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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Bragg
6bb6686666 [cogl-vertex-buffers] Support putting index arrays into VBOS
It's now possible to add arrays of indices to a Cogl vertex buffer and
they will be put into an OpenGL vertex buffer object. Since it's quite
common for index arrays to be static it saves the OpenGL driver from
having to validate them repeatedly.

This changes the cogl_vertex_buffer_draw_elements API: It's no longer
possible to provide a pointer to an index array at draw time. So
cogl_vertex_buffer_draw_elements now takes an indices identifier that
should correspond to an idendifier returned when calling
cogl_vertex_buffer_add_indices ()
2009-05-28 02:43:34 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
71498a6376 [cogl] Remove max_waste argument from Texture ctors
The CoglTexture constructors expose the "max-waste" argument for
controlling the maximum amount of wasted areas for slicing or,
if set to -1, disables slicing.

Slicing is really relevant only for large images that are never
repeated, so it's a useful feature only in controlled use cases.
Specifying the amount of wasted area is, on the other hand, just
a way to mess up this feature; 99% the times, you either pull this
number out of thin air, hoping it's right, or you try to do the
right thing and you choose the wrong number anyway.

Instead, we can use the CoglTextureFlags to control whether the
texture should not be sliced (useful for Clutter-GST and for the
texture-from-pixmap actors) and provide a reasonable value for
enabling the slicing ourself. At some point, we might even
provide a way to change the default at compile time or at run time,
for particular platforms.

Since max_waste is gone, the :tile-waste property of ClutterTexture
becomes read-only, and it proxies the cogl_texture_get_max_waste()
function.

Inside Clutter, the only cases where the max_waste argument was
not set to -1 are in the Pango glyph cache (which is a POT texture
anyway) and inside the test cases where we want to force slicing;
for the latter we can create larger textures that will be bigger than
the threshold we set.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
2009-05-23 19:35:19 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
f8f54989be Merge commit 'origin/master' into 1.0-integration
Conflicts:
	clutter/clutter-texture.c
	clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-fbo.c
2009-05-20 16:49:22 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
92e4391056 [tests] Verify cursor position
Print out the cursor and selection positions in order to verify
the behaviour of the Text actor.

This is a likely candidate for a conformance test unit as well.
2009-05-14 12:05:57 +01:00
Robert Bragg
36cfb60307 [cogl] Remove the COGL{enum,int,uint} typedefs
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.
2009-05-12 14:53:44 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e41452fc0c [tests] Check em to unit conversion
We should be able to position elements of the stage using em as
a unit, and converting values into pixels.
2009-05-07 19:25:24 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
d6d208da7d Remove Units from the public API
With the recent change to internal floating point values, ClutterUnit
has become a redundant type, defined to be a float. All integer entry
points are being internally converted to floating point values to be
passed to the GL pipeline with the least amount of conversion.

ClutterUnit is thus exposed as just a "pixel with fractionary bits",
and not -- as users might think -- as generic, resolution and device
independent units. not that it was the case, but a definitive amount
of people was convinced it did provide this "feature", and was flummoxed
about the mere existence of this type.

So, having ClutterUnit exposed in the public API doubles the entry
points and has the following disadvantages:

  - we have to maintain twice the amount of entry points in ClutterActor
  - we still do an integer-to-float implicit conversion
  - we introduce a weird impedance between pixels and "pixels with
    fractionary bits"
  - language bindings will have to choose what to bind, and resort
    to manually overriding the API
    + *except* for language bindings based on GObject-Introspection, as
      they cannot do manual overrides, thus will replicate the entire
      set of entry points

For these reason, we should coalesces every Actor entry point for
pixels and for ClutterUnit into a single entry point taking a float,
like:

  void clutter_actor_set_x (ClutterActor *self,
                            gfloat        x);
  void clutter_actor_get_size (ClutterActor *self,
                               gfloat       *width,
                               gfloat       *height);
  gfloat clutter_actor_get_height (ClutterActor *self);

etc.

