The Actor's long description is a bit cluttered; it contains a section
on the actor's box semantics, on the transformation order and on the
event handling.
We should use <refsect2> tags to divide the Actor's description into
logically separated sections.
We should also add a section about the custom Scriptable properties that
ClutterActor defines, and the special handling of unit-based properties.
When emitting signals, one can mark arguments as being "static", ie an
indication this argument will not change during the signal emission.
This allows the signal marshalling code to create static GValues, in
this case not to copy the Color.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2073
We decide whether the paint() should be a real paint or a paint in pick
mode depending on the global pick_mode value. Using G_UNLIKELY() on an
operation that most likely is going to be executed once every frame is
going to blow a lot of cache lines and frak with the CPU branch
prediction. Not good.
Add clutter_actor_has_allocation(), a method meant to be used when
deciding whether to call clutter_actor_get_allocation_box() or any
of its wrappers.
The get_allocation_box() method will, in case the allocation is invalid,
perform a costly re-allocation cycle to ensure that the returned box
is valid. The has_allocation() method is meant to be used if we have an
actor calling get_allocation_box() from outside the place where the
allocation is always guaranteed to be valid.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Somebody somewhere decided it would be ok to define 'y1' as a global
function in math.h thus condemning us to repeatedly making commits to
fix these obnoxious compiler warnings about aliasing.
When printing out the property value during a ClutterScript debug run we
generate the value's content using g_strdup_value_contents() - though we
do it unconditionally. The contents might not be printed (they most
likely won't, actually) and will be freed afterwards. This is
unnecessary: we can allocate the contents string after checking if we're
going to print out the debug note, thus avoiding the whole
allocation/free cycle unless strictly needed.
* Add new clutter_geometry_union(), because writing union intersection
is harder than it looks. Fixes two problems with the inline code in
clutter_stage_glx_add_redraw_clip().
1) The ->x and ->y of were reassigned to before using them to
compute the new width and height.
2) since ClutterGeometry has unsigned width, x + width is unsigned,
and comparison goes wrong if either rectangle has a negative
x + width. (We fixed width for GdkRectangle to be signed for GTK+-2.0,
this is a potent source of bugs.)
* Use in clutter_stage_glx_add_redraw_clip()
* Account for the case where the incoming rectangle is empty, and don't
end up with the stage being entirely redrawn.
* Account for the case where the stage already has a degenerate
width and don't end up with redrawing only the new rectangle and not
the rest of the stage.
The better fix here for the second two problems is to stop using a 0
width to mean the entire stage, but this should work for now.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2040
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
The documentation and name of the get_transformation_matrix function
implies that 'matrix' is purely an out parameter. However it wasn't
initializing the matrix before calling the 'apply_transform' virtual
so it was basically just a wrapper for the virtual. The virtual
assumes the matrix parameter is in/out and applies the actor's
transformation on top of any existing transformations. This causes
unexpected semantics that are inconsistent with the documentation.
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.
* stage-min-size-rework:
docs: Update minimum size accessors
actor: Use the TOPLEVEL flag instead of a type check
[stage] Use min-width/height props for min size
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
If the actor is an internal child of another actor then we should call
unparent() when destroying it, like clutter_actor_reparent() does;
otherwise we'll leak the actor, since the parent holds a reference to
it.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2009
Instead of shadowing these properties with different properties with the
same names on stage, actually use them. Behaviour should be identical,
except the minimum stage size can now be enforced by setting the
min-width/height properties as well as using the set_minimum_size
function.
Since the "internal" state is global, it will leak onto actors that you
didn't intend for it to, because it applies not just to the actors you
create, but also to any actors *they* create. Eg, if you have a dialog
box class, you might push/pop_internal around creating its buttons, so
that those buttons get marked as internal to the dialog box. But
ctx->internal_child will still be set during the *button*'s constructor
as well, and so, eg, the label and icon inside the button actor will
*also* be marked as internal children, even if that isn't what the
button class wanted.
The least intrusive change at this point is to make push_internal() and
pop_internal() two methods of the Actor class, and take a ClutterActor
pointer as the argument - thus moving the locality of the internal_child
counter to the Actor itself.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1990
Since get_paint_opacity() recurses through the hierarchy it might lead
to a lot of type checks while we walk the parent-child chain. We can
split the recursive function from the public entry point and perform the
type check just once.
