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45 lines
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# Sectr Prototype
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This prototype aims to flesh out ideas I've wanted to explore futher when it came to code editing and tools for code in general.
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The things to explore:
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* 2D canvas for laying out code visualized in various types of ASTs
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* WYSIWYG frontend ASTs
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* Making AST editing as versatile as text editing.
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* High-performance generating a large amount of UI widget boxes with proper auto-layout & no perceptible rendering-lag or input lag for interactions (frametimes stable).
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* Model-View-Controller interface between code managed by a 'backend' (both in memory and filesystem) and the UX composition (which has separate filesystem composition).
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The project is so far in a "codebase boostrapping" phase.
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The project's is organized into 2 modules sectr_host & sectr.
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The host module loads the main module & its memory. Hot-reloading it's dll when it detects a change.
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The dependencies are:
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* Odin Compiler
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* Odin repo's base, core, and vendor(raylib) libaries
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* An ini parser
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The client(sectr) module's organization is relatively flat due to the nature of odin's package management not allowing for cyclic dependencies across modules, and modules can only be in one directory.
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Even so the notatble groups are:
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* API : Provides the overarching interface of the app's general behavior. Host uses this to provide the client its necessary data and exection env.
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* Has the following definitions: startup, shutdown, reload, tick, clean_frame
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* Grime : Name speaks for itself, stuff not directly related to the target features to iterate upon for the prototype.
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* Defining dependency aliases or procedure overload tables, rolling own allocator, data structures, etc.
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* Font Provider : Manages fonts.
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* When loading fonts, the provider currently uses raylib to generate bitmap glyth sheets for a range of font sizes at once.
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* Goal is to eventually render using SDF shaders.
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* Input : Standard input pooling and related features. Platform abstracted via raylib for now.
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* Parser : AST generation, editing, and serialization. A 1/3 of this prototype will most likely be this alone.
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* UI : AST visualzation & editing, backend visualization, project organizationa via workspaces (2d cavnases)
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* Will most likely be the bulk of this prototype.
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* PIMGUI (Persistent Immediate Mode User Interface);
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* Auto-layout with heavy procedural generation of box widgets
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There is some unused code in `code/__imgui_raddbg`. Its a partial translation of some data structures from raddbg's ui.
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