I've found this is something I do quite often when debugging rendering
problems since its a simple way to wipe out lots of geometry and removes a
lot of unpredictable noise when logging geometry passing through the Cogl
journal.
We were calculating our vertex stride and allocating our vertex array
differently depending on whether the user passed TRUE for use_color or not.
The problem was that we were always writting color data to the array
regardless of use_color.
There was also a bug with _cogl_texture_sliced_polygon in that it was
writing byte color components but we were expecting float components. We
now use byte components in _cogl_multitexture_unsliced_polygon too and pass
GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE to glColorPointer.
test-cogl-tex-getset was assuming it was dealing with
COGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_8888 but since merging the premultiplcation branch
the pixel format is actually COGL_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGBA_8888_PRE
Cogl already add similar defines but with the CLUTTER namespace
(CLUTTER_COGL_HAS_GL and CLUTTER_COGL_HAS_GLES). Let's just add two
similar defines with the COGL namespace. Removing the CLUTTER_COGL ones
could break applications silently for no real good reason.
While grepping through the public headers looking for invalid use of
private HAVE_* defines, I stumbled upon two out of sync comments. Yes
it's a very minor trivial change.
JSON-GLib provides simple accessors for basic types so that we
can avoid getting the JsonNode out of a complex type. This makes
the code simpler to understand.
Currently, Clutter depends on the internal copy of JSON-GLib for
the ClutterScript parser. This is done to allow building Clutter
on platforms that do not have the library installed on the system.
Just like we use the internal PNG/JPEG loader as a fallback in
case we don't have GdkPixbuf or CoreGraphics available, we should
use the internal copy of JSON-GLib only in case the system copy
is not present.
The change is simply to move the default for the --with-json
configure switch from "internal" to "check".
In order to allow stricter compliance, a third setting should
be present: "system", which fails if the system copy is not
available.
We should also change the introspection generation to avoid
breaking in case we require the installed Json-1.0.gir instead
of the generated ClutterJson.gir
The clutter_actor_pick() function just emits the ::pick signal
on the actor. Nobody should be using it, since the paint() method
is already context sensitive and will result in a ::pick emission
by itself. The clutter_actor_pick() is just confusing things.
The Clutter API reference should have a section on how to port
applications from older version of Clutter to the new API.
The first guide deals on how to port animations created with
ClutterEffect to clutter_actor_animate().
Texture data is now in premultiplied format and the shader should
output a premultiplied color if the default blend mode is being
used. Shaders that directly manipulate the rgb values now
unpremultiply and premultiply again afterwards.
In the int-to-float switch for actor properties, the ::size-change signal
was moved to use floats instead of integers. Sub-pixel precision for image
size is meaningless, though, so we should revert it back to ints.
Fixes bug:
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659
Instead of using a specific function to check whether the X
server supports the XInput extension we can use the generic
Xlib function XQueryExtension(). This cuts down the extra
checks inside the configure.ac and simplifies the code inside
clutter_x11_register_xinput().
Currently, XInput support requires a function call. In order to
make it easier for people to test it, we can also add a command
line switch that moves the pointer device detection and handling
to XInput. This should ensure that, at least for people building
Clutter with --enable-xinput, applications can be easily migrated
and regressions can be caught.
Now that we can safely check for an uninitialized Clutter we
don't have side effects in calling one of the functions like
clutter_x11_enable_xinput(), which require to be called before
any other Clutter function.
The StageManager singleton instance is already kept around
by the clutter_stage_manager_get_default() function; there is
no need to have it inside the main Clutter context as well.
Instead of using _clutter_context_get_default() and checking the
is_initialized flag, we should use the newly added private function
that does not cause side effects, especially for functions that have
to be called before any other Clutter function.
The _clutter_context_get_default() function will automatically
create the main Clutter context; if we just want to check whether
Clutter has been initialized this will complicate matters, by
requiring a call to g_type_init() inside the client code.
Instead, we should simply provide an internal API that checks
whether the main Clutter context exists and if it has been
initialized, without any side effect.
The input device API is split halfway thorugh the backends in a very
weird way. The data structures are private, as they should, but most
of the information should be available in the main API since it's
generic enough.
The device type enumeration, for instance, should be common across
every backend; the accessors for device type and id should live in the
core API. The internal API should always use ClutterInputDevice and
not the private X11 implementation when dealing with public structures
like ClutterEvent.
By adding accessors for the device type and id, and by moving the
device type enumeration into the core API we can cut down the amount
of symbols private and/or visible only to the X11 backends; this way
when other backends start implementing multi-pointer support we can
share the same API across the code.
HAVE_COGL_GLES2 is defined in config.h through the configure script and
should not be used in public headers.
The patch makes configure generate the right define that can be used
later in the header.
The clutter_context_get_default() function is private, but shared
across Clutter. For this reason, it should be prefixed by '_' so
that the symbol is hidden from the shared object.
ActorBox should have methods for easily extracting the X and Y
coordinates of the origin, and the width and height separately.
These methods will make it easier for high-level language bindings
to manipulate ActorBox instances and avoid the Geometry type.
The Vertex and ActorBox boxed types are meant to be used across
the API, but are fairly difficult to bind. Their memory management
is also unclear, and has to go through the indirection of
g_boxed_copy() and g_boxed_free().
The test-easing interactive demo for the high-level animation API
is a bit "flat". Instead of using a Rectangle actor we should
probably be using something more "interesting" -- like a CairoTexture
with a gradient.
Cairo stores the image data in ARGB native byte order so we need to
upload this as BGRA on little endian architectures and ARGB on big
endian. ClutterTexture doesn't currently expose any flags to describe
ARGB format so until we can fix the Clutter API it now uses the Cogl
API directly.
In order to chain up animations using clutter_actor_animate() and
friends you have to use an idle handler that guarantees that the
main loop spins at least once after the animation pointer has been
detached from the actor.
This has several drawbacks, first and foremost the fact that the
slice of the main loop for the idle handler might be starved by
other operations, like redrawing. This inevitably leads to tricks
with priorities and the like, contributing to the overall complexity.
Instead, we should guarantee that the animation instance created by
clutter_actor_animate() is valid for the ::completed signal until
it reaches its default handler; after that, the animation is detached
from the actor and destroyed. This means that it's possible to
create a new animation after the first is complete by simply using
g_signal_connect_after().
This unfortunately makes it impossible to keep a reference to the
animation pointer attached to the actor by using g_object_ref(); a
way to "fix" this would be to have a clutter_animation_attach()
and a clutter_animation_detach() pair of methods that allow attaching
any animation to an actor. This might overcomplicate what it is
the simple animation API, though, so it's currently not implemented
and left for future versions.
The test-easing interactive demo has been modified to show how
the animation queuing works by adding a command line switch that
recenters the animated actor once the first animation has ended.
Continuing in the tradition on making clutter_actor_animate() the
next g_object_connect(), here's the addition of the signal-after::
and signal-swapped:: modifiers for the automagic signal connection
arguments.
Fixes bug:
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646
In order to be ready for the next major version of GLib we need to
disable single header inclusion by using the G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES
define in the build process.
