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Emmanuele Bassi
3027d4327a Port the X11 backend to the Device Manager
Use the device manager to store the input devices. Also, provide
two fallback devices when initializing the X11 backend: device 0
for the pointer and device 1 for the keyboard.
2010-01-20 00:38:07 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e019547e8c x11: Fix typo in clutter_x11_set_use_argb_visual() declaration
The function should have a lowercase x11, not an uppercase X11 in its
name.
2010-01-15 14:48:42 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
5157da9fc8 x11: Switch back to RGB visuals by default
Since asking for ARGB by default is still somewhat experimental on X11
and not every toolkit or complex widgets (like WebKit) still do not like
dealing with ARGB visuals, we should switch back to RGB by default - now
that at least we know it works.

For applications (and toolkit integration libraries) that want to enable
the ClutterStage:use-alpha property there is a new function:

  void clutter_x11_set_use_argb_visual (gboolean use_argb);

which needs to be called before clutter_init().

The CLUTTER_DISABLE_ARGB_VISUAL environment variable can still be used
to force this value off at run-time.
2010-01-08 15:09:21 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
64c1294cc2 x11 tfp: Plug a leak
Destroy the dummy XImage we create even on success.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918

Based on a patch by: Carlos Martín Nieto <carlos@cmartin.tk>

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2010-01-05 14:22:35 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
a09ac0b27c Merge branch 'stage-use-alpha' into ebassi-next
* stage-use-alpha:
  tests: Use accessor methods for :use-alpha
  stage: Add accessors for :use-alpha
  tests: Allow setting the stage opacity in test-paint-wrapper
  stage: Premultiply the stage color
  stage: Composite the opacity with the alpha channel
  glx: Always request an ARGB visual
  stage: Add :use-alpha property
  materials: Get the right blend function for alpha
2009-12-20 17:39:12 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
86ce92eec1 x11: Emulate XKB's detectable key auto-repeat
Old-style X11 terminals require that even modern X11 send KeyPress
and KeyRelease pairs when auto-repeating. For this reason modern(-ish)
API like XKB has a way to detect auto-repeat and do a single KeyRelease
at the end of a KeyPress sequence.

The newly added check emulates XKB's detectable auto-repeat by peeking
the next event after a KeyRelease and checking if it's a KeyPress for
the same key and timestamp - and then ignoring the KeyRelease if it
matches.
2009-12-09 18:46:25 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e957e277b8 x11: Do not manage a foreign window
If a Stage has been set to use a foreign Window then Clutter should not
be managing it; calling XWithdrawWindow and XMapWindow should be
reserved to the windows we manage ourselves.
2009-12-08 18:24:30 +00:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e6ca2d891a glx: Always request an ARGB visual
When requesting the GLXFBConfig for creating the GLX context, we should
always request one that links to an ARGB visual instead of a plain RGB
one.

By using an ARGB visual we allow the ClutterStage:use-alpha property to
work as intended when running Clutter under a compositing manager.

The default behaviour of requesting an ARGB visual can be disabled by
using the:

  CLUTTER_DISABLE_ARGB_VISUAL

Environment variable.
2009-12-01 16:25:54 +00:00
Neil Roberts
7a011af974 docs: Fix the 'Since' annotation for some functions
The 'Since' annotation needs to have a colon after it or gtk-doc won't
pick it up.
2009-11-19 11:51:21 +00:00
Robert Bragg
f8f8873714 [stage-x11] Ensure viewport is initialized before first stage paint
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.
2009-11-02 16:55:02 +00:00
Robert Bragg
43efab46bc Intial Re-layout of the Cogl source code and introduction of a Cogl Winsys
As part of an incremental process to have Cogl be a standalone project we
want to re-consider how we organise the Cogl source code.

Currently this is the structure I'm aiming for:
cogl/
    cogl/
	<put common source here>
	winsys/
	   cogl-glx.c
	   cogl-wgl.c
	driver/
	    gl/
	    gles/
	os/ ?
    utils/
	cogl-fixed
	cogl-matrix-stack?
        cogl-journal?
        cogl-primitives?
    pango/

The new winsys component is a starting point for migrating window system
code (i.e.  x11,glx,wgl,osx,egl etc) from Clutter to Cogl.

