The existing API was better suited to direct color than indexed
color. The NES visualizer was using a slightly silly hack to avoid
duplicate colors; this has been removed.
When a code or data line is selected in the code list, if the operand
is an address inside the file, we highlight the address and label.
It's also useful to highlight the other way: when a code or data line
is selected, find all lines whose operands reference it, and highlight
the operand field.
This is a little trickier because there can be multiple references,
but all of the information we need is in the cross-reference table.
The DVG format, used for vector games like Asteroids, is the
predecessor to the AVG graphics used in games like Battlezone.
Also, added some extended error checks on wireframe vertices.
Also, minor edits to the README and daily tips.
It's useful for extension scripts to be able to get the file offset
of symbols in non-addressable regions. One example of this is CHR
ROM data for an NES cartridge. However, we were getting the offset
by doing an address-to-offset mapping on the plugin side, which by
definition doesn't work for non-addressable memory.
So we now add the offset to PlSymbol objects for user labels and
address region pre-labels. The NES visualizer has been updated to
use the new field.
Also, fixed a bogus complaint about bank overruns for non-addressable
regions.
This allows regions that hold variable storage to be marked as data
that is initialized by the program before it is used. Previously
the choices were to treat it as bulk data (initialized) or junk
(totally unused), neither of which are correct.
This is functionally equivalent to "junk" as far as source code
generation is concerned (though it doesn't have to be).
For the code/data/junk counter, uninitialized data is counted as
junk, because it technically does not need to be part of the binary.
Implemented address region pre-labels. These are useful if the code is
relocating a block from address A to address B, because the code that
does the copying refers to both the "before" address and the "after"
address. Previously you'd give the block the "after" address and the
"before" would just appears as hex, because it's effectively an
external address.
Pre-labels are shown on screen with their address, but no other fields.
Showing the address makes it easy to see the label's value, which isn't
always obvious right before a .arstart. The labels are suppressed if the
address value evaluates to non-addressable.
This defines a new type of symbol, which is external and always global
in scope. Pre-labels affect label localization and must go through
the usual remapping to handle clashes with opcode mnemonics and the
use of leading underscores. Cross-references are computed, but are
associated with the file offset rather than the label line itself.
Added a new filter to the Symbols window ("PreL").
Implemented label input and checking in the address editor. Generally
added highlighting of relevant error labels.
This is the first step toward changing the address region map from a
linear list to a hierarchy. See issue #107 for the plan.
The AddressMap class has been rewritten to support the new approach.
The rest of the project has been updated to conform to the new API,
but feature-wise is unchanged. While the map class supports
nested regions with explicit lengths, the rest of the application
still assumes a series of non-overlapping regions with "floating"
lengths.
The Set Address dialog is currently non-functional.
All of the output for cc65 changed because generation of segment
comments has been removed. Some of the output for ACME changed as
well, because we no longer follow "* = addr" with a redundant
pseudopc statement. ACME and 65tass have similar approaches to
placing things in memory, and so now have similar implementations.
Another chapter in the never-ending AppDomain security saga.
If a computer goes to sleep while SourceGen is running with a project
open, life gets confusing when the system wakes up. The keep-alive
timer fires and a ping is sent to the remote AppDomain, successfully.
At the same time, the lease expires on the remote side, and the objects
are discarded (apparently without bothering to query the ILease object).
This failure mode is 100% repeatable.
Since we can't prevent sandbox objects from disappearing, we have to
detect and recover from the problem. Fortunately we don't keep any
necessary state on the plugin side, so we can just tear the whole
thing down and recreate it.
The various methods in ScriptManager now do a "health check" before
making calls into the plugin AppDomain. If the ping attempt fails,
the AppDomain is "rebooted" by destroying it and creating a new one,
reloading all plugins that were in there before. The plugin binaries
*should* still be in the PluginDllCache directory since the ping failure
was due to objects being discarded, not AppDomain shutdown, and Windows
doesn't let you mess with files that hold executable code.
A new "reboot security sandbox" option has been added to the DEBUG
menu to facilitate testing.
The PluginManager's Ping() method gets called more often, but not to
the extent that performance will be affected.
This change also adds a finalizer to DisasmProject, since we're relying
on it to shut down the ScriptManager, and it's relying on callers to
invoke its cleanup function. The finalizer throws an assertion if the
cleanup function doesn't get called.
(Issue #82)
Added a visualizer for the CHR ROM pattern tables, and a semi-useful
visualizer for tile grids.
Also added a few chars in an 8x8 font that visualizers can use to
label things.
Some tests were duplicated between VisWireframe and the code that
consumed the data. We now expose the Validate function as a public
interface, and invoke it from WireframeObject. Failed validation
results in a null object being returned, which was previously allowed
but not actually checked for.
This converts AVG commands to wireframes. We don't try to track
color or intensity. (This is a disassembler, not a graphics
converter; perfection is not required.) The various rotation and
animation options are still enabled, though they're not terribly
useful for this.
