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.
Proof of concept for implementing subpixel processing in ImGui. This is
work in progress, and it is bound to have problems.
What it does:
1) Uses freetype own subpixel processing implementation to build a
32-bit color atlas for the default font only (no icons, no unifont) . 2)
Avoids pixel perfect font conversion when possible. 3) Self contained,
no ImGui source code changes.
4) Results in much improved legibility of fonts rendered on low dpi LCD
screens that use horizontal RGB pixel layouts (no BRG or OLED or CRT if
they even exist anymore)
What it doesn't:
1) Fancy class based interface. The code is barely the minimum needed to
show it can work. 2) Dual source color blending. That needs to be
implemented in shader code, so it needs to change ImGui source code
although minimally. This will result in some characters appearing dimmer
than others. Easily fixed with small fragment and vertex shaders. 3)
subpixel positioning. If characters are very thin they will look
colored, or they can be moved to improve legibility. 4) deal with
detection of fringe cases including rare pixel layouts, non LCD screens,
Mac-OS not handling subpixel rendering and any other deviation from the
standard LCD. 5) tries to be efficient in speed or memory use. Font
Atlases will be 4 times the size they were before, but there are no
noticeable delays in font loading in the examples I have tried.
Any comments and code improvements are welcome.
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Co-authored-by: Nik <werwolv98@gmail.com>
The horizontal scroll bar length is set using the maximum line length across the input file. The original setup had the lengths of imported and included files added so changes are made to insure that only changes from the input file are taken. This required changes to the Pattern Language library so the library is updated to the latest version as well.
