* Moved common code for drawing about box, info viewer, and other text box menus to a base class; removed the last of the info viewer logic and the multi-line item hack from the base menu class.
* Added previous/next group navigation for general inputs and plugin input selection menus.
* Moved message catalog logic to lib/util, allowing osd and emu to use localised messages.
* Made the base menu class use the UI manager’s feature for holding session state rather than a static map and mutex.
* Improved menu event handling model, and fixed many issues, particularly with menus behaving badly when hidden/shown.
* Added better support for menus that don’t participate in the usual menu stack, like the menuless sliders and the save/load state menus.
* Made a number of menus refresh state when being shown after being hidden (fixes MT08121 among other issues).
* Fixed indication of mounted slot option in the slot option details menu.
* Improved appearance of background menus when emulation isn't running - draw all menus in the stack, and darken the background menus to make the edges of the active menu clearer.
* Fixed locale issues in -listxml.
-debugger: Made GUI debuggers more uniform.
* Added new memory view features to Win32 debugger.
* Fixed spelling of hexadecimal in Cocoa debugger and added decimal address option.
* Fixed duplicate keyboard shortcut in Cocoa debugger (Shift-Cmd-D was both new device window and 64-bit float format).
* Made keyboard shortcuts slightly more consistent across debuggers.
-plugins: Moved input selection menu and sequence polling code to a common library. Fixed the issue that prevented keyboard inputs being mapped with -steadykey on.
-docs: Started adding some documentation for MAME's internal UI, and updated the list of example front-ends.
-Regenerated message catalog sources. For translators, the new strings are mostly:
* The names of the inputs provided by the OS-dependent layer for things like fullscreen and video features. These show up in the user interface inputs menu.
* The names for automatically generated views. These show up in the video options menu - test with a system with a lot of screens to see more variants.
* The input macro plugin UI.
* A few format strings for analog input assignments.
* A few strings for the about box header.
Changed the hiscore plugin to save inside the "hiscore" folder in the
plugin data directory. The old hiscore path setting has already been
removed from MAME for some time. This means the plugin was always
saving in the "hi" folder in the working directory with no way to change
it, which is problematic on Linux and macOS, particularly for distro
packagers. There are lots of plugin and UI changes in this release, so
we may as well get this out of the way now. Also made it possible to
change the "timed save" option from the Plugin Options menu, and save
that in the data folder, too.
Documented the input macro plugin. The only undocumented plugins now
are the cheat plugin, the cheat finder plugin, and the port name plugin.
* Also added a couple of missing command-line options, and added a local
table of contents to the (rather long) command line options page.
-Added a separate CI target for localisation updates that produces an
artefact, and removed the message catalogs from the trigger paths for
the Linux CI build.
debugger: Octal cheats for octal address spaces.
frontend: Pass events for automatically generated menu items to the
plugin - they will have index zero.
frontend: Don't try calling the data plugin from the main menu if the
system isn't starting yet - doing so will prevent the data plugin from
loading at all.
* 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.
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.
frontend: Made it possible to cancel a media audit while it's in
progress. Also made the media audit multi-threaded so it's faster.
frontend: Made the DIP switches in the DIP switch preview clickable.
frontend: Made the system and software selection menus leave focus on
the same system when clearing the search rather than jumping to the
first item. Also fixed a couple of bugs in the logic for keeping the
selected item visible.
frontend: Fixed a few places that weren't showing localised system
names.
frontend: Made UI Cancel clear a search in the file manager the same way
it does on the system and sofware selection menus.
frontend: Made it possible for plugin menus to handle UI Cancel more
naturally, backing up to the previous plugin menu rather than dropping
straight back to the list of plugins. Updated the autofire, cheat and
cheatfind plugins, and fixed a few other issues in the cheatfind plugin.
debugger: Made the mount and unmount commands accept instance names as
well as brief instance names. Also updated another page of debugger
documentation.
