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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Bragg
c0d5af5de5 Adds initial clipped redraw support to Clutter
A new (internal only currently) API, _clutter_actor_queue_clipped_redraw
can be used to queue a redraw along with a clip rectangle in actor
coordinates. This clip rectangle propagates up to the stage and clutter
backend which may optionally use the information to optimize stage
redraws. The GLX backend in particular may scissor the next redraw to
the clip rectangle and use GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer to present the stage
subregion.

The intention is that any actors that can naturally determine the bounds
of updates should queue clipped redraws to reduce the cost of updating
small regions of the screen.

Notes:
» If GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer isn't available then the GLX backend
  ignores any clip rectangles.

» queuing multiple clipped redraws will result in the bounding box of
  each clip rectangle being used.

» If a clipped redraw has a height > 300 pixels then it's promoted into
  a full stage redraw, so that the GPU doesn't end up blocking too long
  waiting for the vsync to reach the optimal position to avoid tearing.

  » Note: no empirical data was used to come up with this threshold so
    we may need to tune this.

» Currently only ClutterX11TexturePixmap makes use of this new API. This
  is done via a new "queue-damage-redraw" signal that is emitted when
  the pixmap is updated. The default handler queues a clipped redraw
  with the assumption that the pixmap is being painted as a rectangle
  covering the actors transformed allocation. If you subclass
  ClutterX11TexturePixmap and change how it's painted you now also
  need to override the signal handler and queue your own redraw.

  Technically this is a semantic break, but it's assumed that no one
  is currently doing this.

This still leaves a few unsolved issues with regards to optimizing sub
stage redraws that need to be addressed in further work so this can only
be considered a stepping stone a this point:

» Because we have no reliable way to determine if the painting of any
  given actor is being modified any optimizations implemented using
  _clutter_actor_queue_redraw_with_clip must be overridable by a
  subclass, and technically must be opt-in for existing classes to avoid
  a change in semantics. E.g. consider that a user connects to the paint
  signal for ClutterTexture and paints a circle instead of a rectangle.
  In this case any original logic to queue clipped redraws would be
  incorrect.

» Currently only the implementation of an actor has enough information
  with which to queue clipped redraws. E.g. It is not possible for
  generic code in clutter-actor.c to queue a clipped redraw when hiding
  an actor because actors have no way to report a "paint box". (remember
  actors can draw outside their allocation and actors with depth may
  also be projected outside of their allocation)

  » The current plan is to add a actor_class->get_paint_cuboid()
    virtual so actors can report a bounding cube for everything they
    would draw in their current state and use that to queue clipped
    redraws against the stage by projecting the paint cube into stage
    coordinates.

» Our heuristics for promoting clipped redraws into full redraws to
  avoid blocking the GPU while we wait for the vsync need improving:

  » vsync issues aren't relevant for redirected/composited applications
    so they should use different heuristics. In this case we instead
    need to trade off the cost of blitting when using glXCopySubBuffer
    vs promoting to a full redraw and flipping instead.
2010-03-02 17:19:11 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
79acb088e7 Remove mentions of the FSF address
Since using addresses that might change is something that finally
the FSF acknowledge as a plausible scenario (after changing address
twice), the license blurb in the source files should use the URI
for getting the license in case the library did not come with it.

Not that URIs cannot possibly change, but at least it's easier to
set up a redirection at the same place.

As a side note: this commit closes the oldes bug in Clutter's bug
report tool.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521
2010-03-01 12:56:10 +00:00
Robert Bragg
5d702853b8 glx backend: Adds support for GLX_INTEL_swap_event
If your OpenGL driver supports GLX_INTEL_swap_event that means when
glXSwapBuffers is called it returns immediatly and an XEvent is sent when
the actual swap has finished.

Clutter can use the events that notify swap completion as a means to
throttle rendering in the master clock without blocking the CPU and so it
should help improve the performance of CPU bound applications.
2010-02-09 22:19:41 +00:00
Robert Bragg
848db1ee4c glx backend: when running with GLX 1.3 then create GLXWindows for stages
Some extensions only support GLX versions > 1.3 and may not support
old style X Windows as GLXDrawables, so we now create GLXWindows for
stages when possible.
2010-02-09 22:19:41 +00:00
Matthew Allum
8847bcd195 2008-03-28 Matthew Allum <mallum@openedhand.com>
* clutter/Makefile.am:
        * clutter/clutter-actor.c:
        * clutter/clutter-actor.h:
        * clutter/clutter-backend.c:
        * clutter/clutter-backend.h:
        * clutter/clutter-debug.h:
        * clutter/clutter-event.c:
        * clutter/clutter-event.h:
        * clutter/clutter-feature.h:
        * clutter/clutter-group.h:
        * clutter/clutter-main.c:
        * clutter/clutter-main.h:
        * clutter/clutter-private.h:
        * clutter/clutter-stage.c:
        * clutter/clutter-stage.h:
        * clutter/clutter-stage-manager.c
        * clutter/clutter-stage-manager.h
        * clutter/clutter-types.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.h:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.h:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-event-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-stage-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-x11.h:
        * tests/Makefile.am:
        * tests/test-multistage.c:
        Initial commit of multi stage support (mostly a merge from the
        clutter-multistage branch).
        Note, this commit will break all backends except glx.
2008-03-28 22:50:55 +00:00
Matthew Allum
3607a470aa 2007-11-15 Matthew Allum <mallum@openedhand.com>
* clutter/Makefile.am:
        * clutter/eglx/Makefile.am:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-backend-egl.c:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-backend-egl.h:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-eglx.h:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-event-egl.c:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-stage-egl.c:
        * clutter/eglx/clutter-stage-egl.h:
        * clutter/glx/Makefile.am:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-event-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.h:
        * clutter/x11/Makefile.am:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11-private.h:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.h:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-event-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-stage-x11.c:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-stage-x11.h:
        * clutter/x11/clutter-x11.h:
        Create a new X11 backend class of which EGL and GLX 'real' backends
        then subclass. Effectively shares all X11 code between both backends
        avoids code duplication and brings many missing features to EGL X
        backend. Requires some cleanup and testing. (#518)

