When talking to other applications or serializing the modifier
state (and in particular when implementing a wayland compositor),
the effective modifier state alone is not sufficient, one needs
to know the base, latched and locked modifiers.
Previously one could do with backend specific functionality
such as clutter_device_manager_evdev_get_xkb_state(), but the
problem is that the internal data structures are updated as
soon as the events are fetched from the upstream source, but
the events are reported to the application some time later,
and thus the two can get out of sync.
This way, on the other hand, the information is cached in the
event, and provided to the application with the value that
was current when the event was generated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706494
Instead of going through clutter_event_get_state() and checking if the
modifier mask is set, we can provide simple convenience functions to do
it for us.
Some events may contain precise scrolling information coming from
devices like trackpads and touchscreens. ClutterEvent should allow
setting and getting this information.
Symbolic names are better than magic numbers, even if they are
well-established and won't likely change.
This maps to a commit in GTK+ that introduced the same names; it
was decided to go for PRIMARY, MIDDLE, and SECONDARY because of
the confusion that may arise when the button order gets flipped
in left-handed configurations - the "left" button (i.e. 1) becomes
the right-most button, and the "right" button (i.e. 3) becomes
the left-most button.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668692
I always have to think twice before returning a value from an event
signal handler, and I've been writing them for the past 10 years, so
it's conceivable that application developers that start with Clutter
will find them confusing as well.
Simple symbolic names should be easier to use.
This commit introduces a unicode-to-keyval conversion function that
performs identical action as the gdk version of that function. Also
added is the necessary table holding all the conversion values.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661015
The G_CONST_RETURN define in GLib is, and has always been, a bit fuzzy.
We always used it to conform to the platform, at least for public-facing
API.
At first I assumed it has something to do with brain-damaged compilers
or with weird platforms where const was not really supported; sadly,
it's something much, much worse: it's a define that can be toggled at
compile-time to remove const from the signature of public API. This is a
truly terrifying feature that I assume was added in the past century,
and whose inception clearly had something to do with massive doses of
absynthe and opium — because any other explanation would make the
existence of such a feature even worse than assuming drugs had anything
to do with it.
Anyway, and pleasing the gods, this dubious feature is being
removed/deprecated in GLib; see bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644611
Before deprecation, though, we should just remove its usage from the
whole API. We should especially remove its usage from Cally's internals,
since there it never made sense in the first place.
Creating a synthetic event requires direct access to the ClutterEvent
union members; this access does not map in bindings to high-level
languages, especially run-time bindings using GObject-Introspection.
It's also midly annoying from C, as it unnecessarily exposes the guts of
ClutterEvent - something we might want to fix in the future.
http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2575
When synthesizing events coming from input devices it should be
possible to just call a setter function, to avoid a huge switch
on the type of the event.
Clutter should also store the device pointer inside the private
data, for faster access of the pointer in allocated events.
Finally, the get_device_id() and get_device_type() accessors should
just be wrappers around clutter_event_get_device(), to reduce the
amount of code duplication.
CLUTTER_BUTTON_* and CLUTTER_MOTION event types have axes data attached
to them, so we want to expose a common ClutterEvent method for
extracting that data.
This is a lump commit that is fairly difficult to break down without
either breaking bisecting or breaking the test cases.
The new design for handling X11 event translation works this way:
- ClutterBackend::translate_event() has been added as the central
point used by a ClutterBackend implementation to translate a
native event into a ClutterEvent;
- ClutterEventTranslator is a private interface that should be
implemented by backend-specific objects, like stage
implementations and ClutterDeviceManager sub-classes, and
allows dealing with class-specific event translation;
- ClutterStageX11 implements EventTranslator, and deals with the
stage-relative X11 events coming from the X11 event source;
- ClutterStageGLX overrides EventTranslator, in order to
deal with the INTEL_GLX_swap_event extension, and it chains up
to the X11 default implementation;
- ClutterDeviceManagerX11 has been split into two separate classes,
one that deals with core and (optionally) XI1 events, and the
other that deals with XI2 events; the selection is done at run-time,
since the core+XI1 and XI2 mechanisms are mutually exclusive.
All the other backends we officially support still use their own
custom event source and translation function, but the end goal is to
migrate them to the translate_event() virtual function, and have the
event source be a shared part of Clutter core.
Embedding toolkits most likely will disable the event handling, so all
the input device code will not be executed. Unfortunately, the newly
added synthetic event generation of ENTER and LEAVE event pairs depends
on having input devices.
In order to unbreak things without reintroducing the madness of the
previous code we should allow embedding toolkits to just update the
state of an InputDevice by using the data contained inside the
ClutterEvent. This strategy has two obvious reasons:
• the embedding toolkit is creating a ClutterEvent by translating
a toolkit-native event anyway
• this is exactly what ClutterStage does when processing events
We are, essentially, deferring input device handling to the embedding
toolkits, just like we're deferring event handling to them.
When getting signals from higher level toolkits, occasionally
one wants access to the underlying event; say for a Button
widget's "clicked" signal, to get the keyboard state.
Rather than having all of the highlevel widgets emit
ClutterEvent just for the more unusual use cases,
add a global function to access the event state.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
The input device API is split halfway thorugh the backends in a very
weird way. The data structures are private, as they should, but most
of the information should be available in the main API since it's
generic enough.
The device type enumeration, for instance, should be common across
every backend; the accessors for device type and id should live in the
core API. The internal API should always use ClutterInputDevice and
not the private X11 implementation when dealing with public structures
like ClutterEvent.
