Eliminate NCDIRECT_OPTION_NO_READLINE (it was only introduced in
Notcurses 2.1.6). Add a new function, ncdirect_readline(). Upon
first call to this function, initialize libreadline. Destroy
libreadline in ncdirect_stop() iff we initialized it. Add
hilodirect guessing game PoC from #1325. Rename
notcurses_directmode.3 to notcurses_direct.3. Closes#1326.
Implement channels_set_fg_palindex() and channels_set_bg_palindex()
in terms of channel_set_palindex(). Add missing entries to
notcurses_channels.3 man page. Use uint32_t in place of unsigned
when dealing with channels in notcurses.h.
Reclaim the "blitted" and "full foreground" bits in the
channels. Instead, we now write four bits, encoding the
four quadrants we might occupy as the result of a blit.
These four imply the previous two, leaving us with four
free bits remaining in the channels. This opens a clear
path to O(1)-time, zero-space blitter stacking #1068.
w00t!
For properly stacking transparent blittings (#1068), we
need tag those cells which both (1) originated in an
ncvisual operation and (2) have some transparency. For
the three affected blitters (halfblock, quadrant, and
sexblitter), call cell_set_blitted().
Rather than trying to force things in via library constructors
and weak symbols and --whole-archive and pkg-config tricks, just
add new functions ncdirect_core_init() and notcurses_core_init().
libnotcurses has ncdirect_init() and notcurses_init(), which pass
through to these. apps linking against notcurses-core ought use
the _core_ variants directly. This gets exactly the linkage we
want, everywhere. Convert many PoCs to _core_ variants. #1301
Signed-off-by: nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com>
ncplane_destroy() needs to call ncplane_reparent_family(), not
ncplane_reparent() as it was doing (closes#1291). ->absy and
->absx actually are absolute; return them directly for an O(1)
ncplane_abs_yx() (down from O(N), huzzah). Add some unit tests
related to destroying and reparenting (#1286). Add ncplane_abs_y()
and ncplane_abs_x(), document them, etc.
Don't bias the nccell width by 1, or 0-length EGCs become
255 columns. We weren't actually using the width to drive
much anything until now, so this wasn't a problem, but it
is exposed as an error once we got rid of CELL_WIDE_ASIAN
and start looping through the actual egc column width.
Closes#1278, closes#1277
Improve the documentation for ncplane_set_base_cell() and
ncplane_set_base(). Go by render.c's authority (all three
channels are independently checked for transparency, and
replaced with the base cell if so--egc, fg, and bg). Add a
BASE CELL section to notcurses_plane.3. Check for, and reject,
an nccell which is secondary among a multicolumn EGC.
Closes#1238.
Add a new member 'sextants' to the terminfo cache (both
notcurses and ncvisual contain one of these, and both
initialize it the same way -- interrogate_terminfo()).
Add a new function, 'notcurses_media_defblitter()', and
deprecate 'ncvisual_default_blitter()' (the latter didn't
receive enough information to return NCBLIT_3x2). Update
all callers. Add new *internal* function rgba_default_blitter(),
so this logic can be freely changed in the future. If
sextants are available, and we're scaling, return NCBLIT_3x2.
Once we detect sextant availability, we'll have sexblitter
as a default -- stay tuned! #1114
Thread out ncls to perform the media decode in different threads, in parallel. Only the display needs be locked. On a directory of 200 files on my 39070X, this speeds ncls from ~5s to ~1s. On 75 files, we go from ~.5s to ~.2s. On a single file, we lose about 5%. To facilitate this, ncdirect_render_image() has been split into two helpers, ncdirect_render_frame() and ncdirect_raster_frame().
Progress bars now support four 32-bit channels in ncprogbar_options, and uses them to color a gradient. The redraw procedure has been changed from O(n) to O(1). ASCII progress bars have been repaired. Closes#1213.
Some EGCs are more than 2 columns (wcwidth() never returns more than 2, so far as i can tell, but when multiple characters combine, we use the sum). An example would be ကြေ (Myanmar) which occupies three columns over the course of three characters. Track the width (biased by 1) in cell->width, taking over 8 bits from cell->reserved. Use this width in rasterization. Closes#1203.
nick black
joseLuís