The setting determines whether bulk data is displayed as an unbroken
string of hex digits, or as "$xx,$xx,...". The latter is easier to
read and should be the default.
One place in the code did consider it to be the default, so if the
config file didn't have a value for the setting, the settings UI would
incorrectly show it as enabled.
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.
The ListView style was using "Stretch" for TextBoxes in the code list,
which caused the background of the entire address / label / operand
field to be drawn in the highlight color, rather than just the area
covered by the text. This is fine for address and label, but it just
felt weird for the operand field because that tends to be very wide
(to accommodate strings, bulk hex data, etc).
There doesn't seem to be a way to specify HorizontalContentAlignment
per-column in WPF. (Note this is different from HorizontalAlignment,
which *is* is a per-column property.)
This changes the style to use HorizontalContentAlignment=Left, so
the highlight just covers the text. The only time this causes a
functional change is when you highlight an operand for a line that
doesn't have a label, because instead of highlighting an empty
rectangle you now see nothing at all. (The address field is still
highlighted though.)
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 tutorial was creating a new address region at +000002 without
removing the previous one, which leaves the 16-bit file load address
sitting at $1000 when it should be non-addressable. The text now
shows the correct procedure. Some screen shots had to be recaptured
to show the greyed-out address field.
This doesn't change anything meaningful about the disassembly -- the
PRG optimization hides the region start/end markers either way -- but
it's more correct this way, and it's an opportunity to introduce
the use of non-addressable regions for file headers.
Biggest changes were to the address region handling in Tutorial1
and the use of StdInline.cs for the inline strings in Tutorial4.
Also, fixed the off-by-one error in Tutorial1.
The code that sets and removes analyzer tags allows you to select a
mix of lines. If the mix included the header comment, the negative
file offset would cause a crash.
If an end-of-line comment ended with '\', the code that "prettifies"
the JSON output would get confused, and would start inserting \r\n
after commas inside comment strings. This didn't corrupt the project
files, but it did make them look funny, and required manual cleanup.
Added a sample. This won't catch regressions of this particular
problem because it only happens when you save the file, but if
nothing else it'll act as documentation.
End-of-line comments have a couple of guidelines: keep it short, and
don't use non-ASCII characters. Violating these isn't an error, so
we should be making the text blue rather than red.
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.
The implementation was mapping labels to addresses, then formatting
inline data at the matching address. This may be incorrect when there
are multiple sections of the file mapped to the same address. The
correct approach is to record the offsets of the matching labels, and
then do an address-to-offset translation for each JSR.
Also, show a note in the Info window when a JSR has been marked
no-continue by an extension script.
Also, updated Daily Tips.
If you change the selection by double-clicking in one of the side
windows (References, Notes, Symbols, Messages) and then attempt
to navigate with the arrow keys, the program will appear to hang
briefly, then jump to the start or end of the project and shift the
window focus to something else (like the Help menu in the menu bar).
For reasons I don't fully understand, the behavior is fixed by
removing unnecessary calls to codeListView.Focus(). The calls were
intended to shift input focus to the main ListView, but they're no
longer necessary, and appear to upset WPF.
(issue #113)
We allow empty lines and lines that begin with ';' in .sym65. Lines
with nothing but whitespace, or comments with leading whitespace,
caused a warning. It can be aesthetically nice to line up the start
of comments, and lines with pointless whitespace aren't problematic,
so we now allow these without complaint.
Added some samples to the 20170-external-symbols data file. No
change to the test output.
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.
Altered the address region edit UI a little to improve clarity.
Also, close the hex dump viewer window when Escape is hit. (The
tool windows don't have "cancel" buttons, so the key has to be
handled explicitly.)
The ACME assembler gets upset if you use "not" as a label. We now
avoid doing so, using a generalized implementation of the opcode
mnemonic rename code. (Issue #112.)
Renamed a label to "not" in the 20081-label-localizer test.
Fixed a crash when the listing is refreshed while a .adrend line is
the only thing selected.
Fixed .adrend lines being spammed if the last thing before it is a
multi-byte item, and you edit a comment / note / label on that line.
Harmless, but weird.
Also, added keyboard shortcuts in DefSymbol editor, so you can change
from address to constant with Alt+C.