The utils/ and pango/ directories aren't added by this commit, but they are
noted because I plan to add them soon.

Overview of the planned structure:

* The winsys/ API is the API that binds OpenGL to a specific window system,
  be that X11 or win32 etc.  Example are glx, wgl and egl. Much of the logic
  under clutter/{glx,osx,win32 etc} should migrate here.

* Note there is also the idea of a winsys-base that may represent a window
  system for which there are multiple winsys APIs.  An example of this is
  x11, since glx and egl may both be used with x11.  (currently only Clutter
  has the idea of a winsys-base)

* The driver/ represents a specific varient of OpenGL. Currently we have "gl"
  representing OpenGL 1.4-2.1 (mostly fixed function) and "gles" representing
  GLES 1.1 (fixed funciton) and 2.0 (fully shader based)

* Everything under cogl/ should fundamentally be supporting access to the
  GPU.  Essentially Cogl's most basic requirement is to provide a nice GPU
  Graphics API and drawing a line between this and the utility functionality
  we add to support Clutter should help keep this lean and maintainable.

* Code under utils/ as suggested builds on cogl/ adding more convenient
  APIs or mechanism to optimize special cases. Broadly speaking you can
  compare cogl/ to OpenGL and utils/ to GLU.

* clutter/pango will be moved to clutter/cogl/pango

How some of the internal configure.ac/pkg-config terminology has changed:
backendextra -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_BASE # e.g. "x11"
backendextralib -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_BASE_LIB # e.g. "x11/libclutter-x11.la"
clutterbackend -> {CLUTTER,COGL}_WINSYS # e.g. "glx"
CLUTTER_FLAVOUR -> {CLUTTER,COGL}_WINSYS
clutterbackendlib -> CLUTTER_WINSYS_LIB
CLUTTER_COGL -> COGL_DRIVER # e.g. "gl"

Note: The CLUTTER_FLAVOUR and CLUTTER_COGL defines are kept for apps

As the first thing to take advantage of the new winsys component in Cogl;
cogl_get_proc_address() has been moved from cogl/{gl,gles}/cogl.c into
cogl/common/cogl.c and this common implementation first trys
_cogl_winsys_get_proc_address() but if that fails then it falls back to
gmodule.
2009-10-16 18:58:50 +01:00
Robert Bragg
3187e19642 [x11 backend] remove data duplicated between backends and stages
Make backends the canonical point of reference for the xdisplay, the xscreen
number, the x root window and the xvisinfo for creating foreign stages.
2009-10-16 18:58:48 +01:00
Robert Bragg
15d7a86621 [backends] Remove the idea of offscreen stages from all backends
The only backend that tried to implement offscreen stages was the GLX backend
and even this has apparently be broken for some time without anyone noticing.

The property still remains and since the property already clearly states that
it may not work I don't expect anyone to notice.

This simplifies quite a bit of the GLX code which is very desireable from the
POV that we want to start migrating window system code down to Cogl and the
simpler the code is the more straight forward this work will be.

In the future when Cogl has a nicely designed API for framebuffer objects then
re-implementing offscreen stages cleanly for *all* backends should be quite
straightforward.
2009-10-16 18:58:47 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
72243081b5 Merge branch 'stage-window-object'
* stage-window-object:
  [x11] Fix Stage user-initiated resize
  [x11] Remove a useless forced paint
  [stage] Rework the Stage implementation class
2009-10-05 12:37:08 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
111512a2a0 [x11] Fix Stage user-initiated resize
The user-initiated resize is conflicting with the allocated size. This
happens because we change the size of the stage's X Window behind the
back of the size allocation machinery.

Instead, we should change the size of the actor whenever we receive a
ConfigureNotify event to reflect the new size of the actor.
2009-10-05 12:24:19 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e3c2ed0009 [x11] Remove a useless forced paint
We force the redraw before mapping, in the hope that when a composited
window manager maps the window it will have its contents ready; that is
not going to work: the solution for this problem requires the implementation
of a protocol for compositors, and not a hack.

