Okey; to summarise the changes...
We have converted Clutter and Cogl over to using floating point internally
instead of 16.16 fixed, but we have maintained the cogl-fixed API as a
utility to applications in case they want to implement their own optimizations.
The Clutter API has not changed (though ClutterFixed and ClutterUnit are now
internally floats) but all Cogl entry points have been changed to accept floats
now instead of CoglFixed.
To summarise the rationale...
There have been a number of issues with using fixed point though out Clutter
and Cogl including: lack of precision, lack of range, excessive format
conversion (GPUs tend to work nativly with IEEE floats) and maintainability.
One of the main arguments for fixed point - performance - hasn't shown
itself to be serious in practice so far since we seem to be more limited
by GPU performance and making improvements regarding how we submit data to
OpenGL[ES]/the GPU has had a more significant impact.
Ref: The recent multiple rectangle queuing changes + the
cogl-texture-agressive-batching branch which show significant performance
gains, and that recent tests on the ipodtouch (ARM + MBX) also showed no
loss of performance running with floats.
So finally; please forgive the inevitable fallout, this is a far reaching
change. There are still a few known issues with the fixed to float
conversion but enough works for all our conformance tests to pass, and the
remaining issues hopefully wont be too tricky to solve. For reference two
tags will be available either side of this change: "cogl-fixed-end" and
"cogl-float-start"
The easing modes for a ClutterAlpha can either be parsed by using
the enumeration "nickname" (the shorthand form of the enumeration
value) or by using the common naming policy used in other
animation frameworks, like:
easeInCubic
easeOutElastic
easeInOutBounce
Instead of using our own homegrown alpha functions, we should
use the easing functions also shared by other animation frameworks,
like jQuery and Tween, in the interests of code portability.
The easing functions have been defined by Robert Penner and
are divided into three categories:
In Out InOut
Each category has a particular curve:
Quadratic
Cubic
Quartic
Quintic
Sinusoidal
Exponential
Circular
In addition, there are "physical" curves:
Elastic
Back (overshooting cubic)
Bounce (exponentially decaying parabolic)
Finally, the Linear curve is also provided as a reference.
The functions are private, and are meant to be used only
through their logical id as provided by the AnimationMode
enumeration.
The tests should be updated as well to match the new
easing functions.
The current Alpha value is an unsigned integer that can be used
implicitly as a fixed point value. This makes writing an alpha
function overshooting below and above the current range basically
impossible without complicating an already complex code, and
creating weird corner cases.
For this reason, the Alpha value should be defined as a floating
point normalized value, spanning a range between 0.0 and 1.0; in
order to allow overshooting, the valid range is extended one unit
below and one unit above, thus making it -1.0 .. 2.0.
This commit updates the various users of the ClutterAlpha API
and the tests cases.
This commit also removes all the current alpha functions exposed
in the public API.
To deal with all the corner cases that couldn't be scripted a number of patches
were written for the remaining 10% of the effort.
Note: again no API changes were made in Clutter, only in Cogl.
This is the result of running a number of sed and perl scripts over the code to
do 90% of the work in converting from 16.16 fixed to single precision floating
point.
Note: A pristine cogl-fixed.c has been maintained as a standalone utility API
so that applications may still take advantage of fixed point if they
desire for certain optimisations where lower precision may be acceptable.
Note: no API changes were made in Clutter, only in Cogl.
Overview of changes:
- Within clutter/* all usage of the COGL_FIXED_ macros have been changed to use
the CLUTTER_FIXED_ macros.
- Within cogl/* all usage of the COGL_FIXED_ macros have been completly stripped
and expanded into code that works with single precision floats instead.
- Uses of cogl_fixed_* have been replaced with single precision math.h
alternatives.
- Uses of COGL_ANGLE_* and cogl_angle_* have been replaced so we use a float for
angles and math.h replacements.
This simplifies the mucking about with the model-view matrix that was previously
done which improves its efficiency when scaling is necessary.
Notably: There should now be no performance advantage to using
ClutterCloneTexture as a special case clone actor since this method is just as
efficient.
The unit test was renamed to test-actor-clone.
Many use cases for clonning an actor don't require running a shader on the
resulting clone image and so requiring FBOs in these cases is overkill and
in-efficient as it requires kicking and synchronizing a render for each clone.
This approach basically just uses the paint function of another actor to
implement the painting for the clone actor with some fiddling of the model-
view matrix to scale according to the different allocation box sizes of
each of the actors.