If you put a value in the "symbol" field of an instruction with an
address operand, you're establishing a symbolic reference to a label
that may be at a different address than the numeric value of the
operand. But if you then hit the "edit label" button, you'll edit
the label at the *numeric* reference address, which can be confusing.
We now disable the create/edit label button when the format has been
set to "symbol".
The button is just a short-cut, so disabling it doesn't prevent the
user from doing anything.
The initial screen is largely blank, with just the four large buttons
for new/open/recent1/recent2. It now also has a "tip of the day" box,
with text and an optional image.
The tips and images are kept in the RuntimeData directory. They're
small enough that they could have been baked into the binary, but
there's enough other stuff going on there that it didn't seem
necessary. Also, if the tips annoy you, removing the tips file will
hide the tip UI.
The index of the tip shown is based on the day of the year, modulo
the number of defined tips. So it will be different every day (with
a bit of hand-waving at the end of the year).
Added a pop-up menu with three options: default (curly quotes),
straight, and Merlin. Removed the "reset to defaults" buttons.
Also, slightly rearranged the Display Format tab so that the quick
set pop-up is on the left, near the items it affects. Moved the
"use comma-separated format for bulk data" checkbox over as well,
since it's part of the set.
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.
This action removes operand formatting from all code and data in the
selected range. In most cases this is equivalent to simply editing
the various items and clicking the "default" format radio button,
but the feature can be used to remove data formats that end up inside
multi-byte instructions. Instructions with such formats cause warnings
and were tricky to fix.
Labels embedded in multi-byte items are also tricky to remove, so this
clears those as well. It does not remove visible labels. This is
done in a single pass, which means that labels that would become visible
after the formatting is cleared will still be removed.
Also, fix inclusion of address range end lines when restoring the
selection. Their peculiar nature -- being associated with the offset
of the last byte of multi-byte items -- was interfering with the
selection save code. This does not add them to the selection when
an address region deletion is undone, since technically they weren't
part of the selection.
Also, moved Edit Note higher in the Actions menu.
Changed the code that generates cross-references for pre-labels to
ignore labels in regions with non-addressable parents. Also, changed
the code that complains about references to labels in non-addressable
areas to ignore pre-labels, because it was complaining about references
to pre-labels on region starts that were followed by a non-addressable
region start.
In the address region edit dialog, split up the descriptive text for
the "resize" option to make it easier to see the new end offset and
length. It doesn't look quite right because it's not using the mono
font like the text near the top, but it'll do.
When multiple lines are selected, the Info window now shows the first
line/offset, last line/offset, and bytes spanned by the selection.
This is helpful if you're trying to figure out how big something is.
Added support for "relative" address regions to the Merlin 32 and cc65
code generators. These generate "flat" address directives, and so
were a little more complicated.
Suppressed generation of relative operands for non-addressable regions.
Also, tweaked the 20250-nested-regions test to include a negative
relative region offset.
Added a warning to the index page that only appears when viewing it
over http/https. The issue is that the manual on the web reflects the
tip-of-tree sources, which may be inaccurate for whatever version the
user has.
Also, provide an alternate path to opening the manual in-app when
under development.
Move the SourceGen manual to a subdirectory in "docs", so that it can
be accessed directly from the 6502bench web site. The place where
it's installed in the distribution doesn't change.
Update documentation. Made lots of address region changes, and split
"intro" into two parts. Removed all content from "tutorials.html".
This does not update the tutorial, because that goes live as soon as
it's checked in.
Modified "jump to" code to understand address range start/end lines.
If there are multiple starts or ends at the same offset, we jump to
the first one in the set, which is suboptimal but simpler to do.
Simplified the API, embedding GoToMode in the Location object (which
is where it really needs to be, to make fwd/back work right).
Updated HTML export to grey out addresses in NON_ADDR sections.
Changed default pseudo-op strings for address regions to ".addrs" and
".adrend", after trying a bunch of things that were worse. Added
definitions for region-end pseudo-ops to Merlin32 and cc65 for display
on screen.
Added regression test 20260 for address region pre-labels.
Fixed handling of leading underscores in platform/project symbols.
These need to be escaped in 64tass output. Updated regression test
20170-external-symbols to check it.
