An em is a unit of measurement in typography, equal to the point
size of the current font.
It should be possible to convert a value expressed in em to
ClutterUnits by using the current font and the current DPI as
stored by the default backend.
The stage-with/height-percentage converters had been broken by
the multiple-stages support of Clutter 0.8. They are also made
useless by the fact that Units are now floating point values.
The millimeters and typographic points converters also depended
on the default stage, but they can be reworked to use the default
DPI coming from the default Backend instead.
Boolean arguments for functions are pretty evil and usually
lead to combinatorial explosion of parameters in case multiple
settings are added.
In the case of the COGL texture constructors we have a boolean
argument for enabling the auto-mipmapping; it is conceivable that
we might want to add more settings for a COGL texture without
breaking API or ABI compatibility, so the boolean argument should
become a bitmask.
The internals have not been changed: instead of checking for
a non-zero value, we check for a bitmask being set.
ClutterMedia was a rough cut at a simple media API; it needs some
re-evaluation before 1.0 in order to keep it simple to use, and
simple to implement.
- ClutterMedia:position
The position property accessors collide with the corresponding
ClutterActor methods, which make it impossible to bind them in
high-level languages:
video_texture.set_position()
video_texture.get_position()
In order to resolve the collision, we have to go through the
GObject properties API:
video_texture.set('position', value)
value = video_texture.get('position')
A :position in seconds is also a GStreamer-ism, and should rather
be converted to a :progress property, with a normalized value
between 0 and 1. the current position in seconds would then simply
be progress*duration. For non-seekable streams, 0.0 would always
be returned. This makes it easier to use the progress inside
animations, Timelines or ClutterPath instances.
- ClutterMedia:volume should be renamed to :audio-volume and normalized
as well, instead of being a floating point value between 0 and 100.
- ClutterMedia:buffer-percent should just be :buffer-fill and normalized
between 0.0 and 1.0
This better reflects the fact that the api manages sets of vertex attributes,
and the attributes really have no implied form. It is only when you use the
attributes to draw that they become mesh like; when you specify how they should
be interpreted, e.g. as triangle lists or fans etc. This rename frees up the
term "mesh", which can later be applied to a concept slightly more fitting.
E.g. at some point it would be nice to have a higher level abstraction that
sits on top of cogl vertex buffers that adds the concept of faces. (Somthing
like Blender's mesh objects.) There have also been some discussions over
particle engines, and these can be defined in terms of emitter faces; so some
other kind of mesh abstraction might be usefull here.
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
The ClutterAlpha API reference page should also list the
easing modes Clutter provides by default, by showing the
curves used by each entry in the AnimationMode enumeration.
We can also remove the incomplete graph showing the old
alpha functions.
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 avoid clashing with all the scripted changes, clutter-fixed.h and
clutter-units.h were manually converted to internally use floats instead of
16.16 fixed numbers.
Note: again no API changes were made in Clutter.
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.
It's more sensible to use 2^n-1 for a max tile-waste value rather
than 2^n, so change the value default from 64 to 63. Example:
191 and 192 will both be sliced to 128+64 rather than having
191=>128+64, 192=>256.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
While X11 Pixmap and Window types only have 32-bits of data, they
are actually 'unsigned long'. Change the "window" and "pixmap"
property of ClutterX11TexturePixmaps to be ulong.
This fixes 64-bit bugs where ClutterGLXTexturePixmap passed a
reference to Pixmap to g_object_get("pixmap", &pixmap, ...);
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Since the stage in the EGL native backend only has one size, and it
is determined at realization, we can simply set the SYNC_MATRICES
private flag and let _clutter_stage_maybe_setup_viewport() set up
the GL viewport at the first redraw.
Both clutter_alpha_new_with_func() and clutter_alpha_set_func()
will not register a global alpha function, so we need to update
the documentation to explicitly say so.
The animation mode parameters and properties are now slightly
anonymous unsigned longs, so we need to clarify in the documentation
that the user should either pass a ClutterAnimationMode value or
the result of registering an alpha function.
The animation mode symbolic id might come from the AnimationMode
enumeration or from the clutter_alpha_register_*() family of
functions. For this reason, we should use a gulong instead of
ClutterAnimationMode whenever we have an "animation mode" parameter
or property.
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.
For example cogl_wrap_glFrustumx -> cogl_wrap_glFrustumf.
The wrappers get #defined to the float versions anyway but it helps
avoid some confusion.
The conversion is done using a regular expression in the upgrade
script. Some of the patches had to be updated to apply cleanly.
It looks like the changes to cogl-gles2-wrapper.h were accidentally
committed to the actual file instead of the patch in commit
de27da0e. This commit moves the changes back into the patch so
cogl-gles2-wrapper.h is reverted back to master.
The wrapper for glClearColor was taking fixed arguments but was given
floating point values so it ended up always setting the clear color to
black. Now that GLES 1.1 is using the floating point version, there is
no need for the wrapper so both versions now just use glClearColor
directly.
A similar problem was happening for glColor but this does still need a
wrapper because it needs to set the vertex attribute.
The patches have been updated to apply cleanly.
The patches for the g_warnings in clutter-actor.c have been removed
because master now uses CLUTTER_UNITS_FORMAT so they aren't
necessary. The clutter-units.h patch now sets CLUTTER_UNITS_FORMAT to
'f'.
The changes from the GL version of cogl-texture.c have been mirrored
in the GLES version. This adds the cogl_texture_new_from_bitmap
function and fixes the build errors.
The GL versions of get_modelview_matrix, get_projection_matrix and
get_viewport were using glGetDoublev and then converting them to
floats, but it might as well just call glGetFloatv directly.
The GL ES versions were using glGetFixedv but this was being replaced
with glGetFloatv by the #define in the GLES 2 wrappers.
The patch also replaces the glGetFixedv wrapper with
glGetFloatv. Previously this was calling
cogl_gles2_float_array_to_fixed which actually converted to
float. That function has been removed and memcpy is used instead.
Directly calling clutter_actor_paint skips out quite a bit code such as the
backend swap buffer call.
Since we are interested in the highest fps possible, and it now goes through
to the backend swap buffer call we now do a setenv (CLUTTER_VBLANK, none, 0)
before calling clutter_init.
If you try to use the CLUTTER_ACTOR_IS_* macros defined in ClutterActor
like this:
typedef struct { unsigned int reactive : 1; } foo_t;
foo_t f; f.reactive = CLUTTER_ACTOR_IS_REACTIVE (actor);
It will blow up because while the macros evaluate to 0 they can also
evaluate to non-zero values. Since most of the boolean flags in
Clutter and Clutter-based code are going to be stored like in the
example above, we should change the macros and let them evaluate
stricly either to 0 or to 1.
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.
The ::load-finished signal is emitted only when loading a texture
using clutter_texture_set_from_file(). Since this breaks user
expectations and consistency, we should also emit ::load-finished
when loading a texture from image data.
* async-textures:
Whitespace fixes in ClutterTexture
[async-loading] Do not force the texture size on async load
[async-loading] Update asynchronous image loading
Add API for extracting image size from a file
Update/clean and apply the async-texture patch from bug #1144
Since Clutter changed to using a layout scheme the handling_configure
flag no longer works because the allocate method is not invoked
immediately during the call to set_size from the ConfigureNotify
handler. However it is also no longer neccessary because the resizes
are effectively batched up until a relayout is run so it won't cause
an infinite loop of resize and notify events anyway.
