Partially through a different refactor to completely change how the taskbar settigns are stored, and the logic behind the application. Should make the taskbar more robust to apply.
Added some checks to temporarily pause any 'getconfig' type activities while we're changing the displayconfig. This should result in less config corruption, and fewer errors when there are timing edge cases.
This change makes the ProfileRepository handle loading json config files from later versions of DM without causing an exception. This will mean that you can install later model config files and still have them work ok.
Found that I was combining Threads and Tasks together...never a good idea. Have moved fully over to a Task based model. Now still having issues with parallelism.
Found some calls that were bypassing the video library state buffering I'd put in place earlier. This should generally make DisplayMagician faster and minimise the number of log entries written to DisplayMagician.log.
As I'd changed the profile config to buffer it within the libraries themselves, ApplyProfile wasn't telling the libraries to update their config. Therefore they thought they were still on the original display config, and that meant that ApplyProfile didn't revert the profile after the application had closed. This is now fixed.
Changed Profiles to use new methods for profiles detection provided by the new video card library updates for NVIDIALibrary, AMDLibrary and WinLibrary. This should make DisplayMagician faster as there is less repetition.
There have been such large changes with v2.1.0 that I've had to move to a new file display profile format again :(. I'm really hopeful this will be the last time, as it seems to cope with all the different display layouts, colour settings, hdr etc.
This will ensure that existing display profiles will at least load. Anyone with refresh settings changes or BPC or other device context settings will need to recreate their display profiles.
Now ProfileItem loads properly from JSON file, which means that the profile matching works, so DisplayMagician now matches the profile if it's current.
There was a problem with the unused display config containing null values on save, which meant that the JSON would be invalid when loaded in the next time. The fix was to ensure that both NVIDIA and AMD both were filled with a default config when a new profiles was created. This means that the real config would overwrite whichever config was needed, and the JSON file would work as all objects were populated correctly!
Mostly works now! Only bit still needing work is the Avtive profile detection to detect the non-surround profile when we return from surround. I think it's to do with the windows display number changing :(. I need to check that.
The derived ProfilteItem classes were an unnecessary distraction and wasted time I could be spending on other things. This set of changes are the first part of removing those derived classes and moving to a single ProfilItem class again, but with different configuration slots within it. Makes equality comparison SO MUCH EASIER!
I am a lot closer at the moment, but there is some bit of logic matching that is escaping me. I think I'm just too tired at the moment, and I need a sleep. I bet this will seem simple in the morning.
Used new derived class equality class from https://codinghelmet.com/articles/equals-override which helped me understand the logic for deriving equality between base classes and derived classes. It has now exposed another error in the way FORCED_VIDEO_MODE is being applied and that is now something else I need to fix!
This feature will allow users to bypass the automatic driver detection functionality so that they can at least force the use of the built-in Windows driver if NVIDIA or AMD ever have an issue with their drivers.
Have almost integrated the new CCD, AMD and NVIDIA
libraries into DIsplayMagician. The CCD library is working
fine. The AMD library is partially completed, but is awaiting
some help from AMD, as it appears one of their driver functions
is broken (or at least incorrectly documented). The NVIDIA
library is currently still under development, but I've still copied
it across so that I could work on the additional profile objects
that need to be prepared in order for this to work.
As I am waiting on a response from AMD, the plan is now that
I will swap over to an NVIDIA based video card in my test machines
and I will start work on the NVIDIA library. The NVIDIA library seems
straight forward compared to AMD, so that hopefully won't take too
long to do. Once that library is compete, I'll test it within NVIDIAInfo
application until its working, and then I'll port it back over to
DisplayMagician. That will then let me complete the last bits of the
integration so that I can complete the last of the NVIDIA tests.
Hopefully by the time all this happens I will have heard back from
AMD and I will be able to continue work with that section of code.