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.
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.
Got rid of one of the UI audit inputs. There only needs to be one, and
the options can be presented in the confirmation menu. Two secret
keystrokes is too confusing. Also got rid of the long-obsolete UI
Toggle Debugger input.
Added audit media button to the toolbar so it's a bit less opaque, and
it can be accessed with a mouse/trackball (not just by knowing the key
mapping).
Made default I/O port names localisable.
Made autofire plugin save port fields using the { port, mask, type }
tuple, the same way MAME does. Unfortunately this will break existing
autofire configuration, but it should be more stable going forward.
Added some more UI keys to the default key mappings documentation.
* frontend: Added support for message context to localisations.
* frontend: Added string_view versions of the message lookup functions.
* frontend: Added a few more folder options to the internal UI.
* emu/softlist.cpp: Use more appropriate containers.
* Switched to Python 3 by default - this will become a requirement.
* Updated msgfmt.py for message context support.
* frontend: Show all software item info in the internal UI.
* frontend: Search alternate titles in software selection menu.
* 3rdparty/utf8proc: Updated to v2.6.1 (has several fixes).
* frontend: Added software filters for common info fields.
* frontend: Allow UI manager to hold onto persistent session data.
* frontend: Cache software lists for eight machines.
* frontend: Added support for loading localised system names.
* frontend: Add UI for selecting localised system names.
* Automatically use delegate_mfp_compatible to generate an adaptor for
member functions that return non-scalar, non-reference types
(partially addresses #8597).
* Enabled the MSVC delegate implemenation for MSVC on AArch64.
* Switched back to neater delegate types for layout item bounds and
colour.
-docs: Updated the example layout links to point to 0.235 - this means
there's now an example of embedded SVG.
* The UI controls are described as zoom in/out, but they had the
opposite effect on the palette and tile viewers. That has been
changed to make them consistent with the tilemap viewer.
* Made the default zoom key not act as a toggle. People are familiar
with the function of Ctrl+0/=/- in web browsers, so making them behave
similarly in MAME should make it more approachable. Also added the
default zoom key to the relevant documentation page.
* Implemented the default zoom key for the palette and tile viewers.
* In the tilemap viewer, if the view is in default expand to fit mode,
zoom in/out starting from the actual zoom ratio. Once again, this
behaves more like the zoom controls in a web browser displaying an
image so it should be more intuitive.
* Made more messages from the tilemap viewer localisable.
-util/zippath.cpp: Fixed MT08074.
* There were multiple issues at play here. After #8443 was applied,
is_root was simply never returning true on Windows, as OSD_WINDOWS
isn't actually defined outside libosd and libocore. This caused
phantom parent items to appear in disk roots on Windows, but it meant
that the check in zippath_resolve would always fail so the trailing
backslash would be trimmed. Fixing the macro test in is_root meant
the trailing backslash from C:\ would no longer be trimmed, which
caused the stat in zippath_resolve to fail.
-bigbord2.cpp: Hooked up floppy DRQ that had somehow got lost.
-Reduced tag map lookups in several drivers and devices.
-util/coretmpl.h: Removed an overload of bitswap that can be avoided
using if constexpr.
-Added doxygen comments to some classes, and fixed several doxygen
warnings.
-util, osd: Test for _WIN32 rather than WIN32.
* In C++17 mode, WIN32 is no longer a predefined macro, although various
things in 3rdparty define it to maintain legacy support. We're better
off moving forward anyway for when WIN32 disappears entirely. (WIN32
is not a reserved name, while _WIN32 is, starting with an underscore
follwed by an uppercase letter.)
emu/ioport.cpp: Allow controller files to override input sequences for
inputs that don't use defaults, and to override the toggle setting for
digital inputs.
emu/config.cpp: Expose configuration level (mostly matters for
controller files), improved verbose diagnostic messages, and moved a few
things out of the global and preprocessor namespaces.
docs: Added documentation for some controller configuration file
features. The device mapping feature documentation will be merged in at
some point.
util/unicode.cpp, emu/input.cpp: API cleanups.
