This PR merges the default colors and cursor color into the main color
table, enabling us to simplify the `ConGetSet` and `ITerminalApi`
interfaces, with just two methods required for getting and setting any
form of color palette entry.
The is a follow-up to the color table standardization in #11602, and a
another small step towards de-duplicating `AdaptDispatch` and
`TerminalDispatch` for issue #3849. It should also make it easier to
support color queries (#3718) and a configurable bold color (#5682) in
the future.
On the conhost side, default colors could originally be either indexed
positions in the 16-color table, or separate standalone RGB values. With
the new system, the default colors will always be in the color table, so
we just need to track their index positions.
To make this work, those positions need to be calculated at startup
based on the loaded registry/shortcut settings, and updated when
settings are changed (this is handled in
`CalculateDefaultColorIndices`). But the plus side is that it's now much
easier to lookup the default color values for rendering.
For now the default colors in Windows Terminal use hardcoded positions,
because it doesn't need indexed default colors like conhost. But in the
future I'd like to extend the index handling to both terminals, so we
can eventually support the VT525 indexed color operations.
As for the cursor color, that was previously stored in the `Cursor`
class, which meant that it needed to be copied around in various places
where cursors were being instantiated. Now that it's managed separately
in the color table, a lot of that code is no longer required.
## Validation
Some of the unit test initialization code needed to be updated to setup
the color table and default index values as required for the new system.
There were also some adjustments needed to account for API changes, in
particular for methods that now take index values for the default colors
in place of COLORREFs. But for the most part, the essential behavior of
the tests remains unchanged.
I've also run a variety of manual tests looking at the legacy console
APIs as well as the various VT color sequences, and checking that
everything works as expected when color schemes are changed, both in
Windows Terminal and conhost, and in the latter case with both indexed
colors and RGB values.
Closes#11768
## Summary of the Pull Request
In the original implementation, we used two different orderings for the color tables. The WT color table used ANSI order, while the conhost color table used a Windows-specific order. This PR standardizes on the ANSI color order everywhere, so the usage of indexed colors is consistent across both parts of the code base, which will hopefully allow more of the code to be shared one day.
## References
This is another small step towards de-duplicating `AdaptDispatch` and `TerminalDispatch` for issue #3849, and is essentially a followup to the SGR dispatch refactoring in PR #6728.
## PR Checklist
* [x] Closes#11461
* [x] CLA signed.
* [x] Tests added/passed
* [ ] Documentation updated.
* [ ] Schema updated.
* [x] I've discussed this with core contributors already. Issue number where discussion took place: #11461
## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
Conhost still needs to deal with legacy attributes using Windows color order, so those values now need to be transposed to ANSI colors order when creating a `TextAttribute` object. This is done with a simple mapping table, which also handles the translation of the default color entries, so it's actually slightly faster than the original code.
And when converting `TextAttribute` values back to legacy console attributes, we were already using a mapping table to handle the narrowing of 256-color values down to 16 colors, so we just needed to adjust that table to account for the translation from ANSI to Windows, and then could make use of the same table for both 256-color and 16-color values.
There are also a few places in conhost that read from or write to the color tables, and those now need to transpose the index values. I've addressed this by creating separate `SetLegacyColorTableEntry` and `GetLegacyColorTableEntry` methods in the `Settings` class which take care of the mapping, so it's now clearer in which cases the code is dealing with legacy values, and which are ANSI values.
These methods are used in the `SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx` and `GetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx` APIs, as well as a few place where color preferences are handled (the registry, shortcut links, and the properties dialog), none of which are particularly sensitive to performance. However, we also use the legacy table when looking up the default colors for rendering (which happens a lot), so I've refactored that code so the default color calculations now only occur once per frame.
The plus side of all of this is that the VT code doesn't need to do the index translation anymore, so we can finally get rid of all the calls to `XTermToWindowsIndex`, and we no longer need a separate color table initialization method for conhost, so I was able to merge a number of color initialization methods into one. We also no longer need to translate from legacy values to ANSI when generating VT sequences for conpty.
