frontend: Allow clicking the adjuster arrows on menu items. This allows
things like video options and DIP switches to be configured using a
mouse only. Also fixed a bug preventing paging menus with a mouse if
the first item scrolled off the bottom is not selectable.
debugger: Allow wplist and bplist to accept a CPU argument to list
breakpoints/watchpoints for a single CPU only.
debugger: Fixed some corner cases in address space syntax in memory
accesses, and allowed memory region accesses to use tags relative to the
visible CPU.
emu/softlist.cpp: Ignore notes elements when loading software lists.
It's effectively a comment that isn't a comment syntactically, it's
being used for things that are not useful to display in the internal UI,
and it slows down startup.
docs: Updated three more pages of debugger documentation. Also updated
more of the built-in debugger help.
minimaws: Fixed up schema for software list notes, made sofware list
notes display initially collapsed.
* softlist.cpp: Add support for a 'notes' field to store information about a software list or software list item. [Wilbert Pol]
* Add software list and software notes to minimaws
* Support serving static assets, use for stylesheet, script and images
* Better error pages, reject unsupported HTTP methods
* Replace lists with sortable tables with more detail (click headings to sort)
* Add pages for exploring source files, link from machine pages
- Can start from full source file list at http://localhost:8080/sourcefile/
(nw) JavaScript performance can drop when sorting really big tables,
e.g. the list of all source files, or the list of machines in some of
the fruit machine drivers. This update doesn't expose machine/device
information, just consolidating what's there. The wsgiref server is
adding headers to prevent caching, I'll look for a workaround.
output from -listxml verb. Compatible with Python 2.7 or Python 3.
Requires at least SQLite 3.6.19 for foreign key support.
This serves a few purposes:
* Demonstrating some things that can be done with -listxml output
* Providing a reference implementation for useful queries
* Helping ensure our XML output isn't completely useless
* Providing additional queries over MAME's auxiliary verbs
* Proper glob support unlike the broken implementation in MAME right now
Right now, it's a bit ugly to use. You can only load into a completely
clean database, and you need to manually create the schema. I'll
address this later. The default database filename is minimaws.sqlite3
(you can override this with --database before the verb on the command
line). Loading isn't particularly fast, but query performance is very
good.
Create a database first:
rm -f minimaws.sqlite3
sqlite3 minimaws.sqlite3 < scripts/minimaws/schema.sql
Now you can load it using a MAME binary or XML output (use one of these
options, not both):
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py load --executable ./mame
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py load --file mame0188.xml
Once that's done you can do queries:
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py listfull
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py listclones "*cmast*"
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py listsource "*mous*"
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py listbrothers "intl*"
These work much like the equivalent MAME verbs, but without the overhead
of loading MAME's static data. But there's one already query that you
can't easily do with MAME:
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py listaffected "src/devices/cpu/m6805/*" src/devices/sound/qsound.cpp
This will list all runnable systems that use a device defined in any
file under devices/cpu/m6805 or in devices/sound/qsound.cpp (you can
specify and arbitrary number of files or glob patterns). This may be
useful for planning regression tests.
Another thing this does (that gives rise to the name) is serving
information over HTTP. It's implemented as a WSGI, and it mainly uses
GET requests. This means it can run hosted in Apache mod_wsgi, or
cached by Apache mod_proxy, Squid, nginx, or something else. It can
also run out-of-the-box using wsgiref.simple_server components. The
default port is 8080 but this can be changed with the --port option.
Start the web server with the serve verb (stop it with keyboard
interrupt ^C or similar):
python scripts/minimaws/minimaws.py serve
Right now it's rather crude, and doesn't list devices for you. This
means you have to know the shortname of a machine to get a useful URL.
For example, you can look at a driver and see its parent set and the
devices it references:
http://localhost:8080/machine/kof2000n
Or you can look at a device, and see the devices it refereces, as well
as the devices/systems that reference it:
http://localhost:8080/machine/zac1b11142
The links between devices/systems are clickable. They might 404 on you
if you used a single-driver build with broken parent/clone
relationships, but they should all work in a full build that passes
validation.
There's still a lot to do. In particular I want to demonstrate how to
do live DIP switch preview and dynamic slot discovery. But I've already
discovered stuff in the -listxml output that's less than ideal with
this, so it's helping.
