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10 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Vas Crabb
cb16512392 Clean up various loose ends:
frontend: Exposed debug symbol tables and parsed expressions to Lua
(these can be used when the debugger is not active).  Also made it
simpler to walk input types.

imagedev/bitbngr.cpp: Added software list loader support (used by
sitcom).

sitcom.cpp: Replaced bankdev with a memory view.  Also added a bar graph
for the timer DAC output, and made the DL1414 displays squarer in the
layout like they are in real life.  They still don't look right because
the internal segment drawing code doen't draw the segments the right
width.

docs: Fixed broken links and added missing links in command line options
index.  Also removed documentation for an option that no longer exists
and fixed some inconsistent terminology.

Separated includes by module in various drivers.
2022-02-03 09:00:23 +11:00
Vas Crabb
08ee39da70 -debugger: Finished updating commands and documentation.
* Updated cheat commands to work with arbitrary devices and address
  spaces.  You can still only search RAM areas in a single address space
  at a time, but any address space of any device can be used now.
* Made the cheatinit/cheatrange commands not affect current state if the
  arguments are invalid.  Also fixed some bugs in the cheat commands.
* Updated documentation for cheat commands, and added a simple worked
  example.  Also added single-sentence descriptions of what
  (break|watch|register)points are to the top of the relevant pages.

-frontend improvements:

* Added a bit more info to the about box, moved the VCS revision to the
  heading.
* Don't show "not" codes in prompts - they're not helpful.
2021-10-19 05:35:30 +11:00
Vas Crabb
40a30af10f Still more user experience improvements:
Changed the default mapping for UI select to not trigger on Alt+Enter
fullscreen toggle.  (Fullscreen toggle still doesn't work in menus -
actually fixing that is complicated.)

frontend: Made the about box wrap text properly, made the title and
backtrack menu item always visible, and added a footer with the VCS
revision.

frontend: Don't highlight the favourites and info toolbar buttons if
there's no selection (can happen if filters produce no results).  Also
made the info viewer appear even if no info is available - it's less
confusing to see an empty menu than wonder why clicking the button does
nothing.

debugger: Added a register points view to the GUI debuggers, to go with
the breakpoints and watchpoints views.

debugger: Extended [brw]p(clear|(en|dis)able) commands to accept
multiple arguments to perform the same action on multiple
(break|watch|register)points at once.  Also made rplist accept a CPU for
showing a single CPU's register points ([bw]plist already support this).

docs: Updated registerpoints debugger commands page, and updated other
pages for latest extensions to syntax.
2021-10-18 08:22:21 +11:00
Vas Crabb
96ca1dbd96 More user experience improvements:
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.
2021-10-14 08:00:04 +11:00
Vas Crabb
ca338f7372 Various improvements to the user experience:
Extended the memory access prefixes in debugger expressions to support
address space names.

Made the debugger history command aware of how much history it has
collected, and added a help topic for it to the built-in debugger help.

Started updating the documentation for the web site, and corrected some
of the more misleading built-in debugger help.

Made some corrections to Chinese localisation after discussion with
YuiFAN.

Darkened the UI red colour a little.

cpu/m6502/st2205u.h: Marked sound imperfect.
2021-10-13 10:59:38 +11:00
Vas Crabb
6669489679 allow repeating elements and groups - useful if you need e.g. a lot of numbered labels, but it limits complay.py's ability to check for invalid references as it can't evaluate expressions (nw) 2018-07-22 09:52:50 +10:00
Firehawke
b2e11d00e0 More docs work: escapes, debugger update (nw) (#3168)
* Missed a couple escape sequences. (nw)

* A little more escaping, acronym fixes, fix oddity in symlist (nw)

* Update debugger internal help to match docs (nw)

* Lowercasing for CPU in command parameters, fix casing on ASCII. (nw)
2018-02-05 20:27:02 +11:00
Firehawke
752cf3d073 Missed a couple escape sequences. (nw) 2018-02-03 19:26:25 +11:00
Firehawke
f2859d0db0 Correct command heading case and adjustments to expressions (NW) 2018-01-15 02:11:15 +11:00
Firehawke
18d3d5ac50 First pass of MAME Debugger help for documentation. (NW) 2018-01-13 21:56:18 -07:00