Update compilingmame.rst
* Changes in macOS section regarding current build requirements
* Added basic info for Apple Silicon to macOS build instructions.
* Added note explaining that view options saved in machine CFG take
precedence over INI/command line.
* Added prerequisites for building HTML documentation under MSYS2 and
Fedora Linux.
* Explicitly mentioned that Ubuntu modifies GCC to enable "fortify
source" by default in the relevant section.
* Removed obsolete reference to glibstdc++6.
* Re-formated compiling guide source (hard wrap at 80 columns,
typographical quotes, code blocks for sample command lines).
-genie.lua: Show GCC ignored attribute warnings, but don't fail for
them.
Made the sound manager mute controls readable, and got rid of system
enable since it just controls system mute anyway. This was causing
confusion: phantom2 was trying to use both independentlyt casuing the
mute bit to be ignored.
THe Lua interface changes are mostly changing methods to properties,
some renames to make things clearer, and some additional properties for
better control over snapshots.
Exposed the "native snapview" option on the video manager. Trying to
use presence of a single view is a poor proxy that breaks with
multi-screen systems.
Allow rotation to be changed for native snapshot views, and disable the
zoom to screen area control when it has no effect on the selected view.
Treat an empty string identically to "auto" for view selectction.
Previously this was being used for prefix matching so it would force the
first view. (This caused the bad snapshot view selection. It had been
relying on "internal" not being a common view name prefix so it fell
through to automatic selection, but when changed to an empty string it
forced the first view.)
Documented "auto" as well as "native" for the -snapview option and
changed the default to auto rather than an empty string for consistency
with the -viewN options.
Added [w]string_view handlers to the stuff that's instantiated in
strformat.cpp since we'll be increasingly using them.
Cleaned up and updated some documentation.
More Lua interface cleanup, additional properties and methods, and
documentation migration/expansion.
Emulated switch inputs can have "not" codes applied to host input axis
directions. It works the same way as host switch inputs - push twice
for a "not" prefix.
Input polling helpers no longer need to store state in the input device
items. There’s less leakage, and less chance of things interfering with
each other.
Allow snapshot view options to be configured through the internal UI via
the video options menu. Made video options menus place initial focus on
the currently selected view item. Removed some crud from the menu base
class.
Fixed the description of the "snapview" option. The value to get raw
screen pixels was changed to "native" a long time ago but the
description was never updated.
Re-arranged the Golden Poker button lamps so that the 6-button layouts
for Jolli Witch and Wild Witch make sense. In 6-button mode, the hold
buttons double as bonus game and bet buttons, but the lamp outputs don't
change. The simplest way to deal with this without requiring the user
to switch views or using layout scripting is to place the dedicated
buttons directly below the hold buttons that correspond to them.
Removed some software list data that was redundantly copied into
device_image_interface (m_supported was never even set, so it didn't
even work), and made crc() work better (previously it wasn't
recalculuated after unloading and loading another image).
Made strformat.h and devcb.h play nicer with C++17 and pre-standard
C++20. Format precision now correctly limits the length of string
views. Confirmed that strformat.{h,cpp} works with pre-standard C++20
support in GCC 9.
Removed an auto_alloc from cpu/arm7.
* Cleaned up some more of the Lua inteface. Mostly replacing methods
with properties, some consistency fixes, a few renames, some more
exposed functionality, and a couple of properties that have no
business being set from scripts made read-only.
* Moved a lot more Lua documentation out of source comments into the
documentation, and expanded on it in the process.
* Got more UI code out of the input manager.
* Changed input sequence poller to a polymorphic class where you
specify your intention upfront.
* Changed the cheat plugin to use UI Clear to clear hotkey assignments
and leave them unchanged if the user starts assignment but doesn't
press any switches.
