Added commandline options to change almost all properties of a ROM. Very
useful for developers who constantly change these features but don't want
to re-generate a new stella.pro entry each time. Thanks again to B. Watson
for original idea and partial implementation.
Fixed problem with events getting 'stuck' when changing states. For
example, one could be playing a game and, while pressing "Left", exit
the game. Then, when another game is started, the left direction would
still be selected. This is a side-effect of Stella initially being a
"one game per launch" application.
For similar reasons as the previous step, fixed problem whereby a
messagebox seen just before ending one game was showing up in the next
game as well. Still TODO is make sure the sound buffer is cleared
before each new game (sometimes you can hear some sounds from a
previous game).
Further tweaked the '-framerate' commandline argument to override the
defaults when used, but never be saved to the settings file.
Renamed '-altpro' commandline argument back to '-pro', and moved it into
the DEVELOPER_SUPPORT area.
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makes use of switch/case statements instead of the slower if/elseif
structure. Hopefully this will fix event problems some users were
experiencing.
The Control or Alt button can actually now be used in event remapping.
Due to the old event handling, the Control key could be assigned to
an event but would never actually be usable.
Removed the option to remap the exit event (for now), since I haven't
figured out a way to remap it *back* to 'Escape' if that mapping is
ever removed.
Added beginning of support for Stella to automatically determine the
correct framerate based on ROM format type. The final version of this
will probably wait until Stella 1.5.
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now activated when Stella is built with DEVELOPER_SUPPORT is the ability
to change Xstart, Ystart, Width, and Height. Specifically, the ability
to change NTSC/PAL mode, toggle different palettes, and save/merge changes
into the properties file is now standard in all ports, and is *not* strictly
a developer-only thing. So that means that people who use a version of
Stella compiled without DEVELOPER_SUPPORT won't really miss much (the above
features are used by very few people).
Removed the commandline arguments -Dxxx, since they haven't worked for quite
some time anyway, and I doubt that many people really use them. Besides,
there are still keyboard shortcuts to do the same thing. To any developers
who don't want to see these things disappear; the next version of Stella
will include a debugger, and _that's_ the proper place to put those things.
Removed starting and ending '|' characters from the -listrominfo output,
since parsers have an easier time when those are present only _between_
elements, not at the beginning and end.
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and SettingsWin32 classes, since they both did the same thing, and
placed the method in the Settings class itself (ifdef'ed out for
OSX). It was done this way when core was still in flux and each port
didn't support all the same options. Since the core is now unified,
it didn't make sense to have a separate usage() method for each port.
Added the '-listrominfo' argument (can only be called from the commandline,
not set with the INI file). This returns selected info from the stella.pro
file and exits immediately. It returns data in the form of:
# of roms (first line)
MD5|Name|Rarity|Manufacturer|Note (# of roms lines) ...
This makes it much easier for GUI frontends to interface with Stella,
since all stella.pro parsing is now done within Stella itself.
Added various print() methods to Properties and PropertiesSet to
facilitate the above '-listrominfo' argument.
Fixed a bug in PropertiesSet::size(); it always returned 0.
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that when a Properties object is saved to a properties file, that file
looks more like the default stella.pro.
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both from the commandline (by passing in a user-defined properties
object to the Console constructor) and at runtime (by calling various
methods in the Console class).
Methods are defined as follows:
Console::changeXStart() & Console::changeYStart()
- Changes the "Display.XStart" and "Display.YStart" variables.
Console::changeWidth() & Console::changeHeight()
- Changes the "Display.Width" and "Display.Height" variables.
Console::toggleFormat()
- Changes the "Display.Format" variable, switching between NTSC and PAL
modes.
Console::saveProperties()
- Saves the current properties (including changes made in the current
session) to the given filename.
Some notes on the new methods:
- The GUI's will need to be adapted to see the updated information
and act accordingly.
- This new code is only activated by '#define DEVELOPER_SUPPORT'.
You are encouraged to wrap calls to these new methods (in the GUI)
in an appropriate #ifdef. Publicly released binaries probably
SHOULD NOT have this stuff activated.
- All change methods (except for NTSC/PAL switching) currently do a full
system reset after making a change, so that the whole system will see the
changes. This means that if you are playing a game and call one of these
methods, the game will be reset. In the future, the core may be enhanced
so that changes are detected without a full reset.
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Console.cxx : changed lookup of current rom to be always based on md5sum
Console.hxx : changed lookup of current rom to be always based on md5sum
Props.cxx : added method to get rom info based on md5sum
Props.hxx : added method to get rom info based on md5sum
PropsSet.cxx : changed storage of properties to a BST based on md5sum
PropsSet.hxx : changed storage of properties to a BST based on md5sum
OSS.c : added volume command-line argument and mixer functions
SndUnix.cxx : added code to pass volume to stella-sound process
mainX11.cxx : major enhancements, see Changelog
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which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.
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