The one exception to that is the 16-color VT renderer, which uses the `TextColor::GetLegacyIndex` method to approximate 16-color equivalents for RGB and 256-color values. Since that method returns a legacy index, it still needs to be translated to ANSI before it can be used in a VT sequence. But this should be no worse than it was before.
One more special case is conhost's secret _Color Selection_ feature. That uses `Ctrl`+Number and `Alt`+Number key sequences to highlight parts of the buffer, and the mapping from number to color is based on the Windows color order. So that mapping now needs to be transposed, but that's also not performance sensitive.
The only thing that I haven't bothered to update is the trace logging code in the `Telemetry` class, which logs the first 16 entries in the color table. Those entries are now going to be in a different order, but I didn't think that would be of great concern to anyone.
## Validation Steps Performed
A lot of unit tests needed to be updated to use ANSI color constants when setting indexed colors, where before they might have been expecting values in Windows order. But this replaced a wild mix of different constants, sometimes having to use bit shifting, as well as values mapped with `XTermToWindowsIndex`, so I think the tests are a whole lot clearer now. Only a few cases have been left with literal numbers where that seemed more appropriate.
In addition to getting the unit tests working, I've also manually tested the behaviour of all the console APIs which I thought could be affected by these changes, and confirmed that they produced the same results in the new code as they did in the original implementation.
This includes:
- `WriteConsoleOutput`
- `ReadConsoleOutput`
- `SetConsoleTextAttribute` with `WriteConsoleOutputCharacter`
- `FillConsoleOutputAttribute` and `FillConsoleOutputCharacter`
- `ScrollConsoleScreenBuffer`
- `GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo`
- `GetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx`
- `SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx`
I've also manually tested changing colors via the console properties menu, the registry, and shortcut links, including setting default colors and popup colors. And I've tested that the "Quirks Mode" is still working as expected in PowerShell.
In terms of performance, I wrote a little test app that filled a 80x9999 buffer with random color combinations using `WriteConsoleOutput`, which I figured was likely to be the most performance sensitive call, and I think it now actually performs slightly better than the original implementation.
I've also tested similar code - just filling the visible window - with SGR VT sequences of various types, and the performance seems about the same as it was before.
## References
* See also #8617
## PR Checklist
* [x] Supports #3075
* [x] I work here.
* [x] Manual test.
## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
### Window Title Generation
Every time the renderer checks the title, it's doing two bad things that
I've fixed:
1. It's assembling the prefix to the full title doing a concatenation.
No one ever gets just the prefix ever after it is set besides the
concat. So instead of storing prefix and the title, I store the
assembled prefix + title and the bare title.
2. A copy must be made because it was returning `std::wstring` instead
of `std::wstring&`. Now it returns the ref.
### Dirty Area Return
Every time the renderer checks the dirty area, which is sometimes
multiple times per pass (regular text printing, again for selection,
etc.), a vector is created off the heap to return the rectangles. The
consumers only ever iterate this data. Now we return a span over a
rectangle or rectangles that the engine must store itself.
1. For some renderers, it's always a constant 1 element. They update
that 1 element when dirty is queried and return it in the span with a
span size of 1.
2. For other renderers with more complex behavior, they're already
holding a cached vector of rectangles. Now it's effectively giving
out the ref to those in the span for iteration.
### Bitmap Runs
The `til::bitmap` used a `std::optional<std::vector<til::rectangle>>`
inside itself to cache its runs and would clear the optional when the
runs became invalidated. Unfortunately doing `.reset()` to clear the
optional will destroy the underlying vector and have it release its
memory. We know it's about to get reallocated again, so we're just going
to make it a `std::pmr::vector` and give it a memory pool.
The alternative solution here was to use a `bool` and
`std::vector<til::rectangle>` and just flag when the vector was invalid,
but that was honestly more code changes and I love excuses to try out
PMR now.