Moreover, painting before mapping will cause a paint with the wrong
GL viewport size, which is the wrong thing to do on GLX.
2009-10-05 12:21:02 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
ecfa0c4f92 [build] Split out the custom silent rules
The silent rules we use for custom targets should be moved into a
separate Makefile.am that gets included from all the others.
2009-09-16 17:47:59 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
6988744db7 [stage] Rework the Stage implementation class
Instead of using ClutterActor for the base class of the Stage
implementation we should extend the StageWindow interface with
the required bits (geometry, realization) and use a simple object
class.

This require a wee bit of changes across Backend, Stage and
StageWindow, even though it's mostly re-shuffling.

First of all, StageWindow should get new virtual functions:

  * geometry:
    - resize()
    - get_geometry()

  * realization
    - realize()
    - unrealize()

This covers all the bits that we use from ClutterActor currently
inside the stage implementations.

The ClutterBackend::create_stage() virtual function should create
a StageWindow, and not an Actor (it should always have been; the
fact that it returned an Actor was a leak of the black magic going
on underneath). Since we never guaranteed ABI compatibility for
the Backend class, this is not a problem.

Internally to ClutterStage we can finally drop the shenanigans of
setting/unsetting actor flags on the implementation: if the realization
succeeds, for instance, we set the REALIZED flag on the Stage and
we're done.

As an initial proof of concept, the X11 and GLX stage implementations
have been ported to the New World Order(tm) and show no regressions.
2009-09-08 10:52:58 +01:00
Xu Li
f7edc97d8d Add new Atom atom_NET_WM_PID to set pid info
Clutter advertises itself on X11 as implementing the _NET_WM_PING protocol,
which is needed to be able to detect frozen applications; this allows us to
stop the destruction of the stage by blocking the CLUTTER_DELETE event and
wait for user feedback without the Window Manager thinking that the app has
gone unresponsive.

In order to implement the _NET_WM_PING protocol properly, though, we need
to add the _NET_WM_PID property on the Stage window, since the EWMH states:

  [_NET_WM_PID] MAY be used by the Window Manager to kill windows which
  do not respond to the _NET_WM_PING protocol.

Meaning that an unresponsive Clutter application might not be killable by
the window manager.

Fixes bug:

  http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2009-08-14 12:41:01 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
420ed353b5 [x11] Do not ask to destroy an empty Window
The fix for bug 1750 inside commit b190448e made Clutter-GTK spew
BadWindow errors. The reason for that is that we call XDestroyWindow()
without checking if the old Window is None; this happens if we call
clutter_x11_set_stage_foreign() on a new ClutterStage before it has
been realized.

Since Clutter-GTK does not need to realize the Stage it is going to
embed anymore (the only reason for that was to obtain a proper Visual
but now there's ClutterBackendX11 API for that), the set_stage_foreign()
call is effectively setting the StageX11 Window for the first time.
2009-08-07 08:26:18 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
b190448ed4 [x11] Destroy the Window we own when setting a foreign one
When we replace the stage Window using a foreign one we also need to
destroy the Window we created, if needed, to avoid leaking resources
all around.

Fixes bug:

  http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1750
2009-08-04 16:59:15 +01:00
Damien Lespiau
94b35a4a5e [build] GCC_FLAGS is no more, MAINTAINER_CFLAGS is the One.
CC_FLAGS was a left over from the 0.8.x age. Killed it and use the
newer MAINTAINER_CFLAGS variable instead.
2009-08-03 14:25:08 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
ae2a861a0b [x11] Force a redraw before mapping the stage
Does as it says on the tin: run a paint cycle before calling
XMapWindow().
2009-07-31 10:29:33 +01:00
Owen W. Taylor
894fe4ba93 Always create the Damage object for ClutterX11TexturePixmap auto updates
If clutter_x11_texture_set_window() was called after
clutter_x11_texture_pixmap_set_automatic(), then the Damage object would
not be properly created so updates to the window were ignored.

Refactor creation of the damage object to a separate function, and
call it from clutter_x11_texture_set_window() and clutter_x11_texture_set_pixmap()
as appropriate. Addition and removal of the filter function is made
conditional on priv->damage to make free_damage_resources() cleanly
idempotent.

See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587189 for the original
bug report.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1710

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2009-07-27 10:49:38 +01:00
Neil Roberts
7b811f8be4 [stage] Force an allocation before showing the stage
A lot of applications change the size of the stage from the default
before the stage is initially shown. The size change won't take affect
until the first allocation run. However we want the window to be at
the correct size when we first map it so we should force an allocation
run before showing the stage.

