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Neil Roberts
ab05f6bfb1 cogl-material: Add support for point sprites
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
2010-07-08 16:34:30 +01:00
Neil Roberts
73642ac9c4 cogl-material: Add a property for setting the point size
This adds cogl_material_{get,set}_point_size. If the point size is not
1.0f then glPointSize will be called when the material is flushed.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
2010-07-08 16:34:30 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
9313f44e67 docs: Add a cogl-paths section
The path primitives have a specific section, now, and gtk-doc is loudly
complaining about it being defined but not referenced.
2010-07-02 17:49:09 +01:00
Neil Roberts
25509e6a7b Convert the ASCII art documentation in cogl-vertex-buffer to PNGs
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.
2010-07-02 17:29:34 +01:00
Neil Roberts
86500cd3d5 Add CoglMaterialWrapMode to the Cogl docs and fix docs for the getters
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.
2010-07-02 17:29:34 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
4ed4e86e75 docs: Various fixes for gtk-doc 2010-06-30 15:51:12 +01:00
Neil Roberts
3a1456f34e cogl-path: Allow changing the fill rule
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.
2010-06-29 20:37:14 +01:00
Robert Bragg
ff4d3e048b cogl docs: Improve documentation for cogl_ortho
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.
2010-06-15 15:26:28 +01:00
Damien Lespiau
e562ac20df cogl-color: Provide setters for all the channels
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.
2010-06-10 20:02:01 +01:00
Damien Lespiau
55be1a23c3 cogl-color: Add cogl_color_unpremultiply()
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().
2010-06-10 20:01:48 +01:00
Damien Lespiau
eb3017df7e doc: Some fixes for the Cogl documentation
• 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.
2010-06-07 14:32:32 +01:00
Robert Bragg
e7c800dacc CoglObject: Adds cogl_object_{get,set}_user_data
This provides a mechanism for associating private data with any
CoglObject. We expect Clutter will use this to associate weak materials
with normal materials.
2010-06-04 14:44:15 +01:00
Robert Bragg
d131602a6d cogl-path: Adds missing cogl_is_path prototype
This adds a missing cogl_is_path prototype to the public cogl-path.h
header.
2010-06-04 14:44:15 +01:00
Robert Bragg
eca2634050 cogl-path: Renames cogl_path_get/set cogl_get/set_path
These aren't path methods so aren't consistent with the
cogl_object_method naming style we are aiming for.
2010-06-04 14:44:15 +01:00
Robert Bragg
bb2d088cb1 math: Adds an experimental cogl_vector3_* API
This adds a math utility API for handling 3 component, single precision
float vectors with the following; mostly self explanatory functions:

cogl_vector3_init
cogl_vector3_init_zero
cogl_vector3_equal
cogl_vector3_equal_with_epsilon
cogl_vector3_copy
cogl_vector3_free
cogl_vector3_invert
cogl_vector3_add
cogl_vector3_subtract
cogl_vector3_multiply_scalar
cogl_vector3_divide_scalar
cogl_vector3_normalize
cogl_vector3_magnitude
cogl_vector3_cross_product
cogl_vector3_dot_product
cogl_vector3_distance

Since the API is experimental you will need to define
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API before including cogl.h if you want to use
the API.
2010-05-20 17:18:24 +01:00
Neil Roberts
7f2b2e1364 cogl-path: Document how a shape is filled
This adds some documentation to cogl_path_fill() describing the fill
rule Cogl uses.
2010-04-21 13:20:23 +01:00
Neil Roberts
75f1dc90b0 cogl-material: Add support for setting the wrap mode for a layer
Previously, Cogl's texture coordinate system was effectively always
GL_REPEAT so that if an application specifies coordinates outside the
range 0→1 it would get repeated copies of the texture. It would
however change the mode to GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE if all of the coordinates
are in the range 0→1 so that in the common case that the whole texture
is being drawn with linear filtering it will not blend in edge pixels
from the opposite sides.