The issues I have identified are:

  - we'll have a two cases of compiler warnings:
    - printf() format of the return values from %d to %f
    - clutter_actor_get_size() taking floats instead of unsigned ints
  - we'll have a problem with varargs when passing an integer instead
    of a floating point value, except on 64bit platforms where the
    size of a float is the same as the size of an int

To be clear: the *intent* of the API should not change -- we still use
pixels everywhere -- but:

  - we remove ambiguity in the API with regard to pixels and units
  - we remove entry points we get to maintain for the whole 1.0
    version of the API
  - we make things simpler to bind for both manual language bindings
    and automatic (gobject-introspection based) ones
  - we have the simplest API possible while still exposing the
    capabilities of the underlying GL implementation
2009-05-06 16:44:47 +01:00
Robert Bragg
a5cdfdfd87 [cogl-offscreen] Cleans up the cogl offscreen API and adds documentation
There were several functions I believe no one is currently using that were
only implemented in the GL backend (cogl_offscreen_blit_region and
cogl_offscreen_blit) that have simply been removed so we have a chance to
think about design later with a real use case.

There was one nonsense function (cogl_offscreen_new_multisample) that
sounded exciting but in all cases it just returned COGL_INVALID_HANDLE
(though at least for GL it checked for multisampling support first!?)
it has also been removed.

The MASK draw buffer type has been removed. If we want to expose color
masking later then I think it at least would be nicer to have the mask be a
property that can be set on any draw buffer.

The cogl_draw_buffer and cogl_{push,pop}_draw_buffer function prototypes
have been moved up into cogl.h since they are for managing global Cogl state
and not for modifying or creating the actual offscreen buffers.

This also documents the API so for example desiphering the semantics of
cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture() should be a bit easier now.
2009-05-02 04:12:26 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
d7a1a168ba [tests] Verify that Clone can paint hidden sources
With the change in commit 87e4e2 painting of hidden source actors
in ClutterClone was fixed. This commit changes the test-actor-clone
to visually verify this.
2009-05-01 12:42:37 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
08ba42a5ab Allow passing the pick mode to get_actor_at_pos()
Bug 1513 - Allow passing in ClutterPickMode to
           clutter_stage_get_actor_at_pos()

At the moment, clutter_stage_get_actor_at_pos() uses CLUTTER_PICK_ALL
internally to find an actor. It would be useful to allow passing in
ClutterPickMode to clutter_stage_get_actor_at_pos(), so that the caller
can specify CLUTTER_PICK_REACTIVE as a criteria.
2009-04-24 15:25:58 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
4518cf140c [tests] Visually verify ellipsization
Verify that the non-editable, single line entries are still
correctly ellipsized when a maximum width is set.
2009-04-21 12:11:42 +01:00
Robert Bragg
c3d9f0bed4 [cogl-handle] Optimize how we define cogl handles
The cogl_is_* functions were showing up quite high on profiles due to
iterating through arrays of cogl handles.

This does away with all the handle arrays and implements a simple struct
inheritance scheme. All cogl objects now add a CoglHandleObject _parent;
member to their main structures. The base object includes 2 members a.t.m; a
ref_count, and a klass pointer. The klass in turn gives you a type and
virtual function for freeing objects of that type.

Each handle type has a _cogl_##handle_type##_get_type () function
automatically defined which returns a GQuark of the handle type, so now
implementing the cogl_is_* funcs is just a case of comparing with
obj->klass->type.

Another outcome of the re-work is that cogl_handle_{ref,unref} are also much
more efficient, and no longer need extending for each handle type added to
cogl. The cogl_##handle_type##_{ref,unref} functions are now deprecated and
are no longer used internally to Clutter or Cogl. Potentially we can remove
them completely before 1.0.
2009-04-02 11:58:43 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
ccca24ab76 Remove usage of the grave accent as quotation mark
See:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

This should make Thomas happy.
2009-03-17 14:13:31 +00:00
Robert Bragg
b5a35a0f0b [test-cogl-vertex-buffer] Use clutter_color_from_hls instead of hsl_to_rgb
There is no need for a custom hsl to rgb converter since Clutter implements
this logic; originally it wasn't quite as optimal, but that has now been
fixed.
2009-03-17 11:37:29 +00:00
Robert Bragg
bb93a98762 [clutter-color] Use a different hls->rgb algorithm + use floating point
Using test-cogl-vertex-buffer as a test case which is CPU bound due to
hls -> rgb conversions this alternative algorithm looked to be ~10%
faster when tested on an X61s Lenovo.
2009-03-17 11:37:29 +00:00
Robert Bragg
c5bd63648d [tests] Adds an interactive cogl vertex buffer unit test
The test is a sanity check that dynamic updating of vertex data via the cogl
vertex buffer api works and has reasonable performance. (though it can't be
considered a well designed benchmark since it wastes casual amounts of CPU
time simply choosing pretty colors.)

