Same Game doesn't want to show the keyboard cursor when the game is in a
state where no move is possible. Previously, it did this by having
game_changed_state() hide the cursor on entry to such a state. That
meant that reaching a dead end and undoing out of it hid the cursor,
which was confusing.
Now the cursor is hidden in game_redraw() if the game is in a dead-end
state without changing the displaysel flag in the game_ui. That way, if
you undo out of a dead end, the cursor becomes visible again if it was
visible before.
This does mean that you can move the cursor in a dead-end state without
being able to see where it's going. I think that's tolerable, but maybe
the cursor keys should be disabled in that state as well.
TILE_GAP represents the gap between the coloured parts of adjacent
different-coloured tiles. Rather than a fixed 2 pixels, it's now 1/16
of the tilesize (rounded to nearest).
This looks the same at the default tilesize of 32, but behaves better
with larger or smaller tilesizes. At tilesizes below 8, the gap
disappears altogether, but that seems appropriate: at 7 pixels there's
not much space for the inner and outer squares and the cursor, and those
are all more important than the gap..
I've rewritten tile_redraw to reduce the number of calls to
draw_rect(). Before, it would generally make five calls to
draw_rect() when drawing a tile. Now it makes at most three, and
usually two. That's one draw_rect() for each colour that appears in
the tile, which is as good as it can get. This reduces the time to
draw a large puzzle by about 35% on Firefox 102.
This is of significance to me because CanvasRenderingContext2D on my
test KaiOS device seems to have a limit on the number of fill() and
fillRect() calls that it will tolerate in a short time. This means
that if you issue more than 1024 fillRect() calls in rapid succession,
the later ones are simply ignored.
Same Game's largest preset called draw_rect() so much that it hit this
limit. That meant that the right-hand side of the grid didn't get
properly drawn when starting a new game. Now that it is less
profligate with draw_rect() it fits comfortably within the limit and I
get to see the entire grid.
The keyboard cursor in Same Game is white. The default yellow,
cyan, and light green were light enough to make the cursor hard to
see. I've darkened them all (without changing their hues) so that the
cursor is acceptably visible. This doesn't leave an ideal set of
colours, but they are at least still adequately distinct from one
another.
A test-build with a modern clang points out a number of 'set but not
used' variables, which clang seems to have got better at recently.
In cases where there's conditioned-out or commented-out code using the
variable, I've left it in and added a warning-suppressing cast to
void. Otherwise I've just deleted the variables.
All the other constants named UI_* are special key names that can be
passed to midend_process_key(), but UI_UPDATE is a special return value
from the back-end interpret_move() function instead. This renaming
makes the distinction clear and provides a naming convention for future
special return values from interpret_move().
These are similar to the existing pair configure() and custom_params()
in that get_prefs() returns an array of config_item describing a set
of dialog-box controls to present to the user, and set_prefs()
receives the same array with answers filled in and implements the
answers. But where configure() and custom_params() operate on a
game_params structure, the new pair operate on a game_ui, and are
intended to permit GUI configuration of all the settings I just moved
into that structure.
However, nothing actually _calls_ these routines yet. All I've done in
this commit is to add them to 'struct game' and implement them for the
functions that need them.
Also, config_item has new fields, permitting each config option to
define a machine-readable identifying keyword as well as the
user-facing description. For options of type C_CHOICES, each choice
also has a keyword. These keyword fields are only defined at all by
the new get_prefs() function - they're left uninitialised in existing
uses of the dialog system. The idea is to use them when writing out
the user's preferences into a configuration file on disk, although I
haven't actually done any of that work in this commit.
I'm about to move some of the bodgy getenv-based options so that they
become fields in game_ui. So these functions, which could previously
access those options directly via getenv, will now need to be given a
game_ui where they can look them up.
The majority of back-ends define encode_ui() to return NULL and
decode_ui() to do nothing. This commit allows them to instead specify
the relevant function pointers as NULL, in which case the mid-end won't
try to call them.
