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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.
This PR introduces a new `ColorType` to allow us to distinguish between
`SGR` indexed colors from the 16 color table, the lower half of which
can be brightened, and the ISO/ITU indexed colors from the 256 color
table, which have a fixed brightness. Retaining the distinction between
these two types will enable us to forward the correct `SGR` sequences to
conpty when addressing issue #2661.
The other benefit of retaining the color index (which we didn't
previously do for ISO/ITU colors) is that it ensures that the colors are
updated correctly when the color scheme is changed.
## References
* This is another step towards fixing the conpty narrowing bugs in issue
#2661.
* This is technically a fix for issue #5384, but that won't be apparent
until #2661 is complete.
## PR Checklist
* [x] Closes#1223
* [x] CLA signed.
* [x] Tests added/passed
* [ ] Requires documentation to be updated
* [x] I've discussed this with core contributors already.
## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
The first part of this PR was the introduction of a new `ColorType` in
the `TextColor` class. Instead of just the one `IsIndex` type, there is
now an `IsIndex16` and an `IsIndex256`. `IsIndex16` covers the eight
original ANSI colors set with `SGR 3x` and `SGR 4x`, as well as the
brighter aixterm variants set with `SGR 9x` and `SGR 10x`. `IsIndex256`
covers the 256 ISO/ITU indexed colors set with `SGR 38;5` and `SGR
48;5`.
There are two reasons for this distinction. The first is that the ANSI
colors have the potential to be brightened by the `SGR 1` bold
attribute, while the ISO/ITO color do not. The second reason is that
when forwarding an attributes through conpty, we want to try and
preserve the original SGR sequence that generated each color (to the
extent that that is possible). By having the two separate types, we can
map the `IsIndex16` colors back to ANSI/aixterm values, and `IsIndex256`
to the ISO/ITU sequences.
In addition to the VT colors, we also have to deal with the legacy
colors set by the Windows console APIs, but we don't really need a
separate type for those. It seemed most appropriate to me to store them
as `IsIndex256` colors, since it doesn't make sense to have them
brightened by the `SGR 1` attribute (which is what would happen if they
were stored as `IsIndex16`). If a console app wanted a bright color it
would have selected one, so we shouldn't be messing with that choice.
The second part of the PR was the unification of the two color tables.
Originally we had a 16 color table for the legacy colors, and a separate
table for the 256 ISO/ITU colors. These have now been merged into one,
so color table lookups no longer need to decide which of the two tables
they should be referencing. I've also updated all the methods that took
a color table as a parameter to use a `basic_string_view` instead of
separate pointer and length variables, which I think makes them a lot
easier and safer to work with.
With this new architecture in place, I could now update the
`AdaptDispatch` SGR implementation to store the ISO/ITU indexed colors
as `IsIndex256` values, where before they were mapped to RGB values
(which prevented them reflecting any color scheme changes). I could also
update the `TerminalDispatch` implementation to differentiate between
the two index types, so that the `SGR 1` brightening would only be
applied to the ANSI colors.
I've also done a bit of code refactoring to try and minimise any direct
access to the color tables, getting rid of a lot of places that were
copying tables with `memmove` operations. I'm hoping this will make it
easier for us to update the code in the future if we want to reorder the
table entries (which is likely a requirement for unifying the
`AdaptDispatch` and `TerminalDispatch` implementations).
## Validation Steps Performed
For testing, I've just updated the existing unit tests to account for
the API changes. The `TextColorTests` required an extra parameter
specifying the index type when setting an index. And the `AdapterTest`
and `ScreenBufferTests` required the use of the new `SetIndexedXXX`
methods in order to be explicit about the index type, instead of relying
on the `TextAttribute` constructor and the old `SetForeground` and
`SetBackground` methods which didn't have a way to differentiate index
types.
I've manually tested the various console APIs
(`SetConsoleTextAttribute`, `ReadConsoleOutputAttribute`, and
`ReadConsoleOutput`), to make sure they are still setting and reading
the attributes as well as they used to. And I've tested the
`SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx` and `GetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx` APIs
to make sure they can read and write the color table correctly. I've
also tested the color table in the properties dialog, made sure it was
saved and restored from the registry correctly, and similarly saved and
restored from a shortcut link.
Note that there are still a bunch of issues with the color table APIs,
but no new problems have been introduced by the changes in this PR, as
far as I could tell.
I've also done a bunch of manual tests of `OSC 4` to make sure it's
updating all the colors correctly (at least in conhost), and confirmed
that the test case in issue #1223 now works as expected.
If a class has a constructor which can be called with a single argument,
then this constructor becomes conversion constructor because such a
constructor allows conversion of the single argument to the class being
constructed. To ensure these constructors are passed the argument of its
type, I labeled them explicit.
In some header files, there were constructors that took a value that
could involve implicit conversions, so I added explicit to ensure that
does not happen.
