This adds a public function to iterate the attributes of a
CoglPrimitive. Previously there was no way to query back the
attributes but there was methods to query back all of the other
properties.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds a public function to make a copy of a primitive. The copy is
shallow which means it will share the same attributes and attribute
buffers. This could be useful for code that wants to have multiple
similar primitives with slightly modified properties.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Previously we had functions named like
cogl_primitive_new_with_xyz_attributes() but at some point we renamed
them all to functions named like cogl_primitive_new_xyz() instead. This
updates the -sections.txt symbol listing to list the new names.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
The GSource is created using cogl_glib_source_new which takes a
pointer to a CoglContext. The source calls cogl_poll_get_info() in its
prepare function and cogl_poll_dispatch() in its dispatch
function. The poll FDs on the source are updated according to what
Cogl reports.
The header is only included and the source only compiled if Cogl is
configured with GLib support.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds two new functions:
void
cogl_poll_get_info (CoglContext *context,
CoglPollFD **poll_fds,
int *n_poll_fds,
gint64 *timeout);
void
cogl_poll_dispatch (CoglContext *context,
const CoglPollFD *poll_fds,
int n_poll_fds);
The application is expected to call the first function whenever it is
about to block to go idle, and the second function whenever it comes
out of idle. This gives Cogl winsys's the ability poll file
descriptors for events. For example when handing swap complete
notifications, it can report that it needs to block on a file
descriptor.
The two functions are backed by winsys virtual functions. There are
currently no implementations. The default handler for get_info just
reports no file descriptors and an infinite timeout.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds a documentation section for CoglSnippet which gives an
overview of how to use them. It also fixes some syntax errors in the
existing documentation and adds the missing pipeline functions for
adding snippets to the documentation sections file.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds an experimental cogl_matrix_orthographic() function that is
more consistent with other Cogl api by taking x_1, y_1, x_2, y_2
arguments to define the top-left and bottom-right coordinates of the
orthographic coordinates instead of OpenGL style left, right, bottom and
top values.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds the following new public experimental functions to set
uniform values on a CoglPipeline:
void
cogl_pipeline_set_uniform_1f (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
int uniform_location,
float value);
void
cogl_pipeline_set_uniform_1i (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
int uniform_location,
int value);
void
cogl_pipeline_set_uniform_float (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
int uniform_location,
int n_components,
int count,
const float *value);
void
cogl_pipeline_set_uniform_int (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
int uniform_location,
int n_components,
int count,
const int *value);
void
cogl_pipeline_set_uniform_matrix (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
int uniform_location,
int dimensions,
int count,
gboolean transpose,
const float *value);
These are similar to the old functions used to set uniforms on a
CoglProgram. To get a value to pass in as the uniform_location there
is also:
int
cogl_pipeline_get_uniform_location (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
const char *uniform_name);
Conceptually the uniform locations are tied to the pipeline so that
whenever setting a value for a new pipeline the application is
expected to call this function. However in practice the uniform
locations are global to the CoglContext. The names are stored in a
linked list where the position in the list is the uniform location.
The global indices are used so that each pipeline can store a mask of
which uniforms it overrides. That way it is quicker to detect which
uniforms are different from the last pipeline that used the same
CoglProgramState so it can avoid flushing uniforms that haven't
changed. Currently the values are not actually compared which means
that it will only avoid flushing a uniform if there is a common
ancestor that sets the value (or if the same pipeline is being flushed
again - in which case the pipeline and its common ancestor are the
same thing).
The uniform values are stored in the big state of the pipeline as a
sparse linked list. A bitmask stores which values have been overridden
and only overridden values are stored in the linked list.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This adds two new experimental public functions to replace the old
internal _cogl_pipeline_set_cull_face_state function:
void
cogl_pipeline_set_cull_face_mode (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
CoglPipelineCullFaceMode cull_face_mode);
void
cogl_pipeline_set_front_face_winding (CoglPipeline *pipeline,
CoglWinding front_winding);
There are also the corresponding getters.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663628
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
This exposes cogl_sub_texture_new() and cogl_is_sub_texture() as
experimental public API. Previously sub-textures were only exposed via
cogl_texture_new_from_sub_texture() so there wasn't a corresponding
CoglSubTexture type. A CoglSubTexture is a high-level texture defined as
a sub-region of some other parent texture. CoglSubTextures are high
level textures that implement the CoglMetaTexture interface which can
be used to manually handle texture repeating.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
It's useful to be able to query back the number of
point_samples_per_pixel that may have previously be chosen using
cogl_framebuffer_set_samples_per_pixel().
