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Ascended (19678)

11-03-2020, 00:24

salutte: we implemented menus in the _osd_menu.tcl script. See for simple usage _quit_menu.tcl, which uses these procs. I'm not sure if these are good enough for the thing you want to do with it. The OSD stuff is (by design) not a replacement of a full GUI toolkit.
For alignment to the right, try to use -relx 1.0 and negative width (-w).

By salutte

Master (165)

11-03-2020, 09:35

Thanks again Manuel! I forgot about -relx. And I'll check _osd_menu.tcl.

I'm doing my best to look for resources myself, but I'm still very new to tcl and openMSX.

By Manuel

Ascended (19678)

11-03-2020, 09:41

No problem, just keep asking when you get stuck. It's my pleasure to help you and see you do all kinds of fantastic things with it

By salutte

Master (165)

14-03-2020, 09:42

the profiler GUI is looking promising! But there's still much to do.

BTW, is there a way to reload a script without reloading openMSX?

By Manuel

Ascended (19678)

14-03-2020, 10:41

Use the source command on the console to (re)load a script. That's a standard Tcl command.

By salutte

Master (165)

16-03-2020, 11:21

Hi all,

Quite some progress on the overhauled profiler with new UI. Still, there are myriads of bugs and a number of non impleemnted features. But scroll buttons work, favorites, timeline, etc..

Teaser:

Pushed in (dev branch):
https://github.com/MartinezTorres/openMSX_profiler

By jltursan

Prophet (2619)

16-03-2020, 11:50

Looking good so far!, keep on the good work!

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

16-03-2020, 18:36

Salutte, I sent you my work-in-progress timeline code shown earlier. It’s not submitted to my repository yet because the way it is now it’s too wide for me to be usable, I need some collapse/expand type UI, but it may be useful to you.

p.s. I was also thinking about showing an info box when you click on a timeline section, showing you details for the individual section. Maybe an idea you can use.

By Bengalack

Paladin (802)

16-03-2020, 18:48

Nice. Could be even nicer if the timeline support for a "pr frame"-profiling which can markers for where vblank is, where line 0 starts and where the last line ends (192/212), both automatically set according to the current refresh rate. Possible?

By salutte

Master (165)

17-03-2020, 05:31

Thanks for the positive feedback!

I'll have the info box, and we can check how to implement the collapse/expand UI for the timeline. As of now, I have that when you click a "tag" you see the timeline of sections contained in that tag during the last execution of that talk (timeline is not dynamic, while the rest is).

W.r.t. VDP frames, I do have code already to support getting info from this markers. I do not know how yet how to put the info without overwhelming the UI, but I'll try!

I tried to make the concept of "frame" more generic. Right now, "frame" is just another tag. In my game, the main scroll routine cycles every 6 frames, thus a "scroll frame" is 6 interupts for me.

Lot's to do still