New Scaler API

This new api attempts to solve problems with the old scalers that were difficult to fix without a full redesign. I’ll give an overview.

void initialize(Graphics::PixelFormat format)

• This is called before each scaler is used so that it knows what the pixel format is.
• Generating RGBYUV tables and other precomputed data should happen here.

int increaseFactor() 
int decreaseFactor() 
int getFactor()
int setFactor() // For loading from configuration
Common::Array<int> getFactors() // For displaying in GUI

• These give easy ways for setting and manipulating the scale factor.
• These functions always return a valid scale factor so mapping these functions to hotkeys is simple.
• Also this allows different sized versions of the same scaler to be included in the same plugin.

bool canDrawCursor()

• Some scalers are not suitable for scaling the cursor since they blur the image.
• Since the cursor is not always scaled the same way as the background and can use a 1.5x scaler, the mouse scaling needs extra thought. If you have good ideas for this, leave a message or otherwise contact me.

int extraPixels()

Since some scalers look at surrounding pixels outside of the area to be scaled, the rects to be scaled need to be expanded, and the surface needs to be extended to prevent memory access errors.

void scale(const uint8 *srcPtr, uint32 srcPitch, uint8 *dstPtr, uint32  dstPitch, int width, int height, int x, int y)

•  This is the scaling function similar to what is currently used.
• The addition of x and y coordinates allows position sensitive scalers like TV and DotMatrix to produce consistant results.

A couple changes could possibly be made.

void transform(Rect *dirty)