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
When we make CoglTexture2D public as experimental api we forgot to add a
corresponding section the experimental 2.0 reference manual.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This exposes CoglTextureRectangle in the experimental cogl 2.0 api. For
now we just expose a single constructor;
cogl_texture_rectangle_new_with_size() but we can add more later.
This is part of going work to improve our texture apis with more
emphasis on providing low-level access to the varying semantics of
different texture types understood by the gpu instead of only trying to
present a lowest common denominator api.
CoglTextureRectangle is notably useful for never being restricted to
power of two sizes and for being sampled with non-normalized texture
coordinates which can be convenient for use a lookup tables in glsl due
to not needing separate uniforms for mapping normalized coordinates to
texels. Unlike CoglTexture2D though rectangle textures can't have a
mipmap and they only support the _CLAMP_TO_EDGE wrap mode.
Applications wanting to use CoglTextureRectangle should first check
cogl_has_feature (COGL_FEATURE_ID_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE).
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This factors out the CoglOnscreen code from cogl-framebuffer.c so we now
have cogl-onscreen.c, cogl-onscreen.h and cogl-onscreen-private.h.
Notably some of the functions pulled out are currently namespaced as
cogl_framebuffer but we know we are planning on renaming them to be in
the cogl_onscreen namespace; such as cogl_framebuffer_swap_buffers().
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Currently features are represented as bits in a 32bit mask so we
obviously can't have more than 32 features with that approach. The new
approach is to use the COGL_FLAGS_ macros which lets us handle bitmasks
without a size limit and we change the public api to accept individual
feature enums instead of a mask. This way there is no limit on the
number of features we can add to Cogl.
Instead of using cogl_features_available() there is a new
cogl_has_feature() function and for checking multiple features there is
cogl_has_features() which takes a zero terminated vararg list of
features.
In addition to being able to check for individual features this also
adds a way to query all the features currently available via
cogl_foreach_feature() which will call a callback for each feature.
Since the new functions take an explicit context pointer there is also
no longer any ambiguity over when users can first start to query
features.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds a new experimental function, cogl_framebuffer_finish(), which
can be used to explicitly synchronize the CPU with the GPU. It's rare
that this level of explicit synchronization is desirable but for example
it can be useful during performance analysys to make sure measurements
reflect the working time of the GPU not just the time to queue commands.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Now that we have reasonably good Windows support, we'd like to make
sure each release still compiles there.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
As part of an on-going effort to get cogl-pipeline.c into a more
maintainable state this splits out all the apis relating just to
layer state. This just leaves code relating to the core CoglPipeline
and CoglPipelineLayer design left in cogl-pipeline.c.
This splits out around 2k more lines from cogl-pipeline.c although we
are still left with nearly 4k lines so we still have some way to go!
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Since cogl-pipeline.c has become very unwieldy this make a start at
trying to shape this code back into a manageable state. This patche
moves all the API relating to core pipeline state into
cogl-pipeline-state.c. This doesn't move code relating to layer state
out nor does it move any of the code supporting the core design
of CoglPipeline itself.
This change alone factors out 2k lines of code from cogl-pipeline.c
which is obviously a good start. The next step will be to factor
out the layer state and then probably look at breaking all of this
state code down into state-groups.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Add a method on the renderer to know how many texture image units are
accessible from fragment shaders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657347
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Similar to the widely used gluLookAt API, this adds a CoglMatrix utility
for setting up a view transform in terms of positioning a camera/eye
position that points to a given object position aligned to a given
world-up vector.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This makes cogl_framebuffer_clear and cogl_framebuffer_clear4f public as
experimental API. Since these functions take explicit framebuffer
pointers you don't need to push/pop a framebuffer just to clear it. Also
these functions are implicitly tied to a specific CoglContext via the
framebuffer pointer unlike cogl_clear.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds a function to query what CoglContext a given framebuffer
belongs too. This can be useful if you pass framebuffer pointers around
and at some point you want to create another framebuffer as part of the
same context as a given framebuffer without assuming there is a single
default context.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
As a bare minimum we want to ensure that are releases are able to build
with support for gles1, gles2, gl, egl and glx. Previously we only
checked the build with gl + glx enabled and our last release actually
missed a header file required for building with egl.
This adds CoglPipeline and CoglFramebuffer support for setting a color
mask which is a bit mask defining which color channels should be written
to the current framebuffer.