I'm planning to add a parameter to decode_ui(), and if I'm going to have
to touch every back-end's version of decode_ui(), I may as well ensure
that most of them never need to be touched again. And obviously
encode_ui() should go the same way for symmetry.
This fixes a build failure introduced by commit 2e48ce132e011e8
yesterday.
When I saw that commit I expected the most likely problem would be in
the NestedVM build, which is currently the thing with the most most
out-of-date C implementation. And indeed the NestedVM toolchain
doesn't have <tgmath.h> - but much more surprisingly, our _Windows_
builds failed too, with a compile error inside <tgmath.h> itself!
I haven't looked closely into the problem yet. Our Windows builds are
done with clang, which comes with its own <tgmath.h> superseding the
standard Windows one. So you'd _hope_ that clang could make sense of
its own header! But perhaps the problem is that this is an unusual
compile mode and hasn't been tested.
My fix is to simply add a cmake check for <tgmath.h> - which doesn't
just check the file's existence, it actually tries compiling a file
that #includes it, so it will detect 'file exists but is mysteriously
broken' just as easily as 'not there at all'. So this makes the builds
start working again, precisely on Ben's theory of opportunistically
using <tgmath.h> where possible and falling back to <math.h>
otherwise.
It looks ugly, though! I'm half tempted to make a new header file
whose job is to include a standard set of system headers, just so that
that nasty #ifdef doesn't have to sit at the top of almost all the
source files. But for the moment this at least gets the build working
again.
C89 provided only double-precision mathematical functions (sin() etc),
and so despite using single-precision elsewhere, those are what Puzzles
has traditionally used. C99 introduced single-precision equivalents
(sinf() etc), and I hope it's been long enough that we can safely use
them. Maybe they'll even be faster.
Rather than directly use the single-precision functions, though, we use
the magic macros from <tgmath.h> that automatically choose the precision
of mathematical functions based on their arguments. This has the
advantage that we only need to change which header we include, and thus
that we can switch back again if some platform has trouble with the new
header.
If you define PUZZLES_INITIAL_CURSOR=y, puzzles that have a keyboard
cursor will default to making it visible rather than invisible at the
start of a new game. Behaviour is otherwise the same, so mouse actions
will cause the cursor to vanish and keyboard actions will cause it to
appear. It's just the default that has changed.
The purpose of this is for use on devices and platforms where the
primary or only means of interaction is keyboard-based. In those cases,
starting with the keyboard cursor invisible is weird and a bit
confusing.
For reasons now lost to history, Puzzles generally uses single-precision
floating point. However, C floating-point constants are by default
double-precision, and if they're then operated on along with a
single-precision variable the value of the variable gets promoted to
double precision, then the operation gets done, and then often the
result gets converted back to single precision again.
This is obviously silly, so I've used Clang's "-Wdouble-promotion" to
find instances of this and mark the constants as single-precision as
well. This is a bit awkward for PI, which ends up with a cast. Maybe
there should be a PIF, or maybe PI should just be single-precision.
This doesn't eliminate all warnings from -Wdouble-promotion. Some of
the others might merit fixing but adding explicit casts to double just
to shut the compiler up would be going too far, I feel.
If can_configure is false, then the game's configure() and
custom_params() functions will never be called. If can_solve is false,
solve() will never be called. If can_format_as_text_ever is false,
can_format_as_text_now() and text_format() will never be called. If
can_print is false, print_size() and print() will never be called. If
is_timed is false, timing_state() will never be called.
In each case, almost all puzzles provided a function nonetheless. I
think this is because in Puzzles' early history there was no "game"
structure, so the functions had to be present for linking to work. But
now that everything indirects through the "game" structure, unused
functions can be left unimplemented and the corresponding pointers set
to NULL.
So now where the flags mentioned above are false, the corresponding
functions are omitted and the function pointers in the "game" structures
are NULL.
Previously if a move string starting with "M" contained anything else
other than a digit or a comma, execute_move() would spin trying to
parse it. Now it returns NULL.
This provides a way for the front end to ask how a particular key should
be labelled right now (specifically, for a given game_state and
game_ui). This is useful on feature phones where it's conventional to
put a small caption above each soft key indicating what it currently
does.
