44 -07:00
f18dcf9c2c Move Editor Canvas Into UI + UI Improvements
* Increase the default window size from 800x600 to 1024x768.
* Move the drawing canvas in EditorMode to inside the EditorUI where it can
  be better managed with the other widgets it shares the screen with.
* Slightly fix Frame packing bug (with East orientation) that was causing
  right-aligned statusbar items to be partially cropped off-screen. Moved a
  couple statusbar labels in EditorMode to the right.
* Add `Parent()` and `Adopt()` methods to widgets for when they're managed
  by containers like the Frame.
* Add utility functions to UI toolkit for computing a widget's Absolute
  Position and Absolute Rect, by crawling all parent widgets and summing
  them up.
* Add `lib/debugging` package with useful stack tracing utilities.
* Add `make guitest` to launch the program into the GUI Test.
  The command line flag is: `doodle -guitest`
* Console: add a `close` command which returns to the MainScene.
* Initialize the font cache directory (~/.cache/doodle/fonts) but don't
  extract the fonts there yet.
2018-10-08 10:38:49 -07:00
5434484b6e Abstract Drawing Canvas into Reusable Widget
The `level.Canvas` is a widget that holds onto its Palette and Grid and
has interactions to allow scrolling and editing the grid using the
swatches available on the palette.

Thus all of the logic in the Editor Mode for drawing directly onto the
root SDL surface are now handled inside a level.Canvas instance.

The `level.Canvas` widget has the following properties:
* Like any widget it has an X,Y position and a width/height.
* It has a Scroll position to control which slice of its drawing will be
  visible inside its bounding box.
* It supports levels having negative coordinates for their pixels. It
  doesn't care. The default Scroll position is (0,0) at the top left
  corner of the widget but you can scroll into the negatives and see the
  negative pixels.
* Keyboard keys will scroll the viewport inside the canvas.
* The canvas draws only the pixels that are visible inside its bounding
  box.

This feature will eventually pave the way toward:
* Doodads being dropped on top of your map, each Doodad being its own
  Canvas widget.
* Using drawings as button icons for the user interface, as the Canvas
  is a normal widget.
2018-08-16 20:37:19 -07:00
5956863996 Menu Toolbar for Editor + Shell Prompts + Theme
* Added a "menu toolbar" to the top of the Edit Mode with useful buttons
  that work: New Level, New Doodad (same thing), Save, Save as, Open.
* Added ability for the dev console to prompt the user for a question,
  which opens the console automatically. "Save", "Save as" and "Load"
  ask for their filenames this way.
* Started groundwork for theming the app. The palette window is a light
  brown with an orange title bar, the Menu Toolbar has a black
  background, etc.
* Added support for multiple fonts instead of just monospace. DejaVu
  Sans (normal and bold) are used now for most labels and window titles,
  respectively. The dev console uses DejaVu Sans Mono as before.
* Update ui.Label to accept PadX and PadY separately instead of only
  having the Padding option which did both.
* Improvements to Frame packing algorithm.
* Set the SDL draw mode to BLEND so we can use alpha colors properly,
  so now the dev console is semi-translucent.
2018-08-11 17:30:00 -07:00
e1cbff8c3f Add Palette Window and Palette Support to Edit Mode
* Add ui.Window to easily create reusable windows with titles.
* Add a palette window (panel) to the right edge of the Edit Mode.
  * Has Radio Buttons listing the colors available in the palette.
* Add palette support to Edit Mode so when you draw pixels, they take
  on the color and attributes of the currently selected Swatch in your
  palette.
* Revise the on-disk format to better serialize the Palette object to
  JSON.
* Break Play Mode: collision detection fails because the Grid key
  elements are now full Pixel objects (which retain their Palette and
  Swatch properties).
  * The Grid will need to be re-worked to separate X,Y coordinates from
    the Pixel metadata to just test "is something there, and what is
    it?"
2018-08-10 17:19:47 -07:00
11df6cbda9 Move most properties from Button to parent Widget
These properties will be globally useful to all sorts of Widgets and
have been moved from the Button up into the Common widget, and its
interface extended to configure these:
* Padding int32
* Background color
* Foreground color
* Border size, color and style (default solid; raised; sunken)
* Outline size and color

The button adjusts its border style from "raised" to "sunken" for
MouseDown events and its Background color for MouseOver events. Other
widgets such as Labels and Frames will be able to have borders, paddings
and outlines too, but they will be off by default.
2018-07-25 21:24:37 -07:00
602273aa16 Add ui.Supervisor for Widget Event Handling
The Buttons can now be managed by a ui.Supervisor and be notified when
the mouse enters or leaves their bounding box and handle click events.

Current event handlers supported:
* MouseOver
* MouseOut
* MouseDown
* MouseUp
* Click

Each of those events are only fired when the state of the event has
changed, i.e. the first time the mouse enters the widget MouseOver is
called and then when the mouse leaves later, MouseOut is called.

A completed click event (mouse was released while pressed and hovering
the button) triggers both MouseOut and Click, so the button can pop
itself out and also run the click handler.
2018-07-25 20:25:02 -07:00
94c1df050b Add initial User Interface Toolkit
With Labels and Buttons so far.

* Labels are pretty much complete, they wrap a render.Text and have a
  Compute() method that returns their Width and Height when rendered
  onto an SDL Surface.
* Buttons wrap a Label widget and Compute() its size and takes that into
  consideration when rendering itself. Buttons render themselves from
  scratch in a "Windows 95" themed way, with configurable colors, border
  widths and outline.
2018-07-25 09:03:49 -07:00
d560670b7b Better Collision Detection (Bouncy Jumps Up Hills)
* Add a debug view that draws the player bounding boxes.
* Improve the collision detection to add support for:
  * Doodads being "Grounded" so gravity need not apply.
  * Walking up hills, albeit a bit "bouncily"
  * Harder to clip out of bounds
2018-07-24 20:57:22 -07:00
e13dd62309 Clean up old SDL refs in render package 2018-07-21 20:57:41 -07:00
9356502a50 Implement Developer Console with Initial Commands
Implements the dev console in-game with various commands to start out
with.

Press the Enter key to show or hide the console. Commands supported:

new
    Start a new map in Edit Mode.

save [filename.json]
    Save the current map to disk. Filename is required unless you
    have saved recently.

edit filename.json
    Open a map from disk in Edit Mode.

play filename.json
    Play a map from disk in Play Mode.
2018-07-21 20:43:01 -07:00
30be42c343 Abstract away all SDL logic into isolated package 2018-07-21 17:12:22 -07:00