allows the ability to assign colors to global placed and non-placed
variables, pattern, local and calculated pointer variables, template
arguments, function variables and arguments, etc etc etc. It
accomplishes this using the parser and the token sequence generated by
the lexer. It still uses the original colorizing code but the underlying
data holding the pattern has been updated to be easier to use and to
debug. The changes are too numerous to cite here.It is a big but
necessary step to bring the pattern editor to a somewhat useful state.
There may be one commit in the pattern language repo needed to be able
to run this code
This pr updates the pattern language library to include two fixes.
The first fix deal with local variables that are children of a
structure, a union, a bitfield or an array losing their offsets when the
parent's `setOffset()` is called.
The second fix is that local variables of unions were being used as size
contributors of the patterns place with said unions.
Further details may be found in the pattern language pull requests for
the files listed as changed in the PL submodule in this pr.
A while back there were some changes to the pattern language library
that changed the way shared_pointers are created using
shared_from_this(). Unfortunatelly the changes were not complete and
various bugs were created among them 2234, json type not working, unable
to export files, static arrays of bitfields,... The cause of the errors
was that in class Pattern the member m_parent was left as a raw pointer
and it needs to be handled by shared pointers. Also there were some
cases in which share pointers were needed but unique pointers were used
instead. Both cause crashes when shared_from_this is used on pointers
that are not managed by shared_ptr. Another source of errors were
infinite loops of clone and reference that caused stack overflow. The
fixes include making m_parent a weak pointer, turning unique pointers
into shared pointers and moving codefrom the copy constructors into
clone to break the infinite loops.These changes are the bare minimum
needed to bring the pattern language back to the full functionality that
it had before shared_from_this was introduced or at least thats the
hope.
The recent update that made importing patterns undoable had the side
effect of undoing tab changes as well. When working on a fix for that it
became clear that the undo/redo stacks were being shared by all
providers so that you could undo changes done in a separate file. The
problem was fixed by making the text editors (and the console editors as
well) to be per provider which gives better control on things like
breakpoints and selections and a more robust focusing system that
preserves the cursor positions and removes the need to click on a
pattern to start editing. There are a lot of changes, but they are
mostly all the uses of text editors being now coded differently to
manage the providers. File imports are still undoable, but switching
providers is not.
Further changes suggested by reviewer were implemented namely a mull provider was being used and there was a get function missing which prevented the use of the preferred syntax.
The recent changes to the text editor to fix the longest line length
problems broke the console horizontal scrollbar. The code that displays
the console editor was more complicated that it needed be, and it had
the bad side effect of resetting the cursor which prevented horizontal
scrolling. Adding a function that appends lines to the text editor fixes
all problems and makes the code clearer. To accommodate for strings
containing zeros, the code that inserts text was changed to print a '.'
when zeros are encountered thus keeping the line length the same.
