* plugins/layout: Log script errors at warning level rather than verbose
level.
* microtouch.lay, pntnpuzl.lay: Improved pointer mapping code.
* Reordered all layouts to place views after element and group
definitions and scripts last. This matches how layout files are
interpreted by MAME.
* Fixed various errors identified by validating layout files against an
XSD schema.
Systems promoted to working
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Sega TV Ocha-Ken [QUFB]
Software list items promoted to working (tvochken.xml)
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TV to Ocha-Card: Ocha-Ken 'Ho' to Seikatsu [Vas Crabb]
sega_beena_cart.xml: Put page scans in individual data areas.
frontend/mame/luaengine_mem.cpp: Added a raw read function for memory
regions.
plugins/layout: Added bitmap classes to layout sandbox.
* Moved several machine lifecycle callbacks to the notifier/subscriber
model. The old callback registration model is still available for
them for now, but prints a deprecation warning.
* Added pre-save/post-load notifications.
* Use a single allocated timer rather than one anonymous timer per
waiter. Waiters no longer prevent saved states from being loaded.
* Clean up outstanding waiters on stop or state load rather than just
leaking them.
* Started documenting parts of the emulator interface object that should
be relatively stable.
-imagedev/avivideo.cpp: Fixed an object leak on unload. Also changed
some other media image devices to use smart pointers.
* msx2_flop.xml: Fixed a couple of Japanese titles.
* plugins/layout: Added a couple of things to the layout script sandbox.
* Tidied up Hyper Neo Geo 64 code (srcclean etc.).
Made the sound manager mute controls readable, and got rid of system
enable since it just controls system mute anyway. This was causing
confusion: phantom2 was trying to use both independentlyt casuing the
mute bit to be ignored.
THe Lua interface changes are mostly changing methods to properties,
some renames to make things clearer, and some additional properties for
better control over snapshots.
The things that were previously called device iterators are not
iterators in the C++ sense of the word. This is confusing for
newcomers. These have been renamed to be device enumerators.
Several Lua methods and properties that previously returned tables now
return lightweight wrappers for the underlying objects. This means
creating them is a lot faster, but you can't modify them, and the
performance characteristics of different operations varies.
The render manager's target list uses 1-based indexing to be more like
idiomatic Lua.
It's now possible to create a device enumerator on any device, and then
get subdevices (or sibling devices) using a relative tag.
Much more render/layout functionality has been exposed to Lua. Layout
scripts now have access to the layout file and can directly set the
state of an item with no bindings, or register callbacks to obtain
state. Some things that were previously methods are now read-only
properties.
Layout files are no longer required to supply a "name". This was
problematic because the same layout file could be loaded for multiple
instances of the same device, and each instance of the layout file
should use the correct inputs (and in the future outputs) for the device
instance it's associated with.
This should also fix video output with MSVC builds by avoiding delegates
that return things that don't fit in a register.
luaengine: callbacks for plugins (nw)
rendlay: layout tag external handler support (nw)
fidel_csc and mdndclab: example layout scripts (nw)
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Neither layout script is complete. The chess doesn't handle castling or en passant and the Dungeons and Dragons only does the walls.