A simple unit test called test-actors2 was added for testing.
In order to unify alpha functions and animation modes in ClutterAlpha
we should be able to register alpha functions and get a logical id
for them; the logical id will then be available to be used by
clutter_alpha_set_mode().
The registration requires API changes in ClutterAlpha constructors
and methods. It also provides the chance to shift ClutterAlpha
towards the use of animations modes only, and to alpha functions
as a convenience API for language bindings alone.
The Effects API and all related symbols have been superceded by
the newly added Animation API and clutter_actor_animate().
This commit removes the Effects implementation, the documentation
and the interactive test/example code.
* animation-improvements:
[docs] Add ClutterAnimatable to the API reference
Add license notice to ClutterAnimation files
[docs] Update the ClutterAnimation section
[animation] Extend ClutterAnimation support to all objects
[animation] Use ClutterAnimatable inside Animation
[animation] Add ClutterAnimatable
[animation] Allow registering custom progress function
[animation] Interval::compute_value should return a boolean
Animate ClutterColor properties
ClutterUnits should not be used interchangeably as, or with
ClutterFixed values. ClutterUnits should also not be assumed
to be integers.
This commit fixes the last few improper usages of ClutterUnit
values, and adds a CLUTTER_UNITS_FORMAT macro for safely printing
ClutterUnit values with printf().
Merge branch 'text-actor'
* text-actor: (108 commits)
Re-align ClutterText header file
[text] Fix cursor sizing
Comments and whitespace fixes to ClutterText
[docs] Add newly added :single-line-mode accessors
Update the ignore file
[tests] Add text field interactive test
[text] Add single-line-mode to ClutterText
[text] Fix the deletion actions
[text] Use cached length when possible
[tests] Add unit for the ClutterText:password-char property
[docs] Update the Text section
[text] Coalesce text visibility and password character
Allow localizations to change the text direction
Clean up the update_pango_context() function
Pass the PangoContext, not the MainContext
Revert the logic of the PangoContext check
Remove the binding pool entry from the list
Remove BindingPool::list_actions()
Add ClutterActor::create_pango_context()
Rename the PangoContext creation functions
...
* units-rework:
[texture] Do not mix fixed point and units values
[tests] Fix the actor detection
[units] Do not use fixed point and units interchangeably
The API has been changed to take an explicit length for the number of
texture coordinates passed, and it's now documented that if there are
more layers to the current material than the number of texture coords
passed, then default coordinates will be generated for the other
layers.
cogl_material_rectangle should now handle the case where a single
sliced texture is supplied as a material layer by falling back to
cogl_texture_rectangle. We are nearly at the point that
cogl_texture_rectangle could be deprecated. A few issues remain
though, such as not considering waste in cogl_material_rectangle.
My previous work to provide muti-texturing support has been extended into
a CoglMaterial abstraction that adds control over the texture combine
functions (controlling how multiple texture layers are blended together),
the gl blend function (used for blending the final primitive with the
framebuffer), the alpha function (used to discard fragments based on
their alpha channel), describing attributes such as a diffuse, ambient and
specular color (for use with the standard OpenGL lighting model), and
per layer rotations. (utilizing the new CoglMatrix utility API)
For now the only way this abstraction is exposed is via a new
cogl_material_rectangle function, that is similar to cogl_texture_rectangle
but doesn't take a texture handle (the source material is pulled from
the context), and the array of texture coordinates is extended to be able
to supply coordinates for each layer.
Note: this function doesn't support sliced textures; supporting sliced
textures is a non trivial problem, considering the ability to rotate layers.
Note: cogl_material_rectangle, has quite a few workarounds, for a number of
other limitations within Cogl a.t.m.
Note: The GLES1/2 multi-texturing support has yet to be updated to use
the material abstraction.
A label is now displayed under the rectangle showing the current
gravity. The text for the gravity is taken from the GEnumClass. This
makes it easier to verify that the test is working correctly.
Since commit c7c5cf9b ClutterCloneTexture causes an extra paint of the
source actor during the paint run of the cloned texture if the source
is not yet visible. When the stage is first shown it is redrawn
immediatly before it is mapped which means get_paint_visibility will
fail on the source actor so the inner paint will be run. The paint
guards were a global variable so they didn't cope with a second actor
being painted.
The breakage didn't occur until commit d510a4b0 because
get_paint_visibility was also broken.