By adding accessors for the device type and id, and by moving the
device type enumeration into the core API we can cut down the amount
of symbols private and/or visible only to the X11 backends; this way
when other backends start implementing multi-pointer support we can
share the same API across the code.
ClutterEvent is not really gobject-introspection friendly because
of the whole discriminated union thing. In particular, if you get
a ClutterEvent in a signal handler, you probably can't access the
event-type-specific fields, and you probably can't call methods
like clutter_key_event_symbol() either, because you can't cast the
ClutterEvent to a ClutterKeyEvent.
The cleanest solution is to turn every accessor into ClutterEvent
methods, accepting a ClutterEvent* and internally checking the event
type.
Fixes bug:
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1585
With the recent change to internal floating point values, ClutterUnit
has become a redundant type, defined to be a float. All integer entry
points are being internally converted to floating point values to be
passed to the GL pipeline with the least amount of conversion.
ClutterUnit is thus exposed as just a "pixel with fractionary bits",
and not -- as users might think -- as generic, resolution and device
independent units. not that it was the case, but a definitive amount
of people was convinced it did provide this "feature", and was flummoxed
about the mere existence of this type.
So, having ClutterUnit exposed in the public API doubles the entry
points and has the following disadvantages:
- we have to maintain twice the amount of entry points in ClutterActor
- we still do an integer-to-float implicit conversion
- we introduce a weird impedance between pixels and "pixels with
fractionary bits"
- language bindings will have to choose what to bind, and resort
to manually overriding the API
+ *except* for language bindings based on GObject-Introspection, as
they cannot do manual overrides, thus will replicate the entire
set of entry points
For these reason, we should coalesces every Actor entry point for
pixels and for ClutterUnit into a single entry point taking a float,
like:
void clutter_actor_set_x (ClutterActor *self,
gfloat x);
void clutter_actor_get_size (ClutterActor *self,
gfloat *width,
gfloat *height);
gfloat clutter_actor_get_height (ClutterActor *self);
etc.
The issues I have identified are:
- we'll have a two cases of compiler warnings:
- printf() format of the return values from %d to %f
- clutter_actor_get_size() taking floats instead of unsigned ints
- we'll have a problem with varargs when passing an integer instead
of a floating point value, except on 64bit platforms where the
size of a float is the same as the size of an int
To be clear: the *intent* of the API should not change -- we still use
pixels everywhere -- but:
- we remove ambiguity in the API with regard to pixels and units
- we remove entry points we get to maintain for the whole 1.0
version of the API
- we make things simpler to bind for both manual language bindings
and automatic (gobject-introspection based) ones
- we have the simplest API possible while still exposing the
capabilities of the underlying GL implementation
The clutter_get_current_event_time() is a global function for
retrieving the timestamp of the current event being propagated
by Clutter. Such function avoids the need to propagate the
timestamp from within user code.
Key events can come from different input devices, so they need a
ClutterInputDevice member like the pointer-related events. This
field is reserved for future use.
The coordinates of each ButtonEvent are relative to the stage that
received the event, so we should document this in the structure
annotation.
It should also be mentioned that the coordinates can be transformed
into actor-relative coordinates by using transform_stage_point().
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter.h: Add ClutterBindingPool to the build.
* clutter/clutter-binding-pool.c:
* clutter/clutter-binding-pool.h: Add ClutterBindingPool, a data
structure meant to hold (key symbol, modifiers) pairs and associate
them to a closure. The ClutterBindingPool can be used to install
key bindings for actors and then execute closures inside the
key-press-event signal handlers, removing the need for big
switch() or if() blocks for each key.
* clutter/clutter-event.c: Consistently use "key symbol" instead
of "key value".
* clutter/clutter-event.h: Add more modifier masks.
* clutter/clutter-marshal.list:
* tests/conform/Makefile.am:
* tests/conform/test-binding-pool.c:
* tests/conform/test-conform-main.c: Add ClutterBindingPool
conformance test.
* tests/interactive/Makefile.am:
* tests/interactive/test-binding-pool.c: Add interactive test (and
example code) for the ClutterBindingPool usage.
* clutter/clutter-event.c: (clutter_event_get_device_id): swap
arguments of g_return_val_if_fail around.
* clutter/clutter-event.h: added *device field to crossing events as
well.
* clutter/clutter-main.c: (emit_pointer_event): added a device
argument and check for per device grabs if this device is passed.
(clutter_do_event): pass the device if present for all pointer event
emissions.
(generate_enter_leave_events): copy the device from the motion events
when generating enter/leave events.
* clutter/clutter-behaviour-bspline.h:
* clutter/clutter-behaviour.h:
* clutter/clutter-event.h:
* clutter/clutter-texture.h: Add missing documentation and
change the copyright and licensing notice to use the FSF
website instead of its address. (#512)
* clutter/x11/clutter-backend-x11.c:
* clutter/clutter-event.h:
* clutter/clutter-feature.h:
* clutter/clutter-fixed.c:
* clutter/clutter-model.h: Fix documentation.
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-backend-egl.[ch]:
* clutter/eglnative/clutter-event-egl.c: Add the same solution
used for the SDL backend in order to get the time of an event.
This should fix the motion event throttling and the click count
on button press.
* tests/test-pixmap.c (create_pixmap), (main): Fix preprocessor
directives.
rearanged other structs to have source in the same position.
* clutter/clutter-event.c: (clutter_event_get_source): modified to use
the any event.
(clutter_event_free): removed unused variable.
* clutter/clutter-main.c: (deliver_event), (clutter_do_event): reduced
amount of code. As well as deliver button-release events to the stage.