This patch adds the option for applications to change the wrap mode
per layer. There are now three wrap modes: 'repeat', 'clamp-to-edge'
and 'automatic'. The automatic map mode is the default and it
implements the previous behaviour. The wrap mode can be changed for
the s and t coordinates independently. I've tried to make the
internals support setting the r coordinate but as we don't support 3D
textures yet I haven't exposed any public API for it.

The texture backends still have a set_wrap_mode virtual but this value
is intended to be transitory and it will be changed whenever the
material is flushed (although the backends are expected to cache it so
that it won't use too many GL calls). In my understanding this value
was always meant to be transitory and all primitives were meant to set
the value before drawing. However there were comments suggesting that
this is not the expected behaviour. In particular the vertex buffer
drawing code never set a wrap mode so it would end up with whatever
the texture was previously used for. These issues are now fixed
because the material will always set the wrap modes.

There is code to manually implement clamp-to-edge for textures that
can't be hardware repeated. However this doesn't fully work because it
relies on being able to draw the stretched parts using quads with the
same values for tx1 and tx2. The texture iteration code doesn't
support this so it breaks. This is a separate bug and it isn't
trivially solved.

When flushing a material there are now extra options to set wrap mode
overrides. The overrides are an array of values for each layer that
specifies an override for the s, t or r coordinates. The primitives
use this to implement the automatic wrap mode. cogl_polygon also uses
it to set GL_CLAMP_TO_BORDER mode for its trick to render sliced
textures. Although this code has been added it looks like the sliced
trick has been broken for a while and I haven't attempted to fix it
here.

I've added a constant to represent the maximum number of layers that a
material supports so that I can size the overrides array. I've set it
to 32 because as far as I can tell we have that limit imposed anyway
because the other flush options use a guint32 to store a flag about
each layer. The overrides array ends up adding 32 bytes to each flush
options struct which may be a concern.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063
2010-04-12 15:44:23 +01:00
Neil Roberts
9ee6dd240b cogl: Support retained paths
This adds three new API calls:

  CoglHandle cogl_path_get()
  void cogl_path_set(CoglHandle path)
  CoglHandle cogl_path_copy(CoglHandle path)

All of the fields relating to the path have been moved from the Cogl
context to a new CoglPath handle type. The cogl context now just
contains a CoglPath handle. All of the existing path commands
manipulate the data in the current path handle. cogl_path_new now just
creates a new path handle and unrefs the old one.

The path handle can be stored for later with cogl_path_get. The path
can then be copied with cogl_path_copy. Internally it implements
copy-on-write semantics with an extra optimisation that it will only
copy the data if the new path is modified, but not if the original
path is modified. It can do this because the only way to modify a path
is by appending to it so the copied path is able to store its own path
length and only render the nodes up to that length. For this to work
the copied path also needs to keep its own copies of the path extents
because the parent path may change these by adding nodes.

The clip stack now uses the cogl_path_copy mechanism to store paths in
the stack instead of directly copying the data. This should save some
memory and processing time.
2010-04-08 19:53:38 +01:00
Robert Bragg
45885850d2 cogl: renames cogl_multiply_matrix to cogl_transform
Although cogl_multiply_matrix was consistent with OpenGL, after further
consideration it was agreed that cogl_transform is a better name. Given
that it's in the global cogl_ namespace cogl_transform seems more self
documenting.
2010-04-08 14:37:01 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
7483f82566 docs: Add 1.4 index to the API references
Now that master has branched for the 1.3 development cycle.
2010-03-25 09:45:59 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
262782feae docs: Add 2010 in COGL's Copyright notice
While at it, fix the usage of <year> in <copyright> to let the
stylesheet do the collation when having several years.
2010-02-12 17:29:51 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
124f30ccce docs: Fixes for Cogl 2010-02-12 15:52:07 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
f5d2f58b03 docs: Clean up the unused symbols for Cogl
Gtk-doc is reporting a lot of false positives in the unused text file,
mostly because of new private files that have been added to Cogl but not
to the gtk-doc ignore list for the Cogl API reference.

