The G_CONST_RETURN define in GLib is, and has always been, a bit fuzzy.
We always used it to conform to the platform, at least for public-facing
API.
At first I assumed it has something to do with brain-damaged compilers
or with weird platforms where const was not really supported; sadly,
it's something much, much worse: it's a define that can be toggled at
compile-time to remove const from the signature of public API. This is a
truly terrifying feature that I assume was added in the past century,
and whose inception clearly had something to do with massive doses of
absynthe and opium — because any other explanation would make the
existence of such a feature even worse than assuming drugs had anything
to do with it.
Anyway, and pleasing the gods, this dubious feature is being
removed/deprecated in GLib; see bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644611
Before deprecation, though, we should just remove its usage from the
whole API. We should especially remove its usage from Cally's internals,
since there it never made sense in the first place.
With the instantiatable ClutterShaderEffect, the only reason for
ClutterShader to exist is to make the ClutterActor::paint implementation
miserable.
Yes, ClutterShader doesn't use a FBO, so it's "more efficient" on
ClutterTextures. It's also generally wrong unless you know *exactly* how
the actor's pipeline is set up — something we cannot even guarantee
internally unless we start doing lame type checks.
COGLenum, COGLint and COGLuint which were simply typedefs for GL{enum,int,uint}
have been removed from the API and replaced with specialised enum typedefs, int
and unsigned int. These were causing problems for generating bindings and also
considered poor style.
The cogl texture filter defines CGL_NEAREST and CGL_LINEAR etc are now replaced
by a namespaced typedef 'CoglTextureFilter' so they should be replaced with
COGL_TEXTURE_FILTER_NEAREST and COGL_TEXTURE_FILTER_LINEAR etc.
The shader type defines CGL_VERTEX_SHADER and CGL_FRAGMENT_SHADER are handled by
a CoglShaderType typedef and should be replaced with COGL_SHADER_TYPE_VERTEX and
COGL_SHADER_TYPE_FRAGMENT.
cogl_shader_get_parameteriv has been replaced by cogl_shader_get_type and
cogl_shader_is_compiled. More getters can be added later if desired.
Bug 1049 - Clutter doesn't support most GLSL uniforms (patch
by Chris Lord and Neil Roberts)
* README: Update release notes.
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter-shader-types.[ch]: Add GValue types for
shader values.
* clutter/clutter-actor.[ch]: Update the shader API to use
the newly added GValue support for GLSL shader uniform
setters.
* clutter/clutter-shader.[ch]: Add float and integer convenience
API for single value GLSL uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/cogl-shader.h: Add new uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.h:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-defines.h.in:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-program.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl.c: Update the GL implementation of COGL
to handle the GLSL uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.h:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-internal.h:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-program.c: Update the GLES 2.0 implementation
of COGL to handle the GLSL uniform setters.
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-sections.txt:
* doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt: Update the documentation.
* tests/interactive/test-fbo.c:
* tests/interactive/test-shader.c: Update the shader tests.
