"Version X is available" in the top bar is now a button that opens an
Update popup:
- Update and restart gets the download link from the server (the redirect
is not followed, as the Gitea link needs no token), downloads the new game
next to the running one with a progress bar, checks it (complete, and an
MZ or ELF file), swaps it in and restarts. The quiz is saved first and
continues. On Windows the running .exe is renamed to .old, put back if
the swap fails, and deleted at the next start.
- Download in browser opens the .exe, the Linux package, or the release
page on other platforms.
- From the editor, an unwritable folder or another platform, only the
browser download is offered, with the reason.
The message now fits between the tabs and the buttons in every theme; in
Nord and Christmas it ran into Sync. The macOS export preset is removed,
and the unused download_client_* functions are replaced by
fetch_client_download_url.
Closes#13
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A new row, "Downloaded pictures and songs", shows how much space the cached
character pictures, covers and downloaded songs take, with a Clear cache
button. Clearing deletes them, but keeps the songs the current quiz uses,
the settings, config.ini and the saved quiz. The characters are loaded
again at once; covers come back when they are shown.
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Cover menu in the soundtrack popup ("Change cover"):
- Choose picture uploads a JPEG, PNG or WebP picture (up to 10 MB).
- Pick by ID uses a game's cover on SteamGridDB or an anime's on AniList.
- Remove cover deletes it, so the server searches for a new one.
- The server's reason is shown when it refuses a change.
After a change the new cover time is fetched, and the popup, the
statistics card and the quiz show the new cover.
Quiz: once the answer is shown, the soundtrack's cover shows to the left of
the titles. Cover and titles are centered together, left and right and up
and down, and each title keeps to two lines. Cover times come from the
soundtrack list, and songs keep their soundtrack's UUID, also in saves.
Requests can now send any body with its content type, and every 2xx answer
counts as success. Cover frames are 2:3 like the server's covers. Small
copies of real covers are used by the tests and screenshots.
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Covers: statistics cards show the soundtrack's cover on the left, and the
statistics popup shows it large. Until it arrives, and without a cover, the
soundtrack's initials stand in. Covers load only for cards on or near the
screen, three at a time, and are cached in covers/ next to the settings
(CoverCache), downloaded again only when cover_modified changes. The index and
file handling are shared with CharacterCache in a new FileCache.
Alternative names: the popup shows them and has an editor (add, remove, save)
that sends PUT /soundtracks/{uuid}/alternative-names. The statistics search and
the Search popup find soundtracks by them; Search shows the matching name after
the real one. Search now loads /soundtracks, falling back to the plain list.
The API types are regenerated from the server's spec, with a SoundtrackCover
theme style in every theme.
Closes#49
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Popups fade in while growing and close the reverse way, with the backdrop
fading along. The winner gets confetti, bouncing pictures and a score graph
that draws itself from the left. Filtered statistics cards and search rows
fade in, the tabs slide in from their side, and every button bounces on hover
and click (ButtonBounce, now added to all buttons).
In the player list the score pops on every point, the first point flashes the
row, and a player on match point glows with a "Match point!" tag. A song
starting fades in the title, flashes its row (kept across list rebuilds) and
pops the play button.
Common/anim.gd holds the helpers. A saved "Reduce animations" switch in
Settings turns all movement off; the tests use it. The flash colours are
theme colours (Palette first_point, match_point, flash) in every theme.
Closes#48
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Settings has a Theme row listing Settings.THEMES: Classic (main_theme.tres,
still the default) and Original web (original_web_theme.tres), which looks like
MusicFrontend: orange-bordered buttons, a #333 header and popups, #424242
panels, #4e4e4e alternating rows, a yellow playing song and a light grey
player bar. Picking one sets the root window's theme at once and saves it as
theme_id in settings.cfg, and it is applied at start.
The popup backdrop and score graph follow a theme switch. The top bar has its
own TopBarBackground style. test_theme.gd checks that every theme has
everything main_theme.tres has. The screenshot tool takes a theme id.
Closes#42
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Buttons get 12 px of side padding. The top bar buttons, the quiz toolbar and
Show answer/Next are laid out in rows with 12 px gaps and are all 36 px tall,
and the ±1 buttons use a compact StepButton style. "Randomize new track" is now
"Next song".
Player rows show the name and the score apart, alternate like the other lists
and highlight the character under the mouse. The name field is a LineEdit with
a 10-letter limit; blank and duplicate names are refused, and a full list says
"Up to 7 players". Remove buttons update when editing is switched instead of
every frame, and the spacer panels are gone.
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The quiz is saved to current_quiz.json in the config folder after every
change, and the game goes on where it was when it starts again: the
players with their points and characters, every song with who got a point
for it and whether it was played, answered or is playing, and the songs
downloaded ahead with their files. The song that was playing is ready to
play again. Songs whose files are gone are downloaded again.
On a server, the saved songs are checked against the server's playlist. If
it changed, e.g. after a sync, or another server is used, the quiz starts
over with the same players. A quiz from a music folder continues offline,
including how far a prepared quiz has come. A new game is saved like any
other change, and a file that can't be read starts a new quiz.
Characters can be read from a folder picked in Settings instead of the
server, for this session. A music folder with a characters folder brings
its own characters, e.g. for a themed quiz; that folder is not counted as
a soundtrack. When the characters come from somewhere else, players pick
their characters again.