The final color mask is the intersection of the framebuffer color mask
and the pipeline color mask. The framebuffer mask affects all rendering
to the framebuffer while the pipeline masks can be used to affect
individual primitives.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
The experimental 2.0 reference manual was setup with DOC_MODULE name of
"cogl" which conflicted with the 1.x API manual. This meant that when
running make install for both the reference manuals all the html files
would end up bundled together in the same location. The 2.0 API
reference now has a DOC_MODULE name of "cogl-2.0-experimental" the
corresponding -sections.txt and -docs.xml.in files have also been
renamed to match this.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
There were several CoglOnscreen functions named like:
cogl_onscreen_<platform>_blah instead of cogl_<platform>_onscreen_blah
so this patch updates those to be consistent with other platform
specific apis we have in cogl.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This fixes the 2.0 reference manual Makefile to not ignore
cogl-context.h; it also adds cogl_context_new to cogl-sections.txt and
removes cogl_begin/end_gl. (For using raw GL with Cogl 2.0 the plan was
to add some API for creating additional GL contexts via some Cogl API
and a way to push/pop those contexts.)
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds a description for the cogl-framebuffer section and adds lots
of missing symbols to the 2.0 reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
There were a few cogl_matrix symbols missing from the cogl-sections.txt
for the 2.0 reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds a function called cogl_matrix_is_identity that can determine
if a given matrix is an identity matrix or not.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This updates the public wayland symbols to follow the pattern
cogl_wayland_blah instead of cogl_blah_wayland.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
we've got into a bit of a mess with how we name platform specific
symbols and files, so this is a first pass at trying to tidy that up.
All platform specific symbols should be named like
cogl_<platform>_symbol_name and similarly files should be named like
cogl-<platform>-filename.c
This patch tackles the X11 specific renderer/display APIs as a start.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds Xlib and Win32 typesafe replacements for
cogl_renderer_handle_native_event, cogl_renderer_add_native_filter,
cogl_renderer_remove_native_filter. The old functions are kept as an
implementation detail so we can share code.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This does some minor gardening in cogl-sections.txt, tweaking some of
the section titles and removing some stale api references.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This adds the cogl_swap_chain and cogl_onscreen_template symbols to the
experimental 2.0 reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
This lists the cogl_renderer symbols in the cogl-sections.txt for the
experimental 2.0 reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
The recommended command to check for differences from master to the
remote master was using git log with a range from the local master to
the remote master but this wouldn't work if the local master is ahead
of the remote master because the range is backwards. This patch
changes it to recommend git diff --stat instead because then the
command would work even if the two branches have diverged.
Since gtk-doc is an optional dependency for Cogl then we need to special
case how EXTRA_DIST is initialized. It shouldn't be set when using
gtk-doc since gtk-doc.make expects to initialize EXTRA_DIST. If we
aren't using gtk-doc then it should be initialized to an empty value
instead of including gtk-doc.make so that the later lines that append
various extra png files to EXTRA_DIST won't fail.
This explicitly renames the cogl-2.0 reference manual to
cogl-2.0-experimental and renames the cogl-2.0 pkg-config file to
cogl-2.0-experimental.pc. Hopefully this should avoid
miss-understandings.
This exposes a CoglTexture2D typedef and adds the following experimental
API:
cogl_is_texture_2d
cogl_texture_2d_new_with_size
cogl_texture_2d_new_from_data
cogl_texture_2d_new_from_foreign
Since this is experimental API you need to define
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API before including cogl.h.
Note: With these new entrypoints we now expect a CoglContext pointer to
be passed in, instead of assuming there is a default context. The aim is
that for Cogl 2.0 we won't have a default context so this is a step in
that direction.
Automake seems a bit fragile when trying to do cunning things like
including a file with "-include". It does not recurse into that file (if
it exists) to generate the final Makefiles.
Let's add a if BUILD_GTK_DOC guard around the gtk-doc.make inclusion
instead, hopefully should work as intended.
Instead of simply extending the cogl_pipeline_ namespace to add api for
controlling the depth testing state we now break the api out. This adds
a CoglDepthState type that can be stack allocated. The members of the
structure are private but we have the following API to setup the state:
cogl_depth_state_init
cogl_depth_state_set_test_enabled
cogl_depth_state_get_test_enabled
cogl_depth_state_set_test_function
cogl_depth_state_get_test_function
cogl_depth_state_set_writing_enabled
cogl_depth_state_get_writing_enabled
cogl_depth_state_set_range
cogl_depth_state_get_range
This removes the following experimental API which is now superseded:
cogl_material_set_depth_test_enabled
cogl_material_get_depth_test_enabled
cogl_material_set_depth_test_function
cogl_material_get_depth_test_function
cogl_material_set_depth_writing_enabled
cogl_material_get_depth_writing_enabled
cogl_material_set_depth_range
cogl_material_get_depth_range
Once a CoglDepthState structure is setup it can be set on a pipeline
using cogl_pipeline_set_depth_state().
