Drop mentions of deprecated classes and API, and update the inline
example code.
Still some way to go, and the cookbook would probably benefit from
having a recipe on how to use ClutterActor to build a scene.
A lot of the example code in the cookbook and the API reference still
uses the default stage — sometimes as if it were a non-default one,
which once again demonstrates how the default stage was a flawed concept
that just confused people.
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.
The disconnect_matched() function is a bit too complicated, and its
simpler wrapper disconnect_by_func() is functionally equivalent in the
cases used by the cookbook examples.
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.
In Cogl, cogl-pango.h has moved to <cogl-pango/cogl-pango.h>. When
using the experimental 2.0 API (which Clutter does) it is no longer
possible to include it under the old name of <cogl/cogl-pango.h> so we
need to update the include location.
pre_paint() and post_paint() implementations don't need
to check whether an effect is disabled: Clutter will
not apply an effect unless it is enabled.
So remove code which checks whether the effect is
enabled or disabled from the example applications and the
documentation.
Add a recipe showing how to implement two simple
effects, based on ClutterEffect: an always gray background,
and a border with configurable width and color.
Also explains the necessity to queue a redraw on
the associated actor if the effect's properties change,
and shows how to implement that.
The example gives the GObject code for both effects,
as well as an example application showing how to use them.
The example also demonstrates how to disable/enable an effect,
making the border round an actor togglable.
Add example of a simple background color effect applied via
pre_paint() implementation in a ClutterEffect subclass.
This is a simple effect with an incomplete GObject
implementation (no properties, setters or getters)
to make it as easy to follow as possible.
Make sure users get the idea that clutter_init()
has a return value that needs to be checked.
These were fixed via sed magic:
sed -i -s -e "s/clutter_init (.*)/\
if (& != CLUTTER_INIT_SUCCESS)\n return 1/"\
doc/*/*/*.{c,xml} doc/*/*.xml
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2574
Add an effects chapter which gives a broad overview of
the abstract classes in the effects API, plus a short
example of how to apply one of the stock Clutter
effects (ClutterColorizeEffect).
The recipe explains how to create a custom ClutterDeformEffect
to produce a page fold (code based on ClutterPageTurnEffect).
The example code includes the effect class plus a small
application to apply it to a texture.
Show how to animate an actor using a ClutterPathConstraint.
This demonstrates how to get effects similar to
ClutterPathBehaviour with the modern animation APIs.
Includes 3 examples:
1) Simple ClutterPathConstraint used with implicit animations
2) ClutterPathConstraint used to simulate circular animation,
using ClutterAnimator
3) Creating simple curved path animations with non-linear
easing
Try to make the cookbook pass the distcheck phase, so that we can run
distcheck with --enable-docs, and make sure that a tarballed clutter
release can actually build the cookbook.
Remove the dispose() implementation and replace
with destroy().
This should be promoted as the standard approach
for implementing a composite actor, as it emits a
signal when instances of the actor subclass are destroyed.
Add some extra detail to the Discussion section of the
composite actor recipe, concentrating on the pros and
cons of this approach.
Also explain more about the Clutter parts of the implementation.
Also general tidy up of language and style.
Add some extra description to the allocate() function,
explaining how the allocation has to be adjusted to
coordinates relative to the actor as a whole, before
applying to the single child actor it is composed from.
Include all the code examples inline as part of the recipe.
Remove sections around each code example, as these are
unnecessary; leave full discussion for the Discussion section
instead of trying to cram it in around the code example.
As most actor subclasses will probably want to implement
size requisition, give a simple example of how to do this
on the basis of the composed actor's size, plus some padding.
Added 3 examples for the box layout recipe:
1) Simple box layout demonstrating how to set actor properties
2) Trivial menu implementation using box layout
3) Demonstration app which enables tweaking and testing
of layout property interactions
Also inlined example 1 in the solution section and added
more explanatory text in the discussion.
