* In a previous update in 2021 many copyright ranges were truncated
accidentally, and some files have been copy-pasted with wrong years. These
dates have been fixed based on git history and original copyright messages.
* If program or shader names are very long then combining them can cause
problems with how wide the widgets get. Splitting each element into a label
that can wrap around and be truncated individually produces better behaviour.
* This will be optional in many cases but for some situations might be required
when type information is not implicitly available in the descriptor store.
Generally it should always be available unless the descriptor store is being
viewed 'blank' purely from its contents with no other context.
* This shifts from reporting from the old style bindset/bind to the new system
of only referencing by shader interface and index (independent of binding
model).
* The vulkan shader debugger re-uses the replay interface to cache descriptor
access and descriptor contents in a fashion friendly to interface-index
lookup.
Use Formatter::HumanFormat() to get consistent formatting and to apply the UI formatting configuration mode for Offsets and Sizes i.e. Auto, Decimal, Hexadecimal.
* This helps those who have chosen the dark theme where rich resource text uses
the default window text colour assuming it's a contrasting colour against the
background (except when highlighted).
* Unifying these views means that constant buffers have all the same
reformatting and it avoids having multiple paths for what is now effectively
the same control (a buffer can either have fixed data, repeating data, or
both)
* GL and Vulkan allow buffers to have fixed variables before a trailing AoS
unbounded array. These fixed variables can't be easily displayed in a table
and previously we skipped them. Now we display these in a tree format.
* We also support formats which don't have an unbounded array at all and display
these just with the tree. This will allow the BufferViewer to subsume the
capabilities of the ConstantBufferPreviewer (though it needs to handle opaque
non-buffer-backed variables, and slot-following).
* This allows the calling code to pass a hint of what packing is known or likely
to be used, meaning less generated manual offsetting/padding when the implicit
rules cover it.
In some cases it is easier to know the dispatch thread ID you want to
debug rather than the group/thread IDs. This change adds a new window
when the debug button is clicked, to allow you to specify which thread
to debug in the most convenient way.
* 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.
* On all APIs when depth is disabled the writes are skipped as well. Explicitly
set the function and write state to say that they are disabled.
* This also papers over a weirdness on D3D11 which has confused a couple of
people, where the retrieved desc with GetDesc() on a state object can be
different to the one it was created with when you set ignored parameters -
like the depth function with depth disabled.
* 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.
* We change to use VarType instead of CompType for signature parameters which
allows us to represent different types of variables beyond just
unsigned/signed integer and float.
* We instead always have 3rdparty/ in the relevant include search paths and rely
on that. Each library still has its own unique base dir within 3rdparty to
clarify where the include is coming from.
baldurk