The bind-constraint.c example still uses clutter_actor_animate(), and
it'd require some serious reworking to move it to
ClutterPropertyTransition or to implicit animations.
The example code that is meant to be XIncluded into the API reference
should not be part of the interactive test suite: it's code that it is
meant to be used as a reference implementation - whereas the interactive
test suite should be allowed to be lean and test behaviour even in nasty
ways. In short: the test suite should not be the place where we show off
idiomatic code for educational purposes.
ClutterContent is an interface for creating delegate objects that handle
what an actor is going to paint.
Since they are a newly added type, they only hook into the new PaintNode
based API.
The position and size of the content is controlled in part by the
content's own preferred size, and by the ClutterContentGravity
enumeration.
In a separate branch, this test has become quite complicated and
involves multiple files and its own configure options. Instead of
cluttering up the clutter source tree it has now been moved to its own
repo at:
http://github.com/clutter-project/test-wayland-surface
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
This adds an extremely minimal wayland compositor to tests/interactive
to test the ClutterWaylandSurface actor. Currently this minimal
compositor doesn't support any input, it simply paints client surfaces
fixed at the top-left of the stage.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
The coordinate transformation code is exercised throughout the
conformance and interactive tests, so there's no need to have a specific
interactive test that doesn't do anything more complicated than calling
clutter_actor_transform_stage_point().
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.
-tests/interactive/Makefile.am, build/win32/Makefile.am: copy the
generated test-unit-names.h to build/win32 so that it can be
distributed in "make dist" (maybe we could dist the generated header
in tests/interactive directly?)
-Update test-interactive Visual C++ projects to include build/win32 in
the list of folders to look for headers
The current "create context/draw/destroy context" pattern presents
various problems. The first issue is that it defers memory management to
the caller of the create() or create_region() methods, which makes
bookkeeping of the cairo_t* harder for language bindings and third party
libraries. The second issue is that, while it's easier for
draw-and-forget texturs, this API is needlessly complicated for contents
that have to change programmatically - and it introduces constraints
like calling the drawing code explicitly after a surface resize (e.g.
inside an allocate() implementation).
By using a signal-based approach we can make the CairoTexture actor
behave like other actors, and like other libraries using Cairo as their
2D drawing API.
The semantics of the newly-introduced ::draw signal are the same as the
one used by GTK+:
- the signal is emitted on invalidation;
- the cairo_t* context is owned by the actor;
- it is safe to have multiple callbacks attached to the same
signal, to allow composition;
- the cairo_t* is already clipped to the invalidated area, so
that Cairo can discard geometry immediately before we upload
the texture data.
There are possible future improvements, like coalescing multiple
invalidations inside regions, and performing clipped draws during
the paint cycle; we could even perform clipped redraws if we know the
extent of the invalidated area.
