Add marker / emojiless display options

[alexzk1]

I see you did some replaces into overlay, but main GUI still missing emoji:

P.S. my overlay is not detected. I added replacement to my code :D

Could it be easier to have something like
text = text + GetEmoji(MEMO)
?
So instead replacement you could just have proper one per OS detected.

[Silarn]

It's definitely functional per the Wayland overlay but the methods used by the old x11 overlay don't work. I think you'd have to make use of pango to get more modern font rendering.

I modified it to use Xfc so it wasn't limited to bitmap fonts but this only makes it roughly comparable to the Windows overlay.

I think you do need to port over the changes related to vector marker support.

[Silarn]

Oh. Well my Linux environment is showing basic versions of emojis just like Windows. Could be a system related font thing.

In the tkinter window.

[alexzk1]

Oh. Well my Linux environment is showing basic versions of emojis just like Windows. Could be a system related font thing.

Well, I dunno. On screenshot is main EDSM GUI. Whatever they do there.

In my overlay I modified to use TTF already. probably fonts just miss something. I'm not sure. I'm not fun of emojies.
Also I don't see any "compass" on overlay, not sure how should it work though, but I saw it in your code.

[alexzk1]

Visual Studio Code with your code:

And when I paste this to chat GPT I can see pictures.

[Silarn]

That's the checkmark character. I guess your local font doesn't have it.

You do have to enable the radar but when I checked your code it has the same missing marker support as the original edmcoverlay2.

[alexzk1]

Yes, I had this for last year:
inpstr.replace("\\u202f", "\\u00a0")
and added this today, because I stopped to see >> sign after git pull of your code:

.replace("\\ud83d\\udcc8", "*")
.replace("\\ud83d\\udcdd", "»")

But in GUI i still missing it, and it was there 1-2 weeks ago (I think).

[Silarn]

I don't think I changed that character so that's pretty strange.

It shouldn't be something that's translated.

If your code doesn't properly parse the vectors it may be simply not drawing the circles if you have the radar enabled.

Making use of that stuff really exposed some issues in the edmcoverlay2 code. Unfortunately when I tried using yours it seemed to be crashing so I wasn't able to test much. But that's was before I expanded my gaming machine and added a Linux dual boot.

I'll try it again to see what happens.

[alexzk1]

As I recall I cleansed a little original overlay2 without wayland support, so it could inherit the problems.
Also I did X11 only too, as I use it.
And there is "shadows" supported check which throws exception if failed. Shadows aren't default in Linux. You must install / use composer for this, like picom. If it is not loaded, overlay will be solid black screen.

[Silarn]

I have it installed and working (I set the env variables so it would use X11 just to make sure).

I'll let you know what issues I see, but you can check my edmcoverlay2 fork to see the fixes I made for markers and color parsing.

[Silarn]

My tkinter display seems fine:

I did have to update the logic to make sure it did the substitutions like it does for X11 edmcoverlay2 but that seems to render fine:

I'll check the radar now.

[Silarn]

Yeah, it seems like neither the vector lines nor the markers are working.

The vector lines did generally work in the original edmcoverlay2 so not sure why that's failing unless the marker component is causing it to crash out.

In short, the actual lines use the main color. Markers use an additional 'color' tag inside the vector list. (A list of points and optional marker details.)

For more than one point, it should draw a line using the 'master' color value. For each point, it should check for a 'shape' and 'text' element. 'shape' can be 'circle' or 'cross'. Cross draws a small X centered on the point coordinate. Circle draws a small circle. If 'text' it set it's rendered just like normal sized text slightly offset from the point coordinates. All marker elements are drawn with the color set in the vector list element - which should be mandatory.

[alexzk1]

My tkinter display seems fine:

Well, than we need checkbox in settings "Do not use emoji" which replaces it everywhere, without any automatic detection. I have "Ubuntu" font as system default.
Overlay tries fonts in order:

 static const std::vector<std::string> kFontsToTry = {
          "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Source Code Pro", "Ubuntu Mono",     "Monospace",
          "Sans Serif",      "Liberation Serif", "Serif",           "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans",
        };

Both are missing the emoji.

[alexzk1]

"Marker" is something new. This shape was absent in original code, but it is there in your copy.
...or I just forgot to port it, but I doubt though :/

[alexzk1]

Ok, I added markers support, and fixed error I made. I added numeric font size and it was applied to any message in python, so it was making "shape" to be "text", this double switch is ignored by C++.
Also I don't have SCALE_* uses. So on 4K screen this may look as not expected by you.

[alexzk1]