Displaying Data Blocks in the Hierarchy — Handmade Hero — Episode Guide

0:05Intro

1:05Recap of the debug system

2:22Ideas for today's work

4:11Remembering how DEBUG_VALUE and DEBUG_BEGIN_DATA_BLOCK worked, considering unifying the unique IDs

5:04Thoughts about using the string in BEGIN_DATA_BLOCK for debug UI layout

5:50More thoughts on using EntityDebugID to differentiate entities without touching gameplay code

6:33Recalling how debug data blocks work, and how they differ from the debug switches handled by the MarkDebugValue event type

8:58Discussing the changes to debug data blocks that we want to implement, and how they'd help when debugging

10:56Thinking about changing the allocation strategy of debug data blocks to match that of debug elements

12:40An idea for unifying the debug data block + debug element code

14:09Changes to the handling of the OpenDataBlock debug event type, to accommodate the new allocation idea

14:57A quick look at how StoreEvent was working with debug elements

15:32Clarification of how the debug system is currently working, and the planned changes

17:06Changes to the handling of the CloseDataBlock debug event type

17:31Updating the AllocateOpenDebugBlock function and open_debug_block struct to store a debug_element

18:47Allowing debug data blocks to override which debug_element StoreEvent stores into

19:24Actually using the right variable, running the game

19:35Removing erroneous quotes from the debug display by no longer passing strings to the DEBUG_BEGIN_DATA_BLOCK macro

19:59Running the game again, noticing a problem with a missing group, figuring out why

21:22Start trying to fix the debug data blocks not displaying as a group

22:32Adding a flag to GetGroupForHierarchicalName to optionally create an additional group

24:01Backtracking on the flag idea, deciding to directly turn the element into a group instead

25:07Verifying how the debug blocks work in the debugger

28:58Explaining how the workings shown in the debugger differ from what was expected

29:35Debugging GetGroupForHierarchicalName

32:51Gaining an understanding of the behaviour, explanation about how only debug_variable_groups have names

33:55Discussing potential solutions for getting the name passed in DEBUG_BEGIN_DATA_BLOCK to show up

34:31Choosing to store the OpenDataBlock event as well as the events for its contents, since it will contain the name

35:19Looking back at how the debug events are drawn, and adding a case for open debug data blocks (bitmap_id initially by mistake)

36:12Questioning why the erroneous change seemingly made a difference in output, figuring out why

36:59Back to thinking about why open data block names aren't showing up

37:31Adding a temporary change to the CloseDataBlock handling, which causes the data block endings to show up

38:03Adding some debug data block specific handling to DEBUGDrawMainMenu so the values inside the data block can be drawn

40:30Creating the DEBUGDrawElement and DEBUGDrawEvent functions to help in the drawing of debug information

42:18Talking about the complications of debug_events and debug_elements and how they both relate to the printing of debug info

43:00Changing DEBUGDrawElement to use debug_stored_event instead of debug_event so that it can walk through the next pointers

44:02Moving most code from DEBUGDrawElement into DEBUGDrawEvent

44:53Changing DEBUGDrawElement to extract the oldest event from the element, and determine if it needs to be forwarded to DEBUGDrawEvent or perform other work

46:58Fixing some compile errors by passing necessary variables to the new functions

47:24Adding the debug_tree to the layout struct and setting it in DEBUGDrawMainMenu

48:56Thinking about also adding the debug_variable_link to the layout struct, but choosing to re-factor the surrounding code to use debug_id instead

52:26Updating the interaction code, changing the function VarLinkInteraction to EventInteraction and passing the debug_id and debug_event instead of the debug_tree and debug_variable_link

54:11Removing the debug_tree from the layout struct since the interaction changes make it unnecessary

54:30Finishing off fixing the remaining compile errors

57:04Removing the now unused GetEventFromLink function

57:57Running the game

58:09Starting to add code to the DebugDrawElement function to loop through debug data blocks, and call DebugDrawEvent for each value held inside

58:50Changing DebugIDFromLink to DebugIDFromStoredEvent

59:35Adding a debug_tree argument to DEBUGDrawElement so that it can be passed to DebugIDFromStoredEvent, and finishing off its data block handling code

1:01:56Game running with the entity related data block now being added to the Simulation hierarchy

1:02:10Noticing problems related to the debug_id changing every frame for data block values

1:03:55Solving the problem by using event GUIDs to get stable debug_ids for data block values instead of the associated debug_stored_event address which wasn't stable

1:05:42Game running with the problem resolved

1:06:41Q&A

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1:06:41Q&A

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1:07:06plain_flavored What is the debug collator?