Commands that are meant to be used in series, such as font glyphs,
tend to use (0,0) as their left edge and baseline. This puts the
shape in the upper-right corner of the thumbnail, which makes
everything smaller. The change adds a "re-center" option to the
wireframe renderer that computes the visible bounds and adjusts
the coordinates so that the center of the object is at (0,0) for
display.
This allows rendering of a vertex directly, rather than just as an
edge endpoint. They're currently drawn as small '+' signs. A
round dot would be better, but the code is passing a list of line
segments around, so this is simpler.
There's no "standard" coordinate system, so the choice is arbitrary.
However, an examination of the Transporter mesh in Elite revealed
that the mesh was designed for a left-handed coordinate system. We
can compensate for that trivially in the Elite visualizer, but we
might as well match what they're doing. (The only change required
in the code is a couple of sign changes on the Z coordinate, and an
update to the rotation matrix.)
This also downsizes Matrix44 to Matrix33, exposes the rotation mode
enum, and adds a left-handed ZYX rotation mode.
This does mean that meshes that put the front at +Z will show their
backsides initially, since we're now oriented as if we're flying
the ships rather than facing them. I considered adding a 180-degree
Y rotation (with a tweak to the rotation matrix handedness to correct
the first rotation axis) to have them facing by default, but figured
that might be confusing since +Z is supposed to be away.
Anybody who really wants it to be the other way can trivially flip
the coordinates in their visualizer (negate xc/zc).
The Z coordinates in the visualization test project were flipped so
that the design is still facing the viewer at rotation (0,0,0).
Elite has a level-of-detail cutoff in the mesh data. This change
provides a way for the visualization generator to exclude vertices
and edges that should not be rendered based on the desired LOD.
Experimented with different orders of rotation for wireframe viewer.
Made perspective projection the default behavior. Removed animation
parameters from the stored Visualization when it's not animated.
Also, tweak the perspective projection scaling to fill out the area
a bit more, and change the visualization editor to use the grid's
size when setting the path dimensions.
Also, note gimbal lock.
Remember how object references from plugins are proxy objects that
time out if you don't access them for a while? I didn't either.
This reshuffles the code to keep WireframeObject references rather
than IVisualizationWireframe.
Moved X/Y/Z rotation out of the plugin, since it has nothing to do
with the plugin at all. (Backface removal and perspective projection
are somewhat based on the data contents, as is the choice for
whether or not they should be options.)
Added sliders for X/Y/Z rotation. Much more fun that way.
Renamed VisualizationAnimation to VisBitmapAnimation, as we're not
going to use it for wireframe animation. Created a new class to
hold wireframe animation data, which is really just a reference to
the IVisualizationWireframe so we can generate an animated GIF
without having to pry open the plugin again.
Renamed the "frame-delay-msec" parameter, which should start with
an underscore to ensure it doesn't clash with plugin parameters.
If we don't find it with an underscore we check again without for
backward compatibility.
We extract the data from the wireframe visualization, perform a
trivial transform, and display it. The perspective vs.
orthographic flag in the parameters is respected. (No rotation or
backface removal yet.)
Also, increased the thumbnail sizes in the visualization set editor
list from 48x48 to 64x64, because the nearest-pixel-scaled 48x48
looks nasty when used for wireframes.
Added some more plumbing. Updated visualization set edit dialog,
which now does word-wrapping correctly in the buttons. Added Alt+V
as the hotkey for Create/Edit Visualization Set, which allows you
to double-tap it to leap into the visualization editor.
Experimented with Path drawing, which looks like it could do just
what we need.
Also, show the file size in KB in the code/data/junk breakdown at the
bottom of the window. (Technically it's KiB, but that looked funny.)
The VisParamDescrs specify a type and a default value. If the value
has the wrong type, things would blow up in the editor. We now
check the type at plugin load time, and refuse to load the plugin at
all if an entry has a bad type.
The visualization editor was retaining an IPlugin reference for the
visualization generator selection combo box. After 5 minutes the
proxy object timed out, so if you left the editor open and inactive
for that long you'd start getting weird errors.
We now keep the script identifier string and use that to get a
fresh IPlugin proxy object.
Added comments, renamed files, removed cruft.
Stop showing the visualization tag name in the code list. It's
often redundant with the code label, and it's distracting. (We may
want to make this an option so you can Ctrl+F to find a tag.)
First swing at a visualizer for Atari 2600 sprites and playfields.
Won't necessarily present an accurate view of what is displayed on
screen, but should provide a reasonable shape for data stored in
the obvious way.
The Adventure playfields looked squashed, so I added a simple row
duplication value.
Also, minor improvements to visualizers generally:
- Throw an exception, rather than an Assert, in VisBitmap8 when the
arguments are bad.
- Show the exception in the Visualization Edit dialog.
- If generation fails and we don't have an error message, show a
generic "stuff be broke" string.
