Uses ClutterAnimator to implement a reasonably complex
animation of a single actor (movement along a path with
simultaneous scaling).
Provides a metaphor for thinking about ClutterAnimator
animations (stage directions) and explains keys and key
frames in some depth. Also compares ClutterAnimator
with other possible approaches to this type of animation
(implicit animations, ClutterState).
Added another JSON example to show how transitions can
be easily overlapped when using ClutterAnimator (two
sequences of 5 transitions, simultaneous with two
sequences of 1 transition).
Modified the C JSON loader program so it can be used with
this example as well.
Intel CE3100 and CE4100 have several planes (framebuffers) and a
hardware blender to blend the planes togeteher to produce the final
image.
clutter_cex100_set_plane() lets you configure which framebuffer clutter
will use for its rendering.
*** This is an API change ***
The create_target() virtual function should return a CoglHandle to a
texture; clutter_offscreen_effect_get_target(), instead, returns a
CoglMaterial to be painted in the implementation of the paint_target()
virtual function.
Instead of equating textures with materials, and confusing the user of
the API, we should mark the difference more prominently.
First of all, we should return a CoglMaterial* (now that we have that
as a public type) in get_target(); having handles all over the place
does not make it easier to distinguish the semantics of the virtual
functions.
Then we should rename create_target() to create_texture(), to make it
clear that what should be returned is a texture that is used as the
backing for the offscreen framebuffer.
Added a recipe explaining how to connect signals to handlers
in the JSON definition used by ClutterScript; also shows
how to connect the signals in code once the JSON has been
loaded.
Includes guidelines on writing handlers (i.e. need to use
-export-dynamic and non-static functions) and example
which connects a handler for motion events on a rectangle.
GEnum nicknames can be used to set properties in JSON
definitions, so added a callout to the JSON example explaining
this, and showing how to derive the nickname for an enumeration
value.
Modified the example code to use nicknames as well.
As JSON can make use of nicknames for GEnum properties,
mentioned this in the table mapping C property values
to their JSON equivalents (as the nick name is a much
shorter and cleaner way of setting a property in JSON).
Wrote an introduction to using ClutterScript with JSON. Focus
is on explaining why you might want to use it, basic principles
of operation (with annotated JSON sample), and how to map
data types from C to JSON.
Written simultaneously with a short recipe (uses the same sample
code) showing how to load a JSON file and retrieve objects
from it in code.
Commented the ClutterScript example so it can be used
inline as part of the recipe, rather than as an
example in the appendix (it's too simple to warrant
a separate appendix).
New script chapter needs an introduction.
While writing the introduction, also slightly changed the
emphasis of the recipe (towards refactoring an existing
application to use ClutterScript) and incorporated example
code into documentation.
Set a parameter on the XSLT transform so that callout elements
are rendered as text rather than graphics (removes the need
to add callout graphics to the build).
There was too much in the example code to cover in a single
recipe, so I trimmed it down to demonstrate simple
UI building (no constraints, effects, animations, or signals).
Added a simple script and program to load it, to support
recipe on ClutterScript for UI definitions.
Also amended the Makefile (following the pattern of
the tests/interactive Makefile) to enable signal
connection from ClutterScript by passing -export-dynamic
to linker.
* elliot/cookbook-textures-crossfade:
cookbook: Use GdkPixbuf instead of getting data from a texture
cookbook: Added a recipe for cross-fading between two images
cookbook: Modified COGL example for consistency
cookbook: Added video of two texture cross-fade
cookbook: Removed unused constant
cookbook: Renamed front/back to top/bottom in cross-fade example
cookbook: Don't need to set keep-aspect-ratio for simple example
cookbook: Modified ordering of statements in cross-fade example
cookbook: Added a longer slideshow example
cookbook: Made code examples more consistent
cookbook: Added example code for texture cross-fading
Post-release version bump to 1.3.13
Release Clutter 1.3.12 (developers snapshot)
Conflicts:
doc/cookbook/examples/Makefile.am
Added a recipe about handling enter, leave, and motion events
on an actor.
Gives some pointers to data available from motion events,
explains a bit about stage-relative and actor-relative coords,
and covers how overlapping actors and reactivity of actors
can affect events occurring.
Examples include a simple scribble app showing how to integrate
pointer events into a more useful context.
Added another example (used for a screenshot) to demonstrate
how pointer events pass through non-reactive actors and how
depth ordering affects whether an actor will emit a pointer
motion signal.
Use clutter_event_get_coords() to get x and y position,
rather than casting to the right event type then directly
accessing members of the event struct.
Decided might be better to cover crossing and motion under
a broader "pointer motion" recipe, so renamed the example
(which only shows pointer crossing event handling).
It can be useful to be able to forcibly break the grab set up by the
ClickAction. The newly added release() method provides a mechanism to
release the grab and unset the :held state of the ClickAction.
Rewrote example for single texture + COGL to use
a GdkPixbuf to load images, rather than reading data
out of another CoglTexture.
The data is then loaded from the pixbuf to a region of
the CoglTexture (as before).
The recipe covers a two texture approach (using the Clutter API)
and a single texture approach (using COGL).
It also discusses issues with cross-fading between images of
different sizes with the COGL API, and gives a longer
example of cycling through multiple images in a slideshow
application.
Added a video showing the two texture cross-fade.
Modified the example code to animate on key press, so
this video could be captured.
Also altered the stage size to minimise the video size.
Front/back seems like the wrong terminology when discussing
actors arranged in layers. Top/bottom fits better with Clutter
API function names and other recipes, so renamed variables.
Cross-fading between two images is straightforward,
but cycling between more than two is more efficient
if done by copying COGL textures between the
two textures, rather than trying to reposition the
textures.