Closes#11, closes#44
Settings has a Music folder row. A folder with subfolders is played as
soundtracks: Next picks a random subfolder and a random song in it, the
subfolder is the answer's soundtrack and the file name without its type the
song. The inspiration list and Search show the subfolders.
A folder with songs and no subfolders is a prepared quiz, played once in order
(natural sort) or at random, showing only the song title. It has no winning
score: after the last song Next becomes Show winner, and the players with the
most points win, ties included.
While a folder is used nothing but the characters is asked from the server:
Sync, QR, Statistics, the update check and play counting are off. Characters
fall back to the cached pictures when the server can't be reached. mp3, ogg and
wav play; other files and broken ones are skipped.
The old local playback code, the hidden Open button and the hidden Local toggle
are removed. Next now waits for the song to start before preparing the next one.
The last version the About popup was shown for is saved as last_seen_version in
settings.cfg. When the game starts with another version, About opens to show
what is new.
At start and after switching server, the game asks the server for the newest
MusicPlayer release and shows "Version X is available" in the top bar when it
is newer than this one.
The settings the game saves itself, the quiz settings and now fullscreen, move
to settings.cfg (settings_debug.cfg in debug mode).
config.ini in the same folder is edited by hand: the server to start with, the
API password and debug mode. The game writes it with everything commented out
when it is missing and never changes it after that. IniFile reads it: plain
key = value lines, whole-line # or ; comments and optional quotes.
The quiz card's settings are saved to quiz_settings.cfg in OS.get_config_dir()
on every change and loaded at start. Debug builds use their own file, and
MUSICPLAYER_CONFIG_DIR moves the file elsewhere so tests never touch it.
Count plays in statistics and Prefer less played soundtracks are not saved and
move from the quiz card to the Settings popup.
- A Quiz settings button under the player bar opens a small card above
it with the quiz settings, including Auto repeat, which moves there
from under the player bar. The card does not dim the quiz, so it can
be changed during a song, and grows to fit its rows.
- A Settings button in the top bar opens the application settings:
server, fullscreen and songs to download ahead. Quick sync is gone,
as the server no longer has it, and the server list is in Settings.
- Labels use sentence case, and seconds to hide show as whole numbers.
- Debug builds switch to the local server and a low winning score in
the Settings autoload, before any scene asks the server for anything.
The DEBUG label moves to the top bar, so it shows on every tab.
- Search moves from the top bar back to the quiz toolbar, as the
Statistics tab has its own search.
Character select
- A card only picks its character when it is clicked. Before, every card
watched every click, so clicking below the panel could pick a card
scrolled out of view there.
- Six columns of fixed-size cards that scroll for any number of
characters, with a gap between the cards and the scrollbar.
- Pictures are read as PNG, JPG or WebP by their first bytes, so JPGs no
longer print an error. Names are split into words ("Paper Mario") and
the card under the mouse is highlighted.
Shortcuts
- Alt+Z restarts the song; it was listed as "Reset".
- Grouped by what the keys do, in sentence case, and the panel fits the
list. A test checks that every button shortcut is listed.
Log
- Scrolls to the newest row, alternates row colours and says "Nothing
has happened yet" when empty.
QR
- A title, and the code is set up in one place.
The About popup is twice as wide and shows the player's and the server's
version history side by side, each in its own scrolling column. The
server's comes from GET /api/v1/version/history every time the popup
opens. The description, which is about both, is centred above the
columns, and each history starts right under its version.
Godot's built-in font has no Japanese, so kanji in song names showed as
boxes. The theme now sets Godot's own Open Sans SemiBold as its default
font, with Noto Sans JP Medium as fallback. The Noto file's line metrics
are set to Open Sans's, so line heights stay the same and every other
screen is pixel-identical; fonts/README.md explains how to redo it.
Search and Sync move right to where the Statistics button was.
Part of #41. The top bar has Quiz and Statistics tabs instead of the
Statistics button. The Statistics tab replaces the quiz below the top bar
(the song keeps playing) and shows every soundtrack as a card with its
plays, last played date and most and least played songs, loaded from the
new GET /api/v1/statistics/soundtracks. The cards can be searched (with
the Search popup's matching, now in SoundtrackSearch), filtered on played
or never played, and sorted A-Z, Z-A, most or least played. Clicking a
card opens a popup with all its songs.
Screenshots of the other states only differ in the top bar, and the
layout baseline is taken again with the new statistics states.
themes/main_theme.tres is the project theme. It holds Godot's default look for
every control type the game uses, plus named styles for the game's own look
(popups, the background, spacers, list rows, title and text sizes, highlights)
and a palette for the popup dimming. Scenes and scripts name these styles
instead of setting colours, sizes or style boxes, and the five old theme files
are gone. themes/README.md explains the styles and how to make a new theme.
The screenshot tour now uses the real character pictures, so the layout
baseline is taken again. Screenshots are pixel-identical to before, and
test_theme.gd checks that the look stays in the theme.
main/ holds the main window and top bar, quiz/ the quiz and its parts,
player/ the music player, popups/ every popup and what they share, data/ the
songs, players, playlist and settings, server/ the MusicServer client,
common/ the list row and GameLog, and themes/ the themes and style boxes.
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