The code also aims to demonstrate one way of creating, updating and efficiently
drawing a quad mesh structure via the vertex buffer api which could be applied
to lots of different use cases.
2009-03-16 16:19:51 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
ff62040252 [tests] Remove unused variables
The size of the pixmap is passed by the ::size-changed signal, so
we can remove the unused w, h variables and avoid a compiler warning.
2009-03-16 12:17:03 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
0674fded7f Merge branch 'async-texture-thread-pool' 2009-03-16 00:40:27 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
56568db3b0 [clutter-texture] fixed gtk-doc formatting, and init threads in test.
Fixed markup to actually work with gtk-doc, also do a g_thread_init
in the test.
2009-03-16 00:40:02 +00:00
Neil Roberts
cde05288b7 Change cogl_path_rectangle and cogl_path_round_rectangle to take x1,y1,x2,y2
This matches the changes to cogl_rectangle to improve consistency.
2009-03-13 12:20:26 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
25d54a650d Merge commit 'origin/async-texture-thread-pool' into async-size 2009-03-12 11:18:11 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
93d8f62f6b [clutter-texture] remove load-size-async property
Only have load-data-async and load-async properties, both are construct
only and the latter adds the former load-size-async behavior on top of
load-data-async.
2009-03-12 10:38:39 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
d3b68298ac [clutter-texture] add option to not block on size for loaded images
Added a construct time property to indicate that we do not want
to block on loading images.
2009-03-12 10:30:09 +00:00
Øyvind Kolås
5d3d971389 [tests] Added test-texture-async 2009-03-12 10:17:08 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
77579bbc5f [tests] Animate the color during easing
The easing modes test should also tweak the color to show the
progress of the animation.
2009-03-11 22:12:36 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
6bee140e74 [tests] Use floats, not ClutterFixed
The COGL API expects floats, not ClutterFixed, so we need
to use the right type when calling it.
2009-03-10 12:38:04 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
52811b240f [stage] Coalesce fog and perspective API
The fog and perspective API is currently split in two parts:

  - the floating point version, using values

  - the fixed point version, using structures

The relative properties are using the structure types, since they
are meant to set multiple values at the same time. Instead of
using bare values, the whole API should be coalesced into two
simple calls using structures to match the GObject properties.

Thus:

  clutter_stage_set_fog (ClutterStage*, const ClutterFog*)
  clutter_stage_get_fog (ClutterStage*, ClutterFog*)

  clutter_stage_set_perspective (ClutterStage*, const ClutterPerspective*)
  clutter_stage_get_perspective (ClutterStage*, ClutterPerspective*)

Which supercedes the fixed point and floating point variants.

More importantly, both ClutterFog and ClutterPerspective should
using floating point values, since that's what get passed to
COGL anyway.

ClutterFog should also drop the "density" member, since ClutterStage
only allows linear fog; non-linear fog distribution can be achieved
using a signal handler and calling cogl_set_fog() directly; this keeps
the API compact yet extensible.

Finally, there is no ClutterStage:fog so it should be added.
2009-03-10 12:38:03 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
7d674db9d2 Clean up of the ClutterColor API
The ClutterColor API has some inconsistencies:

  - the string deserialization function does not match the rest of
    the conversion function naming policy; the naming should be:

        clutter_color_parse()   ->      clutter_color_from_string()

    and the first parameter should be the ClutterColor that will
    be set from the string, not the string itself (a GDK-ism).

