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 New features:
* 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!)

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