The ClutterScriptParser should do most of the heavy-lifting for
parsing a JSON object member defining another JSON object into
a GObject property defined using a GParamSpecObject.
cogl_clip_push, and cogl_clip_push_window_rect which are now deprecated were
used in various places internally so this just switches to using the
replacement functions.
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.
For a long time now the GLES driver for Cogl has supported a fallback
scanline rasterizer for filling paths when no stencil buffer is available,
but now that we build the same cogl-primitives code for GL and GLES I
thought it may sometimes be useful for debugging to force Cogl to use the
scanline rasterizer instead of the current stencil buffer approach.
In order to know if a layout property exists and retrieve its
description in form of a GParamSpec, we need a wrapper API inside
ClutterLayoutManager. This allows introspecting a LayoutManager
sub-class and eventually serialize and deserialize it.
The ClutterScript parser needs to be extended to parse child properties
and apply them after an actor has been added to a container. In order to
distinguish child properties from regular GObject properties we can use
the "child::" prefix, e.g.:
{
"type" : "ClutterRectangle",
"id" : "child-01",
"child::has-focus" : true,
...
}
Parsing child properties can be deferred to the ClutterScriptable
interface, just like regular properties.
These files were practically identical, except the gles code had additional
support for filling paths without a stencil buffer. All the driver code has
now been moved into cogl/cogl-primitives.c
All the ClutterColor parsing rules should be coalesced inside
clutter_script_parse_color(): object, array and string notations
are the canonical ways of defining a ClutterColor inside a
ClutterScript definition. Having a single function in charge of
the parsing cleans up the code.
Currently, ClutterScriptParser will construct the object (using the
construct-only and construct parameters), apply the properties from
the ClutterScript definition, and eventuall will add children and
behaviours.
The construction phase should be more compartimentalized: the objects
should be constructed first and eventual children and behaviours
added. Then, once an object is requested or when the parsing process
has terminated, all the properties should be applied.
This change allows us to set up the actors before setting their
non-construct properties.
ClutterScript is currently a mix of parser-related code and
the ClutterScript object. All the parser-related code should
be moved inside a private class, ClutterScriptParser, inheriting
from JsonParser.
Instead of counting on a JsonNode pointer to survive we should take
a copy. This allows keeping unresolved properties across different
ClutterScript passes.
It's useful when initialzing offscreen draw buffers to be able to ask
Cogl to create a texture of a given size and with the default internal
pixel format.
When rendering to an fbo for supporting clutter_texture_new_from_actor we
render to an fbo with the same size as the source actor, but with a viewport
the same size as the stage. We offset the viewport so when we render the
source actor in its normal transformed stage position it lands on the fbo.
Previously we were rounding the transformed position given as a float by
truncating the fraction (just using a C cast) but that resulted in an
incorrect pixel offset when rendering offscreen depending on the source
position.
We now simply + 0.5 before casting (or -0.5 for negative numbers)
For supporting clutter_texture_new_from_actor(): when updating a
ClutterTexture's fbo we previously set up an offset frustum in the
perspective matrix before rendering source actors to an offscreen draw
buffer so as to give a perspective as if it were being drawn at its
original stage location.
Now that Cogl supports offset viewports there is a simpler way...
When we come to render the source actor to our offscreen draw buffer we
now copy the projection matrix from the stage; we create a viewport
that's also the same size as the stage (though larger than the offscreen
draw buffer) and as before we apply the modelview transformations of
the source actors ancestry before painting it.
The only trick we need now is to offset the viewport according to the
transformed (to screen space) allocation of the source actor (something we
required previously too). We negatively offset the stage sized viewport
such that the smaller offscreen draw buffer is positioned to sit underneath
the source actor in stage coordinates.
To help keep clutter_texture_paint maintainable this splits out a big
chunk of standalone code that's responsible for updating the fbo when
clutter_texture_new_from_actor has been used.
When updating the FBO for a source actor (to support
clutter_texture_new_from_actor()) we used to simply set an offscreen draw
buffer to be current, paint the source actor and then explicitly set the
window to be current again. This precluded chaining texture_new_from_actor
though because updating another FBO associated with a source actor would end
up restoring the window as the current buffer instead of the previous
offscreen buffer. Now that we use Cogl's draw buffer stack; chaining
clutter_texture_new_from_actor() should be possible.
Before we call glViewport we need to convert Cogl viewport coordinates
(where the origin is defined to be top left) to OpenGL coordinates
(where the origin is defined to be bottom left)
We weren't considering that offscreen rendering is always upside down
and in this case Cogl coordinates == OpenGL coordinates.
