OpenGL client for neovim. The purpose of gled is to provide a powerful tool for creating projects with both resources and source (similar to the GEOS assembler). The project also aims to be a sort of "Hollywood" editor with the inclusion of per-character animation, materials, and fullscreen post processing.
The Private Use Area range of U+E000..U+E008 are reserved for future use.
The Private Use Area Unicode range U+E008..U+F8FF (plane 0) is used to represent various graphical data on the display. In the buffer representation, for each file, resources are assigned a unique code from U+E008 on up. A simple key-value metadata file maps this code to the corresponding resource. Each block of adjacent matching ID's is rendered to texture and displayed at the offset of the adjacency-block's upper-left corner (typically only the upper left corner is responsible for this rendering). Since such a block may begin well outside the viewable buffer, the virtual buffer must be large enough to handle the maximum character size of a resource. This is currently set to 80x80 characters (and the virtual buffer therefore an additional 79 characters in width and height).
The rendering library that will be implemented by the client is working. The library exposes a simple interface for updating the screen buffer. Meshes may be loaded from a wide variety of 3d formats thanks to assimp.
Previous neovim integration was to be achieved via the messagepack API. Since there is supposedly effort (soon to be) underway to refactor neovim into a library, the actual integration with neovim is temporarily on hold.
Vulkan, baby