The test-opacity interactive test is superceded by the equivalent
units inside the conformance test suite.
The test-entry interactive test is superceded by the test-text one.
The test-threads interactive test is a good candidate for the
switch from ClutterLabel to ClutterText to verify that the
behaviour of the two classes is the same.
The TidyText actor is meant as a replacement for both ClutterLabel
and ClutterText.
Any text-displaying and editing actor should derive from ClutterText
and implement the various visual cues to differentiate the editable
from the non-editable state. Those visual cues usually belong to
a high-level toolkit, especially if themeing is involved.
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter.h: Add ClutterBindingPool to the build.
* clutter/clutter-binding-pool.c:
* clutter/clutter-binding-pool.h: Add ClutterBindingPool, a data
structure meant to hold (key symbol, modifiers) pairs and associate
them to a closure. The ClutterBindingPool can be used to install
key bindings for actors and then execute closures inside the
key-press-event signal handlers, removing the need for big
switch() or if() blocks for each key.
* clutter/clutter-event.c: Consistently use "key symbol" instead
of "key value".
* clutter/clutter-event.h: Add more modifier masks.
* clutter/clutter-marshal.list:
* tests/conform/Makefile.am:
* tests/conform/test-binding-pool.c:
* tests/conform/test-conform-main.c: Add ClutterBindingPool
conformance test.
* tests/interactive/Makefile.am:
* tests/interactive/test-binding-pool.c: Add interactive test (and
example code) for the ClutterBindingPool usage.
* clutter/clutter-path.h:
* clutter/clutter-path.c: Implementation of new ClutterPath object
to represent a path combining straight line and bezier curve
elements.
* clutter/clutter.h: Include clutter-path.h and remove
clutter-behaviour-bspline.h
* tests/interactive/test-threads.c (test_threads_main):
* tests/interactive/test-script.c:
* tests/interactive/test-behave.c (test_behave_main): Use new path
API
* clutter/clutter-effect.c: Use the new ClutterBehaviourPath API.
* clutter/clutter-bezier.h:
* clutter/clutter-bezier.c: Moved bezier curve handling code out
from clutter-behaviour-bspline.c to a separate file.
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-path.h:
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-path.c: Reimplemented to work with a
ClutterPath
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-bspline.h:
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-bspline.c: Removed
* clutter/Makefile.am: Add clutter-path and clutter-bezier, remove
clutter-behaviour-bspline.
* tests/conform/test-path.c: New automatic test for ClutterPath
consistency
* tests/conform/test-conform-main.c (main): Add test_path
* tests/conform/Makefile.am (test_conformance_SOURCES): Add
test-path.c
* clutter/clutter-sections.txt: Add ClutterPath docs
* clutter/clutter.types:
* clutter/clutter-docs.xml:
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-animation-tutorial.xml: Remove
mention of ClutterBehaviourBspline
* clutter/clutter-marshal.list: Add VOID:UINT
* clutter/cogl/cogl-path.h:
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-primitives.c:
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-primitives.h:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-primitives.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-primitives.c: Changed the semantics of
cogl_path_move_to. Previously this always started a new path but
now it instead starts a new disjoint sub path. The path isn't
cleared until you call either cogl_path_stroke, cogl_path_fill or
cogl_path_new. There are also cogl_path_stroke_preserve and
cogl_path_fill_preserve functions.
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.h:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-context.h: Convert the path nodes array
to a GArray.
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-texture.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-texture.c: Call cogl_clip_ensure
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-clip-stack.c:
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-clip-stack.h: Simplified the clip
stack code quite a bit to make it more maintainable. Previously
whenever you added a new clip it would go through a separate route
to immediately intersect with the current clip and when you
removed it again it would immediately rebuild the entire clip. Now
when you add or remove a clip it doesn't do anything immediately
but just sets a dirty flag instead.
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl.c: Taken away the code to intersect
stencil clips when there is exactly one stencil bit. It won't work
with path clips and I don't know of any platform that doesn't have
eight or zero stencil bits. It needs at least three bits to
intersect a path with an existing clip. cogl_features_init now
just decides you don't have a stencil buffer at all if you have
less than three bits.
* clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in: New functions and documentation.
* tests/interactive/test-clip.c: Replaced with a different test
that lets you add and remove clips. The three different mouse
buttons add clips in different shapes. This makes it easier to
test multiple levels of clipping.
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-primitives.c: Use
cogl_path_stroke_preserve when using the same path again.
* doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt: Document the new
functions.
* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
(clutter_actor_set_property): Add sanity checks for NULL
boxed values when setting the rotation center.
* tests/interactive/test-animation.c:
(on_button_press): Add an example on how to use the rotation
properties to animate an actor.
* tests/interactive/test-pixmap.c (create_pixmap): Use a format
string instead of passing the error message directly to g_error.
* tests/interactive/test-easing.c (test_easing_main)
(on_button_press):
* tests/interactive/test-animation.c (on_button_press): Use
unsigned variables for the results from clutter_actor_get_size
otherwise it complains about the pointer signedness being
different.
* clutter/clutter-script.c (clutter_script_add_search_paths): Use
G_GSIZE_FORMAT instead of %d for a gsize parameter otherwise it
gets upset on 64-bit.
Bug 1049 - Clutter doesn't support most GLSL uniforms (patch
by Chris Lord and Neil Roberts)
* README: Update release notes.
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter-shader-types.[ch]: Add GValue types for
shader values.
* clutter/clutter-actor.[ch]: Update the shader API to use
the newly added GValue support for GLSL shader uniform
setters.
* clutter/clutter-shader.[ch]: Add float and integer convenience
API for single value GLSL uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/cogl-shader.h: Add new uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.h:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-defines.h.in:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-program.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl.c: Update the GL implementation of COGL
to handle the GLSL uniform setters.
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-gles2-wrapper.h:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-internal.h:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-program.c: Update the GLES 2.0 implementation
of COGL to handle the GLSL uniform setters.
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-sections.txt:
* doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt: Update the documentation.
* tests/interactive/test-fbo.c:
* tests/interactive/test-shader.c: Update the shader tests.
* clutter/clutter-alpha.h:
* clutter/clutter-alpha.c:
(clutter_alpha_set_mode): Use a lookup table to find the alpha
function given the animation mode.
(clutter_exp_in_func),
(clutter_exp_out_func),
(clutter_exp_in_out_func): Add new exponential functions.
* clutter/clutter-script.c: Update the lookup table with the
new animation modes; match "linear" to the ramp-inc alpha
function.
* clutter/clutter-types.h: Add new AnimationMode values.
* tests/interactive/test-easing.c: Update the easing functions
test.
Bug 1014 - Clutter Animation API Improvements
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter.h: Update the build
* clutter/clutter-types.h: Add AnimationMode, an enumeration
for easing functions.
* clutter/clutter-alpha.[ch]: Add the :mode property to
control the function bound to an Alpha instance using an
enumeration value. Also add six new alpha functions:
- ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out
- sine-in, sine-out, sine-in-out
* clutter/clutter-deprecated.h: Deprecate the #defines for
the alpha functions. They will be replaced by entries in the
ClutterAnimationMode.
* clutter/clutter-interval.[ch]: Add ClutterInterval, an
object for defining, validating and computing an interval
between two values.
* clutter/clutter-animation.[ch]: Add ClutterAnimation, an
object responsible for animation the properties of a single
actor along an interval of values. ClutterAnimation memory
management is automatic. A simple wrapper method for
ClutterActor is provided:
clutter_actor_animate()
which will create, or update, an animation for the passed
actor.
* clutter/clutter-debug.h:
* clutter/clutter-main.c: Add a new 'animation' debug note.
* clutter/clutter-script.c: Clean up the alpha functions
whitelist, and add the new functions.
* doc/reference/clutter/Makefile.am:
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-sections.txt: Update the
API reference.
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-animation.xml: Renamed to
doc/reference/clutter/clutter-animation-tutorial.xml to
avoid clashes with the ClutterAnimation section.
* doc/reference/clutter/clutter-docs.sgml: Renamed to
doc/reference/clutter/clutter-docs.xml, as it was an XML
file and not a SGML file.
* tests/Makefile.am:
* tests/interactive/Makefile.am:
* tests/interactive/test-animation.c:
* tests/interactive/test-easing.c: Add two tests for the
new simple animation API and the easing functions.
* tests/interactive/test-actors.c:
* tests/interactive/test-behave.c:
* tests/interactive/test-depth.c:
* tests/interactive/test-effects.c:
* tests/interactive/test-layout.c:
* tests/interactive/test-multistage.c:
* tests/interactive/test-paint-wrapper.c:
* tests/interactive/test-rotate.c:
* tests/interactive/test-scale.c:
* tests/interactive/test-texture-quality.c:
* tests/interactive/test-threads.c:
* tests/interactive/test-viewport.c: Update interactive tests
to the deprecations and new alpha API.
