Implement scrolling behavior in Play Mode by allowing the Canvas to
follow a specific actor and keep it in view. The Canvas has a
FollowActor property which holds an ID of the actor to follow (if blank,
no actor is being followed).
In Play Mode the Player is followed and when they get too close to the
left or right edges of the screen, the level will scroll to try and
catch them. If the player is moving very fast they can outrun the
camera.
The bounded levels are enforced in Play Mode and the camera won't scroll
to view pixels out-of-bounds and the Doodad actors inside the level
aren't allowed to exit its boundaries. This is global, not only for the
Player doodad but any Doodad that came with the level as well.
Other changes:
- Restructured Canvas widget code into many new files. The Canvas widget
is shaping up to be where most of the magic happens, which is okay
because it's close to the action and pulling the strings from outside
would be harder, even tho as a UI element you think it should be
lightweight.
- Debug Overlay: added room for Scenes to insert their own custom Debug
Overlay key/value pairs (the values are string pointers so the Scene
can update them freely):
- The core labels are FPS, Scene and Mouse. The Pixel (world
coordinate under cursor) is removed from the core labels.
- Edit Scene provides Pixel, Tool and Swatch
- Play Scene provides Pixel, Player, Viewport, Scroll
Implement the Wallpaper system into the levels and the concept of
Bounded and Unbounded levels.
The first wallpaper image is notepad.png which looks like standard ruled
notebook paper. On bounded levels, the top/left edges of the page look
as you would expect and the blue lines tile indefinitely in the positive
directions. On unbounded levels, you only get the repeating blue lines
but not the edge pieces.
A wallpaper is just a rectangular image file. The image is divided into
four equal quadrants to be the Corner, Top, Left and Repeat textures for
the wallpaper. The Repeat texture is ALWAYS used and fills all the empty
space behind the drawing. (Doodads draw with blank canvases as before
because only levels have wallpapers!)
Levels have four options of a "Page Type":
- Unbounded (default, infinite space)
- NoNegativeSpace (has a top left edge but can grow infinitely)
- Bounded (has a top left edge and bounded size)
- Bordered (bounded with bordered texture; NOT IMPLEMENTED!)
The scrollable viewport of a Canvas will respect the wallpaper and page
type settings of a Level loaded into it. That is, if the level has a top
left edge (not Unbounded) you can NOT scroll to see negative coordinates
below (0,0) -- and if the level has a max dimension set, you can't
scroll to see pixels outside those dimensions.
The Canvas property NoLimitScroll=true will override the scroll locking
and let you see outside the bounds, for debugging.
- Default map settings for New Level are now:
- Page Type: NoNegativeSpace
- Wallpaper: notepad.png (default)
- MaxWidth: 2550 (8.5" * 300 ppi)
- MaxHeight: 3300 ( 11" * 300 ppi)
The uix.Canvas widget now maintains a selected Tool which configures how
the mouse interacts with the (editable) Canvas widget.
The default Tool is the PencilTool and implements the old behavior: it
draws pixels when clicked and dragged based on your currently selected
Color Swatch. This tool automatically becomes active when you toggle the
Palette tab in the editor mode.
A new Tool is the ActorTool which becomes active when you select the
Doodads tab. In the ActorTool you can't draw pixels on the level, but
when you mouse over a Doodad instance (Actor) in your level, you may
pick it up and drag it someplace else.
Left-click an Actor to pick it up and drag it somewhere else.
Right-click to delete it completely.
You can also delete an Actor by dragging it OFF of the Canvas, like back
onto the palette drawer or onto the menu bar.
Add the ability to drag and drop Doodads onto the level. The Doodad
buttons on the palette now trigger a Drag/Drop behavior when clicked,
and a "blueprint colored" version of the Doodad follows your cursor,
centered on it.
Actors are assigned a random UUID ID when they are placed into a level.
The Canvas gained a MaskColor property that forces all pixels in the
drawing to render as the same color. This is a visual-only effect, and
is used when dragging Doodads in so they render as "blueprints" instead
of their actual colors until they are dropped.
Fix the chunk bitmap cache system so it saves in the $XDG_CACHE_FOLDER
instead of /tmp and has better names. They go into
`~/.config/doodle/chunks/` and have UUID file names -- but they
disappear quickly! As soon as they are cached into SDL2 they are removed
from disk.