This replaces code like this:
if (CLUTTER_ACTOR_IS_VISIBLE (self))
clutter_actor_queue_redraw (self);
with:
clutter_actor_queue_redraw (self);
clutter_actor_queue_redraw internally knows what can be optimized when
the actor is not visible, but it also knows that the queue_redraw signal
must always be sent in case a ClutterClone is cloning a hidden actor.
• Add the function name in the warning, since the text is the same in
both clutter_actor_raise() and clutter_actor_lower().
• If an actor has a name then prefer it to the type name.
Since we're allowing allocation cycles saying that calling
queue_relayout() inside an allocation cycle "is not allowed" is kind of
confusing. We should say that "it is not recommended".
* device-manager: (37 commits)
x11: Re-enable XI1 extension keyboards
x11: Always handle core device events before XI events
docs: Documentation fixes for DeviceManager
device-manager: Fix the signals definition
docs: Add sections for InputDevice and DeviceManager
docs: Add clutter_input_device_get_device_name()
tests: Print out the device details on motion
Always register core devices
device: Remove unused is_default member
win32: Experimental implementation of device support
tests: Print the device name, as well as its Id
x11: Fill out the :name property of the InputDevices
device: Add the :name property to InputDevice
x11: Store core devices on the X11 Backend singleton
device: Unset the cursor actor when leaving the stage
device: Add pointer actor getter
x11: Discard the LeaveNotify for off-stage ButtonRelease
device: Do not overwrite the stage for an InputDevice
event: Off-stage button releases have a click count of 1
event: Scroll events do not have click count
...
The :opacity property is defined using a GParamSpecUchar. This usually
leads to issues with language bindings that don't have an 'unsigned
char' type and that need to explicitly handle the conversion between
G_TYPE_UCHAR and G_TYPE_INT or G_TYPE_UINT.
The property definition already specifies an interval size of [0, 255]
on the values; more importantly, GObject already implicitly transforms
between G_TYPE_UCHAR and G_TYPE_UINT (the GValue transformation
functions are registered at type system initialization time) so
switching between a GParamSpecUchar and a GParamSpecUint should not be
an ABI break.
I have tested a simple program using the opacity property before and
after the change and I cannot see any run-time warnings related to this
issue.
UProf is a small library that aims to help applications/libraries provide
domain specific reports about performance. It currently provides high
precision timer primitives (rdtsc on x86) and simple counters, the ability
to link statistics between optional components at runtime and makes report
generation easy.
This adds initial accounting for:
- Total mainloop time
- Painting
- Picking
- Layouting
- Idle time
The timing done by uprof is of wall clock time. It's not based on stochastic
samples we simply sample a counter at the start and end. When dealing with
the complexities of GPU drivers and with various kinds of IO this form of
profiling can be quite enlightening as it will be able to represent where
your application is blocking unlike tools such as sysprof.
To enable uprof accounting you must configure Clutter with --enable-profile
and have uprof-0.2 installed from git://git.moblin.org/uprof
If you want to see a report of statistics when Clutter applications exit you
should export CLUTTER_PROFILE_OUTPUT_REPORT=1 before running them.
Just a final word of caution; this stuff is new and the manual nature of
adding uprof instrumentation means it is prone to some errors when modifying
code. This just means that when you question strange results don't rule out
a mistake in the instrumentation. Obviously though we hope the benfits out
weigh e.g. by focusing on very key stats and by having automatic reporting.
Currently, ClutterActor detects a relayout cycle (an actor causing a
relayout to be queued from within an allocate() function) and aborts
after printing out a warning. This might be a little bit too anal
retentive, and it currently breaks GTK+ embedding inside clutter-gtk
so we should probably relax the behaviour a bit. Now we just emit the
warning but we still go ahead with the relayout.
* animate-layout-manager:
layout-manager: Document the animation support
layout-manager: Rewind the timeline in begin_animation()
box-layout: Remove the allocations hash table
docs: Clean up the README file
layout: Let begin_animation() return the Alpha
box-layout: Add knobs for controlling animations
box-layout: Animate layout properties
layout: Add animation support to LayoutManager
Add ActorBox animation methods
ClutterActor checks, when destroying and reparenting, if the parent
actor implements the Container interface, and automatically calls the
remove() method to perform a clean removal.
