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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SOUND, ENVELOPE, VOL, PLAY and TEMPO against the akbasic_AudioBackend record,
plus FILTER, which is in the table only so that it can be refused with a reason.
The PLAY note-string parser and TEMPO are here rather than in libakgl because
that is where its audio commit says they belong: a tone generator synthesises
pitches, but deciding that O4CDEFG is five quarter notes starting at middle C is
a language question.
PLAY does not block. On a C128 it holds the program until the last note ends,
which section 1.6 forbids outright, so it parses the string into a fixed queue
and returns; akbasic_runtime_step() releases one note at a time against whatever
time the host last passed to akbasic_runtime_settime(). The driver now steps one
at a time with the clock refreshed in between rather than making a single
unbounded run() call -- a tune whose notes all measured themselves against a
frozen zero would rush out at once. That loop is its own function because CATCH
expands to a break and PASS expands to a return of the context, and main()
returns an int; wrapping the loop is what the protocol prescribes for that shape.
src/audio_tables.c holds the three conversions, laid out as tables because each
is somewhere a wrong constant produces a plausible wrong pitch rather than an
error anybody would notice. Two are transcriptions -- the SID frequency formula
and its non-linear ADSR rate tables, where decay is exactly three times attack.
The third is not: BASIC 7.0 never published what a whole note lasts at a given
TEMPO, so 16000 ms at TEMPO 1 is a calibration choice putting a default quarter
note at 120 bpm, and it is labelled as a choice where it is made.
SOUND's frequency sweep is refused rather than faked, and filed upstream as
akgl_audio_sweep. The only way to fake it here is to re-issue tones from step(),
which ties audible pitch to how often the host calls us -- a tune that changes
key with the frame rate. FILTER is refused for the reason upstream already gave:
there is no filter stage and SDL3 has no primitive to build one from.
The PLAY parser is tested through akbasic_play_parse() directly rather than
through a program, because running one also runs the queue service -- and with
the clock at zero every duration has already expired, so the queue empties before
an assertion can look at it. Draining is correct behaviour and is tested on its
own; the parse tests ask a different question.
68/68 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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Groups G, I and E are unblocked but cannot be written yet: the core library is
free of SDL and builds with no libakgl present, so a graphics verb cannot call
akgl_draw_* and a sound verb cannot call akgl_audio_*. This adds what they call
instead.
Three records of function pointers -- akbasic_GraphicsBackend, _AudioBackend and
_InputBackend -- in the same shape as akbasic_TextSink, and the same shape
libakgl uses for akgl_RenderBackend. akbasic_runtime_set_devices() attaches any
subset; all three may be NULL and that is the standalone driver's normal state,
so a runtime with no backends still comes up and still prints. A verb that needs
one it was not given raises the new AKBASIC_ERR_DEVICE rather than dereferencing
a NULL vtable.
Two decisions worth stating. The graphics record has no circle entry point:
BASIC 7.0's CIRCLE takes two radii, an arc range, a rotation and a degree
increment, which makes it a polygon by definition, so it will be built from line
calls rather than from akgl_draw_circle. And coordinates are double rather than
an integer pixel address, because SCALE makes them fractional and rounding at
each verb rather than once at the backend accumulates drift along a polyline.
akbasic_runtime_settime() is how SOUND, PLAY and TEMPO get a clock without the
library reading one. Section 1.6 forbids blocking or owning a loop, so the caller
that owns the frame owns the time -- which is what libakgl already does, since
akgl_actor_logic_changeframe takes curtimems as an argument. Left unset it is
zero and every duration expires immediately: audible, but never a hang.
AKBASIC_ERR_LAST is a sentinel rather than a status, so tests/error_codes.c walks
every code looking for an unnamed one without anybody remembering to widen the
loop when a code is added.
tests/mockdevice.h records every backend call as a formatted line. The graphics
and audio verbs emit nothing a golden file can compare, so that log is where
their assertions have to live -- and since it needs no SDL, the whole of groups
G, I and E stays testable in the default build.
62/62 ctest, clean under -Wall -Wextra, doxygen clean.
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