Once the false positives have been removed we have a couple of really
missing symbols that should be added to the cogl-sections.txt file.
2010-02-09 15:29:29 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
9aac36b47e docs: Move some Cogl defines in the private section
The PixelFormat bit and mask #defines should not be used and are there
mostly for convenience, so we can push them to the "private" sub-section
of the API reference.

This pushed Cogl's API reference coverage to 100%.
2010-02-09 14:48:11 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
7ebb1e7157 docs: Fixes for Cogl API reference
98% symbol docs coverage.
  335 symbols documented.
  0 symbols incomplete.
  8 not documented.

Not bad, if I may say so.
2010-02-09 14:41:37 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
b7f049495b cogl-texture: Add a new constructor to turn CoglBuffers into textures
The only goal of using COGL buffers is to use them to create
textures. cogl_texture_new_from_buffer() is the new symbol to create
textures out of buffers.
2010-02-08 17:14:49 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
abbb668163 cogl-pixel-buffer: add a pixel buffer object class
This subclass of CoglBuffer aims at wrapping PBOs or other system
surfaces like DRM buffer objects. Two constructors are available:

cogl_pixel_buffer_new() with a size when you only care about the size of
the buffer (such a buffer can be used to store several texture data such
as the three planes of a I420 frame).

cogl_pixel_buffer_new_full() is more a 1:1 mapping between the data and
an underlying surface, with the possibility of having access to a low
level memory buffer that may have a stride.
2010-02-08 17:14:49 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
b5e9710cdf cogl-buffer: add an abstract class around openGL's buffer objects
Buffer objects are cool! This abstracts the buffer API first introduced
by GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object and then extended to other objects.

The coglBuffer abstract class is intended to be the base class of all
the buffer objects, letting the user map() buffers. If the underlying
implementation does not support buffer objects (or only support VBO but
not FBO for instance), fallback paths should be provided.
2010-02-08 17:14:49 +00:00
Neil Roberts
830f2402d4 Merge branch 'more-texture-backends'
This adds three new texture backends.

- CoglTexture2D: This is a trimmed down version of CoglTexture2DSliced
  which only supports a single texture and only works with the
  GL_TEXTURE_2D target. The code is a lot simpler so it has a less
  overheads than dealing with slices. Cogl will use this wherever
  possible.

- CoglSubTexture: This is used to get a CoglHandle to represent a
  subregion of another texture. The texture can be used as if it was a
  standalone texture but it does not need to copy the resources.

- CoglAtlasTexture: This collects RGB and RGBA textures into a single
  GL texture with the aim of reducing texture state changes and
  increasing batching. The backend will try to manage the atlas and
  may move the textures around to close gaps in the texture. By
  default all textures will be placed in the atlas.
2010-02-06 00:20:32 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
1b94cc9268 docs: fix new line in the cogl xml top level document
A comma in the FSF address is wrong. Supreme Offence.
2010-02-04 19:32:14 +00:00
Neil Roberts
145cc9d3df Merge remote branch 'master' into texture-debugging
Conflicts:
	clutter/cogl/cogl/cogl-context.h
2010-02-01 13:37:19 +00:00
Damien Lespiau
87d19b8d18 cogl: Fix gl equivalent of blend string
An example of what could be the equivalent of
    "RBG = REPLACE(TEXTURE)
     A   = MODULATE(PREVIOUS,TEXTURE)"
using the ARB_texture_env_combine extension was given, but it seems that
a few typo were left:
    * remove a spurius GL_COMBINE_ALPHA
    * use the _ALPHA variant of SRCN and OPERANDN when setting up the
      alpha combiner
2010-01-26 17:25:25 +00:00
Neil Roberts
9752493272 cogl: Add a sub texture backend
This adds a new texture backend which represents a sub texture of a
larger texture. The texture is created with a reference to the full
texture and a set of coordinates describing the region. The backend
simply defers to the full texture for all operations and maps the
coordinates to the other range. You can also use coordinates outside
the range [0,1] to create a repeated version of the full texture.

