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.