* tests/interactive/test-pixmap.c:
test-pixmap + test-devices accidentally got dropped from the makefiles
when changing the unit test layout; this puts them back.
Bug 1265 - ClutterScore doesn't emit 'started' signal (Bastian
Winkler)
* clutter/clutter-score.c: Emit the ::started signal.
* tests/interactive/test-score.c: Check the emission of the
Score signals.
* clutter/cogl/cogl-color.h:
* clutter/cogl/cogl-path.h:
* clutter/cogl/cogl-types.h:
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-color.c: Deprecated cogl_color()
in favour of cogl_set_source_color() and friends; store the
CoglColor components as unsigned bytes instead of fixed point
normalized values; add functions for allocating, copying and
freeing CoglColor, for use of language bindings.
* clutter/cogl/cogl.h.in:
* clutter/cogl/cogl-deprecated.h: Added cogl-deprecated.h,
an header file containing the deprecation symbols similar
to clutter-deprecated.h.
* clutter/cogl/gl/Makefile.am:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-texture.c:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/Makefile.am:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl-texture.c:
* clutter/cogl/gles/cogl.c: Update the GL and GLES implementations
of COGL after the CoglColor changes.
* clutter/clutter-actor.c:
* clutter/clutter-clone-texture.c:
* clutter/clutter-entry.c:
* clutter/clutter-label.c:
* clutter/clutter-rectangle.c:
* clutter/clutter-texture.c: Do not use CoglColor whenever it
is possible, and use cogl_set_source_color4ub() instead.
* clutter/pango/cogl-pango-render.c: Ditto as above.
* doc/reference/clutter/subclassing-ClutterActor.xml:
* doc/reference/cogl/cogl-sections.txt: Update the documentation.
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-offscreen.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-primitives.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-tex-convert.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-tex-foreign.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-tex-getset.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-tex-polygon.c:
* tests/interactive/test-cogl-tex-tile.c:
* tests/interactive/test-paint-wrapper.c: Drop the usage of
CoglColor whenever it is possible.
* tests/conform/test-label-cache.c:
* tests/conform/test-pick.c:
* tests/conform/test-timeline.c: Show all the output messages only
if the test was done with the verbose flag turned on.
* tests/interactive/test-main.c: Do not use the (gpointer*) cast,
but use a temporary gpointer instead.
* tests/conform/wrapper.sh:
* tests/conform/test-conform-main.c:
* tests/conform/test-timeline.c:
Adds Neil's updates to test-timeline.c so it now works with the new unit
testing infrastructure.
Also some fixes to ensure wrappers get setup correctly for the timeline
tests.
* tests/interactive/test-main.c:
cast the symbol return pointer as (gpointer *) to avoid warning
* tests/conform/test-pick.c:
g_assert that the test passes, instead of using exit()
* test/conform/ADDING_NEW_TESTS:
Fixes a silly typo
* tests/conform/Makefile.am:
* tests/conform/test-actor-invariants.c:
* tests/conform/test-conform-main.c: Move the actor invariants
unit to the conform section of the test suite.
* tests/interactive/Makefile.am:
* tests/interactive/test-entry-auto.c:
* tests/interactive/test-invariants.c: Remove the entry-auto
and invariants test, since those two belong to the conform
section.
framework
* configure.ac:
* tests/*:
The tests have been reorganised into different categories: conformance,
interactive and micro benchmarks.
- conformance tests can be run as part of automated tests
- interactive tests are basically all the existing tests
- micro benchmarks focus on a single performance metric
I converted the timeline tests to conformance tests and also added some
tests from Neil Roberts and Ebassi.
Note: currently only the conformance tests use the glib test APIs,
though the micro benchmarks should too.
The other change is to make the unit tests link into monolithic binaries
which makes the build time for unit tests considerably faster. To deal
with the extra complexity this adds to debugging individual tests I
have added some sugar to the makefiles so all the tests can be run
directly via a symlink and when an individual test is run this way,
then a note is printed to the terminal explaining exactly how that test
may be debugged using GDB.
There is a convenience make rule: 'make test-report', that will run all
the conformance tests and hopefully even open the results in your web
browser. It skips some of the slower timeline tests, but you can run
those using 'make full-report'