* Ported AJR's fix for over-eager double-click recognition from SDL to
Windows OSD.
-goldnpkr.cpp: Cleaned up inputs, using standard keyout and payout types
and key assignments.
* Started moving Lua class reference to docs. Expecting people to find
the class reference material in the source isn’t going to help make it
approachable. The docs allow longer explanations, better formatting,
and cross reference links.
* Added another layout scripting example to the docs.
-goldnpkr.cpp: Minor clean-up.
* Improved the short names for Witch Card and Witch Game clone sets.
* Made Witch Up & Down artwork clickable.
* Added working Video Klein sets where the parent is a working Video
Klein set to the tiny subtarget.
* Removed history from the header comment - we have version control for
a readon.
* Modernised and cleaned up Lua bindings for input classes.
* Exposed the input_sequence_poller class to Lua and updated the
autofire and cheat plugins to use it, rather than continuing to
pretend it's part of the input manager.
* Exposed more of the natural keyboard manager, including the ability
to enable/disable individual keyboard and keypad devices like you
can from the keyboard mode menu.
* Exposed a few more things on ioport_port and input_device.
-plugins/cheat: Fixed menu item not updating visually when disabling a
cheat with UI Left.
-plugins/cheatfind: Fixed not finding the first screen after screen
enumerator was exposed as an object rather than using a table.
-bwidow.cpp, pacman.cpp: Minor cleanup to recent changes.
* Removed .mask(), as it’s not reliable in the general case.
* Added asserts to things that assume power-of-two sizes.
* Got rid of virtual qualifier on pointer-to-member operator.
* Made helpers a bit more assertive about logging warnings.
-emu/rendlay.cpp: Use delegates to avoid hot conditional branches.
-docs: Finished off description of object finders and output finders.
* Made it an error to specify address map and explicit ROM region.
* Made it an error if explicitly specified ROM region is not found.
* Made the ROM region tag apply relative to the current device.
-Cleaned up formatting for a couple more documentation pages.
* Harmonised memory region/share finder/creator APIs.
* Moved .found() to optional object finders.
* Added truth test operator to optional object finders.
* Fixed things that were testing .found() on required object finders.
* Improved Doxygen API documentation.
-dec8.cpp: Moved csilver to its own state class.
-docs: Added some notes about setting up and using MSYS2.
API impact:
- install_ram/rom/writeonly now requires a non-null pointer. If you want
automatically managed ram, add it to a memory map, not in machine_start
- install_*_bank now requires a memory_bank *, not a string
- one can create memory banks outside of memory maps with memory_bank_creator
- one can create memory shares outside of memory maps with memory_share_creator
Memory maps impact:
- ram ranges with overlapping addresses are not shared anymore. Use .share()
- ram ranges touching each other are not merged anymore. Stay in your range
Extra note:
- there is no need to create a bank just to dynamically map some memory/rom.
Just use install_rom/ram/writeonly
Moved MS DIB parser out of ICO file reader and made it available for
artwork and layout images.
Added more efficient I/O and better error checking for JPEG file loading
(MAME will no longer exit immediately on a bad JPEG file).
Made caller responsible for opening files for loading images, to avoid
decompressing images used in ZIP/7z artwork multiple times.
Added support for JPEG and Windows DIB to picture_image_device.
Added support for SVG image files in external artwork.
Added support for using I/O port value for animation state and masking
animation state values.
Made bounds elements more flexible in layouts.
Reworked headers to reduce dependencies.
Updated layout file format documentation.
Removed the IPT_POKER_BET, replacing it with IPT_GAMBLE_BET.
Re-organised the order of input types in the source and the
documentation to better reflect how they're logically grouped or
organised on a mahjong or gambling control panel.
Made the blackjack, poker and slots documentation headings subheadings
under the gambling heading.
Cleaned up inputs for a number of gambling games.