- Set focus on OK button in Visualization Set Edit after editing,
so you can hit Enter twice after renaming a tag.
Report visualization generation errors through an explicit
IApplication interface, instead of pulling messages out of the
DebugLog stream.
Declare that GetVisGenDescrs() is only called when the plugin is in
the "prepared" state, so that plugins can taylor the set based on
the contents of the file. (This could be used to set min/max on
the "offset" entries, but I want special handling for offsets, so
we might as well set it later.)
Bitmap fonts are a series of (usually) 1x8 bitmaps, which we arrange
into a grid of cells.
Screen images are useful for embedded screens, or for people who want
to display stand-alone image files as disassembly projects.
Various improvements:
- Switched to ReadOnlyDictionary in Visualization to make it clear
that the parameter dictionary should not be modified.
- Added a warning to the Visualization Set editor that appears when
there are no plugins that implement a visualizer.
- Make sure an item is selected in the set editor after edit/remove.
- Replaced the checkerboard background with one that's a little bit
more grey, so it's more distinct from white pixel data.
- Added a new Apple II hi-res color converter whose output more
closely matches KEGS and AppleWin RGB.
- Added VisHiRes.cs to some Apple II system definitions.
- Added some test bitmaps for Apple II hi-res to the test directory.
(These are not part of an automated test.)
Thumbnails are now visible in the main list and in the visualization
set editor. They're generated on first need, and regenerated when
the set of plugins changes.
Added a checkerboard background for the visualization editor bitmap
preview. (It looks all official now.)
Implemented Apple II hi-res bitmap conversion. Supports B&W and
color. Uses essentially the same algorithm as CiderPress.
Experimented with displaying non-text items in ListView. I assumed
it would work, since it's the sort of thing WPF is designed to do,
but it's always wise to approach with caution. Visualization Sets
now show a 64x64 button as a placeholder for the eventual thumbnail.
Some things were being flaky, which turned out to be because I
wasn't Prepare()ing the plugins before using them from Edit
Visualization. To make this a deterministic failure I added an
Unprepare() call that tells the plugin that we're all done.
NOTE: this breaks all existing plugins.
Added some rudimentary bitmap creation code. Got a test pattern
generated by the plugin to display in the app. (Most of the time
required for this was spent figuring out how bitmaps are handled
in WPF.)
Got parameter in/out working in EditVisualization dialog. Did some
rearranging in PluginCommon interfaces and data structures. Still
doesn't do anything useful.
Basic infrastructure for taking a list of parameters from a plugin
and turning it into a collection of UI controls, merging in values
from a Visualization object. Doesn't yet do anything useful.
WPF makes the hard things easy and the easy things hard. This was
a hard thing, so it was easy to do (with some helpful sample code).
Yay WPF?
Sort of silly to have every handler immediately pull the operand out
of the file data. (This is arguably less efficient, since we now
have to serialize the argument across the AppDomain boundary, but
we should be okay spending a few extra nanoseconds here.)
We were failing to update properly when a label changed if the label
was one that a plugin cared about. The problem is that a label
add/remove operation skips the code analysis, and a label edit skips
everything but the display update. Plugins only run during the code
analysis pass, so changes weren't being reflected in the display
list until something caused it to refresh.
The solution is to ask the plugin if the label being changed is one
that it cares about. This allows the plugin to use the same
wildcard-match logic that it uses elsewhere.
For efficiency, and to reduce clutter in plugins that don't care
about symbols, a new interface class has been created to handle the
"here are the symbols" call and the "do you care about this label"
call.
The program in Examples/Scripts has been updated to show a very
simple single-call plugin and a slightly more complex multi-call
plugin.
Early data sheets listed BRK as one byte, but RTI after a BRK skips
the following byte, effectively making BRK a 2-byte instruction.
Sometimes, such as when diassembling Apple /// SOS code, it's handy
to treat it that way explicitly.
This change makes two-byte BRKs optional, controlled by a checkbox
in the project settings. In the system definitions it defaults to
true for Apple ///, false for all others.
ACME doesn't allow BRK to have an arg, and cc65 only allows it for
65816 code (?), so it's emitted as a hex blob for those assemblers.
Anyone wishing to target those assemblers should stick to 1-byte mode.
Extension scripts have to switch between formatting one byte of
inline data and formatting an instruction with a one-byte operand.
A helper function has been added to the plugin Util class.
To get some regression test coverage, 2022-extension-scripts has
been configured to use two-byte BRK.
Also, added/corrected some SOS constants.
See also issue #44.
Also exercise various formatting options.
Also, fix a bug where the code that applies project/platform symbols
to numeric references was ignoring inline data items.
The current AddressMap is now passed into the plugin manager, which
wraps it in an AddressTranslate object and passes that to the
plugins at Prepare() time. This allows plugins to convert addresses
to offsets, making it possible to format complex structures.
This breaks existing plugins.
Andy McFadden