egorodet commented 3 years ago

Methane Kit v0.5 Pre-Release Update 3

Global code changes:
- Fixed all remaining static analysis issues from SonarCloud, only a few are left to fix later
- Properly implemented or enabled default generation of assignment operators, copy and move constructors for all applicable types
- Used MagicEnum library extensively to remove enum code bloat and improve type safety with enum class types:
- Uses enum class types for bit-masks instead of raw enum types to improve type safety.
- Generating string names of enum values with a single line of code
- Iterating over enum values and getting values count
Graphics libraries
- Graphics Core changes:
- Changed ResourceBase derived classes hierarchy based on template implementation of Resource[DX|MT|VK]<ResourceBaseType> which is replacing ResourceNT alias class
- Removed almost all Native platform alias headers
- Fixed some memory leaks in Metal implementation on MacOS
- Graphics::App template class implementation was split to Graphics::AppBase to reduce abount of template code and speedup compilation
User Interface libraries
- Unified UnitType derived classes implementation within one template class
- Fixed bug in Text mesh generation with multiple zero characters at the end of the string
External libraries:
- MagicEnum library v0.7.0 was added
- Tracy library was updated to v0.7.4
Build Infrastructure:
- Use Ubuntu 20.04 agents with GCC 9+ in Azure Pipelines for Linux builds to enable use of MagicEnum library