  - the fixed point API should not be exposed, especially in the
    form of ClutterFixed values

  - the non-fixed point HLS conversion functions do not make any
    sense. The values returned should be:

      hue        := range [ 0, 360 ]
      luminance  := range [ 0,   1 ]
      saturation := range [ 0,   1 ]

    like the current fixed point API does. Returning a value in
    the [ 0, 255 ] range is completely useless

  - the clutter_color_equal() should be converted for its use inside
    a GHashTable; a clutter_color_hash() should be added as well

  - the second parameter of the clutter_color_shade() function should
    be the shading factor, not the result (another GDK-ism). this way
    the function call can be translated from this:

      color.shade(out result, factor)

    to the more natural:

      color.shade(factor, out result)

This somewhat large commit fixes all these issues and updates the
internal users of the API.
2009-03-10 12:38:02 +00:00
Robert Bragg
2b5a72dde5 [Cogl] cogl_clip_{set*,unset} renamed to cogl_clip_{push*,pop}
This is so they self document the stacking semantics of the cogl clip API
2009-02-18 16:00:51 +00:00
Robert Bragg
41ef2ef587 [tests] Some improvements for test-pixmap
The test no longer requires an XID argument to run; instead it creates its
own X Window. The test now also aims to demonstrate whether mipmapping is
working, and clearly informs you if fallbacks are being used for GLX tfp.
2009-02-11 13:08:17 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
9cf02bfdb9 [text] Rename :alignment to :line-alignment
The :alignment property is prone to generate confusion: developers
will set it thinking that the contents of a ClutterText will
automagically align themselves.

Instead of using the generic term :alignment, and following the
GTK+ convention, we should use a more specific term, conveying the
actual effect of the property: alignment of the lines with respect
to each other, and not to the overall allocated area.

See bug 1428:

  http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428
2009-02-05 19:54:48 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
52d04b5750 [tests] Update the text-field interactive test
We should also display the results of calling set_markup() or
set_use_markup() on ClutterText actors.
2009-02-02 12:07:28 +00:00
Robert Bragg
ef4052c18d Changes cogl_rectangle to take x1, y1, x2, y2 args not x1, y1, width, height
This makes it consistent with cogl_rectangle_with_{multi,}texture_coords.
Notably the reason cogl_rectangle_with_{multi,}texture_coords wasn't changed
instead is that the former approach lets you describe back facing rectangles.
(though technically you could pass negative width/height values to achieve
 this; it doesn't seem as neat.)
2009-01-28 17:20:15 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
3cfc7fb1ca Merge branch 'generic-actor-clone'
* generic-actor-clone:
  Remove CloneTexture from the API
  [tests] Clean up the Clone interactive test
  Rename ActorClone to Clone/2
  Rename ActorClone to Clone/1
  Improves the unit test to verify more awkward scaling and some corresponding fixes
  Implements a generic ClutterActorClone that doesn't need fbos.
2009-01-27 16:14:35 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
a688b1db01 Fallout from cogl-material merge
When enabling the maintainer CFLAGS the compiler got very angry
at the code that has been merged.
2009-01-27 16:02:04 +00:00
Robert Bragg
e9a45c7744 Merge branch 'cogl-material'
Conflicts:

	clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-texture.c
	clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-primitives.c

* cogl-material:
 clutter-{clone-,}texture weren't updating their material opacity.
 Updates GLES1 support for CoglMaterial
 Normalizes gl vs gles code in preperation for synching material changes
 Removes cogl_blend_func and cogl_alpha_func
 Fully integrates CoglMaterial throughout the rest of Cogl
 [cogl-material] Restore the GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE after material_rectangle
 [cogl-material] Make the user_tex_coords parameter of _rectangle const
 [test-cogl-material] Remove return value from material_rectangle_paint
 Add cogl-material.h and cogl-matrix.h to libclutterinclude_HEADERS
 [cogl-material] improvements for cogl_material_rectangle
 [cogl-material] Adds a cogl_material_set_color function
 [cogl-material] Some improvements for how we sync CoglMaterial state with OpenGL
 [cogl-material] Converts clutter-texture/clutter-clone-texture to the material API
 [doc] Hooks up cogl-material reference documentation
 Updates previous GLES multi-texturing code to use CoglMaterial
 Adds a CoglMaterial abstraction, which includes support for multi-texturing
 [doc] Hooks up cogl-matrix reference documentation
 Adds CoglMatrix utility code
 [tests] Adds an interactive unit test for multi-texturing
 [multi-texturing] This adds a new cogl_multi_texture API for GL,GLES1 + GLES2
2009-01-27 15:19:34 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
86e95a779a Remove CloneTexture from the API
ClutterClone supercedes ClutterCloneTexture, since it can clone
every kind of actor -- including composite ones.

