* ncplane_at_* and ncplane_at_cursor_*
We had notcurses_at_yx() expanding into three distinct parts of
the cell structure, and ncplane_at_yx() / ncplane_at_cursor()
writing directly to a cell. It was annoying to remember which
was which. The latter two now have a signature matching
notcurses_at_yx(), while the old functionality has been moved
to ncplane_at_yx_cell() and ncplane_at_cursor_yx(). #476
ncvisual_render() now returns the number of cells emitted
rather than just 0/-1. -1 is still returned on failure.
Rather than 0 for length meaning "all possible length", it
now means 0, and -1 means "all possible length". All demos,
tests, and PoCs have been updated. #422
Get rid of annoying empty line in notcurses-view (and ncvisuals at offsets in general)
Implement most of the Selector widget. Need to add styling and scrolling still. #166
Reenable ubuntu focal build
Subtitles! We decode them, and display them in notcurses-view. If ncvisual_simple_streamer() is provided an extra ncplane, it will use it to display subtitles. #95
We now build Python by default, as things are working much better.
ncplane_set_base() now takes channel, attrword, and EGC, so you can usually avoid having to set up and release a cell. ncplane_set_base_cell() takes over duty from ncplane_set_base() for ease of conversion.
notcurses-demo and notcurses-view now both accept a 0 for delay multiplier, meaning 'go as fast as you possibly can'. Very small multipliers (e.g. 0.00001) no longer cause floating point exceptions.
fading routines no longer cause floating point exceptions on very small timescales.
Allow -1 in move specification to remain where we are on that
axis (#210), necessary for context-sensitive aligned output.
Add _aligned forms to printf and vprintf. Invert various output
functions so that simpler form is static inline wrapper around
more complicated form, rather than complicated form being a
static inline composition, facilitating atomic move+output. All
output forms now have a simple form (no alignment, placement at
cursor), an _aligned() form, and a _yx() form.
* planereels tester #180
* suppress_banner in all tests
* tabletcb: start passing back tablet
* properly initialize fbbytes stat
* panelreel: logic fixes#178
* install all testing data
Implement a fairly conservative, line-granularity, two-level damage map. One on the overall notcurses object is dirtied by planar moves, creations, deletions, and resizes. One on each ncplane is dirtied by glyph output, media rendering, fades, and erasure. #83 This has some definite false positives: a hidden plane which moves will damage a bunch of lines unnecessarily. For now, don't do things like that :D.
Extra byte per line per plane, shouldn't be a problem.
Two new stats for cell elisions and emissions
Allow keypress to interrupt view-demo
ncvisual_stream() now allows a callback per frame
Allow ncvisual_open() to create its own, perfectly-sized, ncplane #128
Typical performance prior to this PR:
4655 renders, 18.3s total (0.000305s min, 0.196s max, 0.0039s avg 253.9 fps)
401046.505KB total (9.688KB min, 139.697KB max, 86.15KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 1082115/116196 fg 10547624/7236460 bg 10602717/6208644
Elide rates: 9.70% 40.69% 36.93%
4680 renders, 18.4s total (0.000285s min, 0.15s max, 0.0039s avg 255.0 fps)
403078.188KB total (9.688KB min, 139.697KB max, 86.13KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 1088994/116196 fg 10604983/7267750 bg 10655426/6237472
Elide rates: 9.64% 40.66% 36.92%
4699 renders, 17.8s total (0.000227s min, 0.192s max, 0.0038s avg 263.8 fps)
403266.907KB total (9.688KB min, 139.697KB max, 85.82KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 1086511/116196 fg 10601709/7359116 bg 10661910/6326744
Elide rates: 9.66% 40.97% 37.24%
After this PR:
5625 renders, 15s total (9.36e-05s min, 0.187s max, 0.0027s avg 375.2 fps)
168365.640KB total (0.930KB min, 139.600KB max, 29.93KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 310575/116196 fg 4486002/4473416 bg 4116835/4630666
Elide rates: 27.23% 49.93% 52.94%
Cells emitted; 9928000 elided: 12572000 (55.88%)
5642 renders, 14.2s total (9.17e-05s min, 0.154s max, 0.0025s avg 397.0 fps)
168669.009KB total (0.605KB min, 139.600KB max, 29.90KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 310819/116196 fg 4499833/4482134 bg 4118562/4652470
Elide rates: 27.21% 49.90% 53.04%
Cells emitted; 9962160 elided: 12605840 (55.86%)
5650 renders, 14.3s total (0.000118s min, 0.143s max, 0.0025s avg 395.7 fps)
169461.884KB total (0.860KB min, 139.600KB max, 29.99KB avg)
Emits/elides: def 305431/116196 fg 4515396/4456376 bg 4149967/4613668
Elide rates: 27.56% 49.67% 52.65%
Cells emitted; 9945200 elided: 12654800 (55.99%)
on netcurses-demo, we're eliding about half of the total cells via this damage map. that's pretty fucking sweet! FPS increase of about 50% -- I'll take that any day of the fuckin' week, boyo. w00t!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
* improved alpha macros
* demo: use new alpha macros
* add ncplane_set_*_alpha()
* explicitly set fg for uniblock
* outro: background is a space #139
* distinct alpha channels for fg/bg #139
* rename 'background' cell to 'default' #142
* doc palette fades
nick black