* This is a string type which heavily optimises for immutability and minimal
storage. It only contains one pointer to the string data and always
reallocates on modify. For compile-time literals it doesn't modify or
allocate.
* On x64 we use the top bit in a tagged pointer to store a flag of whether it's
heap or literal, on other platforms it uses a separate field (meaning another
pointer sized value effectively, including padding).
* This is best for structured data which tends to use a lot of immutable strings
for type/name information, and only a few for actual string data (which are
only allocated once and aren't modified after that). Similarly we rarely want
to know only the size of any of these strings, we want the whole string so not
explicitly storing the size is not a big deal.
* Overall this reduces SDObject from 128 bytes to 80 bytes.
* For certain very large arrays it can be nice to defer generation of structured
data until it's needed, since often maybe only a handful of elements may be
needed (or commonly none at all).
* This allows persistent config storage and registering tweak variables that
works independent of the UI's configuration.
* Config vars can be debug only, which means they will be compiled out in stable
version releases. This allows for debug-logging tweaks that are available in
all builds (including nightly builds) for diagnostic purposes, but have zero
overhead in stable releases.
* Variables have a loose hierarchy defined with _ or . to separate nodes.
* 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.
* This lets the user override the default application font.
* Unfortunately Qt seems to behave inconsistently with font scaling from the
system, so we take the font size initially from QApplication::font() (which
doesn't always pick up the font size) and scale from there. While this might
cause some font scaling to be lost it does mean at least we have a consistent
scale, as otherwise you get some text scaling and others not.
* This is needed so that the functional tests can elevate and run renderdoccmd
to register the vulkan layer, if needed.
* At the same time remove the old spammy message and ignore flag - this dates
back to before the UI existed, and that should be the way users run RenderDoc
generally and it has a good UI for walking through layer registration if
needed.
* The command is always available, but will only show up in help if attention is
needed.
* Also fix registering installs on shared drives.
* Previously we had "Frame X" and "Start of Frame" hardcoded in the event
browser, and the end of frame was in many cases assumed to be a present call.
However with the in-application API this is not necessarily true.
* Presents are now serialised separately in all APIs and displayed wherever they
happen in the frame, and if there is no present at the end of the frame an
"End of Capture" marker is inserted. Similarly API-defined captures are not
given a potentially misleading frame number.
* In particular, if there is a mismatched layer registered under e.g. /etc then
we always need to elevate, even if the user wants their layer to be fixed and
registered user-local.
* If the UI was launched with a filename as a parameter to open the capture, it
will be added to the recent capture file list. Only later (relatively
speaking) if we make a capture connection will we realise that it is temporary
and potentially delete the file. If we do so, remove the capture from the
recent file list.
* In particular make it clear that crashes caught in the injected program may or
may not be a RenderDoc bug. Even if we could point the finger to a particular
DLL we can't necessarily tie that DLL to the responsibility of either us or
the application.
* The defaults can be configured from the settings menu, and there's a new "Open
Capture with Options" menu option to open a capture with different options
temporarily.
* This allows RemoteHost handles to still be valid and usable (if returning
empty data) when they are deleted/removed if the device is disconnected, as
well as providing better multi-thread access (they lock internally)
baldurk