maulingmonkey / ttyrecmonkey

PuTTY based TtyRec player written in C# using SlimDX

Quickstart

Please read LICENSE.txt for license terms

Downloads

See the latest Releases

Placeholder Controls

ZXCVBNM    Alter playback speed (-100x, -10x, -1x, 0x, +1x, +10x, +100x)
AS         Zoom In/Out

Contact

• The author can also be contacted in the IRC channel #gamedev on irc.afternet.org under the alias MaulingMonkey
• File github issues, I don't mind :)

Development

Dependencies

• Visual Studio 2008 ( no solution for Express, sorry )
• SlimDX Developer SDK
• Direct3D9

Grabbing the Source

You can browse and observe project development at https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/TtyRecMonkey

If you simply want to track changes, read only git access is available at:

	git clone git://github.com/MaulingMonkey/TtyRecMonkey.git
	svn checkout http://svn.github.com/MaulingMonkey/TtyRecMonkey.git

Building the Source

• Open TtyRecMonkey.sln
• Build it.
• Select the project TtyRecMonkey and make it your startup project before running.
  • Alternatively, launch bin\x86\Debug\TtyRecMonkey.exe or bin\x86\Release\TtyRecMonkey.exe
• Select a non-compressed ttyrec file and open it

Project Layout

PuttyDLL

PuttyDLL is a native C project which is almost a direct replica of PUTTY.DSP project from the official PuTTY source code.

Key differences:

• It's been converted to a VS2008 project via the upgrade manager (which worked flawlessly)
• It now generates DLLs instead of EXEs
• _*_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE have been added to supress warning spam from standard library functions
• export.c has been added which exposes methods for PuttySharp (C#) to PInvoke
• Other source files may be modified to expose more to export.c -- should be mostly cosmetic/making availbe outside the TU

PuttySharp

PuttySharp is a C# library which wraps the methods exposed by PuttyDLL for easier consumption in C#

It is currently small enough that it ended up well commented and designed. This probably won't last very long.

ShinyConsole

ShinyConsole is a C# program which provides and tests SlimDX/D3D9 based console text rendering

It is crufty and in need of sanitization.

It is used as a library by TtyPlayer, despite being a program.

TtyRecMonkey

TtyRecMonkey is the main C# program which is the point of this project. It is not well written.

It currently handles:

• Parsing (to be spin off?) of TtyRecs
• Basic playback of TtyRecs

ttyrecmonkey's Issues

Configuration font dialog should remember last selection (nt)

Group/combine ttyrecs? (nt)

Player should auto-zoom to fit on resize (nt)

Batch build creates broken binaries

Almost certainly because we're just dumping everything into the same bin directories.

Add an configuration knob for console sizes (nt)

Handle command line parameters! (nt)

Add playlist support (nt)

Support compressed ttyrecs

I shouldn't have to manually decompress ttyrec archives with 7zip or whatever after I download them.

Player should be able to search their replays

Should be multithreaded to avoid blocking playback
Search screen data rather than packet data to avoid straddling issues
If we end up having a seek bar, it should probably colorize the bar depending on where the search query was matched

Offload file loading to background thread again (nt)

Player performance drops to 15 FPS after loading 7 days worth of ttyrecs

Fix up naive List.Find(Last)Index calls with something less O(N)y WRT the 1.29 million elements the Packets list contains.

Player should be able to combine replays back to back for unified playback and searching (nt)

Need better UI for seek/speed/etc (n/t)