Firstly this now uses the draw buffer height not the viewport height
when we need to perform a y = height - y conversion, since (as the
name suggests) we are dealing with window coordinates not viewport
coordinates.
Secondly this skips any conversion when the current draw buffer is an
offscreen draw buffer since offscreen rendering is always forced to be
upside down and in this case Cogl window coordinates == GL window
coordinates.
This new API takes advantage of the recently imported Mesa code to support
inverse matrix calculation. The matrix code keeps track (via internal
flags) of the transformations a matrix represents so that it can select an
optimized inversion function.
Note: although other aspects of the Cogl matrix API have followed a similar
style to Cairo's matrix API we haven't added a cogl_matrix_invert API
because the inverse of a CoglMatrix is actually cached as part of the
CoglMatrix structure meaning a destructive API like cogl_matrix_invert
doesn't let users take advantage of this caching design.
This adds a COGL_DEBUG=matrices debug option that can be used to trace all
matrix manipulation done using the Cogl API. This can be handy when you
break something in such a way that a trace is still comparable with a
previous working version since you can simply diff a log of the broken
version vs the working version to home in on the bug.
This pulls in code from Mesa to improve our matrix manipulation support. It
includes support for calculating the inverse of matrices based on top of a
matrix categorizing system that allows optimizing certain matrix types.
(the main thing we were after) but also adds some optimisations for
rotations.
Changes compared to the original code from Mesa:
- Coding style is consistent with the rest of Cogl
- Instead of allocating matrix->m and matrix->inv using malloc, our public
CoglMatrix typedef is large enough to directly contain the matrix, its
inverse, a type and a set of flags.
- Instead of having a _math_matrix_analyse which updates the type, flags and
inverse, we have _math_matrix_update_inverse which essentially does the
same thing (internally making use of _math_matrix_update_type_and_flags())
but with additional guards in place to bail out when the inverse matrix is
still valid.
- When initializing a matrix with the identity matrix we don't immediately
initialize the inverse matrix; rather we just set the dirty flag for the
inverse (since it's likely the user won't request the inverse of the
identity matrix)
Because Cogl defines the origin for texture as top left and offscreen draw
buffers can be used to render to textures, we (internally) force all
offscreen rendering to be upside down. (because OpenGL defines the origin
to be bottom left)
By forcing the users scene to be rendered upside down though we also reverse
the winding order of all the drawn triangles which may interfere with the
users use of backface culling. This patch ensures that we reverse the
winding order for a front face (if culling is in use) while rendering
offscreen so we don't conflict with the users back face culling.
The debugging function read_pixels_to_file() and _clutter_do_pick were both
directly calling glReadPixels, but we don't wan't Clutter making direct
OpenGL calls and Cogl provides a suitable alternative. It also means
read_pixels_to_file() doesn't need to manually flip the data read due to
differences in Clutter/Cogl coordinate systems.
Technically this change shouldn't make a difference since we are
calling glReadPixels with GL_RGBA GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE which is a 4
byte format and it should always result in the same value according
to how OpenGL calculates the location of sequential rows.
i.e. k = a/s * ceil(snl/a) where:
a = alignment
s = component size (1)
n = number of components per pixel (4)
l = number of pixels in a row
gives:
k = 4/1 * ceil(4l/4) and k = 1/1 * ceil(4l/1) which are equivalent
I'm changing it because I've seen i915 driver code that bails out of
hardware accelerated paths if the alignment isn't 1, and because
conceptually we have no alignment constraints here so even if the current
value has no effect, when we start reading back other formats it may upset
things.
We were previously calling cogl_flush() after setting up the glPixelStore
state for calling glReadPixels, but flushing the journal could itself
change the glPixelStore state.
Since offscreen rendering is forced to be upside down we don't need to do
any conversion of the users coordinates to go from Cogl window coordinates
to OpenGL window coordinates.
Since we do all offscreen rendering upside down (so that we can have the
origin for texture coordinates be the top left of textures for the cases
where offscreen draw buffers are bound to textures) we don't need to flip
data read back from an offscreen framebuffer before we we return it to the
user.
I was originally expecting the code not to handle offset viewports or
viewports with a different size to the framebuffer, but it turns out the
code worked fine. In the process though I think I made the code slightly
more readable.
cogl_viewport only accepted a viewport width and height, but there are times
when it's also desireable to have a viewport offset so that a scene can be
translated after projection but before hitting the framebuffer.
Because Cogl defines the origin of viewport and window coordinates to be
top-left it always needs to know the size of the current window so that Cogl
window/viewport coordinates can be transformed into OpenGL coordinates.