This is another "brain surgery with a shotgun" kind of commit: it
removes CloneTexture and updates every test case using CloneTexture
to ClutterClone. The API fallout is minimal, luckily for us.
2009-01-27 15:18:45 +00:00
Robert Bragg
9266e110de Removes test-simple from tests/interactive/Makefile.am
The addition was accidental
2009-01-27 15:17:16 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
cd5c1bd98b [tests] Clean up the Clone interactive test
Do not assume the default stage, and store more data inside the
"application" structure that gets passed around instead of relying
on macros.
2009-01-27 14:36:12 +00:00
Robert Bragg
5985eef44c Fully integrates CoglMaterial throughout the rest of Cogl
This glues CoglMaterial in as the fundamental way that Cogl describes how to
fill in geometry.

It adds cogl_set_source (), which is used to set the material which will be
used by all subsequent drawing functions

It adds cogl_set_source_texture as a convenience for setting up a default
material with a single texture layer, and cogl_set_source_color is now also
a convenience for setting up a material with a solid fill.

"drawing functions" include, cogl_rectangle, cogl_texture_rectangle,
cogl_texture_multiple_rectangles, cogl_texture_polygon (though the
cogl_texture_* funcs have been renamed; see below for details),
cogl_path_fill/stroke and cogl_vertex_buffer_draw*.

cogl_texture_rectangle, cogl_texture_multiple_rectangles and
cogl_texture_polygon no longer take a texture handle; instead the current
source material is referenced. The functions have also been renamed to:
cogl_rectangle_with_texture_coords, cogl_rectangles_with_texture_coords
and cogl_polygon respectivly.

Most code that previously did:
  cogl_texture_rectangle (tex_handle, x, y,...);
needs to be changed to now do:
  cogl_set_source_texture (tex_handle);
  cogl_rectangle_with_texture_coords (x, y,....);

In the less likely case where you were blending your source texture with a color
like:
  cogl_set_source_color4ub (r,g,b,a); /* where r,g,b,a isn't just white */
  cogl_texture_rectangle (tex_handle, x, y,...);
you will need your own material to do that:
  mat = cogl_material_new ();
  cogl_material_set_color4ub (r,g,b,a);
  cogl_material_set_layer (mat, 0, tex_handle));
  cogl_set_source_material (mat);

Code that uses the texture coordinates, 0, 0, 1, 1 don't need to use
cog_rectangle_with_texure_coords since these are the coordinates that
cogl_rectangle will use.

For cogl_texture_polygon; as well as dropping the texture handle, the
n_vertices and vertices arguments were transposed for consistency. So
code previously written as:
  cogl_texture_polygon (tex_handle, 3, verts, TRUE);
need to be written as:
  cogl_set_source_texture (tex_handle);
  cogl_polygon (verts, 3, TRUE);

All of the unit tests have been updated to now use the material API and
test-cogl-material has been renamed to test-cogl-multitexture since any
textured quad is now technically a test of CoglMaterial but this test
specifically creates a material with multiple texture layers.

Note: The GLES backend has not been updated yet; that will be done in a
following commit.
2009-01-27 14:26:39 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
86e4e89bf1 Rename ActorClone to Clone/2
Step two: rename the object and its methods.

While we're at it, adhere more strictly to the coding style
practises; rename :clone-source to :source; add a setter method
for the :source property; take a reference on the source actor
to avoid it disappearing while we're still accessing it.
2009-01-27 14:24:31 +00:00
Neil Roberts
8e437e838f Simplify test-cogl-primitives
This removes a lot of code from test-cogl-primitives to make it easier
to follow. The TestCoglBox custom actor has gone and instead a blank
ClutterGroup is created with a paint signal handler.

