\documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{report} % perhaps book? % For images \usepackage{graphicx} % For URLs \usepackage{url} % For all our math joys \usepackage{amsmath} % For correct line-breaking. \usepackage[english]{babel} % Syntax highlighting. % \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{color} \setlength{\parskip}{1.5ex} \begin{document} \title{Mufasa Developers Manual} \author{Merlijn Wajer (Wizzup?) \and Raymond van Veneti\"{e} (mastaraymond)} \maketitle \tableofcontents % \lstset{language=Pascal} % \definecolor{lightgray}{rgb}{0.9,0.9,0.9} % \definecolor{mycommentcol}{rgb}{0.2,0.2,0.8} % % \lstset{morecomment=[l][\color{mycommentcol}]{//}, % morecomment=[s][\color{mycommentcol}]{/*}{*/}} % \lstset{backgroundcolor=\color{lightgray}} \chapter{Foreword} A word of thanks to the SRL Community\footnote{http://villavu.com/} and some of it's members. The following persons (in no particular order) have contributed in some way to Simba, note that not all names correspond to the real name of a person, but rather to their corresponding internet name. Benjamin J Land (aka BenLand100), Nielsie95, Markus, Bullzeye95, Yakman, Mixster, ss23, Nava2, Dgby714, Widget. A special word of thanks goes to Frederic Hannes (Freddy1990) for maintaining his program\footnote{SCAR, http://freddy1990.com}, for giving us inspiration and generally for all the time he has put in SRL. That's about it for the foreword, we hope this Document will be of any use to you as reader. Wizzup? and Raymond \chapter{Introduction} This is the Simba / MML (Mufasa Macro Library) documentation, aimed at developers. The document will take several different approaches in treating and explaining Simba / MML internals. We will first discuss the general structure of a particular subject, and if necessary, spent a few sections on files linked with the subject. As Simba depends heavily on the MML and the MML can also actively be used in other languages, we will first discuss the MML, and then turn to Simba. \chapter{MML} The MML\footnote{Mufasa Macro Library} consists out of several modular\footnote{Even though they are seen as modular, some have dependencies on other modules} classes / objects. Each of these classes strive to be completely platform independent. We will look at each of these classes. \footnote{ The last class - TMFiles - may be removed in the future, as it doesn't perform any special operations that are hard to do on other platforms or operating systems. } \begin{itemize} \item TIOManager \item TMFinder \item TMBitmaps \item TMDTM \item TMOCR \item TMFiles \end{itemize} And finally, to bundle all these components into one class, the MML contains a TMClient class, which simply initialises all the previously mentioned classes when it is created, and destroys them when it is destroyed. It also allows modules to access other modules, using the TMClient reference. \section{TMClient} \subsection{Introduction} % Don't confuse with a client \section{TIOManager} \subsection{Introduction} \subsection{TTarget} \subsection{TRawTarget} \subsection{TBitmapTarget} \subsection{TWindow\_Abstract} \subsection{TEIOS\_Client} \subsection{TEIOS\_Target} \subsection{TEIOS\_Controller} \subsection{TTarget\_Exported} \subsection{TIOManager\_Abstract} \section{TMFinder} \subsection{Introduction} The TMFinder class is basically a large collection of different object \footnote{Object being either a colour, bitmap or dtm} ``finding'' methods. It has a reference to it's ``parent'' Client object, since it needs to have access to TIOManager for retreiving client data, and access to managed bitmaps and dtm's in TMBitmaps and TMDTM. \subsection{Caching} % ClientTPA + CachedWidth/CachedHeight. \subsection{Colour Comparison Algorithms} % CTS 0,1,2 \section{TMBitmaps} \section{TMDTM} \subsection{The DTM} DTM is shorthand for Deformable Template Model. \\ \emph{``DTM'' is the term used in SCAR. If it is actually a Deformable Template Model is definately debateable; but for now we will stick to ``DTM''.} \\ A DTM is in my view just a relatively simple way of defining a relationship between several points. Each of these points have a relative offset to each other, and may differ in colour, tolerance, area size and shape. A DTM consists out of one \textbf{Main Point}, and several \textbf{Sub Points} The structure of a DTM looks like this: %\begin{figure}[ht] % \includegraphics[scale=0.4]{Pics/DTM} % \caption{Structure of a DTM.} %\end{figure} Where each point in a DTM has a colour, tolerance, area size and area shape entity. The main point's ``point'' is typically $ (0, 0) $, and all the sub point points are arelative to the main point. ``Point Match'' defines if a point should match or should \textbf{Not} match. Of course, the actual representation in Pascal is slightly different: \begin{verbatim} pDTM = record l: Integer; p: TPointArray; c, t, asz, ash: TIntegerArray; bp: Array Of Boolean; n: String; end; \end{verbatim} \subsubsection{DTM Example} If one was to create his own DTM, he\footnote{Or she} would first have to think of a useful DTM structure. Say: $$ MainPoint = (123, 456) $$ $$ SubPoint_1 = (122, 460) $$ $$ SubPoint_2 = (120, 450) $$ Then we could create the following pDTM structure: \begin{verbatim} // Give dtm.p a length of three. // Mainpoint dtm.p[0] = Point(123, 456); // Subpoints dtm.p[1] = Point(122, 460) dtm.p[2] = Point(120, 450) \end{verbatim} Note that we do not include other variables, such as colour, tolerance, area size and area shape; but they should be handled in a similar manner. However, this code is not very clear about the relation between the DTM's points. Better would be to write: \begin{verbatim} // Give dtm.p a length of three. // Mainpoint dtm.p[0] = Point(0, 0); // Subpoints dtm.p[1] = Point(-1, 4) // 122 - 123 = -1, 460 - 456 = 4 dtm.p[2] = Point(-3, -6) // 120 - 123 = -3, 450 - 456 = -6 \end{verbatim} As you can see it is perfectly valid to use negative points. \subsubsection{Color and Tolerance} The colour value of a point in a DTM is just a RGB integer value. Black = 0, Red = 255, White = 16777215, et cetera. The value tolerance decides if a colour is similar enough to the given colour; if this is the case, we say that the colours \textbf{matched}. With no Area Size and Area Shape specified\footnote{Read: with Area Size = 0 and Area Shape = Rectangle} we say that a DTM matches if for each point in the DTM, the colour at the relative point matches the colour in dtm with the given tolerance. $$ \forall p \in P, \forall t \in Tol, \forall c \in Col : T(C(p), c) \leq t $$ With C() defining the colour at the given point, and T() defining the tolerance between the two given colours. \subsubsection{Area Size and Shape} Area Size and Shape add that nifty extra functionality to DTM's. \textbf{Area Size} defines the area that should all match the colour with the given tolerance. \\ \textbf{Area Shape} is currently not implemented, mainly because we haven't found a good use for area shapes. \subsection{How does TMDTM fit in?} The TMDTM class is a DTM manager. It provides methods to add, store, load and free DTM's. It has a few other features. One of it's other features is keeping track of what DTMs are unfreed. It can also, for example help you find a bug in your code, by printing out information of the DTM that you forgot to free. You can also give names to DTMs, which eases debugging even further. If you try to access an invalid DTM, the MML will throw an exception. \section{TMOCR} \section{TMFiles} \section{Finding algorithms} \section{Portability to other languages} Since it is near to impossible to simply import the MML classes, we are currently writing a library called `libmml', which offers a non-OOP wrapper around the MML library. \chapter{Simba - General} % Loading/Saving % Auto updating % Settings? % Code Completion? \chapter{Simba and PascalScript} \end{document}