* Docs: Overhaul the default keys list
* Second phase of documenting default inputs better, also change Score to Take Score in Mahjong inputs
* Phase two of default keys docs adjustment.
Components may have multiple bounds and/or color child elements with
state attributes, allowing for piecewise linear position/size/colour
animation.
Components may have a statemask attribute, allowing for things like
using external images to draw a multi-segment LED/VFD display without
requiring dozens of outputs for the individual lines or thousands of
images for all possible states. (Texture caching still never releases
anything, so MAME can still exceed the maximum number of textures, but
that’s a separate issue.)
Image components with alpha now blend over previously drawn components.
Layouts have been changed to use yes/no for inputraw to match what's
used for flipx/flipy. External layouts with 1/0 will still work, but
complay.py will complain.
Changed name of element to "collection" and initial visibility attribute
to "visible", and added them to documentation. Also added them to
complay.py.
Fixed issue with collection inside group, and improved initial view
selection behaviour.
Updated some internal layouts to demonstrate new features, including
et3400, irrmaze, ltcasino, mekd3/mekd4, seawolf and vgmplay.
Removed all uses of cpanel, marquee and overlay from internal layouts
and removed them from complay.py to actively discourage use. Also
cleaned up view names in layouts that were using them in place of
spaces, and removed some superfluous name attributes on elements that
won't do anything useful with an output value anyway.
Made vgmplay cycle visualiser modes when visualiser screen is clicked.
Fixed a copy/paste error in bus/rs232/hlemouse.cpp while I'm at it.
This isn’t supposed to be too prescriptive. The C++ stuff just codifies
some things we’ve managed to mostly agree on for public interfaces. The
stuff for titles/descriptions is also just codifying existing rules so
there’s something to point people towards. This will need to be refined
as we go forward.
* First completed pass of commandline parameters. (nw)
* Further refinements on commandline (nw)
* Get the audio latency numbers right and add PortAudio info.
* FreeSync/GSync information cleanup.
* Minor additions to G-Sync/FreeSync.
* Add tip for keyboardprovider, remove biospath, correct anchor positioning (nw)
* A few corrections per Vas (nw)
The last(?) two changes are:
- Add a template parameter to everything (theoretically the address
space width, in practice a level derived from it to keep as much
compatibility between widths as possible) so that the shift size
becomes a constant.
- Change the syntax of declaring and initializing the caches and
specifics so that they're embedded in the owner device. Solves
lifetime issues and also removes one indirection (looking up the base
dispatch pointer through the cache/specific pointer).
* Update MAME docs revision to 0.216
* Add FAQ question about autofire with walkthrough of setup process.
* Add VSCode .gitignore for RST compilation temporary folder (/docs/source/_build)
* Add a caveat about autofire+normal fire mapping
* Add -lowlatency to the docs.
fundamental change to show device delegates are configured.
Device delegates are now aware of the current device during
configuration and will resolve string tags relative to it. This means
that device delegates need a device to be supplied on construction so
they can find the machine configuration object. There's a
one-dimensional array helper to make it easier to construct arrays of
device delegates with the same owner. (I didn't make an n-dimensional
one because I didn't hit a use case, but it would be a simple addition.)
There's no more bind_relative_to member - just call resolve() like you
would for a devcb. There's also no need to cast nullptr when creating a
late bind device delegate. The flip side is that for an overloaded or
non-capturing lambda you'll need to cast to the desired type.
There is one less conditional branch in the hot path for calls for
delegates bound to a function pointer of member function pointer. This
comes at the cost of one additional unconditional branch in the hot
path for calls to delegates bound to functoids (lambdas, functions that
don't take an object reference, other callable objects). This applies
to all delegates, not just device delegates.
Address spaces will now print an error message if a late bind error is
encountered while installing a handler. This will give the range and
address range, hopefully making it easier to guess which memory map is
faulty.
