BACKLOG.md

Backlog

• check out what went wrong with win build after 2022-06-03
  • gh action for zig build wonky?
  • gh win builds just stopped working - "illegal instruction"
    • even when we build for sandylake cpus
  • but on my win laptop, zig build produces valid .exe files

BUGS

• render bug: breaking line after a formatted section: seems like the formatting moves the left margin

• related render bug: when breaking formatted word (does not reset left bound of box to that of text box)

• render bug (old description):

    @pop bigbox y=720 x=110 w=900 h=900
    - _**right:**_ Fake Lane Attack on Tesla Autopilot
        - researchers successfully tricked Tesla Autopilot into driving into opposing traffic by placing "small stickers as interference patches on the ground"
    _
    # TODO: BUG! Below line wraps the bold text wrongly (vulnerability below adverserial)
    <#cd0f2dff>The susceptability to such attacks is called **_adverserial vulnerability_**</>

Baklog and stuff in random order

• use zlib to create zip files in pptx exports

  • minizip.c

• laserpointer:

  • allow for much smaller size(s)
  • laserpointer tail
  • drawing in laserpointer mode

• linking to self-built libpng, zlib

• exporting to powerpoint

• inspector window

  • shows @box attributes: x, y, w, h, color, img, text - and lets them edit / pick ... sliders
  • replaces text inline if possible
  • auto-bake font sizes: after loading an .sld file

• font hot reloading - fonts declared in slideshows

• custom bullet symbol (char)

• parser bug

    # debug TODO bug
    # - trading bot has one of _m_ artificial emotional voices
    # seems like single letters cannot be used in formatting
    - trading bot has one of _m_ artificial emotional voices

• re-introduce $slide_number

• SEARCH function

• get markdown rendering right

• kinesis-friendlyness: make backspace button go one slide back

• jump to editor cursor pos on error

• dupe editor mem -> editing won't change slides stuff

• fix parser and initial slide rendering

• allow shortcut keys if editor !active (instead of !visible)

• editor width shrink, grow buttons

• show line in open editor when changing slides (!new! flash it!)

• drag editor width button y-centered - can be used as dummy button for flash animation? no, it would flash, too

• If there are no slides, show a colored background in showslides

• if current slide index > num_slides: jump to last slide in showslides -- this will be used in hot reloads

• hot reload slides

• $slide_number

• bullets bg imgs and colors -- bullets-like template

• separate arena for slides : on reload just wipe the arena

• outdated: initial bullet rendering: draw text first, substituting bullet symbols by " ", then a second time with just the bullets in their own style

• probably outdated: slides: get items parsed into render elements: texts split into blocks of normal and bulleted text - for special bullet rendering and formatting like centering

• Menus - bring back the menus!

• render bullets in bulleted text boxes, with nice indents (come automatically on wrap :)

• parse markdown (dialect) subset

• load (and cache) bold, italic, bolditalic fonts

• render markdown

• laserpointer

• implement underline:

  • and do we have ==highlight==? NO!

• formatting: center

• Overview Mode

• PDF export

  • via png?
  • native?

• GUI Themes

• hide mouse cursor in full-screen mode

  • at least in i3wm this does neither work with sapp_show_mouse(false) nor igSetMouseCursor(ImGuiMouseCursor_None).

• presenter mode - with notes? multi-monitor-support?

  • interesting idea: compagnion website: shows slideshow notes, timer, etc -- instead of 2nd monitor
  • when in home office, we aren't connected to a beamer - and don't have a 2nd monitor
  • hosted directly by the exe: we are in same network anyway

• export to bullets

  • dockerized exports for web, win, linux

• dockerized builds of slides, incl windows !!! (provide missing libs) -- is this possible?

• nicer (image?) buttons

• FONTS

  • cache all font sizes
    • cache fullscreen font sizes (cause they matter most!)
  • allow user-defined fonts
  • see below

Themes

• Load default.theme if present next to executable
• Auto-reload theme if file changed
  • Call checkIfThemeChanged(check_interval_ms: i32, dt_ms: i32)
  • Put in:
    • all anim timers, colors
    • all relevant slides specific ui colors
    • all relevant imgui colors
    • fonts, font sizes
• edit themes in built-in editor

Menus

Hide menus in full-screen mode !!!

• File

  • new
  • open
  • save
  • save as
  • quit

• (edit)

• View

  • toggle fullscreen
  • toggle editor
  • toggle overview
  • toggle on-screen menu buttons
  • Switch Theme
    • default
    • other detected theme 1
    • other detected theme 2
    • separator ---
    • load theme file

Show menu also in main menu screen (on startup). This makes the main menu screen a start screen only. Going back to the start screen is not really practical once we have the menu. So the main menu button can go.

Exports and Builds

Export to Bullets

Export a godot project : templated .tscn

Create static Dockerfile in Export that builds all exports (win, lin, web) of the presentation.

Build Slides executable via docker

Easy builds and releases -- can potentially be put into GitHub CI.

Option A

GitHub CI - if it provides windows builds

Option B

Check if we can provide the missing windows links and cross-compile / cross-build it in just one Docker container.

Fonts

We cannot add fonts to the font atlas while in a render call. However, with upaya, we never get outside of a render call. Hence, we adapted the default baked font sizes so they look good on our monitor, both in default window size and full screen

Workarounds

Adapt sokol

To give us a callback before rendering a frame.

Write font baking info to file

... and allow to load it from the command line

a default baked_fonts.config could replace our fixed list - the list would only be used if no baked_fonts.config is present.