Also, instead of returning the ref to the vector... I'm just returning a
span now. Everyone just iterates it anyway, may as well not share the
implementation detail.
### UTF-8 conversions
When testing with Terminal and looking at the `conhost.exe`'s PTY
renderer, it spends a TON of allocation time on converting all the
UTF-16 stuff inside to UTF-8 before it sends it out the PTY. This was
because `ConvertToA` was allocating a string inside itself and returning
it just to have it freed after printing and looping back around again...
as a PTY does.
The change here is to use `til::u16u8` that accepts a buffer out
parameter so the caller can just hold onto it.
## Validation Steps Performed
- [x] `big.txt` in conhost.exe (GDI renderer)
- [x] `big.txt` in Terminal (DX, PTY renderer)
- [x] Ensure WDDM and BGFX build under Razzle with this change.
Many include statements use forward slashes, while others use backwards
slashes. This is inconsistent formatting. For this reason, I changed the
backward slashes to forward slashes since that is the standard.
This PR adds support for the _blink_ graphic rendition attribute. When a
character is output with this attribute set, it "blinks" at a regular
interval, by cycling its color between the normal rendition and a dimmer
shade of that color.
The majority of the blinking mechanism is encapsulated in a new
`BlinkingState` class, which is shared between the Terminal and Conhost
implementations. This class keeps track of the position in the blinking
cycle, which determines whether characters are rendered as normal or
faint.
In Windows Terminal, the state is stored in the `Terminal` class, and in
Conhost it's stored in the `CONSOLE_INFORMATION` class. In both cases,
the `IsBlinkingFaint` method is used to determine the current blinking
rendition, and that is passed on as a parameter to the
`TextAttribute::CalculateRgbColors` method when these classes are
looking up attribute colors.
Prior to calculating the colors, the current attribute is also passed to
the `RecordBlinkingUsage` method, which keeps track of whether there are
actually any blink attributes in use. This is used to determine whether
the screen needs to be refreshed when the blinking cycle toggles between
the normal and faint renditions.
The refresh itself is handled by the `ToggleBlinkingRendition` method,
which is triggered by a timer. In Conhost this is just piggybacking on
the existing cursor blink timer, but in Windows Terminal it needs to
have its own separate timer, since the cursor timer is reset whenever a
key is pressed, which is not something we want for attribute blinking.
Although the `ToggleBlinkingRendition` is called at the same rate as the
cursor blinking, we actually only want the cells to blink at half that
frequency. We thus have a counter that cycles through four phases, and
blinking is rendered as faint for two of those four. Then every two
cycles - when the state changes - a redraw is triggered, but only if
there are actually blinking attributes in use (as previously recorded).
As mentioned earlier, the blinking frequency is based on the cursor
blink rate, so that means it'll automatically be disabled if a user has
set their cursor blink rate to none. It can also be disabled by turning
off the _Show animations in Windows_ option. In Conhost these settings
take effect immediately, but in Windows Terminal they only apply when a
new tab is opened.
This PR also adds partial support for the `SGR 6` _rapid blink_
attribute. This is not used by DEC terminals, but was defined in the
ECMA/ANSI standards. It's not widely supported, but many terminals just
it implement it as an alias for the regular `SGR 5` blink attribute, so
that's what I've done here too.
## Validation Steps Performed
I've checked the _Graphic rendition test pattern_ in Vttest, and
compared our representation of the blink attribute to that of an actual
DEC VT220 terminal as seen on [YouTube]. With the right color scheme
it's a reasonably close match.
[YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pz5AmxbE4&t=1m55sCloses#7388
This PR reimplements the VT rendering engines to do a better job of
preserving the original color types when propagating attributes over
ConPTY. For the 16-color renderers it provides better support for
default colors and improves the efficiency of the color narrowing
conversions. It also fixes problems with the ordering of character
renditions that could result in attributes being dropped.
