* We store the compiler used (when known) in shader debug info and use that to
select the compiler for editing as even higher priority than the default for a
given language/encoding combination.
* We also ensure that for known tools we add the input and output parameters
last, after any custom parameters, so that they are always present regardless
of what the user puts in.
* Most of the main entry points that can fail with relevant reasons now has a
way of specifying a message to return with it. This message can be displayed
to the user to give more information or context about an error.
* Newly written shaders and any updated shaders can now use pre-defined macros
to abstract away binding differences between APIs, so custom shaders will be
more portable in particular shaders written in HLSL for D3D or GLSL on OpenGL
won't break on vulkan because they refer to incorrect binds.
* We need to update the scrollbar bounds first based on the current zoom level,
then change the scroll position. Otherwise the scroll will be visually correct
but the scrollbars won't match.
* There's not a good accepted terminology for this kind of event, and for
historical reasons 'drawcall' has been the accepted term, even though
that can be quite confusing when a dispatch or a copy is a 'drawcall'.
* This is particularly highlighted by the event browser filters where
$draw() includes draws and dispatches, but $dispatch() only includes
dispatches, it's hard to intuitively understand why $draw() matches all
of these calls.
* As a result we've defined the term 'action' to cover these types of
events in the same way that we defined 'event' in the first place to
mean a single atomic API call.
* This is a minor optimisation when there are large numbers of bound resources
that are available (duplicated) to all shader stages. There's no point
fetching them when there's no shader bound there.
* This is a holdover from simpler binding times, these days it makes more sense
to omit buffers than try to hold onto those bindings even when they don't
contain textures.
* These map more naturally to python tuples and are easier to wrap in and out.
* We also tidy up the FloatVecVal etc and standardise the members of
ShaderValue.
* Also added a script that can run as part of CI to verify that the docstring
matches, by generating a regex from the docstring documented parameter types
and return type and making sure we find a match within the C headers. This
ensures all parameters are documented with the right types, no extra
parameters are documented, and the return type is correct.
* The script also checks proper scoping so that if qrenderdoc docstrings
mention a renderdoc type, they need to scope it properly.
* This prevents unnecessary conversions back and forth between rdcstr and const
char * when going through interfaces. In the OS specific layer this is rarely
an issue because most of the implementations don't convert to rdcstr, but it
is convenient to be able to pass in an rdcstr directly. The few cases where
there's an unecessary construction of an rdcstr is acceptable.
* A couple of places in the public API need to return a string from a global
function, so can't return an rdcstr due to C ABI, so they still return a const
char *.
* Similarly const char * is kept for logging, to avoid a dependency on rdcstr
and because that's one place where unnecessary conversions/constructions may
be impactful.
* One automodule in a file for our modules is way too much, so we split it into
files. Unfortunately this means that only one file can have those classes and
functions be linkable from elsewhere.
* Instead we bite the bullet and manually curate the items into pages, and at
the same time subdivide the 'enums and data' page more which is a general
readability and usability win as well.
* We also add some previously not-included functions, and add a doc-build time
check to ensure that functions and classes aren't omitted from the
documentation in future
* We tune the pipeline state view and texture viewer to only iterate over a
small list of dynamically used binds in the (vastly more common) case where
unused binds are not being shown.
* This simplifies the code flow because we can be sure that we always have
cached read-only/read-write resources (this was true before, but now it's
clear).
* E.g. on D3D12 we can debug DXBC shaders but not DXIL shaders. On vulkan this
will allow us to have the UI work better when encountering shaders with
unsupported capabilities or extensions.
baldurk