It's time. Now that we have clutter_actor_allocate() respecting the
easing state of an actor, and that the LayoutManager animation virtual
functions have been deprecated, we can put ClutterAlpha on the chopping
block, and be done with it, once and for all.
So long, ClutterAlpha; and thanks for all the fish.
ClutterScript should be able to automatically call gettext() and friends
on strings loaded from a UI definition, prior to passing the string to
the object it is constructing.
The basic implementation is trivial:
- set a translation domain on the ClutterScript instance
- mark the translatable strings inside the JSON data, like:
"property" : {
"translatable" : true,
"string" : "a translatable string"
}
The hard part is now getting the tools we use to extract the
translatable strings to understand the JSON format we use inside
ClutterScript.
A bunch of private symbols have escaped into the SO; let's rectify this
situation by using the '_' private prefix, or making them static as they
should have been.
When dereferencing GArray.data to a C structure you need a double cast
from guint8* to void*, and then from void* to the actual type. This
avoids compiler warnings, especially when using clang on OSX.
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.
A bunch of private functions we use when parsing got exposed accidentaly
to the list of public symbols by virtue of not having the leading '_'
that we use to filter them out of the shared object — all the while the
header that declares them is a private, non installed one.
Let's rectify this situation with a bit of minor surgery on the code.
Do not just allow animating states connected to signals: add a "warp"
optional key that ends up calling clutter_state_warp_to_state(). This
is useful for debugging.
Currently, defining states for object signals can only be done by
defining a ClutterState inside the ClutterScript definition. We should
allow creating a (named) ClutterState in code, and associating it to a
ClutterScript instance — and have the Script resolve the "state" field
of a signal definition correctly.
One of the uses of a ClutterState state machine along with ClutterScript
is to provide a quick way to transition from state to state in response
to signal emitted on specific instances.
Connecting a real function, in code, to a specific signal does not
improve the ease of use of ClutterScript to define scenes.
By adding a new signal definition to the current one we can have both a
simple way to define application logic in code and in the UI definition
file.
The new syntax is trivial:
{
"name" : <signal name>,
"state" : <state machine script id>,
"target-state" : <target state>
}
The ClutterState instance is identified by its script id, and the target
state is resolved at run-time, so it can be defined both in
ClutterScript or in code. Ideally, we should find a way to associate a
default ClutterState instance to the ClutterScript one that parses the
definition; this way we would be able to remove the "state" member, or
even "style" the behaviour of an object by replacing the ClutterState
instance.
The implementation uses a signal emission hook, to avoid knowing the
signal signature; we check the emitter of the signal against the object
that defined the signal, to avoid erroneous state changes.
This time, in Clutter core.
The ObjC standard library provides a type called 'id', which obviously
requires any library to either drop the useful shadowed variable warning
or stop using 'id' as a variable name.
Yes, it's almost unbearably stupid. Well, at least it's not 'index' in
string.h, or 'y2' in math.h.
Allow to 'abuse' the clutter_script_parse_node function by calling it
with an initialized GValue instead of a valid GParamSpec argument to
obtain the correct typed value from the json node.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2528
Currently, the memory management in ClutterScript is overly complicated.
The basic design tenet should be:
- ClutterScript owns a reference on every object it creates
This allows the Script instance to reliably handle the lifetime of the
instances from creation to disposal.
In case of unmerge, the Script instance should destroy any Actor
instance, except for the Stage, and release the reference it owns. The
Stage is special because it's really owned by Clutter itself, and it
should be destroyed explicitly.
When disposing the Script itself, it should just release the reference;
any parented actor, or any InitiallyUnowned instance, will then be
managed by the parent object, as they should, while every GObject
instance will go away, as documented.
This commit is based on a patch by:
Henrik Hedberg <hhedberg@innologies.fi>
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2316
Comprehensively add (out) annotations to functions parameters
returning int/float/double.
Not handled here: structure out returns like ClutterColor or
ClutterPerspective or GValue that should get (out caller-allocates).
Not handled here: Cogl
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2302
Up until now, the "behaviours" member of an actor definition was parsed
by the ClutterScript parser itself - even though it's not strictly
necessary.
In an effort to minimize the ad hoc code in the Script parser, we should
let ClutterActor handle all the special cases that involve
actor-specific members.
The get_id_from_node() internal function should be exposed inside
Clutter (as a private function) because it can be useful to other
custom parsing code. The code is pretty trivial, but it would be
pointless to re-implement it.
Layout properties work similarly to child properties, with the added
headache that they require the 3-tuple:
( layout manager, container, actor )
to be valid in order to be inspected, parsed and applied. This means
using the newly added back-pointer from the container to the layout
manager and then rejigging a bit how the ScriptParser handles the
unresolved properties.
Similarly to the child properties, which use the "child::" prefix, the
layout manager properties use the "layout::" prefix and are defined with
the child of a container holding a layout manager.
While this is totally fine (0 in the pointer context will be converted
in the right internal NULL representation, which could be a value with
some bits to 1), I believe it's clearer to use NULL in the pointer
context.
It seems that, in most case, it's more an overlook than a deliberate
choice to use FALSE/0 as NULL, eg. copying a _COGL_GET_CONTEXT (ctx, 0)
or a g_return_val_if_fail (cond, 0) from a function returning a
gboolean.
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
The top-level types list was comically out of date, and it was only
determining whether the type we were constructing was initially unowned
or a full object. We can safely replace it with a simple type check.
Instead of taking a string and duplicating the "is it a string or an
integer" check in both Alpha and Animation, the function in
ClutterScript that resolves the animation mode values should take a
JsonNode and do all the checks it needs.
PropertyInfo should store a copy of the JsonNodes it references, so
that property_info_free() can safely dispose them, and we can reference
values across different UI definition data.
The implicit timeline parsing code is not copying the JsonNode; this
leads to a double free in some cases, which is masked by the GSlice
allocator and produces a heap corruption later on.
ClutterBehaviour should implement the Scriptable interface
and parse ClutterAlpha when implicitly defined, instead of
having this ad hoc code inside ClutterScriptParser itself.
After all, only ClutterBehaviour supports Alpha defined
implicitly.
The ClutterScriptParser should do most of the heavy-lifting for
parsing a JSON object member defining another JSON object into
a GObject property defined using a GParamSpecObject.
The ClutterScript parser needs to be extended to parse child properties
and apply them after an actor has been added to a container. In order to
distinguish child properties from regular GObject properties we can use
the "child::" prefix, e.g.:
{
"type" : "ClutterRectangle",
"id" : "child-01",
"child::has-focus" : true,
...
}
Parsing child properties can be deferred to the ClutterScriptable
interface, just like regular properties.
All the ClutterColor parsing rules should be coalesced inside
clutter_script_parse_color(): object, array and string notations
are the canonical ways of defining a ClutterColor inside a
ClutterScript definition. Having a single function in charge of
the parsing cleans up the code.
Currently, ClutterScriptParser will construct the object (using the
construct-only and construct parameters), apply the properties from
the ClutterScript definition, and eventuall will add children and
behaviours.
The construction phase should be more compartimentalized: the objects
should be constructed first and eventual children and behaviours
added. Then, once an object is requested or when the parsing process
has terminated, all the properties should be applied.
This change allows us to set up the actors before setting their
non-construct properties.
ClutterScript is currently a mix of parser-related code and
the ClutterScript object. All the parser-related code should
be moved inside a private class, ClutterScriptParser, inheriting
from JsonParser.
