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tl;dr: I made a lot of improvements to GUI scaling, mobile layouts, font and style configurations, and minor console errors.
What happened last week?
Highlights
- I made a lot of improvements to scaling, mobile layouts, font and style configurations, and minor console errors.
Laundry list
- Created a handful of new reusable wrapper widgets, and made updates across the codebase to use these new widgets.
- The new widgets this week:
- ScaffolderProgressBar
- ScaffolderSlider
- AnimatedTextureRect
- ScaffolderLabel
- Remove most rect_min_sizes across the codebase, in favor of using "size_override" parameters with each of my new widgets, which gives me much better control of resizing things to match the current viewport.
- Add new editor icons for each of the new widgets, as well as a new placeholder editor icon.
- Default some widgets size_flags to shrink-center, and use the new ScaffolderProgressBar.
- Refactor ScaffolderTextureButton scaling to be more consistent with the new pattern.
- Replace old LinkButtons in data-agreement screen with new wrappers.
- Made fonts and styles more configurable.
- Create and use the new ScaffolderLabel widget.
- This enables configuring font parameters synergistically between label nodes and app-config files.
- Support configuring font-size in notification-screen params.
- Make overlay panel styles configurable.
- Fix some font-color regressions.
- Created a new screen-container system.
- This simplifies screen editing, since screen scenes no longer need to include a bunch of redundant node structure and logic.
- Fix size/position of screen contents with the new screen-container system.
- Made a lot of improvements to how GUIs are re-sized for mobile screens.
- Add support for configuring different default_game_area_sizes for mobile vs PC.
- Add support for dynamically splitting the NavBar into two rows depending on the width of the screen and the width of the header contents.
- Add support for configuring font-size overrides on mobile.
- Fix an issue with screen size changes on mobile-rotation.
- Fix mouse-filters to allow scrolling-by-swipe on mobile.
- Fix splash-screen scale on mobile.
- Add some mobile-web and touch-device detection utilities.
- Godot really doesn’t give any support for detecting these two features.
- For mobile-web detection, I’m checking if we are running in _a_ browser environment, and, if so, I trigger an external JavaScript function that checks the useragent.
- For touch-screen detection, it seems like the state of the art is really to just listen for a touch event, and only assume you are on a touch-screen device if there has been a previous touch event in the app.
- Split-out some device-specific logic into a separate DeviceUtils script.
- Fix bug in mobile-web check.
- Fix some old mobile-app checks to now be mobile-device checks.
- Fixed mostly harmless console errors/warnings that had been accumulating.
- Fix console errors from accessing AutoLoads within editor "tool" scripts.
- It got to the point where I couldn’t actually open Godot anymore. It would crash before letting me interact with the editor.
- Fix a memory-leak with set_interval.
- Add some missing return types.
- Free possible memory leaks.
- Fix a null reference in labeled-control items.
- Fix an error from trying to draw a polyline with too-few vertices.
- Did some research into a couple redundant Godot warnings relating to memory leaks when exiting the app.
- “WARNING: cleanup: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit”
- And “ERROR: ~List: Condition "_first != __null" is true.”
- Apparently, this is due to a bug in how Godot’s type system handles circular references, and _might_ be fixed in 4.0?
- It doesn’t _seem_ like this causes any actual problems for me for now.
- It seems like the only real fix for this would be to essentially remove all type references across my codebase.
- So I’m going to ignore this problem for now.
- Add support for ignoring certain error patterns in the CrashReporter.
- Fix some corrupt/stale tilemap cells.
- Tried to debug an issue I with HTML builds inconsistently failing to start in mobile browsers.
- This manifested as two possible error messages shown before the app would start:
- “Function signature mismatch"
- "Memory access out of bounds"
- I tried exporting without debug symbols, but that didn’t seem to fix things.
- Bizarrely, I found that if I connect my phone to use remote debugging through chrome, the issue never repros.
- I tried exporting with different types (Threads, GDNative), but that didn’t seem to help.
- I tried a GLES2 HTML export in case it works on mobile.
- Still broken.
- But it now toggles between these two error messages:
- “Memory access out of bounds”
- “Unreachable”
- I tried a GLES3 HTML export without a custom shell.
- It _sounds_ like this might be exacerbated by a bug with Godot that was introduced in a recent version, and that this might be fixed in an upcoming version?
- Also, it sounds like WebGL apps in general don't work well in mobile browsers, and it's not just a problem with Godot. Apparently, it's just fundamentally hard for things to perform well in the relatively resource-constrained environment of a mobile browser.
- So I think I won’t try to figure out a work-around right now.
- I _really_ want mobile to work, since that’s half the point of the cool point-and-click gameplay that Surfacer enables, but I guess I can just make sure to release mobile apps for each of my upcoming little games, and I won’t just rely on mobile-web working out.
- Fixed lots of scaling edge-cases to work well with the new scaling system.
- Miscellaneous other fixes.
- Refactor framework configuration to preload more scenes at build-time, rather than at run-time.
- Create a better system for configuring in-screen images through Scaffolder.
- Update all GUIs to use the new scale system.
- Fix color and size of splash screens.
- Refactor splash screens to re-use logic in a common parent class.
- Fix a tween regression in accordions from recent scaling changes.
- Fix issue with everything disappearing when dragging screen-size instead of toggling max-window.
- Fix the small gap below the welcome-panel subheader.
- Fix regression with ScaffolderButton shadow.
- Fix an issue with the vertical height of the pause screen.
- Fix an issue with Screen._on_deactivated not being called.
- Split loading and game screens into separate screens.
- Fix event-timing so the loading screen can display information earlier when calculating platform graphs.
- Fix mouse-filter regression for game screen.
- Fix bug when restarting level from settings screen.
- Create a new CameraZoomSettingsLabeledControlItem.
- Update all global nodes to use a consistent pattern for logging their initialization and for naming their nodes.
- Fix some small issues with restarting from the pause screen.
- Have the CameraZoomSettingsLabeledControlItem slider update in response to changes in camera zoom.
- Create a new _on_app_quit framework lifecycle event.
- Fix a mis-configuration of the error_logs_url.
- Fix a couple regressions relating to deallocating TreeItem state.
- Move custom HTML shell into Scaffolder.
- Fix bug that could cause the ruler annotator to show before any other screens were ready.
- Again fix the small gap below the welcome-panel subheader.
- Pause music when loading platform-graphs in the web version, since apparently the web audio player can't handle the main thread being blocked that long.
- Rename Gs.draw_utils to Gs.draw.
What's next?
- 🎇🎆🎉 Happy Fourth of July!
- Make some changes to Scaffolder to make things have a more pixelated, low-res look.
- Another medium-long list of small Scaffolder bugs to fix.
- Then I'll get back to making improvements to Surfacer and procedural navigation.
🎉 Cheers!
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