Actors implementing Container, though, might have internal children;
that is, children that are not added through the Container API. It is
already possible to iterate through them using the Container API to
avoid breaking invariants - but calling clutter_actor_destroy() on
these children (even from the Container implementation, and thus outside
of Clutter's control) will either lead to leaks or to segmentation
faults.
Clutter needs a way to distinguish a clutter_actor_set_parent() done on
an internal child from one done on a "public" child; for this reason, a
push/pop pair of functions should be available to Actor implementations
to mark the section where they wish to add internal children:
➔ clutter_actor_push_internal ();
...
clutter_actor_set_parent (child1, parent);
clutter_actor_set_parent (child2, parent);
...
➔ clutter_actor_pop_internal ();
The set_parent() call will automatically set the newly added
INTERNAL_CHILD private flag on each child, and both
clutter_actor_destroy() and clutter_actor_unparent() will check for the
flag before deciding whether to call the Container's remove method.
ClutterActorBox should have an interpolate() method that allows to
compute the intermediate values between two states, given a progress
value, e.g.:
clutter_actor_box_interpolate (start, end, alpha, &result);
Another utility method, useful for layout managers, is a modifier
that clamps the members of the actor box to the nearest integer
value.
Some actor implementation might avoid imposing any layout on their
children. The Actor base class usually assumes some sort of layout
management is in place, so it will queue relayouts when, for instance,
an actor is shown or is hidden. If the parent of the actor does not
impose any layout, though, showing or hiding one of its children will
not affect the layout of the others.
An example of this kind of container is ClutterGroup.
By adding a new Actor flag, CLUTTER_ACTOR_NO_LAYOUT, and by making
the Group actor set it on itself, the Actor base class can now decide
whether or not to queue a relayout. The flag is not meant to be used
by application code, and should only be set when implementing a new
container.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1838
clutter_actor_get_preferred_width/height currently caches only one size
requests, for a given height / width.
It's common for a layout manager to call get_preferred_width with 2
different heights during the same allocation cycle. Typically once in
the size request, once in the allocation. If
clutter_actor_get_preferred_width is called
alternatively with 2 different for_height, the cache is totally
inefficient, and we end up always querying the actor size even
when the actor does not need a re-allocation.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1876
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Every actor should have a property for retrieving (and setting) the
text direction.
The text direction is used to provide a consisten behaviour in both
left-to-right and right-to-left languages. For instance, ClutterText
should perform key navigation following text direction. Layout
managers should also take into account text direction to derive the
right packing order for their children.
cogl_clip_push, and cogl_clip_push_window_rect which are now deprecated were
used in various places internally so this just switches to using the
replacement functions.
If an actor calls directly or indirectly clutter_actor_queue_relayout()
on itself from within the allocate() implementation it will cause a
relayout cycle. This is usually a condition that should be checked by
ClutterActor and we should emit a warning if it is verified.
ClutterActor should check whether the current instance is being
destroyed and avoid performing operations like:
• queueing redraws
• queueing relayouts
It should also warn if the actor is being parented to an actor
currently being destroyed.
When showing a warning in the state checks we perform to verify that
the invariants are maintained when showing, mapping and realizing, we
should also print out the name of the actor failing the checks. If the
actor has no name, the GType name should be used as a fallback.
When an actor is hidden, the parent actor is not required to
size request or allocate it. (ClutterGroup does, but, for example,
NbtkBoxLayout doesn't.) This means that the
needs_width_request/needs_height_request/needs_allocate can be
stale when we go to show it again - they are set for the actor
but not the parent. Explicitly setting them to FALSE avoids
clutter_actor_relayout() improperly short-circuiting.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1831
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
The IN_DESTRUCTION flag is set around the unrealization and disposal of
the actor in clutter_actor_destroy() but is never unset (it's set twice
instead).
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
ClutterClone bases its preferred size on the preferred size of
the source actor, so it needs to invalid its cached preferred
size when the preferred size of the source actor changes.
In order for this to work, we need to have notification when
the size of the source actor changes, so add a ::queue-relayout
signal to ClutterActor.
Then connect to this from ClutterClone and queue a relayout
on the clone when a relayout is queued on the source.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1755
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