Instead of rendering constantly and updating when a GTimer elapses a
second, a ClutterTimeline is used with 1 fps and a new redraw is
queued every frame.

The custom main loop is replaced with a regular call to clutter_main.
This fixes the close button of the stage window so you can quit
without having to press Ctrl+C.
2009-01-23 23:55:44 +00:00
Neil Roberts
343b0ed67e [test-cogl-primitives] Remove trailing whitespace 2009-01-23 23:41:26 +00:00
Robert Bragg
3d07e34cc5 Merge commit 'origin/master' into cogl-material
Conflicts:

	clutter/clutter-texture.c
	clutter/cogl/cogl-texture.h
	clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in
	clutter/cogl/common/Makefile.am
	clutter/cogl/gl/Makefile.am
	clutter/cogl/gles/Makefile.am
	clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.c
	clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.h
2009-01-23 15:23:49 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
915d9ec7ca Split maintainer-flags from the compiler flags
The maintainer compiler flags we use trigger warnings and errors
in the autogenerated code that gtk-doc creates to scan the header
and source files. Since we cannot control that, and we must run
a distcheck with both --enable-gtk-doc and --enable-maintainer-flags
turned on, we need to use less-strict compiler flags when inside
the doc/reference subdirectories.

The way to do this is to split the maintainer compiler flags into
their own Makefile variable, called MAINTAINER_CFLAGS. The we
can use $(MAINTAINER_CFLAGS) in the INCLUDES or _CFLAGS sections
of each part of the source directories we wish to check with the
anal retentiveness suited for maintainers.
2009-01-23 13:09:51 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
20973bd29f Fix compiler warnings
The maintainer-flags option discovered the usual amount of
collisions and compiler warnings we have to fix in order to
get distcheck to pass.
2009-01-23 13:08:46 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
792ffa1538 Merge branch 'float-alpha-value'
* float-alpha-value:
  [script] Parse easing modes by name
  [docs] Update the easing modes documentation
  [animation] Implement new easing functions
  [animation] Move the alpha value to floating point
2009-01-23 12:10:50 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
07689865fe [tests] Update the tests calling cogl_texture_new_*
The tests calling any of the cogl_texture_new_* family of functions
must be updated to the new constructor syntax.
2009-01-21 10:14:29 +00:00
Robert Bragg
3014d4ff8a Merge branch 'cogl-float'
Okey; to summarise the changes...

We have converted Clutter and Cogl over to using floating point internally
instead of 16.16 fixed, but we have maintained the cogl-fixed API as a
utility to applications in case they want to implement their own optimizations.

The Clutter API has not changed (though ClutterFixed and ClutterUnit are now
internally floats) but all Cogl entry points have been changed to accept floats
now instead of CoglFixed.

To summarise the rationale...

There have been a number of issues with using fixed point though out Clutter
and Cogl including: lack of precision, lack of range, excessive format
conversion (GPUs tend to work nativly with IEEE floats) and maintainability.
One of the main arguments for fixed point - performance - hasn't shown
itself to be serious in practice so far since we seem to be more limited
by GPU performance and making improvements regarding how we submit data to
OpenGL[ES]/the GPU has had a more significant impact.

Ref: The recent multiple rectangle queuing changes + the
cogl-texture-agressive-batching branch which show significant performance
gains, and that recent tests on the ipodtouch (ARM + MBX) also showed no
loss of performance running with floats.

So finally; please forgive the inevitable fallout, this is a far reaching
change. There are still a few known issues with the fixed to float
conversion but enough works for all our conformance tests to pass, and the
remaining issues hopefully wont be too tricky to solve. For reference two
tags will be available either side of this change: "cogl-fixed-end" and
"cogl-float-start"
2009-01-20 18:47:50 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
ac1a0d568e [script] Parse easing modes by name
The easing modes for a ClutterAlpha can either be parsed by using
the enumeration "nickname" (the shorthand form of the enumeration
value) or by using the common naming policy used in other
animation frameworks, like:

        easeInCubic
        easeOutElastic
        easeInOutBounce
2009-01-20 18:24:58 +00:00