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James Holderness 4c53c595e7
Add support for double-width/double-height lines in conhost (#8664)
This PR adds support for the VT line rendition attributes, which allow
for double-width and double-height line renditions. These renditions are
enabled with the `DECDWL` (double-width line) and `DECDHL`
(double-height line) escape sequences. Both reset to the default
rendition with the `DECSWL` (single-width line) escape sequence. For now
this functionality is only supported by the GDI renderer in conhost.

There are a lot of changes, so this is just a general overview of the
main areas affected.

Previously it was safe to assume that the screen had a fixed width, at
least for a given point in time. But now we need to deal with the
possibility of different lines have different widths, so all the
functions that are constrained by the right border (text wrapping,
cursor movement operations, and sequences like `EL` and `ICH`) now need
to lookup the width of the active line in order to behave correctly.

Similarly it used to be safe to assume that buffer and screen
coordinates were the same thing, but that is no longer true. Lots of
places now need to translate back and forth between coordinate systems
dependent on the line rendition. This includes clipboard handling, the
conhost color selection and search, accessibility location tracking and
screen reading, IME editor positioning, "snapping" the viewport, and of
course all the rendering calculations.

For the rendering itself, I've had to introduce a new
`PrepareLineTransform` method that the render engines can use to setup
the necessary transform matrix for a given line rendition. This is also
now used to handle the horizontal viewport offset, since that could no
longer be achieved just by changing the target coordinates (on a double
width line, the viewport offset may be halfway through a character).

I've also had to change the renderer's existing `InvalidateCursor`
method to take a `SMALL_RECT` rather than a `COORD`, to allow for the
cursor being a variable width. Technically this was already a problem,
because the cursor could occupy two screen cells when over a
double-width character, but now it can be anything between one and four
screen cells (e.g. a double-width character on the double-width line).

In terms of architectural changes, there is now a new `lineRendition`
field in the `ROW` class that keeps track of the line rendition for each
row, and several new methods in the `ROW` and `TextBuffer` classes for
manipulating that state. This includes a few helper methods for handling
the various issues discussed above, e.g. position clamping and
translating between coordinate systems.

## Validation Steps Performed

I've manually confirmed all the double-width and double-height tests in
_Vttest_ are now working as expected, and the _VT100 Torture Test_ now
renders correctly (at least the line rendition aspects). I've also got
my own test scripts that check many of the line rendition boundary cases
and have confirmed that those are now passing.

I've manually tested as many areas of the conhost UI that I could think
of, that might be affected by line rendition, including things like
searching, selection, copying, and color highlighting. For
accessibility, I've confirmed that the _Magnifier_ and _Narrator_
correctly handle double-width lines. And I've also tested the Japanese
IME, which while not perfect, is at least useable.

Closes #7865
2021-02-18 05:44:50 +00:00
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