There was an explicit call to XResizeWindow in
clutter_stage_x11_show. This is not needed anymore because
XResizeWindow will already have been called by the allocate method.
2009-07-17 12:43:52 +01:00
Xu Li
13f31d8319 [x11] update_wm_hints after unsetting WITHDRAWN
Updating the WM hints on the stage window shortcircuits if the stage
is in WITHDRAWN state, so we need to move the update_wm_hints() call
after the flag has been unset.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2009-07-13 15:33:21 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
250b775926 [x11] Fix the race between resize and glViewport calls
The race we were experiencing in the X11 backends is apparently
back after the fix in commit 00a3c698.

This time, just delaying the setting of the SYNC_MATRICES flag
is not enough, so we can resume the use of a STAGE_IN_RESIZE
private flag.

This should also fix bug:

  http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668
2009-07-01 15:30:21 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
cb4e5c9083 [x11] Simplify the XInput support
Instead of using a specific function to check whether the X
server supports the XInput extension we can use the generic
Xlib function XQueryExtension(). This cuts down the extra
checks inside the configure.ac and simplifies the code inside
clutter_x11_register_xinput().
2009-06-19 15:12:32 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
21608fe5f7 [x11] Add a command line switch for enabling XInput
Currently, XInput support requires a function call. In order to
make it easier for people to test it, we can also add a command
line switch that moves the pointer device detection and handling
to XInput. This should ensure that, at least for people building
Clutter with --enable-xinput, applications can be easily migrated
and regressions can be caught.
2009-06-19 14:32:37 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
a6b4697367 [backend] Do not store the stage manager singleton
The StageManager singleton instance is already kept around
by the clutter_stage_manager_get_default() function; there is
no need to have it inside the main Clutter context as well.
2009-06-19 14:19:39 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
b6e404a406 [x11] Use _clutter_context_is_initialized()
Instead of using _clutter_context_get_default() and checking the
is_initialized flag, we should use the newly added private function
that does not cause side effects, especially for functions that have
to be called before any other Clutter function.
2009-06-19 14:12:36 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
184df2a5fa [input] Rework input device API
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.
2009-06-19 13:12:05 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
c6fba47a52 Hide clutter_context_get_default()
The clutter_context_get_default() function is private, but shared
across Clutter. For this reason, it should be prefixed by '_' so
that the symbol is hidden from the shared object.
2009-06-18 14:20:28 +01:00
Owen W. Taylor
795e005566 Fix handling of not-visible texture pixmaps
If we have an not-visible texture pixmap, we need to:

 - Still update it if it is realized, since it won't be
   updated when shown. And it might be also be cloned.

 - Queue a redraw if even if not visible, since it
   it might be cloned.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-15 11:29:37 +01:00
Owen W. Taylor
4dcd5f6134 Use correct texture format for pixmap textures and FBO's
RGBA data in X pixmaps and in FBOs is already premultiplied; use
the right format when creating cogl textures.

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406

Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-11 14:17:51 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
7c89a0ccfa [stage] Rename :fullscreen to :fullscreen-set
The :fullscreen property is very much confusing as it is implemented.
It can be written to a value, but the whole process might fail. If we
set:

  g_object_set (stage, "fullscreen", TRUE, NULL);

and the fullscreen process fails or it is not implemented, the value
will be reset to FALSE (if we're lucky) or left TRUE (most of the
times).

The writability is just a shorthand for invoking clutter_stage_fullscreen()
or clutter_stage_unfullscreen() depending on a boolean value without
using an if.

