Many instances of a function or expression being used repeatedly, which can lower performance.
Fixed it in these cases by creating on local var, reference or pointer that's used instead.
The behavior is different enough that these shouldn't be overloaded
with the non-allocating verions. Also makes it more obvious what is
going on to the caller.
Also tweaked the loading methodology to have the canvas by default assume it should force the window display as soon as it can. You can set the canvas to not do that when it's created via the new displayWindow variable.
This way, old templates and projects should work as normal without changes, while the new templates are built to take advantage of the nicer splash screen arrangement.
Process::_signalProcess is destroyed first, and then Win32WindowManager::~Win32WindowManager() try to remove from deleted Signal causing a crash.
SlotSignal handle this automatically.
The GFX (DirectX) pipeline did not respect the choice of adapter and
always went for the default one. Normally this isn't an issue unless
you wish to target a particular adapter and display device combination.
This has been corrected.
The GFX initialize functions now attempt to find the best adapter that
matches a given display device (i.e. monitor) if one has been passed in.
To aid with choosing a display device some new monitor enumeration
methods have been added to the platform window manager. These methods
have been exposed to the Canvas.
- displaySplashWindow() now takes an optional path to a bitmap file.
- Missing, unavailable and warning texture paths now come from
GFXTextureManager static methods.
- New InputEventManager class. It will be used by 3rd party input
devices to generate Torque 3D input events.
- Expanded the input event signal to include three new floats and a new
integer.
- Expanded the number of joystick buttons to 48.
- The input virtual map is now extendable rather than hard coded.
- The input devices types are now extendable rather than hard coded.
- New SI_POS, SI_ROT, SI_INT, and SI_FLOAT input event types.
- New SI_VALUE input action type.
- ActionMap has been updated to work with these changes.
- Removed unnecessary references to platform/event.h
