Introduce the new type 'ncdirect', a stripped-down 'notcurses'
suitable for inline modification of regular output. Used the new
type because otherwise there were going to be if(directmode) checks
everywhere. Direct mode encompasses only colorizing and styling.
Add new man page notcurses_directmode(3). Add new section to README.
Add new PoC using direct mode RGB. Update demo table summary to use
direct mode.
As it turns out, we can't portably load the initial terminal contents
(there are some hacks of various EXTREME nature, but none of them are
worth it for the rather limited benefit). The O(1)-time damage
inference requires knowledge of what was previously present to
inibit unnecessary draws. We would then need some special cell value
indicating "not yet written to" to distinguish a purposeful null
cell from an initial cell. Again, we could do this, but for what value?
Finally, the idea of clearing new area on SIGWINCH was always flawed,
as we can't do that from a signal handler.
With the advent of direct mode #77, the reason for this largely goes
away in any case.
* palette_set: update pal256 damage map #230
* drone: use newest builders
* palette: send oc on exit for color reset #285
* palette_new: copy existing palette in #230
* Python: use checkRGB everywhere
* more palette unit testing
* add ncplane_set_*_palindex()
* render fg palindex #230
* palette index color is out of 1000
* jungle demo works #253
* sync up some docs #244
* sync README and man page
* notcurses_output() man page work
* pull attr/channels from output functions #244
* witherworm: clean up explicit moves #244
* still more man page work
* notcurses_lines, last of the man pages i think
* panelreel man page #244
* debian: ruby-ronn->pandoc
* debian: full multiarch compliance
* debian: symbols file
* pandoc: fix syntax for lexgrog
* fm6.mkv: strip audio
* pandoc: fix up apropos man syntax #249
* ncurses_lines man page
* introduce doctest over googletest #202
* call dtester in in targets
* doctest conversion #202
* channel.cpp -> doctest #202
* egcpool tests -> doctest #202
* input tests to doctester
* zaxis -> doctest
* drone: always define LANG
* libav to doctest #202
* panelreel tests to doctest #202
* spec that a C++17 compiler is now required for doctest #202
* enmetric tests -> doctest #202
* fade tests -> doctest #202
* notcurses test case -> doctest #202
* last conversion to doctest #202
* finish move to doctest #202
* drone: set up make test
Request and parse up mouse messages. We handle up to 11 mouse
buttons, 3 modifiers (currently thrown away), motion while
holding down a button, and loss/gain of focus. I've added twelve
new NCKEYs: one for each button, and one for release. In addition,
I've introduced the 'ncinput' struct, which encodes the nckey plus
extra data. The only extra data thus far is coordinates for mouse
events. It is not necessary to provide a ncinput to all input
functions; NULL can be provided if the caller doesn't care about
details. All demos are updated. notcurses-input has been updated
to decode full information of returned ncinputs.
The primary resource for this work was Dickey at al's "XTerm Control
Sequences", https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.
* 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
While ncurses 6.1 adds the `RGB` capability to terminfo, the flag is not
commonly used in terminfo entries as of now. The `COLORTERM` environment
variable is, otoh, commonly present and set to either `truecolor` or
`24bit` value by terminal emulators which support direct color.
Add a check for this if `RGB` is false (or absent)
With this check in I was able to properly appreciate the awesomeness of
notcurses demos :)
* boxdemo: clean up colors
* Fix crash on certain resizes due to corruption of damage map #152
* Rewrite ncplane_move_yx(), throwing out ~25 line of code
* implement notcurses_refresh() #150
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
* uniblock-demo: reset background to black
* warning about quantization
* some luigi love
* update cell documentation
* add unit test for move of stdplane
* MoveToLowerRight unit test
* ncplane_move_yx(): error to move stdscr
* better box permutations test
* luigi in megaman2 world
* stats: don't print 'em if we haven't got 'em
* sliding: bounding box around puzzle
* slider: make moves, deleting planes #61
* implement z-index move functions
* demo: allow demos to be chosen via command-line option
* allow default bg/fg to be explicitly chosen
* ncplane_resize() unit test #64
* useful links
* slider: use random colors
* use find_above() in ncplace_destroy()
* ncplane_resize() work #64
ncplane: flesh out API
ncplane: line and erase APIs
README.md: document differences from ncurses
notcurses_init(): print long term name
CMake: link librt into notcurses
cell: move functionality out to header