The :fullscreen property also greatly confuses high level languages,
since the same symbol is used:

  - for a method name (Clutter.Stage.fullscreen())
  - for a property name (Clutter.Stage.fullscreen)
  - for a signal (Clutter.Stage::fullscreen)

For these reasons, the :fullscreen should be renamed to :fullscreen-set
and be read-only. Implementations of the Stage should only emit the
StageState event to change from normal to fullscreen, and the Stage
will automatically update the value of the property and emit a notify
signal for it.
2009-06-09 14:07:35 +01:00
Owen W. Taylor
d28c9e5db1 Remove unnecessary setting of CLUTTER_ACTOR_REALIZED flag
An implementaton of realize() never needs to set the
CLUTTER_ACTOR_REALIZED flag, though it can unset the flag if
things fail unexpectedly. (Previously, stage backend implementations
had to do this since clutter_actor_realize() wasn't used; this
is no longer the case.)

http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1634

Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-08 11:07:33 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
12b4e0400c [x11] Do not forcibly set the stage size on fullscreen
Setting the stage size using clutter_actor_set_size() is almost always
wrong: the X11 stage implementation should save the size and queue a
relayout -- like it does when receiving a ConfigureNotify. The same
should happen when setting it to be full screen.
2009-06-08 02:04:27 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
cbb748f7c0 [x11] Disable XInput by default
The XInput support in Clutter is still using XI 1.x. This will never
work correctly, and we are all waiting for XInput 2 anyway. The changes
internally should be minimal, so we can leave everything in place, but
it's better to disable XInput support by default -- at least for the
time being.
2009-06-05 12:30:08 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
745ca8a62c [xinput] Invert the XI extension version check
Since having XQueryInputVersion means also having XGetExtensionVersion
we need to check the former first to avoid the deprecation warning.
2009-06-05 12:08:41 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e4ff24bcff [x11] Rework map/unmap and resizing
The mapping and unmapping of the X11 stage implementation is
a bit bong. It's asynchronous, for starters, when it really
can avoid it by tracking the state internally.

The ordering of the map/unmap sequence is also broken with
respect to the resizing.

By tracking the state internally into StageX11 we can safely
remove the MapNotify and UnmapNotify X event handling.

In theory, we should use _NET_WM_STATE a lot more, and reuse
the X11 state flags for fullscreening as well.
2009-06-04 16:30:32 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
0a4a28a950 [xinput] Check for the XInput entry points
Apparently, the XInput extension is using the same pkg-config
file ('xi') for both the 1.x and the 2.x API, so we need to
check for both the 1.x XGetExtensionVersion and the 2.x
XQueryInputVersion.
2009-06-04 16:30:31 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
0187bb3965 [actor] Use flags to control allocations
Instead of passing a boolean value, the ::allocate virtual function
should use a bitmask and flags. This gives us room for expansion
without breaking API/ABI, and allows to encode more information to
the allocation process instead of just changes of absolute origin.
2009-06-04 16:30:31 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
046e571bae Remove usage of Units and macros
The ClutterUnit and relative macros should not be used when dealing
with pixels -- which is to say, all the time when inside Clutter.
2009-06-04 16:30:30 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
f8f54989be Merge commit 'origin/master' into 1.0-integration
Conflicts:
	clutter/clutter-texture.c
	clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-fbo.c
2009-05-20 16:49:22 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
e59a19bd03 [x11] Abstract XVisualInfo creation
The XVisualInfo for GL is created when a stage is being realized.
When embedding Clutter inside another toolkit we might not want to
realize a stage to extract the XVisualInfo, then set the stage
window using a foreign X Window -- which will cause a re-realization.

Instead, we should abstract as much as possible into the X11 backend.

Unfortunately, the XVisualInfo for GL is requested using GLX API; for
this reason we have to create a ClutterBackendX11 method that we
override inside the ClutterBackendGLX implementation.

This also allows us to move a little bit of complexity from out of
the stage realization, which is currently a very delicate and hard
to debug section.
2009-05-13 21:49:45 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
4b285e02bc [x11] Unset the GL context when re-realizing
Setting the stage window using the set_stage_foreign() method will
lead to a re-realization. We need to make sure that the Drawable
currently associated to the GL context is set to None, to avoid a
BadDrawable error or, if we're unlucky, a segfault in the X server.
2009-05-11 18:17:30 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
0b7e459d48 Add more debugging notes 2009-05-11 12:45:33 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
2ae9d84a2a [x11] Use -1 as the default screen guard
Currently, the default screen guard value is 0, which is a valid
screen number on X11, and it might not be the default.

Patch suggested by: Owen W. Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
2009-05-06 18:32:17 +01:00
Emmanuele Bassi
d6d208da7d Remove Units from the public API
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
2009-05-06 16:44:47 +01:00