0.29.0 Devleopment Notes

[cmang]

I keep some internal notes on upcoming Durdraw releases, and now that more folks are helping with Durdraw, I thought I might start keeping some of those notes on Github for open discussion.

0.29.0 Changes:
* Durview ANSI art pack viewer! - Asciinema Demo
* Browse and open https://16colo.rs online ANSI art packs from Durview or Durdraw!
* Faster loading, editing AND saving large files (Thanks to @tmck-code!)
* Custom Character Sets!
* CP437 compatible character set option
* Convert CP437 ASCII control code range into Utf8 equivalent glyphs, when loading CP437 ANSI files
* Add/remove lines changed to esc-' and esc-;
* New Edit sub-menu
* Bug fixes, UI tweaks (as always :))

Release-Blocking Bugs:
* Open Durview. Hit tab twice, to select "[X] 16colo.rs Archive," then hit Space or Enter. It crashes with an Out of Index error in openFilePicker(). Clicking with the mouse instead works. (The code here is a little too unstructured) Fixed in #94

Experimental junk:

There is an undocumented --mental option for playing with experimental features, which are completely broken, but almost-semi-functional-ish. Right now that includes "ice colors" and "escape code injection."

The idea behind "escape code injection" is to get 256 background colors by bypassing ncurses and injecting raw ANSI codes. It does not disable ncurses, however, so they fight and generate "flicker." Needs work.

For Ice Colors (16 BG colors in 16 color mode) you can draw with them, but it breaks the UI colors, and it doesn't actually load "ice colors" ANSI file formats (yet). Needs work.

[AdrianGroty]

doesn't actually load "ice colors" ANSI file formats

But it DOES save and load its own ice colors files, provided they came from Durdraw.

[tmck-code]

Cool! I've made a PR here to help facilitate bug hunting #93

I've almost tracked it down I think. After pressing enter on the UI path that you described the file_list is actually empty, so the call to get item 0 fails

[tmck-code]

I might have found it #94

[cmang]

Awesome!

I got a feature implemented tonight that I have been wanting for a while. Custom character set files.

This is shaping up to be a pretty exciting release!

[cmang]

Durview problems I'd like to fix before release:

1: Does not reset terminal correctly on exit. If you exit and try scrolling the mouse, it sends characters that the shell dislikes, until "reset" is run.

[cmang]

Need to make a man page for durview.

[cmang]

And done.

[alexmyczko]

will this be release in a week? debian will soon freeze and i would be sad if debian 13 (trixie) stable for two years would be stuck with the old version...

[cmang]

Great question, @alexmyczko ! Yes, I think we can have this ready in a few days. It's real close now.

Thanks for the heads up. I'd love to get the new version into Trixie.

[cmang]

It's done! Durdraw 0.29.0 is out. :)

https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/releases/tag/0.29.0

Thanks to everyone who worked on this!