A new public API function called cogl_texture_new_from_sub_texture is
available to create the sub texture.
2009-12-02 22:03:08 +00:00
Robert Bragg
439f8c62b0 cogl: deprecate cogl_draw_buffer API and replace with a cogl_framebuffer API
cogl_push_draw_buffer, cogl_set_draw_buffer and cogl_pop_draw_buffer are now
deprecated and new code should use the new cogl_framebuffer_* API instead.

Code that previously did:
    cogl_push_draw_buffer ();
    cogl_set_draw_buffer (COGL_OFFSCREEN_BUFFER, buffer);
    /* draw */
    cogl_pop_draw_buffer ();
should now be re-written as:
    cogl_push_framebuffer (buffer);
    /* draw */
    cogl_pop_framebuffer ();

As can be seen from the example above the rename has been used as an
opportunity to remove the redundant target argument from
cogl_set_draw_buffer; it now only takes one call to redirect to an offscreen
buffer, and finally the term framebuffer may be a bit more familiar to
anyone coming from an OpenGL background.
2009-11-26 19:33:14 +00:00
Robert Bragg
4a63af0c63 docs: Don't document cogl_flush_gl_state as public API
This function was #if 0'd before we released Clutter 1.0 so there's no
implementation of it.  At some point we thought it might assist with
developers breaking out into raw OpenGL.  Breaking out to raw GL is a
difficult problem though so we decided instead we will wait for a specific
use case to arrise before trying to support it.
2009-11-24 17:58:22 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
6fd80ffbd9 docs: Add indices to the Cogl API reference
The Clutter API reference has an index of the symbols for each minor
version, and a list of deprecated symbols. The Cogl API reference
should have the same layout.
2009-11-19 14:30:01 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
1bf8db9e75 docs: Fix Cogl API reference build
• Ignore all the private header files

• Add all missing/unused symbols

• Remove deprecated symbols from 0.*
2009-11-19 13:56:42 +00:00
Robert Bragg
272e227109 [cogl-clip] deprecate parts and cleanup the API
cogl_clip_push() which accepts a rectangle in model space shouldn't have
been defined to take x,y,width,height arguments because this isn't consistant
with other Cogl API dealing with model space rectangles.  If you are using a
coordinate system with the origin at the center and the y+ extending up,
then x,y,width,height isn't as natural as (x0,y0)(x1,y1). This API has
now been replace with cogl_clip_push_rectangle()

(As a general note: the Cogl API should only use the x,y,width,height style
when the appropriate coordinate space is defined by Cogl to have a top left
origin.  E.g.  window coordinates, or potentially texture coordinates)

cogl_clip_push_window_rect() shouldn't have been defined to take float
arguments since we only clip with integral pixel precision. We also
shouldn't have abbreviated "rectangle". This API has been replaced with
cogl_clip_push_window_rectangle()

cogl_clip_ensure() wasn't documented at all in Clutter 1.0 and probably
no one even knew it existed. This API isn't useful, and so it's now
deprecated. If no one complains we may remove the API altogether for
Clutter 1.2.

cogl_clip_stack_save() and cogl_clip_stack_restore() were originally added
to allow us to save/restore the clip when switching to/from offscreen
rendering.  Now that offscreen draw buffers are defined to own their clip
state and the state will be automatically saved and restored this API is now
redundant and so deprecated.
2009-11-05 21:10:17 +00:00
Robert Bragg
5e5d94dfbe [cogl] Removes the cogl-current-matrix abstraction
The indirection through this API isn't necessary since we no longer
arbitrate between the OpenGL matrix API and Cogl's client side API.  Also it
doesn't help to maintain an OpenGL style matrix mode API for internal use
since it's awkward to keep restoring the MODELVIEW mode and easy enough to
directly work with the matrix stacks of interest.

This replaces use of the _cogl_current_matrix API with direct use of the
_cogl_matrix_stack API.  All the unused cogl_current_matrix API is removed
and the matrix utility code left in cogl-current-matrix.c was moved to
cogl.c.
2009-10-20 12:32:50 +01:00
Robert Bragg
43efab46bc Intial Re-layout of the Cogl source code and introduction of a Cogl Winsys
As part of an incremental process to have Cogl be a standalone project we
want to re-consider how we organise the Cogl source code.

