I don't feel comfortable with this feature, and its implementation
still has too many rough edges. We can safely punt it for now, and
introduce it at a later point, as it doesn't block existing features
or API.
This will make things interesting.
We have better replacements in ClutterActor, that do The Right Thing™
instead of deferring control and requiring reimplementation in every
single container actor.
If an actor using a LayoutManager has attributes like margin or padding
then it'll have to shave them from the available allocation before
passing it to the LayoutManager::allocate() implementation. Layout
managers should, thus, not assume that the origin of the allocation is
in (0, 0), but take into account that the passed ActorBox might have a
different origin.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649631
Whenever the allocation is changed on a child of a ClutterTableLayout
and animations are not in effect then it would store a copy of the
allocation in the child meta data. However it was not freeing the old
copy of the allocation so it would end up with a small leak.
Instead of just changing it to free the old value this patch makes it
store the allocation inline in the meta data struct because it seems
that the size of an actor box is already quite small compared to the
size of the meta data struct so it is probably not worth having a
separate allocation for it. To detect the case when there has not yet
been an allocation a separate boolean is used instead of storing NULL.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2358
*** This is an API change ***
The general pattern for axis-aligned arguments is:
x argument
y argument
If we consider columns an x-aligned argument, and row a y-aligned
argument, then we need to update the TableLayout functions to be:
column
row
and not:
row
column
A TableLayout is a layout manager that allocates its children in rows
and columns. Each child is assigned to a cell (or more if a cell span
is set).
The supported child properties are:
• x-expand and y-expand: if this cell with try to allocate the
available extra space for the table.
• x-fill and y-fill: if the child will get all the space available in
the cell.
• x-align and y-align: if the child does not fill the cell, then
where the child will be aligned inside the cell.
• row-span and col-span: number of cells the child will allocate for
itself.
Also, the TableLayout has row-spacing and col-spacing for specifying
the space in pixels between rows and between columns.
We also include a simple test of the layout manager, and the
documentation updates.
The TableLayout was implemented starting from MxTable and
ClutterBoxLayout.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
