The blinking backspace was not the backspace. The sink skipped rows it
believed were already clear, tracked in a drawn[] array, which assumes a frame
inherits the frame before it. SDL_RenderPresent swaps buffers, so a frame
inherits the one two back: a row erased once is clean in one buffer and dirty
in the other, and presenting alternates between them. The first character of a
backspaced wrap flickered forever.
It reproduces on X11 and never under the dummy driver or a software renderer,
which is why the suite stayed green through two rounds of fixing it. The sink
now repaints every row it owns every frame -- a frame either owns every pixel
it presents or inherits pixels it cannot reason about.
Confirmed on real hardware with the reported input: the wrapped tail's row
reads zero across five successive captures.
The cursor returns as a blinking block, half a second per cycle, off SDL's
clock. It sits in the cell after the text rather than under it, which is what
made the underscore unreadable, and it wraps to the next row when a line
exactly fills one -- where the next character actually lands.
The new regression test paints stale pixels by hand, which is what a swapped-in
buffer hands back, so the case is covered without real hardware. Every new
assertion was checked by reverting the fix and watching it fail.
Recorded honestly in TODO.md section 5: the same buffer swap means the
graphics verbs were never reliable across frames either. A one-shot DRAW lands
in one buffer and the next present shows the other. Making that work needs a
persistent surface, which is its own commit.
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The sink painted glyphs on top of whatever was already on the renderer and
never erased anything, and the host deliberately does not clear the frame so a
DRAW survives. The grid was always correct; the screen kept the previous
frame. That surfaced as three separate-looking faults:
- a backspaced character stayed on screen, including across a line wrap
- a scroll left the old rows behind, "papered over with garbage"
- the editing cursor smeared an underscore along every column it passed
through, which read as an underline under the text being typed
render() now fills each row it is about to draw, and each row that has emptied
since it last drew, with the background first. Row by row rather than one
clear over the whole area: the text layer is authoritative over the rows it
occupies and leaves every other pixel alone, so a picture behind the text
loses only the strips the text uses instead of all of it.
echo_line() also truncates rows that hold nothing but the spaces its own erase
pass wrote, which is what backspacing back across a wrap leaves behind. A row
of spaces is text as far as render() is concerned, so it would have been
repainted forever and kept erasing whatever was under it.
The cursor glyph is removed outright, as asked. The smearing was the erase bug
rather than the cursor, so one could come back and behave -- a block would
read better than an underscore.
Four pixel-level tests, because grid assertions could never have caught any of
this. Each was checked by reverting the fix and watching it fail; two of them
were vacuous when first written and are noted as such where they are fixed.
The real-keyboard test also now rubs out a character and scrolls forty lines.
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SDL3 has text input off by default and per-window, so without
SDL_StartTextInput() it emits no SDL_EVENT_TEXT_INPUT at all and every
keystroke reaches libakgl's ring with an empty text field. The editor had just
been changed to prefer that composed text over the keycode, so it read every
key as not-a-character: no echo in the window, and nothing on stdout either,
because RUN could never be typed. One cause, both symptoms.
The editor now falls back to the keycode when there is no composed text, so a
host that forgets to start text input gets a worse keyboard rather than none.
The suite missed this because every keyboard test pushes the text-input event
into SDL's queue by hand -- which is what a real keyboard produces, but only
once text input has been started. Synthesising the end of a chain cannot test
the beginning of it. The new test asserts SDL_TextInputActive() directly, and
both halves were checked by reverting each and watching it fail.
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0.3.0 closed all ten API gaps this port had filed. The four workarounds go
with them: the CMake block that declared libakgl's vendored dependencies by
hand, the akgl/actor.h include in three files, and the six vtable pointers
assigned by hand in two more, now akgl_render_bind2d().
Two gaps were capabilities rather than inconveniences, and both are now real:
The line editor takes the composed UTF-8 text the ring carries in preference
to the keycode, so shifted characters, keyboard layouts, compose keys and dead
keys all work. A double quote can be typed, which means a BASIC string literal
can be typed -- the sharp end of the old limitation. Letters are no longer
folded to upper case.
SOUND's dir/min/step reach akgl_audio_sweep instead of being refused. dir 3
sweeps once rather than oscillating and TODO.md section 5 says so. A backend
with no sweep still refuses the swept note and plays the held one.
The adaptors now carry an AKGL_VERSION_AT_LEAST(0, 3, 0) floor, verified by
temporarily demanding 0.4.0 and watching it fire.
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An AKGL build of `basic` was a terminal program with unused SDL linked into
it. It now opens the reference's 800x600 window, draws BASIC output in the
Commodore font, pumps events, lets you type at it, and still mirrors every
byte to stdout.
The stdout mirror is a composing sink rather than a second write inside the
interpreter, and lives in the core library where it needs no SDL. The line
editor waits for a typed line by borrowing one frame at a time from the host,
so nothing blocks and nothing owns an event loop it should not.
The whole golden corpus now runs through the SDL binary as well as the stdio
one, byte for byte.
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src/sink_akgl.c, src/graphics_akgl.c, src/audio_akgl.c and src/input_akgl.c, in
the akbasic_akgl target, which is the only thing here that links SDL.
-DAKBASIC_WITH_AKGL=ON had never been configured in this repository before, and
it now builds and passes.
The sink is what section 3 has been waiting on. Its character grid comes from
akgl_text_measure(font, "A", &w, &h), the direct equivalent of the reference's
font.SizeUTF8("A") and the call that did not exist until 42b60f7. Wrapping is
done on the character grid rather than by handing SDL_ttf a wraplength, because
the cursor has to land somewhere definite: a program that PRINTs a long string
and then PRINTs again expects the second to start on the row after the first
ended, and only the code that placed the characters knows which row that is.
tests/akgl_backends.c draws into a 128x128 software renderer under the dummy
video driver and reads the pixels back -- the pattern deps/libakgl/tests/draw.c
established, which needs no display and no offscreen harness. It asserts the
seam rather than libakgl's own behaviour: a BASIC line in, a lit pixel of the
right colour out.
Four things in libakgl had to be worked around to get here. All four are
commented at their site with "filed upstream" and recorded in TODO.md section 3:
- An embedded libakgl requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf and jansson to
be *installed*. It builds its own vendored copies only when it is top-level,
and they are sitting right there in deps/libakgl/deps. Every lookup is guarded
with if(NOT TARGET ...), so this adds those five subdirectories before
add_subdirectory(deps/libakgl) -- the same trick and the same ordering
requirement akerror::akerror and akstdlib::akstdlib already need.
- akgl/controller.h does not compile on its own: it declares handlers taking an
akgl_Actor * and includes nothing that declares the type.
- There is no way to attach a 2D backend to a renderer you already have.
akgl_render_init2d() installs the vtable but also creates its own window and
writes the camera global, so it belongs to the akgl_game_init() path -- which
is exactly the path an embedding host is not on. The test assigns the six
pointers by hand.
- akgl_text_rendertextat() segfaults on a backend whose vtable is empty; it
reaches through renderer->draw_texture without checking it. Same class of
defect 42b60f7's own commit added a draw test for.
The sink's readline reports end of input rather than reading: a drawn text layer
is not a source of lines, and INPUT through one wants a line editor built on the
keystroke ring. EOF rather than an error is the contract sink.h states, so INPUT
already handles it. That editor is the next piece of work there.
70/70 core ctest with no SDL on the include path, 71/71 with the akgl suite,
clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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