Stacking multiple effects sub-classing ClutterOffscreenEffect requires
a small fix in the code that computes the screen coordinates of the
actor to position the FBO correctly with regards to the stage.
Since ClutterEffect is an ActorMeta it should be possible to animate the
properties of named effects using the @effects syntax, just like it
happens for actions and constraints.
Sub-classes of ShaderEffect currently have to get the handle for the
Cogl shader and call cogl_shader_source(); this makes it awkward to
implement a ShaderEffect, and it exposes handles and Cogl API that we
might want to change in the future.
We should provide a ClutterShaderEffect method that allows to (safely)
set the shader source at the right time for sub-classes to use.
The OffscreenEffect should set up the off screen draw buffer so that it
has the same projection and modelview as if it where on screen; we
achieve that by setting up the viewport to be the same size of the stage
but with an initial offset given by the left-most vertex of the actor.
When we paint the texture attached to the FBO we then set up the
modelview matrix of the on screen draw buffer so that it's the same as
the stage one: this way, the texture will be painted in screen
coordinates and it will occupy the same area as the actor would have
had.
A simple, GLSL shader-based blur effect.
The blur shader is taken straight from the test-shader.c interactive
test case. It's a fairly clunky, inefficient and visually incorrect
implementation of a box blur, but it's all we have right now until I
figure out a way to do multi-pass shading with the current API.
The ShaderEffect class is an abstract base type for shader-based
effects. GLSL-based effects should be implemented by sub-classing
ShaderEffect and overriding ActorMeta::set_actor() to set the source
code of the shader, and Effect::pre_paint() to update the uniform
values, if any.
The ShaderEffect has a generic API for sub-classes to set the values
of the uniforms defined by their shaders, and it uses the shader
types we defined for ClutterShader, to avoid re-inventing the wheel
every time.
The OffscreenEffect class is meant to be used to implement Effect
sub-classes that create an offscreen framebuffer and redirect the
actor's paint sequence there. The OffscreenEffect is useful for
effects using fragment shaders.
Any shader-based effect being applied to an actor through an offscreen
buffer should be used before painting the resulting target material and
not for every actor. This means that doing:
pre_paint: cogl_program_use(program)
set up offscreen buffer
paint: [ actors ] → offscreen buffer → target material
post_paint: paint target material
cogl_program_use(null)
Is not correct. Unfortunately, we cannot really do:
post_paint: cogl_program_use(program)
paint target material
cogl_program_use(null)
Because the OffscreenEffect::post_paint() implementation also pops the
offscreen buffer and re-instates the previous framebuffer:
post_paint: cogl_program_use(program)
change frame buffer ← ouch!
paint target material
cogl_program_use(null)
One way to fix it is to allow using the shader right before painting
the target material - which means adding a new virtual inside the
OffscreenEffect class vtable in additions to the ones defined by the
parent Effect class.
The newly-added paint_target() virtual allows the correct sequence of
actions by adding an entry point for sub-classes to wrap the "paint
target material" operation with custom code, in order to implement the
case above correctly as:
post_paint: change frame buffer
cogl_program_use(program)
paint target material
cogl_program_use(null)
The added upside is that sub-classes of OffscreenEffect involving
shaders really just need to override the prepare() and paint_target()
virtuals, since the pre_paint() and post_paint() do all that's needed.
ClutterEffect is an abstract class that should be used to apply effects
on generic actors.
The ClutterEffect class just defines what an effect should implement; it
could be defined as an interface, but we might want to add some default
behavior dependent on the internal state at a later point.
The effect API applies to any actor, so we need to provide a way to
assign an effect to an actor, and let ClutterActor call the Effect
methods during the paint sequence.
Once an effect is attached to an actor we will perform the paint in this
order:
• Effect::pre_paint()
• Actor::paint signal emission
• Effect::post_paint()
Since an effect might collide with the Shader class, we either allow a
shader or an effect for the time being.
When getting the relative modelview matrix we need to reset it to the
stage's initial state or, at least, initialize it to the identity
matrix, instead of assuming we have an empty stack.
This replaces the use of CoglHandle with strongly type CoglClipStack *
pointers instead. The only function not converted for now is
cogl_is_clip_stack which will be done in a later commit.