Currently this is the structure I'm aiming for:
cogl/
    cogl/
	<put common source here>
	winsys/
	   cogl-glx.c
	   cogl-wgl.c
	driver/
	    gl/
	    gles/
	os/ ?
    utils/
	cogl-fixed
	cogl-matrix-stack?
        cogl-journal?
        cogl-primitives?
    pango/

The new winsys component is a starting point for migrating window system
code (i.e.  x11,glx,wgl,osx,egl etc) from Clutter to Cogl.

The utils/ and pango/ directories aren't added by this commit, but they are
noted because I plan to add them soon.

Overview of the planned structure:

* The winsys/ API is the API that binds OpenGL to a specific window system,
  be that X11 or win32 etc.  Example are glx, wgl and egl. Much of the logic
  under clutter/{glx,osx,win32 etc} should migrate here.

* Note there is also the idea of a winsys-base that may represent a window
  system for which there are multiple winsys APIs.  An example of this is
  x11, since glx and egl may both be used with x11.  (currently only Clutter
  has the idea of a winsys-base)

* The driver/ represents a specific varient of OpenGL. Currently we have "gl"
  representing OpenGL 1.4-2.1 (mostly fixed function) and "gles" representing
  GLES 1.1 (fixed funciton) and 2.0 (fully shader based)

* Everything under cogl/ should fundamentally be supporting access to the
  GPU.  Essentially Cogl's most basic requirement is to provide a nice GPU
  Graphics API and drawing a line between this and the utility functionality
  we add to support Clutter should help keep this lean and maintainable.

* Code under utils/ as suggested builds on cogl/ adding more convenient
  APIs or mechanism to optimize special cases. Broadly speaking you can
  compare cogl/ to OpenGL and utils/ to GLU.

* clutter/pango will be moved to clutter/cogl/pango

How some of the internal configure.ac/pkg-config terminology has changed:
backendextra -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_BASE # e.g. "x11"
backendextralib -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_BASE_LIB # e.g. "x11/libclutter-x11.la"
clutterbackend -> {CLUTTER,COGL}_WINSYS # e.g. "glx"
CLUTTER_FLAVOUR -> {CLUTTER,COGL}_WINSYS
clutterbackendlib -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_LIB
CLUTTER_COGL -> COGL_DRIVER # e.g. "gl"

Note: The CLUTTER_FLAVOUR and CLUTTER_COGL defines are kept for apps

As the first thing to take advantage of the new winsys component in Cogl;
cogl_get_proc_address() has been moved from cogl/{gl,gles}/cogl.c into
cogl/common/cogl.c and this common implementation first trys
_cogl_winsys_get_proc_address() but if that fails then it falls back to
gmodule.
2009-10-16 18:58:50 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
1f207c00d9 docs: Add the "clipping" section to the COGL API reference
All the clip-related API in COGL is missing from the API reference
because the cogl-clipping section is not included inside the main
index file.
2009-10-07 17:41:54 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
6e1f9ad9b6 [docs] Remove the version number from the title
The version number in the title made sense when we were breaking
API with every minor release. Now that we're API stable we can
drop that and make the output in Devhelp and on the website slightly
more good looking.
2009-08-13 16:15:04 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
f8a964b422 [cogl] Expose cogl_is_vertex_buffer()
The function is public and available in the shared object, but
it's not present in the header, so this is not an API/ABI change.
2009-08-04 11:15:05 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
76140c5f52 [build] Use API_VERSION, not MAJORMINOR
The correct macro for Clutter's API version is CLUTTER_API_VERSION,
not CLUTTER_MAJORMINOR anymore.
2009-07-28 11:42:58 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
b1d98c25f4 [doc] Miscellaneous documentation fixes
Remove private symbols, and add missing public ones.
2009-07-20 12:49:35 +01:00
Robert Bragg
da37e1e27d [doc] Remove references to cogl_vertex_buffer_delete_indices
These referencese were left over from before indices got CoglHandles to
uniquely identify them.  cogl_handle_unref can be used to delete indices
now.
2009-07-19 10:23:00 +01:00
Robert Bragg
33400c0aae [cogl] Improve ability to break out into raw OpenGL via begin/end mechanism
Although we wouldn't recommend developers try and interleve OpenGL drawing
with Cogl drawing - we would prefer patches that improve Cogl to avoid this
if possible - we are providing a simple mechanism that will at least give
developers a fighting chance if they find it necissary.

