Previously a path copy was implemented such that only the array of
path nodes was shared with the source and the rest of the data is
copied. This was so that the copy could avoid a deep copy if the
source path is appended to because the copy keeps track of its own
length. This optimisation is probably not worthwhile because it makes
the copies less cheap. Instead the CoglPath struct now just contains a
single pointer to a new CoglPathData struct which is separately
ref-counted. When the path is modified it will be copied if the ref
count on the data is not 1.
cogl_path_arc_rel was never in any public headers so it isn't part of
the public API. It also has a slightly inconsistent name because the
rest of the relative path functions are called cogl_path_rel_*. This
patch makes it static for now to make it more obvious that it isn't
public. The name has changed to _cogl_path_rel_arc.
If a path is copied and then appended to, the copy needs to have the
last sub path truncated so that it fits in the total path size in case
the original path was modified. However the path size check was broken
so if the copied path had more than one sub path it would fail.
When drawing a path with only a single sub path, Cogl uses the
'even-odd' fill rule which means that if a part of the path intersects
with another part then the intersection would be inverted. However
when combining sub paths it treats them as separate paths and then
unions them together. This doesn't match the semantics of the even-odd
rule in SVG and Cairo. This patch makes it so that a new sub path is
just drawn as another triangle fan so that it will continue to invert
the stencil buffer. This is also much simpler and more efficient as
well as being more correct.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
CoglClipStackState has now been renamed to CoglClipState and is moved
to a separate file. CoglClipStack now just maintains a stack and
doesn't worry about the rest of the state. CoglClipStack sill contains
the code to flush the stack to GL.
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.
Every now and then someone sees the cogl_enable API and gets confused,
thinking its public API so this renames the symbol to be clear that it's
is an internal only API.
Since using addresses that might change is something that finally
the FSF acknowledge as a plausible scenario (after changing address
twice), the license blurb in the source files should use the URI
for getting the license in case the library did not come with it.
Not that URIs cannot possibly change, but at least it's easier to
set up a redirection at the same place.
As a side note: this commit closes the oldes bug in Clutter's bug
report tool.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521
The function prototypes for the primitives API were spread between
cogl-path.h and cogl-texture.h and should have been in a
cogl-primitives.h.
As well as shuffling the prototypes around into more sensible places
this commit splits the cogl-path API out from cogl-primitives.c into
a cogl-path.c