The function currently provides labels only for CURSOR_SELECT and
CURSOR_SELECT2. This is because these are the only keys that need
labelling on KaiOS.
The concept of labelling keys also turns up in the request_keys() call,
but there are quite a few differences. The labels returned by
current_key_label() are dynamic and likely to vary with each move, while
the labels provided by request_keys() are constant for a given
game_params. Also, the keys returned by request_keys() don't generally
include CURSOR_SELECT and CURSOR_SELECT2, because those aren't necessary
on platforms with pointing devices. It might be possible to provide a
unified API covering both of this, but I think it would be quite
difficult to work with.
Where a key is to be unlabelled, current_key_label() is expected to
return an empty string. This leaves open the possibility of NULL
indicating a fallback to button2label or the label specified by
request_keys() in the future.
It's tempting to try to implement current_key_label() by calling
interpret_move() and parsing its output. This doesn't work for two
reasons. One is that interpret_move() is entitled to modify the
game_ui, and there isn't really a practical way to back those changes
out. The other is that the information returned by interpret_move()
isn't sufficient to generate a label. For instance, in many puzzles it
generates moves that toggle the state of a square, but we want the label
to reflect which state the square will be toggled to. The result is
that I've generally ended up pulling bits of code from interpret_move()
and execute_move() together to implement current_key_label().
Alongside the back-end function, there's a midend_current_key_label()
that's a thin wrapper around the back-end function. It just adds an
assertion about which key's being requested and a default null
implementation so that back-ends can avoid defining the function if it
will do nothing useful.
I don't know how I've never thought of this before! Pretty much every
game in this collection has to have a mechanism for noticing when
game_redraw is called for the first time on a new drawstate, and if
so, start by covering the whole window with a filled rectangle of the
background colour. This is a pain for implementers, and also awkward
because the drawstate often has to _work out_ its own pixel size (or
else remember it from when its size method was called).
The backends all do that so that the frontends don't have to guarantee
anything about the initial window contents. But that's a silly
tradeoff to begin with (there are way more backends than frontends, so
this _adds_ work rather than saving it), and also, in this code base
there's a standard way to handle things you don't want to have to do
in every backend _or_ every frontend: do them just once in the midend!
So now that rectangle-drawing operation happens in midend_redraw, and
I've been able to remove it from almost every puzzle. (A couple of
puzzles have other approaches: Slant didn't have a rectangle-draw
because it handles even the game borders using its per-tile redraw
function, and Untangle clears the whole window on every redraw
_anyway_ because it would just be too confusing not to.)
In some cases I've also been able to remove the 'started' flag from
the drawstate. But in many cases that has to stay because it also
triggers drawing of static display furniture other than the
background.
The Rockbox frontend allows games to be displayed in a "zoomed-in"
state targets with small displays. Currently we use a modal interface
-- a "viewing" mode in which the cursor keys are used to pan around
the rendered bitmap; and an "interaction" mode that actually sends
keys to the game.
This commit adds a midend_get_cursor_location() function to allow the
frontend to retrieve the backend's cursor location or other "region of
interest" -- such as the player location in Cube or Inertia.
With this information, the Rockbox frontend can now intelligently
follow the cursor around in the zoomed-in state, eliminating the need
for a modal interface.
This is the main bulk of this boolification work, but although it's
making the largest actual change, it should also be the least
disruptive to anyone interacting with this code base downstream of me,
because it doesn't modify any interface between modules: all the
inter-module APIs were updated one by one in the previous commits.
This just cleans up the code within each individual source file to use
bool in place of int where I think that makes things clearer.
This commit removes the old #defines of TRUE and FALSE from puzzles.h,
and does a mechanical search-and-replace throughout the code to
replace them with the C99 standard lowercase spellings.
encode_params, validate_params and new_desc now take a bool parameter;
fetch_preset, can_format_as_text_now and timing_state all return bool;
and the data fields is_timed, wants_statusbar and can_* are all bool.
All of those were previously typed as int, but semantically boolean.