For the simple case of allowing a device_delegate member to be
configured, use a member like this:
template <typename... T> void set_foo(T &&...args) { m_foo_cb.set(std::forward<T>(args)...); }
For a case where different delegates need to be used depending on the
function signature, see src/emu/screen.h (the screen update function
setters).
Device delegates now take a target specification and function pointer.
The target may be:
* Target omitted, implying the current device being configured. This
can only be used during configuration. It will work as long as the
current device is not removed/replaced.
* A tag string relative to the current device being configured. This
can only be used during configuration. It will not be callable until
.resolve() is called. It will work as long as the current device is
not removed/replaced.
* A device finder (required_device/optional_device). The delegate will
late bind to the current target of the device finder. It will not
be callable until .resolve() is called. It will work properly if the
target device is replaced, as long as the device finder's base object
isn't removed/replaced.
* A reference to an object. It will be callable immediately. It will
work as long as the target object is not removed/replaced.
The target types and restrictions are pretty similar to what you already
have on object finders and devcb, so it shouldn't cause any surprises.
Note that dereferencing a device finder will changes the effect. To
illustrate this:
...
required_device<some_device> m_dev;
...
m_dev(*this, "dev")
...
// will late bind to "dev" relative to *this
// will work if "dev" hasn't been created yet or is replaced later
// won't work if *this is removed/replaced
// won't be callable until resolve() is called
cb1.set(m_dev, FUNC(some_device::w));
...
// will bind to current target of m_dev
// will not work if m_dev is not resolved
// will not work if "dev" is replaced later
// will be callable immediately
cb2.set(*m_dev, FUNC(some_device::w));
...
The order of the target and name has been reversed for functoids
(lambdas and other callable objects). This allows the NAME macro to
be used on lambdas and functoids. For example:
foo.set_something(NAME([this] (u8 data) { m_something = data; }));
I realise the diagnostic messages get ugly if you use NAME on a large
lambda. You can still give a literal name, you just have to place it
after the lambda rather than before. This is uglier, but it's
intentional. I'm trying to drive developers away from a certain style.
While it's nice that you can put half the driver code in the memory map,
it detracts from readability. It's hard to visualise the memory range
mappings if the memory map functions are punctuated by large lambdas.
There's also slightly higher overhead for calling a delegate bound to a
functoid.
If the code is prettier for trivial lambdas but uglier for non-trivial
lambdas in address maps, it will hopefully steer people away from
putting non-trivial lambdas in memory maps.
There were some devices that were converted from using plain delegates
without adding bind_relative_to calls. I fixed some of them (e.g.
LaserDisc) but I probably missed some. These will likely crash on
unresolved delegate calls.
There are some devices that reset delegates at configuration complete or
start time, preventing them from being set up during configuration (e.g.
src/devices/video/ppu2c0x.cpp and src/devices/machine/68307.cpp). This
goes against the design principles of how device delegates should be
used, but I didn't change them because I don't trust myself to find all
the places they're used.
I've definitely broken some stuff with this (I know about asterix), so
report issues and bear with me until I get it all fixed.
* New working software list additions
-----------------------------------
apple2_flop_orig: Gauntlet, Go (Hayden), Ghostbusters, Galactic Wars, Guderian [4am, Firehawke]
* Add details on compiling MAME documentation. (nw)
for Laserdisc overlays.
This is a change in behaviour, and it means that games like Golly!
Ghost! will need an explicit blend mode specified in the XML. I'm not
entirely happy with the situation, but a better, more general solution
than this would require some serious refactoring to MAME's renderer.
* There is no longer a concept of "layers" - there are only screens and elements.
* Elements are now instantiated with <element ref="...">
* Screens and elements can have explicit blending mode specified with blend="..."