This is part of a broader cleanup of some of the experimental Cogl API.
One of the reasons for this particular rename is to switch away from
using the term "Array" which implies a regular, indexable layout which
isn't the case. We also want to strongly imply a relationship between
CoglBuffers and CoglIndexBuffers and be consistent with the
CoglAttributeBuffer and CoglPixelBuffer APIs.
This is part of a broader cleanup of some of the experimental Cogl API.
One of the reasons for this particular rename is to switch away from
using the term "Array" which implies a regular, indexable layout which
isn't the case. We also want to strongly imply a relationship between
CoglBuffers and CoglPixelBuffers and be consistent with the
CoglAttributeBuffer and CoglIndexBuffer APIs.
This adds an experimental CoglEuler data type and the following new
functions:
cogl_euler_init
cogl_euler_init_from_matrix
cogl_euler_init_from_quaternion
cogl_euler_equal
cogl_euler_copy
cogl_euler_free
cogl_quaternion_init_from_euler
Since this is experimental API you need to define
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API before including cogl.h
This adds an experimental quaternion utility API. It's not yet fully
documented but it's complete enough that people can start to experiment
with using it. It adds the following functions:
cogl_quaternion_init_identity
cogl_quaternion_init
cogl_quaternion_init_from_angle_vector
cogl_quaternion_init_from_array
cogl_quaternion_init_from_x_rotation
cogl_quaternion_init_from_y_rotation
cogl_quaternion_init_from_z_rotation
cogl_quaternion_equal
cogl_quaternion_copy
cogl_quaternion_free
cogl_quaternion_get_rotation_angle
cogl_quaternion_get_rotation_axis
cogl_quaternion_normalize
cogl_quaternion_dot_product
cogl_quaternion_invert
cogl_quaternion_multiply
cogl_quaternion_pow
cogl_quaternion_slerp
cogl_quaternion_nlerp
cogl_quaternion_squad
cogl_get_static_identity_quaternion
cogl_get_static_zero_quaternion
Since it's experimental API you'll need to define
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API before including cogl.h.
Gtk-doc can be hard to install on Windows. This patch enables people wanting to
hack on Cogl itself from a Windows system to do so without the hassle to get
gtk-doc installed first.
This pulls in the experimental cogl 2.0 reference manual from the
clutter repository since it wasn't included in the filter-branch when we
split cogl out.
To allow us to have gobject properties that accept a CoglMatrix value we
need to register a GType. This adds a cogl_gtype_matrix_get_type function
that will register a static boxed type called "CoglMatrix".
This adds a new section to the reference manual for GType integration
functions.
This add two new function that allows us to transform or project an
array of points instead of only transforming one point at a time. Recent
benchmarking has shown cogl_matrix_transform_point to be a bottleneck
sometimes, so this should allow us to reduce the overhead when
transforming lots of vertices at the same time, and also reduce the cost
of 3 component, non-projective transforms.
For now they are marked as experimental (you have to define
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API) because there is some concern that it
introduces some inconsistent naming. cogl_matrix_transform_point would
have to be renamed cogl_matrix_project_point to be consistent, but that
would be an API break.
This exposes the idea of a stack of source materials instead of just
having a single current material. This allows the writing of orthogonal
code that can change the current source material and restore it to its
previous state. It also allows the implementation of new composite
primitives that may want to validate the current source material and
possibly make override changes in a derived material.
This adds a "Cogl deprecated API" chapter to the Cogl reference manual
so we can group all the documentation for deprecated symbols together
instead of having them clutter up the documentation of symbols we would
rather developers used.
The CoglTexture3D API is only available when defining
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API so it should be listed in the experimental
section of the API reference.
Instead of exposing an API that provides an OpenGL state machine style
where you first have to bind the program to the context using
cogl_program_use() followed by updating uniforms using
cogl_program_uniform_xyz we now have uniform setter methods that take an
explicit CoglHandle for the program.
This deprecates cogl_program_use and all the cogl_program_uniform
variants and provides the following replacements:
cogl_program_set_uniform_1i
cogl_program_set_uniform_1f
cogl_program_set_uniform_int
cogl_program_set_uniform_float
cogl_program_set_uniform_matrix
This adds a publicly exposed experimental API for a 3D texture
backend. There is a feature flag which can be checked for whether 3D
textures are supported. Although we require OpenGL 1.2 which has 3D
textures in core, GLES only provides them through an extension so the
feature can be used to detect that.