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1:07:06plain_flavored What is the debug collator?

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1:07:06plain_flavored What is the debug collator?

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1:08:33longboolean https://hero.handmadedev.org/forum/code-discussion/902-day-211-gcc-clang-build-report

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1:08:33longboolean https://hero.handmadedev.org/forum/code-discussion/902-day-211-gcc-clang-build-report

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1:08:33longboolean https://hero.handmadedev.org/forum/code-discussion/902-day-211-gcc-clang-build-report

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1:14:10ChronalDragon How do game devs you work with typically handle temporary / non-shipping sound effects?

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1:14:10ChronalDragon How do game devs you work with typically handle temporary / non-shipping sound effects?

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1:14:10ChronalDragon How do game devs you work with typically handle temporary / non-shipping sound effects?

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1:14:54plain_flavored Will there be a pass to strip unused code from HMH?

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1:14:54plain_flavored Will there be a pass to strip unused code from HMH?

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1:14:54plain_flavored Will there be a pass to strip unused code from HMH?

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1:15:19elxenoaizd What do you think about working in constraints and having limited resources? I think it makes programmers write less lousy code and force them to actually care and know what they're doing...

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1:15:19elxenoaizd What do you think about working in constraints and having limited resources? I think it makes programmers write less lousy code and force them to actually care and know what they're doing...

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1:15:19elxenoaizd What do you think about working in constraints and having limited resources? I think it makes programmers write less lousy code and force them to actually care and know what they're doing...

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1:15:38nxsy Can we get rid of the build error (something about introspection of structs) that doesn't seem to affect anything?

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1:15:38nxsy Can we get rid of the build error (something about introspection of structs) that doesn't seem to affect anything?

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1:15:38nxsy Can we get rid of the build error (something about introspection of structs) that doesn't seem to affect anything?

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1:18:31TheSizik You missed Region->ColorIndex = (u16)OpeningEvent->BlockName;

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1:18:31TheSizik You missed Region->ColorIndex = (u16)OpeningEvent->BlockName;

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1:18:31TheSizik You missed Region->ColorIndex = (u16)OpeningEvent->BlockName;

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1:19:09insofaras How many lines are we at now?

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1:19:09insofaras How many lines are we at now?

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1:19:09insofaras How many lines are we at now?

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1:20:01ChronalDragon Sure. What's a quick way to _produce_ temporary sound effects to, for example, figure out where/when they should be played?

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1:20:01ChronalDragon Sure. What's a quick way to _produce_ temporary sound effects to, for example, figure out where/when they should be played?

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1:20:01ChronalDragon Sure. What's a quick way to _produce_ temporary sound effects to, for example, figure out where/when they should be played?

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1:21:16TheSizik Not stripping unused code is how GTA Hot Coffee happened

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1:21:16TheSizik Not stripping unused code is how GTA Hot Coffee happened

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1:21:16TheSizik Not stripping unused code is how GTA Hot Coffee happened

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1:23:49elxenoaizd If a programming job wasn't available to you, what type of work would you be interested in doing other than programming for a living?

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1:23:49elxenoaizd If a programming job wasn't available to you, what type of work would you be interested in doing other than programming for a living?

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1:23:49elxenoaizd If a programming job wasn't available to you, what type of work would you be interested in doing other than programming for a living?

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1:24:10actbinary What do you think of dlc then? ;)

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1:24:10actbinary What do you think of dlc then? ;)

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1:24:10actbinary What do you think of dlc then? ;)

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1:26:41BrutalABK Do you play MMOs, if so, how do you feel about the way they do their leveling?

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1:26:41BrutalABK Do you play MMOs, if so, how do you feel about the way they do their leveling?

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1:26:41BrutalABK Do you play MMOs, if so, how do you feel about the way they do their leveling?

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1:26:52Wind down

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1:26:52Wind down

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1:26:52Wind down

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