This commit changes the API declarations in puzzles.h, updates all the
games to match (including the unfinisheds), and updates the developer
docs as well.
This function gives the front end a way to find out what keys the back
end requires; and as such it is mostly useful for ports without a
keyboard. It is based on changes originally found in Chris Boyle's
Android port, though some modifications were needed to make it more
flexible.
This allows me to use different types for the mutable, dynamically
allocated string value in a C_STRING control and the fixed constant
list of option names in a C_CHOICES.
Now midend.c directly tests the returned pointer for equality to this
value, instead of checking whether it's the empty string.
A minor effect of this is that games may now return a dynamically
allocated empty string from interpret_move() and treat it as just
another legal move description. But I don't expect anyone to be
perverse enough to actually do that! The main purpose is that it
avoids returning a string literal from a function whose return type is
a pointer to _non-const_ char, i.e. we are now one step closer to
being able to make this code base clean under -Wwrite-strings.
To do this, I've completely replaced the API between mid-end and front
end, so any downstream front end maintainers will have to do some
rewriting of their own (sorry). I've done the necessary work in all
five of the front ends I keep in-tree here - Windows, GTK, OS X,
Javascript/Emscripten, and Java/NestedVM - and I've done it in various
different styles (as each front end found most convenient), so that
should provide a variety of sample code to show downstreams how, if
they should need it.
I've left in the old puzzle back-end API function to return a flat
list of presets, so for the moment, all the puzzle backends are
unchanged apart from an extra null pointer appearing in their
top-level game structure. In a future commit I'll actually use the new
feature in a puzzle; perhaps in the further future it might make sense
to migrate all the puzzles to the new API and stop providing back ends
with two alternative ways of doing things, but this seemed like enough
upheaval for one day.
puzzle backend function which ought to have it, and propagate those
consts through to per-puzzle subroutines as needed.
I've recently had to do that to a few specific parameters which were
being misused by particular puzzles (r9657, r9830), which suggests
that it's probably a good idea to do the whole lot pre-emptively
before the next such problem shows up.
[originally from svn r9832]
[r9657 == 3b250baa02a7332510685948bf17576c397b8ceb]
[r9830 == 0b93de904a98f119b1a95d3a53029f1ed4bfb9b3]
new_desc. Oddities in the 'make test' output brought to my attention
that a few puzzles have been modifying their input game_params for
various reasons; they shouldn't do that, because that's the
game_params held permanently by the midend and it will affect
subsequent game generations if they modify it. So now those arguments
are const, and all the games which previously modified their
game_params now take a copy and modify that instead.
[originally from svn r9830]
basically just so that it can divide mouse coordinates by the tile
size, but is definitely not expected to _write_ to it, and it hadn't
previously occurred to me that anyone might try. Therefore,
interpret_move() now gets a pointer to a _const_ game_drawstate
instead of a writable one.
All existing puzzles cope fine with this API change (as long as the
new const qualifier is also added to a couple of subfunctions to which
interpret_move delegates work), except for the just-committed Undead,
which somehow had ds->ascii and ui->ascii the wrong way round but is
otherwise unproblematic.
[originally from svn r9657]
midend_status(), and given it three return codes for win, (permanent)
loss and game-still-in-play. Depending on what the front end wants to
use it for, it may find any or all of these three states worth
distinguishing from each other.
(I suppose a further enhancement might be to add _non_-permanent loss
as a fourth distinct status, to describe situations in which you can't
play further without pressing Undo but doing so is not completely
pointless. That might reasonably include dead-end situations in Same
Game and Pegs, and blown-self-up situations in Mines and Inertia.
However, I haven't done this at present.)
[originally from svn r9179]
state is in a solved position, and a midend function wrapping it.
(Or, at least, a situation in which further play is pointless. The
point is, given that game state, would it be a good idea for a front
end that does that sort of thing to proactively provide the option to
start a fresh game?)
[originally from svn r9140]
actual behaviour change: Untangle now permits dragging with the
right mouse button, which has exactly the same effect as it does
with the left. (Harmless on desktop platforms, but helpful when
"right-click" is achieved by press-and-hold; now the drag takes
place even if you hesitate first.)
