- Allow device finder to be used as an argument for set_screen (nw)
screen: Calculate physical aspect ratio whenever required, not in device_config_complete, since the renderer caches the result anyway (nw)
cdp1861, cdp1864: Eliminate the "magic reference" constructors, doing their work in device_config_complete instead (nw)
the finder's owner. This meand you no longer need to care about the
your relationship to the object being configured and a lot of ^ and :
can disappear. There's a bit reduction in string pasting in macros from
this.
Yes, I have to make this apply to devcb etc. as well, but that's a job
for another day.
There's probably at least one thing broken by this where optional
objects are involved. Most things can be solved by just getting rid of
the now-problematic ^ and : prefixes.
- Palette has been retained mostly for the sake of the palette viewer, and now reflects the actual programmed values, rather than being a fixed RRRGGGBBB encoding plus a hacky mess for the V9958's YJK colors.
- V9938-on-V9938 transparent overlay is fixed for meritm.cpp (was broken a few releases ago).
- Create device_palette_interface, which takes over most functionality from palette_device except for the initialization/decoding routines and RAM interface.
- Update screen_device and device_gfx_interface to use a device_palette_interface object rather than a palette_device. This necessitates slight alterations to a few drivers and devices.
- Modify v9938 and v9958 to use the new device_palette_interface rather than a subdevice. This entails breaking a cyclic dependency between device_video_interface and screen_device for this case.
* Make device_creator a variable template and get rid of the ampersands
* Remove screen.h and speaker.h from emu.h and add where necessary
* Centralise instantiations of screen and speaker finder templates
* Add/standardise #include guards in many hearers
* Remove many redundant #includes
* Order #includesr to help catch headers that can't be #included alone
(nw) This changes #include order to be prefix, unit header if applicable
then other stuff roughly in order from most dependent to least dependent
library. This helps catch headers that don't #include things that they
use.
Replace the old device_iterator and its specialized versions with functionally equivalent classes that use standard operators to yield references to devices/interfaces rather than pointers. With range-based for loops, they no longer have to be stored in named variables, though they can also be reused concurrently since the iteration state is now maintained by a subclass.
Add a few more typical getters to device_t::subdevice_list.