Other changes:
- UI: Add Hovering() method that returns the widgets that are beneath
a point (your cursor) and those that are not, for easy querying
for event propagation.
- UI: Add ability to return an ErrStopPropagation to tell the master
Scene (outside the UI) not to continue sending events to other
parts of the code, so that you don't draw pixels during a drag
event.
Add the JSON format for embedding Actors (Doodad instances) inside of a
Level. I made a test map that manually inserted a couple of actors.
Actors are given to the Canvas responsible for the Level via the
function `InstallActors()`. So it means you'll call LoadLevel and then
InstallActors to hook everything up.
The Canvas creates sub-Canvas widgets from each Actor.
After drawing the main level geometry from the Canvas.Chunker, it calls
the drawActors() function which does the same but for Actors.
Levels keep a global map of all Actors that exist. For any Actors that
are visible within the Viewport, their sub-Canvas widgets are presented
appropriately on top of the parent Canvas. In case their sub-Canvas
overlaps the parent's boundaries, their sub-Canvas is resized and moved
appropriately.
- Allow the MainWindow to be resized at run time, and the UI
recalculates its sizing and position.
- Made the in-game Shell properties editable via environment variables.
The kirsle.env file sets a blue and pink color scheme.
- Begin the ground work for Levels and Doodads to embed files inside
their data via the level.FileSystem type.
- UI: Labels can now contain line break characters. It will
appropriately render multiple lines of render.Text and take into
account the proper BoxSize to contain them all.
- Add environment variable DOODLE_DEBUG_ALL=true that will turn on ALL
debug overlay and visualization options.
- Add debug overlay to "tag" each Canvas widget with some of its
details, like its Name and World Position. Can be enabled with the
environment variable DEBUG_CANVAS_LABEL=true
- Improved the FPS debug overlay to show in labeled columns and multiple
colors, with easy ability to add new data points to it.
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.
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
$XDG_CACHE_FOLDER instead.
- Add Chunk.Texture() that causes a Chunk to render and then return a
cached bitmap texture of the pixels it's responsible for. The texture
is cached until the Chunk is next modified with Set() or Delete().
- UI: add an Image widget that currently just shows a bitmap image. It
was the first test for caching bitmap images for efficiency. Can show
any *.bmp file on disk!
- Editor UI: make the StatusBar boxes dynamically build from an array
of string pointers to make it SUPER EASY to add/remove labels.
* Add a tab bar to the top of the Palette window that has two
radiobuttons for "Palette" and "Doodads"
* UI: add the concept of a Hidden() widget and the corresponding Hide()
and Show() methods. Hidden widgets are skipped over when evaluating
Frame packing, rendering, and event supervision.
* The Palette Window in editor mode now displays one of two tabs:
* Palette: the old color swatch palette now lives here.
* Doodads: the new Doodad palette.
* The Doodad Palette shows a grid of buttons (2 per row) showing the
available Doodad drawings in the user's config folder.
* The Doodad buttons act as radiobuttons for now and have no other
effect. TODO will be making them react to drag-drop events.
* UI: added a `Children()` method as the inverse of `Parent()` for
container widgets (like Frame, Window and Button) to expose their
children. The BaseWidget just returns an empty []Widget.
* Console: added a `repl` command that keeps the dev console open and
prefixes every command with `$` filled out -- for rapid JavaScript
console evaluation.
* 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.
Adds the first features to Edit Mode to support creation of Doodad
files! The "New Doodad" button pops up a prompt for a Doodad size
(default 100px) and configures the Canvas widget and makes a Doodad
struct instead of a Level to manage.
* Move the custom Canvas widget from `level.Canvas` to `uix.Canvas`
(the uix package is for our custom UI widgets now)
* Rename the `doodads.Doodad` interface (for runtime instances of
Doodads) to `doodads.Actor` and make `doodads.Doodad` describe the
file format and JSON schema instead.
* Rename the `EditLevel()` method to `EditDrawing()` and it inspects the
file extension to know whether to launch the Edit Mode for a Level or
for a Doodad drawing.
* Doodads can be edited by using the `-edit` CLI flag or using the
in-game file open features (including `edit` command of dev console).
* Add a `Scrollable` boolean to uix.Canvas to restrict the keyboard
being able to scroll the level, for editing Doodads which have a fixed
size.