        * clutter/cogl/gles/cogl.c: (cogl_color):
        Add define to use color4ub only if configure finds it.
        If not fall back to old code.

        * configure.ac:
        Drop support for vincent checks.
        Drop sdles backend.
        Specifically check for color4ub call.
2007-11-15 14:45:27 +00:00
Matthew Allum
1ceaf04ac7 2007-08-24 Matthew Allum <mallum@openedhand.com>
* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
        * clutter/clutter-event.h:
        * clutter/clutter-main.c:
        * clutter/clutter-stage.c:
        * clutter/clutter-stage.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-event-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.h:
        Add initial support for stage state events.
        Fix fullscreening for an already mapped stage.

        * tests/test-events.c:
        Print out info from the above. Blue button now toggles
        fullscreen.

        * clutter/clutter-effect.c:
        * clutter/clutter-effect.h:
        Add a setting for templates to ref or clone underlying
        timelines. (As to improve sync issues like those in foofone)

        * tests/test-timeline.c:
        Also add completed signals.

        * clutter/cogl/gles/cogl.c: (cogl_texture_image_2d):
        * configure.ac:
        Forward port from stable branch. RGB Image fixes gles
        and check for lower case libgles_cm.
2007-08-24 15:12:52 +00:00
Matthew Allum
a0c1a9b66d 2007-05-31 Matthew Allum <mallum@openedhand.com>
* clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-event-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.h:
        Change type nameing from Glx -> GLX.
        Add basic event filtering functionality
2007-05-31 11:13:43 +00:00
Matthew Allum
ee928107cb 2007-05-16 Matthew Allum <mallum@openedhand.com>
* clutter/clutter-backend.c:
        * clutter/clutter-backend.h:
        * clutter/clutter-feature.c:
        * clutter/clutter-feature.h:
        * clutter/clutter-main.c:
        * clutter/clutter-main.h:
        * clutter/clutter-private.h:
        * clutter/clutter-stage.c:
        * clutter/cogl/cogl.h:
        * clutter/cogl/gl/cogl.c:
        * clutter/cogl/gles/cogl.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-glx.h:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.c:
        * clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.h:
        Rejig the features() foo, moving mostly into backends/cogl.
2007-05-16 09:08:30 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
4bd3fa583e 2007-03-22 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@openedhand.com>
* clutter/clutter-private.h: Remove inclusion of backend-specific
	headers; update the main context object; add the declarations for
	the event queue functions.

	* clutter/clutter-backend.[ch]: Add the abstract ClutterBackend
	object, which holds backend-specific settings, the main stage,
	and the event queue. Every backend must implement a subclass of
	ClutterBackend and ClutterStage.

	* clutter/clutter-feature.c: Protect the GLX specific calls
	behing #ifdef HAVE_CLUTTER_GLX.

	* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
	* clutter/clutter-group.c:
	* clutter/clutter-clone-texture.c: Include GL/gl.h

	* clutter/clutter-event.[ch]: Update public API and implement the
	event queue private API; hold a reference on the event objects;
	move out the keysym-to-unicode table; add the new event types.

	* clutter/clutter-color.h: Include clutter-fixed.h

	* clutter/clutter-main.c: Update API; get the main stage
	from the backend object; process the event received from the
	queue; lock/unlock the main mutex if we have one; move the
	initialisation process sooner in the init sequence, in order to
	have the backend object when we check for options; call the
	backed vfuncs in the pre/post parse hooks.

	* clutter/clutter-stage.c: Make ClutterStage and abstract class,
	implemented by the backends.

	* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-glx.h:
	* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-backend-glx.[ch]:
	* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-event-glx.c:
	* clutter/clutter/glx/clutter-stage-glx.[ch]:
	* clutter/clutter/glx/Makefile.am: Add the GLX backend.

	* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-backend-egl.[ch]:
	* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-event-egl.c:
	* clutter/clutter/egl/clutter-stage-egl.[ch]:
	* clutter/clutter/egl/Makefile.am: Add the stub for a EGL backend.

	* examples/*.c: Update for the new API.
2007-03-22 18:21:59 +00:00