[originally from svn r8177]
_conditionally_ able to format the current puzzle as text to be sent
to the clipboard. For instance, if a game were to support playing on
a square grid and on other kinds of grid such as hexagonal, then it
might reasonably feel that only the former could be sensibly
rendered in ASCII art; so it can now arrange for the "Copy" menu
item to be greyed out depending on the game_params.
To do this I've introduced a new backend function
(can_format_as_text_now()), and renamed the existing static backend
field "can_format_as_text" to "can_format_as_text_ever". The latter
will cause compile errors for anyone maintaining a third-party front
end; if any such person is reading this, I apologise to them for the
inconvenience, but I did do it deliberately so that they'd know to
update their front end.
As yet, no checked-in game actually uses this feature; all current
games can still either copy always or copy never.
[originally from svn r8161]
function, since it took no parameters by which to vary its decision,
and in any case it's hard to imagine a game which only
_conditionally_ wants a status bar. Changed it into a boolean data
field in the backend structure.
[originally from svn r6417]
was actually using it, and also it wasn't being called again for
different game states or different game parameters, so it would have
been a mistake to depend on anything in that game state. Games are
now expected to commit in advance to a single fixed list of all the
colours they will ever need, which was the case in practice already
and simplifies any later port to a colour-poor platform. Also this
change has removed a lot of unnecessary faff from midend_colours().
[originally from svn r6416]
as seen by the back ends from the one implemented by the front end,
and shoved a piece of middleware (drawing.c) in between to permit
interchange of multiple kinds of the latter. I've also added a
number of functions to the drawing API to permit printing as well as
on-screen drawing, and retired print.py in favour of integrated
printing done by means of that API.
The immediate visible change is that print.py is dead, and each
puzzle now does its own printing: where you would previously have
typed `print.py solo 2x3', you now type `solo --print 2x3' and it
should work in much the same way.
Advantages of the new mechanism available right now:
- Map is now printable, because the new print function can make use
of the output from the existing game ID decoder rather than me
having to replicate all those fiddly algorithms in Python.
- the new print functions can cope with non-initial game states,
which means each puzzle supporting --print also supports
--with-solutions.
- there's also a --scale option permitting users to adjust the size
of the printed puzzles.
Advantages which will be available at some point:
- the new API should permit me to implement native printing
mechanisms on Windows and OS X.
[originally from svn r6190]
redraw the whole window _every_ time game_redraw() was called during
a flash. Now they only redraw the whole window every time the
background colour actually changes. Thanks to James H for much of
the work.
[originally from svn r6166]
was spending 60% of its time in shuffle(). The purpose of the
shuffle() call was to go through a largish array in random order
until we found an element that worked, so there's no actual need to
shuffle the whole array every time and I only did it out of
laziness. So I now pick a random element each time I go round the
loop, meaning I save a lot of shuffling effort whenever the loop
terminates early (which is often). I get about a factor of two speed
improvement from this small change.
[originally from svn r6125]
which is unable to guarantee that every grid it generates can be
solved. So I'm eliminating that exception: this checkin contains a
more sophisticated grid generator which does guarantee solubility.
It's a bit slow (most noticeably on the 15x10c3 preset), and the
quality of the generated grids is slightly weird (a tendency toward
small regions rather than large sweeping areas of contiguous
colour); however, I'm willing to see the latter as a feature for
now, since making the game more challenging while simultaneously
guaranteeing it to be possible sounds like an all-round win to me.
From now on I'm raising my standards for contributions to this
collection. I made this fix to Same Game because I heard a user
_automatically assume_ that any puzzle in my collection would not be
so uncouth as to generate an impossible grid; as of this checkin
that's actually true, and I intend to maintain that standard of
quality henceforth.
(Guaranteeing a _unique_ solution is more of an optional extra,
since there are many games for which it isn't a meaningful concept
or isn't particularly desirable. Which is not to say that _some_
games wouldn't be of unacceptably low quality if they failed to
guarantee uniqueness; it depends on the game.)
[originally from svn r6124]