Originally the base renderer would calculate the RGB color values and
legacy/extended attributes up front, passing that data on to the active
engine's `UpdateDrawingBrushes` method. With this new implementation,
the renderer now just passes through the original `TextAttribute` along
with an `IRenderData` interface, and leaves it to the engines to extract
the information they need.
The GDI and DirectX engines now have to lookup the RGB colors themselves
(via simple `IRenderData` calls), but have no need for the other
attributes. The VT engines extract the information that they need from
the `TextAttribute`, instead of having to reverse engineer it from
`COLORREF`s.
The process for the 256-color Xterm engine starts with a check for
default colors. If both foreground and background are default, it
outputs a SGR 0 reset, and clears the `_lastTextAttribute` completely to
make sure any reset state is reapplied. With that out the way, the
foreground and background are updated (if changed) in one of 4 ways.
They can either be a default value (SGR 39 and 49), a 16-color index
(using ANSI or AIX sequences), a 256-color index, or a 24-bit RGB value
(both using SGR 38 and 48 sequences).
Then once the colors are accounted for, there is a separate step that
handles the character rendition attributes (bold, italics, underline,
etc.) This step must come _after_ the color sequences, in case a SGR
reset is required, which would otherwise have cleared any character
rendition attributes if it came last (which is what happened in the
original implementation).
The process for the 16-color engines is a little different. The target
client in this case (Windows telnet) is incapable of setting default
colors individually, so we need to output an SGR 0 reset if _either_
color has changed to default. With that out the way, we use the
`TextColor::GetLegacyIndex` method to obtain an approximate 16-color
index for each color, and apply the bold attribute by brightening the
foreground index (setting bit 8) if the color type permits that.
However, since Windows telnet only supports the 8 basic ANSI colors, the
best we can do for bright colors is to output an SGR 1 attribute to get
a bright foreground. There is nothing we can do about a bright
background, so after that we just have to drop the high bit from the
colors. If the resulting index values have changed from what they were
before, we then output ANSI 8-color SGR sequences to update them.
As with the 256-color engine, there is also a final step to handle the
character rendition attributes. But in this case, the only supported
attributes are underline and reversed video.
Since the VT engines no longer depend on the active color table and
default color values, there was quite a lot of code that could now be
removed. This included the `IDefaultColorProvider` interface and
implementations, the `Find(Nearest)TableIndex` functions, and also the
associated HLS conversion and difference calculations.
VALIDATION
Other than simple API parameter changes, the majority of updates
required in the unit tests were to correct assumptions about the way the
colors should be rendered, which were the source of the narrowing bugs
this PR was trying to fix. Like passing white on black to the
`UpdateDrawingBrushes` API, and expecting it to output the default `SGR
0` sequence, or passing an RGB color and expecting an indexed SGR
sequence.
In addition to that, I've added some VT renderer tests to make sure the
rendition attributes (bold, underline, etc) are correctly retained when
a default color update causes an `SGR 0` sequence to be generated (the
source of bug #3076). And I've extended the VT renderer color tests
(both 256-color and 16-color) to make sure we're covering all of the
different color types (default, RGB, and both forms of indexed colors).
I've also tried to manually verify that all of the test cases in the
linked bug reports (and their associated duplicates) are now fixed when
this PR is applied.
Closes#2661Closes#3076Closes#3717Closes#5384Closes#5864
This is only a partial fix for #293, but I suspect the remaining cases
are unfixable.
## Summary of the Pull Request
Move the contents and functionality of MouseInput from TerminalAdapter
to TerminalInput.
## References
#545 - VT Mouse Mode (Terminal)
#376 - VT Mouse Mode (ConPty)
## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
Pretty straightforward. The MouseInput class was a bit large though so I
split it up into a few files. This should make TerminalInput a bit
easier to manage.
- `mouseInputState`: enable some of the modes for mouse input. All saved
to `_mouseInputState`.
- `mouseInput`: basically just `HandleMouse()` and any helper functions
## Validation Steps Performed
Tests should still pass.
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