GLib introduced macros that allows defining the lower and upper bounds
of the API to be used by application code.
The lower bound allows to define the minimum version that will trigger
deprecation warnings; the upper bound defines the maximum version that
will trigger compiler warnings for unavailable symbols.
This scheme allows gradually porting application code to a new version
of the API, especially in case of resynchronization after multiple
development cycles.
Instead of defining new symbols for the windowing systems enabled at
configure time, we can reuse the same symbols for both the compile time
and run time checks, e.g.:
#ifdef CLUTTER_WINDOWING_X11
if (clutter_check_windowing_backend (CLUTTER_WINDOWING_X11))
/* use the clutter_x11_* API */
else
#endif
#ifdef CLUTTER_WINDOWING_WIN32
if (clutter_check_windowing_backend (CLUTTER_WINDOWING_WIN32))
/* use the clutter_win32_* API */
#endif
This scheme allows us to ensure that the input system namespace is free
for us to use and select at run time in later versions of Clutter.
Portable code should be allowed to check type backend currently being
used, so that it can use platform-specific API (not just Clutter's).
We don't want to go down the GDK route, with public types for
ClutterBackend and ClutterStageWindow implementations, and use the type
system, e.g.:
#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11
if (GDK_IS_WINDOW_X11 (window))
use_x11_api (window);
else
#endif
#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_WIN32
if (GDK_IS_WINDOW_WIN32 (window))
use_win32_api (window);
else
#endif
g_critical ("Unsupported backend");
This system would make us expose the backend system, and we want to
still reserve us the option to change the backend system to increase its
granularity — e.g. choosing different input event systems regardless of
the windowing system.
This commit adds a simple function that checks the backend type against
a symbolic constant — the same constant string that can be used to
select the backend at run-time through the CLUTTER_BACKEND environment
variable.
The Clutter backend split is opaque enough that should allow us to just
build all possible backends inside the same shared object, and select
the wanted backend at initialization time.
This requires some work in the build system, as well as the
initialization code, to remove duplicate functions that might cause
conflicts at build and link time. We also need to defer all the checks
of the internal state of the platform-specific API to run-time type
checks.
Since using addresses that might change is something that finally
the FSF acknowledge as a plausible scenario (after changing address
twice), the license blurb in the source files should use the URI
for getting the license in case the library did not come with it.
Not that URIs cannot possibly change, but at least it's easier to
set up a redirection at the same place.
As a side note: this commit closes the oldes bug in Clutter's bug
report tool.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521
Just like CLUTTER_CHECK_VERSION does version checking at compile
time, we need a way to verify the version of the library that we
are linking against. This is mostly needed for language bindings
and for run-time loadable modules -- when we'll get those.
* README:
Add notes on new multistage feature.
* clutter/clutter-stage-manager.c:
Dont ref contained stages.
* clutter/clutter-stage.c:
Automatically remove stage from stage manager on finalisation.
Cleans up warnings when a stage is destroyed.
* clutter/clutter-backend.h:
* clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
Minor formatting cleanups.
* clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
* configure.ac:
* clutter/clutter-version.h.in:
Add a general CLUTTER_STAGE_TYPE define, should be useful for
evntual stage subclassing and creating with g_object_new()
* clutter/clutter-private.h: Remove inclusion of backend-specific
headers; update the main context object; add the declarations for
the event queue functions.
* clutter/clutter-backend.[ch]: Add the abstract ClutterBackend
object, which holds backend-specific settings, the main stage,
and the event queue. Every backend must implement a subclass of
ClutterBackend and ClutterStage.
* clutter/clutter-feature.c: Protect the GLX specific calls
behing #ifdef HAVE_CLUTTER_GLX.
* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
* clutter/clutter-group.c:
* clutter/clutter-clone-texture.c: Include GL/gl.h
* clutter/clutter-event.[ch]: Update public API and implement the
event queue private API; hold a reference on the event objects;
move out the keysym-to-unicode table; add the new event types.
* clutter/clutter-color.h: Include clutter-fixed.h
* clutter/clutter-main.c: Update API; get the main stage
from the backend object; process the event received from the
queue; lock/unlock the main mutex if we have one; move the
initialisation process sooner in the init sequence, in order to
have the backend object when we check for options; call the
backed vfuncs in the pre/post parse hooks.
* clutter/clutter-stage.c: Make ClutterStage and abstract class,
implemented by the backends.
* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-glx.h:
* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.[ch]:
* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-event-glx.c:
* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.[ch]:
* clutter/clutter/glx/Makefile.am: Add the GLX backend.
* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-backend-egl.[ch]:
* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-event-egl.c:
* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-stage-egl.[ch]:
* clutter/clutter/egl/Makefile.am: Add the stub for a EGL backend.
* examples/*.c: Update for the new API.
* clutter/clutter-behaviour.h: Add a function prototype
for the foreach function: we need something more specific
than GFunc; add clutter_behaviour_get_actors(), used to
get a list of the actors.
* clutter/clutter-behaviour.c: Add debugging notes; add
a warning for behaviour implementations missing the
alpha_notify vfunc; add api documentation
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-opacity.c:
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-path.c:
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-scale.c: Reimplement the
alpha_notify functions using the new foreach function
and, where possible, by directly iterating on the
actors: this shaves off the number of recalculations
of the property/alpha values, and the number of
functions.
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter.h:
* clutter/clutter-version.h.in: Auto-generated versioning macros.
* clutter/clutter-actor.h:
* clutter/clutter-actor.c: Add a ClutterActor::parent-set signal,
for notificating changes of an actor's parent; add api-doc for
the actor's properties; add the ClutterActor "name" property; clean
up a bit some functions; emit the "parent-set" signal when setting
te parent and when unparenting; better warnings when lowering
and raising an actor.
* configure.ac:
* clutter/Makefile.am: Add a --enable-debug configure option,
with three levels of debugging: no, minimum and yes; default
for development releases (odd minor version) is "yes"; update
the version m4 defines; update the libtool macros: now just
changed the clutter_interface_age when releasing will update
everything else.