Note: we aren't helping developers change OpenGL state to modify the
behaviour of Cogl drawing functions - it's unlikley that can ever be
reliably supported - but if they are trying to do something like:

   - setup some OpenGL state.
   - draw using OpenGL (e.g. glDrawArrays() )
   - reset modified OpenGL state.
   - continue using Cogl to draw

They should surround their blocks of raw OpenGL with cogl_begin_gl() and
cogl_end_gl():

   cogl_begin_gl ();
   - setup some OpenGL state.
   - draw using OpenGL (e.g. glDrawArrays() )
   - reset modified OpenGL state.
   cogl_end_gl ();
   - continue using Cogl to draw

Again; we aren't supporting code like this:
   - setup some OpenGL state.
   - use Cogl to draw
   - reset modified OpenGL state.
When the internals of Cogl evolves, this is very liable to break.

cogl_begin_gl() will flush all internally batched Cogl primitives, and emit
all internal Cogl state to OpenGL as if it were going to draw something
itself.

The result is that the OpenGL modelview matrix will be setup; the state
corresponding to the current source material will be setup and other world
state such as backface culling, depth and fogging enabledness will be also
be sent to OpenGL.

Note: no special material state is flushed, so if developers want Cogl to setup
a simplified material state it is the their responsibility to set a simple
source material before calling cogl_begin_gl. E.g. by calling
cogl_set_source_color4ub().

Note: It is the developers responsibility to restore any OpenGL state that they
modify to how it was after calling cogl_begin_gl() if they don't do this then
the result of further Cogl calls is undefined.
2009-06-30 17:13:38 +01:00
Robert Bragg
6d9498da7c Adds a cogl_flush() to give developers breaking into raw GL a fighting chance
This function should only need to be called in exceptional circumstances
since Cogl can normally determine internally when a flush is necessary.

As an optimization Cogl drawing functions may batch up primitives
internally, so if you are trying to use raw GL outside of Cogl you stand a
better chance of being successful if you ask Cogl to flush any batched
geometry before making your state changes.

cogl_flush() ensures that the underlying driver is issued all the commands
necessary to draw the batched primitives.  It provides no guarantees about
when the driver will complete the rendering.

This provides no guarantees about the GL state upon returning and to avoid
confusing Cogl you should aim to restore any changes you make before
resuming use of Cogl.

If you are making state changes with the intention of affecting Cogl drawing
primitives you are 100% on your own since you stand a good chance of
conflicting with Cogl internals.  For example clutter-gst which currently
uses direct GL calls to bind ARBfp programs will very likely break when Cogl
starts to use ARBfb programs internally for the material API, but for now it
can use cogl_flush() to at least ensure that the ARBfp program isn't applied
to additional primitives.

This does not provide a robust generalized solution supporting safe use of
raw GL, its use is very much discouraged.
2009-06-30 17:13:38 +01:00
Robert Bragg
24ca92951f [cogl] Adds cogl_read_pixels to replace direct use of glReadPixels
To allow for flushing of batched geometry within Cogl we can't support users
directly calling glReadPixels.  glReadPixels is also awkward, not least
because it returns upside down image data.

All the unit tests have been swithed over and clutter_stage_read_pixels now
sits on top of this too.
2009-06-29 23:49:06 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
bd3254c0f8 [docs] Various gtk-doc fixes for COGL
Try to keep the gtk-doc errors down to a minimum.
2009-06-10 12:57:36 +01:00