The example demonstrates how to reuse a pair of
textures to cycle through multiple images.
Modified the code example for the Clutter API version
of the cross-fade to use the same command line
as the COGL version.
This also simplifies the explanation in the recipe.
Also made the COGL code sample more consistent with
the Clutter API code sample.
Added simple image viewer which loads image file names
from a directory, displays the first one, then displays
the next in the list with each key press. Uses the
primitive fade front in/fade back out approach.
Also adapted Emmanuele's example code which uses Cogl
to produce a similar effect, but within a single texture.
This code loads two images specified on the command
line and cross-fades between them.
The tests/accessibility, tests/micro-bench and the examples directory
in the coobook create a lot of non-installed binaries. Since we know who
they are, and we ignore them, we can auto-generate the ignore files as
well.
The rest of Clutter is covered by the main ignore file.
* elliot/cookbook-events-mouse-scroll:
cookbook: Cleaning up grammar and wording in mouse scroll recipe
cookbook: Added more explanation about setting y coord on scrollable
cookbook: Mentioned the animation in the sample code
cookbook: Included video of the scroll example running
cookbook: Made stage slightly smaller for scroll event example
cookbook: Added video showing scrollable actor
cookbook: Added walk through of code example for mouse scroll
cookbook: Fixed link to example in mouse scroll recipe
cookbook: Simplified full scroll example
cookbook: Improved wording and formatting in mouse scroll intro.
cookbook: Handle all possible mouse scroll directions
cookbook: Build mouse scroll example with cookbook
cookbook: Cleaned up redundant comments in code example
cookbook: Added xmlns for XInclude to events docbook file
cookbook: Added basic mouse scroll recipe
This removes all references to SDL in the build instructions as the
backend is no longer available. The OpenGL version required is only
1.2 not 1.4. The Windows build instructions were out of date and have
been replaced with a link to the wiki instead.
Instead of exposing an API that provides an OpenGL state machine style
where you first have to bind the program to the context using
cogl_program_use() followed by updating uniforms using
cogl_program_uniform_xyz we now have uniform setter methods that take an
explicit CoglHandle for the program.
This deprecates cogl_program_use and all the cogl_program_uniform
variants and provides the following replacements:
cogl_program_set_uniform_1i
cogl_program_set_uniform_1f
cogl_program_set_uniform_int
cogl_program_set_uniform_float
cogl_program_set_uniform_matrix
Added some extra explanation, referencing the sample code, to
try to make the scrollable actor example easier to follow. Basically
demonstrates the principles described in the paragraph about
setting the y coordinate for the scrollable actor, but using actual
numbers.
A TableLayout is a layout manager that allocates its children in rows
and columns. Each child is assigned to a cell (or more if a cell span
is set).
The supported child properties are:
• x-expand and y-expand: if this cell with try to allocate the
available extra space for the table.
• x-fill and y-fill: if the child will get all the space available in
the cell.
• x-align and y-align: if the child does not fill the cell, then
where the child will be aligned inside the cell.
• row-span and col-span: number of cells the child will allocate for
itself.
Also, the TableLayout has row-spacing and col-spacing for specifying
the space in pixels between rows and between columns.
We also include a simple test of the layout manager, and the
documentation updates.
The TableLayout was implemented starting from MxTable and
ClutterBoxLayout.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Layout managers are using the same code to allocate a child while taking
into consideration:
• horizontal and vertical alignment
• horizontal and vertical fill
• the preferred minimum and natural size, depending
on the :request-mode property
• the text direction for the horizontal alignment
• an offset given by the fixed position properties
Given the amount of code involved, and the amount of details that can go
horribly wrong while copy and pasting such code in various classes - let
alone various projects - Clutter should provide an allocate() variant
that does the right thing in the right way. This way, we have a single
point of failure.
Added a new recipe for creating a non-rectangular
actor using ClutterPath (aka "shaped pick") and
the Cogl primitives API.
Also cleaned up XML alignment in the actors.xml
file.
It's a XSL FAQ to be able to chomp text nodes and we just have to copy
and paste a XSLT 1.0 solution from:
http://dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N8321.html#d11325e833
Let's then empower our cookbook customization layer to chomp text nodes,
children of programlisting.
The generated cookbook files (either HTML or PDF) do not only depend on
clutter-cookbok.xml but also on all the chapters that compose the
cookbook. Add this dependency to the Makefile rules to have make rebuild
the book when a chapter changes.
Since XML_FILES is now the list of source files, move recipe-template.xml
to EXTRA_DIST.
New recipe covering how to animate rotation of
an actor (in all axes).
Covers various factors affecting rotation animation
(like orientation of axes, parent rotation/orientation),
as well as trying to make rotations easier to visualise
(e.g. describing how rotation direction is affected by
those factors, how a rotation can be expected to look
when animated). Uses implicit animations for code examples.
Also refers to a full code example which uses ClutterState.
The simple key press example in the cookbook used a brittle
and incorrect switch statement to test modifier values. Instead,
use logical "&" of the state with the modifiers we're interested
in to check which keys were pressed.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2223
The cookbook should also include fully functional code examples. We can
even XInclude them into the docbook XML itself.
The examples should be built with the coobook, so that we can always
make sure they are up to date.
* elliot/cookbook-include-videos:
cookbook: Tweak so that videos sit inside a paragraph for better spacing
docs: Note the P_() macro in the HACKING file
cookbook: Added support for inline video
Conflicts:
doc/cookbook/Makefile.am
Explains how to make an actor transparent so that other actors
are visible through it.
Also explains a bit more generally about opacity and how
it's computed from the actor, container, and color; and how actor
visibility is affected by depth (fog) and depth order.