This also fixes cogl_read_pixels to use the current draw buffer height
instead of the viewport height to determine the OpenGL y coordinate to use
for glReadPixels.
First a few notes about Cogl coordinate systems:
- Cogl defines the window origin, viewport origin and texture coordinates
origin to be top left unlike OpenGL which defines them as bottom left.
- Cogl defines the modelview and projection identity matrices in exactly the
same way as OpenGL.
- I.e. we believe that for 2D centric constructs: windows/framebuffers,
viewports and textures developers are more used to dealing with a top left
origin, but when modeling objects in 3D; an origin at the center with y
going up is quite natural.
The way Cogl handles textures is by uploading data upside down in OpenGL
terms so that bottom left becomes top left. (Note: This also has the
benefit that we don't need to flip the data we get from image decoding
libraries since they typically also consider top left to be the image
origin.)
The viewport and window coords are mostly handled with various y =
height - y tweaks before we pass y coordinates to OpenGL.
Generally speaking though the handling of coordinate spaces in Cogl is a bit
fragile. I guess partly because none of it was design to be, it just
evolved from how Clutter defines its coordinates without much consideration
or testing. I hope to improve this over a number of commits; starting here.
This commit deals with the fact that offscreen draw buffers may be bound to
textures but we don't "upload" the texture data upside down, and so if you
texture from an offscreen draw buffer you need to manually flip the texture
coordinates to get it the right way around. We now force offscreen
rendering to be flipped upside down by tweaking the projection matrix right
before we submit it to OpenGL to scale y by -1. The tweak is entirely
hidden from the user such that if you call cogl_get_projection you will not
see this scale.
We were ignoring the possibility that the current modelview matrix may flip
the incoming rectangle in which case we didn't calculate a valid scissor
rectangle for clipping.
This fixes: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1809
(Clipping doesn't work within an FBO)
Cogl's support for offscreen rendering was originally written just to support
the clutter_texture_new_from_actor API and due to lack of documentation and
several confusing - non orthogonal - side effects of using the API it wasn't
really possible to use directly.
This commit does a number of things:
- It removes {gl,gles}/cogl-fbo.{c,h} and adds shared cogl-draw-buffer.{c,h}
files instead which should be easier to maintain.
- internally CoglFbo objects are now called CoglDrawBuffers. A
CoglDrawBuffer is an abstract base class that is inherited from to
implement CoglOnscreen and CoglOffscreen draw buffers. CoglOffscreen draw
buffers will initially be used to support the
cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture API, and CoglOnscreen draw buffers will
start to be used internally to represent windows as we aim to migrate some
of Clutter's backend code to Cogl.
- It makes draw buffer objects the owners of the following state:
- viewport
- projection matrix stack
- modelview matrix stack
- clip state
(This means when you switch between draw buffers you will automatically be
switching to their associated viewport, matrix and clip state)
Aside from hopefully making cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture be more useful
short term by having simpler and well defined semantics for
cogl_set_draw_buffer, as mentioned above this is the first step for a couple
of other things:
- Its a step toward moving ownership for windows down from Clutter backends
into Cogl, by (internally at least) introducing the CoglOnscreen draw
buffer. Note: the plan is that cogl_set_draw_buffer will accept on or
offscreen draw buffer handles, and the "target" argument will become
redundant since we will instead query the type of the given draw buffer
handle.
- Because we have a common type for on and offscreen framebuffers we can
provide a unified API for framebuffer management. Things like:
- blitting between buffers
- managing ancillary buffers (e.g. attaching depth and stencil buffers)
- size requisition
- clearing
This ensures that glViewport is called before the first stage paint.
Previously _clutter_stage_maybe_setup_viewport (which is done before we
start painting) was bailing out without calling cogl_setup_viewport because
the CLUTTER_STAGE_IN_RESIZE flag may be set if the stage was resized before
the first paint. (NB: The CLUTTER_STAGE_IN_RESIZE flag isn't removed until
we get an explicit event back from the X server since the window manager may
choose to deny/alter the resize.)
We now special case the first resize - where the viewport hasn't previously
been initialized and use the requested geometry to initialize the
glViewport without waiting for a reply from the server.
Over time the two cogl-fbo.c files have needlessly diverged as bug fixes or
cleanups went into one version but not the other. This tries to bring them
back in line with each other. It should actually be simple enough to move
cogl-fbo.c to be a common file, and simply not build it for GLES 1.1, so
maybe I'll follow up with such a patch soon.