The textures can be created with one of two new API functions :-
cogl_texture_3d_new_with_size
and
cogl_texture_3d_new_from_data
There is also internally a new_from_bitmap function. new_from_data is
implemented in terms of this function.
The two constructors are effectively the only way to upload data to a
3D texture. It does not work to call glTexImage2D with the
GL_TEXTURE_3D target so the virtual for cogl_texture_set_region does
nothing. It would be possible to make cogl_texture_get_data do
something sensible like returning all of the images as a single long
image but this is not currently implemented and instead the virtual
just always fails. We may want to add API specific to the 3D texture
backend to get and set a sub region of the texture.
All of those three functions can throw a GError. This will happen if
the GPU does not support 3D textures or it does not support NPOTs and
an NPOT size is requested. It will also fail if the FBO extension is
not supported and the COGL_TEXTURE_NO_AUTO_MIPMAP flag is not
given. This could be avoided by copying the code for the
GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP TexParameter fallback, but in the interests of
keeping the code simple this is not yet done.
This adds a couple of functions to cogl-texture-driver for uploading
3D data and querying the 3D proxy
texture. prep_gl_for_pixels_upload_full now also takes sets the
GL_UNPACK_IMAGE_HEIGHT parameter so that 3D textures can have padding
between the images. Whenever 3D texture is uploading, both the height
of the images and the height of all of the data is specified (either
explicitly or implicilty from the CoglBitmap) so that the image height
can be deduced by dividing by the depth.
There are many places in the texture backend that need to do
conversion using the CoglBitmap code. Currently none of these
functions can throw an error but they do return a value to indicate
failure. In future it would make sense if new texture functions could
throw an error and in that case they would want to use a CoglBitmap
error if the failure was due to the conversion. This moves the
internal CoglBitmap error from the quartz backend to be public in
cogl-bitmap.h so that it can be used in this way.
This adds a new API call to enable point sprite coordinate generation
for a material layer:
void
cogl_material_set_layer_point_sprite_coords_enabled (CoglHandle material,
int layer_index,
gboolean enable);
There is also a corresponding get function.
Enabling point sprite coords simply sets the GL_COORD_REPLACE of the
GL_POINT_SPRITE glTexEnv when flusing the material. There is no
separate application control for glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE). Instead it
is left permanently enabled under the assumption that it has no affect
unless GL_COORD_REPLACE is enabled for a texture unit.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
The documentation for cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_for_quads was
using ugly ASCII art to draw the diagrams. These have now been
replaced with PNG figures.
CoglMaterialWrapMode was missing from the cogl-sections.txt file so it
wasn't getting displayed. There were also no documented return values
from the getters.
This adds two new API calls- cogl_path_set_fill_rule and
cogl_path_get_fill_rule. This allows modifying the fill rule of the
current path. In addition to the previous default fill rule of
'even-odd' it now supports the 'non-zero' rule. The fill rule is a
property of the path (not the Cogl context) so creating a new path or
preserving a path with cogl_path_get_handle affects the fill rule.
cogl_ortho is one of those APIs whos style was, for better or worse,
copied from OpenGL and for some inexplicable reason the near and far
arguments are inconsistent with the left, right, top, bottom arguments
because they don't take z coordinates they take a "distance" which
should be negative for a plane behind the viewer.
This updates the documentation to explain this.
We only had getters for the red, green, blue and alpha channels of a
color. This meant that, if you wanted to change, say, the alpha
component of a color, one would need to query the red, green and blue
channels and use set_from_4ub() or set_from_4f().
Instead of this, just provide some setters for CoglColor, using the same
naming scheme than the existing getters.
For some operations on pre-multiplied colors (say, replace the alpha
value), you need to unpremultiply the color.
This patch provides the counterpart to cogl_color_premultiply().
• 3 general fixes (typos, copy/paste),
• ignore cogl-object-private.h,
• cogl_fixed_atani() was in reality cogl_fixed_atan(), fixed in commit
43564f05.
• Fix the cogl-vector section: sections must have a </SECTION> tag at
the end. Also the cogl-vector section was added in the middle of the
cogl-buffer one. Let's shiffle it out and add that </SECTION> tag.
This provides a mechanism for associating private data with any
CoglObject. We expect Clutter will use this to associate weak materials
with normal materials.