This replaces the use of CoglHandle with strongly type CoglBitmap *
pointers instead. The only function not converted for now is
cogl_is_bitmap which will be done in a later commit.
This replaces the use of CoglHandle with strongly type CoglPath *
pointers instead. The only function not converted for now is
cogl_is_path which will be done in a later commit.
This patch makes it so that only the backwards compatibility
COGL_HANDLE_DEFINE macro defines a _cogl_xyz_handle_new function. The
new COGL_OBJECT_DEFINE macro only defines a _cogl_xyz_object_new
function.
It's valid C to declare a function omitting it prototype, but it seems
to be a good practise to always declare a function with its
corresponding prototype.
While this is totally fine (None is 0L and, 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 instead
of None when we talk about pointers.
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.
This replaces the use of CoglHandle with strongly type CoglBuffer *
pointers instead. The only function not converted for now is
cogl_is_buffer which will be done in a later commit.
CoglHandle is a common source of complaints and confusion because people
expect a "handle" to be some form of integer type with some indirection
to lookup the corresponding objects as opposed to a direct pointer.
This patch starts by renaming CoglHandle to CoglObject * and creating
corresponding cogl_object_ APIs to replace the cogl_handle ones.
The next step though is to remove all use of CoglHandle in the Cogl APIs
and replace with strongly typed pointer types such as CoglMaterial * or
CoglTexture * etc also all occurrences of COGL_INVALID_HANDLE can just
use NULL instead.
After this we will consider switching to GTypeInstance internally so we
can have inheritance for our types and hopefully improve how we handle
bindings.
Note all these changes will be done in a way that maintains the API and
ABI.
in create_pick_material we were using a static boolean to gate when we
show a warning, but that would mean if the problem recurs between
different textures then the warning will only be shown once. We now have
a private bitfield flag instead, just so we don't spew millions of
warnings if the problem is recurring.
This adds a boolean "pick-with-alpha" property to ClutterTexture and when
true, it will use the textures alpha channel to define the actors shape when
picking.
Users should be aware that it's a bit more expensive to pick textures like
this (so probably best not to blindly enable it on *all* your textures)
since it implies rasterizing the texture during picking whereas we would
otherwise just send a solid filled quad to the GPU. It will also interrupt
the internal batching of geometry for pick renders which can otherwise often
be done in a single draw call.
Since the default alpha test function of GL_ALWAYS is equivalent to
GL_ALPHA_TEST being disabled we don't need to worry about Enabling/Disabling
it when flushing material state, instead it's enough to leave it always
enabled. We will assume that any driver worth its salt wont incur any
additional cost for glEnable (GL_ALPHA_TEST) + GL_ALWAYS vs
glDisable (GL_ALPHA_TEST).
This patch simply calls glEnable (GL_ALPHA_TEST) in cogl_create_context
clutter_texture_paint shouldn't need to optimize the case where
paint_opacity == 0 and bailout, since we've been doing this optimization for
all actors in clutter_actor_paint for a while now.
When _cogl_disable_other_texcoord_arrays is called it disables the
neccessary texcoord arrays and then removes the bits for the disabled
arrays in ctx->texcoord_arrays_enabled. However none of the places
that call the function then set any bits in ctx->texcoord_arrays_enabled
so the arrays would never get marked and they would never get disabled
again.
This patch just changes it so that _cogl_disable_other_texcoord_arrays
also sets the corresponding bits in ctx->texcoord_arrays_enabled.
Since emit_drag_end() can be called from a MOTION event capture we
cannot call clutter_event_get_button(). We should, instead, use the
press_button value because if we're emitting ::drag-end it means we
also emitted ::drag-begin and the value is valid.
We need to tell the introspection scanner all the dependencies we
require, including the pkg-config name to use when compiling the
GIR file into a typelib object.
New virtual functions cannot go wherever they want, if we need to
preserve the ABI.
Also, the coding style should match the rest of ClutterActor and
Clutter's own coding style.
When destroying an Actor the various ActorMeta instance should already
be disposed - unless something is holding a reference to them, in which
case we should use the ::destroy signal to unset the ActorMeta:actor
back pointer.
