Changelog¶

3.3.1 (2013-03-04)¶

Added support to the @set ASM directive for the comment-width-min, indent, instruction-width, label-colons, line-width and warnings properties
Added support to the HtmlWriterClass parameter (in the [Config] section) and the @writer directive for specifying a module outside the module search path (e.g. a standalone module that is not part of an installed package)
sna2skool.py now correctly renders an empty block description as a dot (.) on a line of its own

Added support to sna2skool.py for reading code execution maps produced by the Fuse, SpecEmu, Spud, Zero and Z80 emulators (to generate more accurate control files)
Increased the speed at which sna2skool.py generates control files
Added support to sna2skool.py for disassembling 128K SNA snapshots

Added support to sna2skool.py for disassembling 128K Z80 snapshots and 16K, 48K and 128K SZX snapshots
Added the #LIST macro (for rendering lists of bulleted items in both HTML mode and ASM mode)
Added the @set ASM directive (for setting properties on the ASM writer)
Added trivia entries to jet_set_willy.ref
Annotated the source code remnants at 32768 and 37708 in manic_miner.ctl

Added support to skool2ctl.py and skool2sft.py for DEFB and DEFM statements that contain both strings and bytes
skool2ctl.py now correctly processes lower case DEFB, DEFM, DEFS and DEFW statements
The length of a string (in a DEFB or DEFM statement) that contains one or more backslashes is now correctly calculated by skool2ctl.py and skool2sft.py
DEFB and DEFM statements that contain both strings and bytes are now correctly converted to lower case, upper case, decimal or hexadecimal (when using the -l, -u, -D and -H options of skool2asm.py and skool2html.py)
Operations involving (IX+n) or (IY+n) expressions are now correctly converted to lower case decimal or hexadecimal (when using the -l, -D and -H options of skool2asm.py and skool2html.py)

The ‘Glossary’ page is formatted in the same way as the ‘Trivia’, ‘Bugs’, ‘Pokes’ and ‘Graphic glitches’ pages
When the link text of a #LINK macro is left blank, the link text of the page is substituted
The disassembler escapes backslashes and double quotes in DEFM statements (so that skool2asm.py no longer has to)
DEFB and DEFM statements that contain both strings and bytes are parsed correctly for the purpose of building a memory snapshot

Added the #HTML macro (for rendering arbitrary text in HTML mode only)
Added support for distinguishing input values from output values in a routine’s register section (by using prefixes such as ‘Input:’ and ‘Output:’)
Added support for the InputRegisterTableHeader and OutputRegisterTableHeader parameters in the [Game] section of the ref file
Added the ‘default’ CSS class for HTML tables created by the #TABLE macro

Enhanced the #UDGARRAY macro so that it accepts both horizontal and vertical steps in UDG address ranges
Added support for the Font and FontPath parameters in the [Paths] section of the ref file (for specifying font files used by CSS @font-face rules)
Added a Spectrum theme CSS file that uses the Spectrum font and colours: skoolkit-spectrum.css
Fixed skool2asm.py so that it escapes backslashes and double quotes in DEFM statements

Added documentation on extending SkoolKit
Added the @writer ASM directive (to specify the class to use for producing ASM output)
Added the #CHR macro (for rendering arbitrary unicode characters); removed support for the redundant #C macro accordingly
Added support for the #CALL, #REFS, #EREFS, #PUSHS, #POKES and #POPS macros in ASM mode
Added the -c option to skool2html.py (to simulate adding lines to the ref file)
Added a dark theme CSS file: skoolkit-dark.css

Added room images and descriptions to manic_miner.ctl and jet_set_willy.ctl (based on reference material from Andrew Broad and J. G. Harston)
Fixed the bug that prevents the ‘Data tables and buffers’ section from appearing on the disassembly index page when the default DataTables link group is used

Added support for creating GIF files (including transparent and animated GIFs)
Added support for creating animated PNGs in APNG format
Added support for transparency in PNG images (by using the PNGAlpha parameter in the [ImageWriter] section of the ref file)
Added an example control file: jet_set_willy.ctl
Fixed the bug in how images are cropped by the #FONT, #SCR, #UDG and #UDGARRAY macros when using non-zero X and Y parameters

SkoolKit now works with Python 3.x
Added a native image creation library, which can be configured by using the [ImageWriter] section of the ref file; gd and PIL are no longer required or supported
Enhanced the #SCR macro so that graphic data and attribute bytes in places other than the display file and attribute file may be used to build a screenshot
Added image-cropping capabilities to the #FONT, #SCR, #UDG and #UDGARRAY macros