* Default blending mode for screens is "add" and default for other elements is "alpha"
* Other supported modes are "none" and "multiply"
* This removes the options to enable/disable layers individually - use views instead
* Legacy layouts can still be loaded, and support won't be removed for at least a year
The current artwork model is over-stretched. It's based on a Space
Invaders cabinet model, and isn't applicable to a lot of the systems
MAME emulates now. The fact that MAME has to switch to an "alternate"
mode to deal with games like Golly! Ghost! without requiring pre-matted
bitmaps shows that the Space Invaders model wasn't even adequate for
general arcade use. It shows in that for a lot of the systems that
heavily depend on artwork, people just seem to randomly choose layers
for elements until they get something that works. Also, the fact that
MAME will switch to an alternate (Golly! Ghost!) mode depending on the
combination of elements is a trap for people learning to make artwork.
There are cases that the current approach of implying the blending mode
from the layer doesn't work with. Examples include LEDs behind
diffusers (requires additive blending for layout elements), and mutliple
stacked LCD panels (requires RGB multiplication for screens).
For configurability, it's now a lot easier to make multiple views using
groups. For example, if you want to make it possible to hide the
control panel section of your layout, you can put the control panel
elements in a group and create views with and without it.
I will gradually migrate the internal artwork to use the new approach.
I have an XSLT stylesheet that helps with this, but I'm not comfortable
adding it because it isn't a complete solution and it still requires
manul steps.
I wanted to get the re-worked pointer handling done sooner so I could
push them both at the same time, but unfortunately various things have
prevented me from progressing as quickly as I wanted to. Sorry guys,
that stuff's going to have to wait.
This cleans up spelling and other issues in the original text.
This work is still prototype and will probably require fine-tuning between Vas and myself.
This effectively reverts b380514764 and
c24473ddff, restoring the state at
598cd52272.
Before pushing, please check that what you're about to push is sane.
Check your local commit log and ensure there isn't anything out-of-place
before pushing to mainline. When things like this happen, it wastes
everyone's time. I really don't need this in a week when real work™ is
busting my balls and I'm behind where I want to be with preparing for
MAME release.
* Document cross-compilation options
* Use lowercase for some libraries that are lowercase in system32 on Windows anyway
* Make USE_BUNDLED_LIB_SDL2=0 not use the bundled SDL
* Update copyrights and docs revision (nw)
Updates copyright on existing 2018 entries to 2019 (and one 2016)
Updates the docs compilation script to MAME 0.205 and 2019 copyright.
* Further formatting overhauling (nw)
Clamp to 80 column where possible; it makes it easier to track errant
line breaks, etc.
Also begin standardizing tab formatting and two spaces after period.
* Further corrections to command line materials (nw)
* More adjustments for Cuavas (nw)
Getting closer to acceptable.
* Case sensitivity training for INI (nw)
The world is not 100% Windows, so case sensitvity is needed.
* Further standardization of the formatting (nw)
More to go...
* Pass 2 of new formatting wave (nw)
More to go, though.
* wave 3 of formatting cleanup (nw)
Further adjustments and cleanups, including unwanted tabs.
* Correct filtering instructions (nw)
* Those chapter numbers are auto generated by sphinx
* Fix the chapters not been bold like the rest of the documentation
* Fix chapter numbers not in sync with the rest of the documentation
* Change the last two chapters to keep up with the document consistency
* Fix bold for nscsi_full_device
* Allow <orientation> and <color> to work on group references
* Fix some corner cases where group bounds could be miscalculated
* Fix a corner case where MAME could incorrectly refuse to instantiate groups
* Add more checks to complay.py
* Document more of the layout format
* Clean up some corner cases in layouts with repeating blocks
* Make complay.py validate many more elements and attributes
* Make complay.py easier to use for just validating a layout
* Remove redundant view from Sega VMU layout
* Make buttons visually respond to input in whousetc.lay
* Add view with LED displays as well as terminal for aim65_40 and use repeats
* Clean up some outdated "game" terminology in clifront.cpp
* Initiaise a couple of members in tap/tun network module
* Start documenting layout format
