This is for adding a EGL-based renderer which is done via the ANGLE
project, which translate EGL calls to Direct3D 9/11. This is done as a
possible solution to issue #105, especially for cases where the needed
full GL extensions to map OpenGL to Direct3D is unavailable or
unreliable, or when the OpenGL implementation from the graphics drivers
are problematic.
To enable this, do the following:
-Build ANGLE and ensure the ANGLE libEGL.dll and libGLESv2.dll are
available. A sufficiently-recent ANGLE is needed for things to
work correctly--note that the copy of ANGLE that is included in
qtbase-5.10.1 is sufficient. ANGLE is licensed under a BSD 3-clause
license.
-Build libepoxy on Windows with EGL support enabled.
-Currently, prior to running GTK+ programs, the GDK_DEBUG envvar needs
to be set with gl-gles as at least one of the flags.
Known issues:
-Only OpenGL ES 3 is supported, ANGLE's ES 2 does not support the needed
extensions, notably GL_OES_vertex_array_object, but its ES 3 support is
sufficient.
-There is no autodetection or fallback mechanism to enable using
EGL/Angle automatically yet. There are no plans to do this in this
commit.
...EGL support needs to be explicitly enabled during the build of
libepoxy on Windows as it is not enabled by default on Windows.
With this, we can add an EGL renderer for Windows that make use of
Google's libANGLE, which is a library that translates OpenGL/ES calls
to Direct3D 9/11, which will provide better hardware compatibility
on Windows and would act as one of the foundations to resolve issue #105.
It's not a portable API, so remove it. The corresponding backend
specific functions are still available, if they were implemented, e.g.
gdk_macos_monitor_get_workarea() and gdk_x11_monitor_get_workarea().
Make GdkEvents hold a single GdkDevice. This device is closer to
the logical device conceptually, although it must be sufficient for
device checks (i.e. GdkInputSource), which makes it similar to the
physical devices.
Make the logical devices have a more accurate GdkInputSource where
needed, and conflate the event devices altogether.
Besides the implicit x/y assumptions, devices don't have axes. Those
are actually provided by the GdkDeviceTool driving the device, and
different tools may have different axes.
It does not make sense to offer this API that can change beneath
someone's feet, we now have gdk_device_tool_get_axes() which is static
to the tool.
Looking at the xf86-input-wacom driver code, this is not even a thing
anymore. Drop this device type, in modern days there's
GDK_DEVICE_TOOL_TYPE_MOUSE for this.
When converting DisplayLink frame presentation times, we need to take into
account the arch-specific types. This tracks changes in GNOME/GLib!1566 so
that precision is not lost.
This is fairly substantial rewrite of the GDK backend for quartz and
renamed to macOS to allow for a greenfield implementation.
Many things have come across from the quartz implementation fairly
intact such as the eventloop integration design and discovery of
event windows from the NSEvent.
However much has been changed to fit in with the new GDK design and
how removal of child GdkWindow have been completely eliminated.
Furthermore, the new GdkPopup allows for regular NSWindow to be used
to provide popovers unlike the previous implementation.
The object design more closely follows the ideal for a GDK backend.
Views have been broken out into subclasses so that we can support
multiple GSK renderer paths such as GL and Cairo (and Metal in the
future). However mixed mode GL and Cairo will not be supported. Currently
only the Cairo renderer has been implemented.
A new frame clock implementation using CVDisplayLink provides more
accurate information about when to draw drawing the next frame. Some
testing will need to be done here to understand the power implications
of this.
This implementation has also gained edge snapping for CSD windows. Some
work was also done to ensure that CSD windows have opaque regions
registered with the display server.
** This is still very much a work-in-progress **
Some outstanding work that needs to be done:
- Finish a GL context for macOS and alternate NSView for GL rendering
(possibly using speciailized CALayer for OpenGL).
- Input rework to ensure that we don't loose remapping of keys that was
dropped from GDK during GTK 4 development.
- Make sure input methods continue to work.
- Drag-n-Drop is still very much a work in progress
- High resolution input scrolling needs various work in GDK to land
first before we can plumb that to NSEvent.
- gtk/ has a number of things based on GDK_WINDOWING_QUARTZ that need
to be updated to use the macOS backend.
But this is good enough to start playing with and breaking things which
is what I'd like to see.
This was preventing any sort of building on macOS, even though the quartz
backend is currently non-functional. Fixing this is a pre-requisite to
getting a new macOS backend compiling.
Run the gdkkeysyms-update.pl script to pick up several
new keysyms:
GDK_dead_lowline
GDK_dead_aboveverticalline
GDK_dead_belowverticalline
GDK_dead_longsolidusoverlay
GDK_Keyboard
GDK_WWAN
GDK_RFKill
GDK_AudioPreset
* GDK_ARRAY_BY_VALUE
#define this to get GArray-like behavior
* gdk_array_splice (v, 0, 0, NULL, 25)
Adding items but passing NULL as the items will zero() them.
* gdk_array_set_size()
A nicer way to call gdk_array_splice()
* constify getters
This is a scary idea where you #define a bunch of preprocessor values
and then #include "gdkarrayimpl.c" and end up with a dynamic array for
that data type.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Macro for what's going on.
What are the advantages over using GArray or GPtrArray?
* It's typesafe
Because it works like C++ templates, we can use the actual type of
the object instead of having to use gpointer.
* It's one less indirection
instead of 2 indirections via self->array->data, this array is
embedded, so self->array is the actual data, and just one indirection
away. This is pretty irrelevant in general, but can be very noticable
in tight loops.
* It's all inline
Because the whole API is defined as static inline functions, the
compiler has full access to everything and can (and does) optimize
out unnecessary calls, thereby speeding up some operations quite
significantly, when full optimizations are enabled.
* It has more features
In particular preallocation allows for avoiding malloc() calls, which
can again speed up tight loops a lot.
But there's also splice(), which is very useful when used with
listmodels.
This uses the idle-inhibit protocol from wayland-protocols, to attach an
inhibitor to the GdkSurface. The inhibit function can be called as many
times as the user wants, but the uninhibit function MUST be called as
many times to unset the idle inhibition.
This has been tested on Sway.
Not all compositors support _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN. In cases
where the compositor doesn't support _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN we don't
need to do all the fancy damage tracking and fence watching.
Furthermore, if the compositor doesn't support _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN,
it's possible that one frame will start before the previous frame has
made it through the pipeline, leading to a blown assertion.
This commit side-steps the unnecessary code and associated assertion
when _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN isn't supported.
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2927
If we create an implicit grab on a surface, leave the surface, and
release the button, we would get 2 XI_Leave events, one with mode
XINotifyNormal when the pointer leaves the surface, and another with
mode XINotifyUngrab when the button is released.
Meanwhile, the upper layers rely on crossing events being paired,
and particularly in no crossing event being sent until the implicit
grab is dismissed (either by releasing it, or via more pervasive
grabs).
Ignoring the set of XINotifyNormal events while an implicit grab
is active adapts the X11 backend to this behavior. If the grab were
released or taken away by another grab, a crossing event with one
of the other XINotify*Grab/XINotify*Ungrab will be generated.
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2879
Since commit 972134abe4 a frame getting
drawn has three states (with the vendor nvidia driver at least):
1. drawn by gtk waiting on the GPU
2. drawn by GPU waiting on the compositor
3. drawn by compositor
Those three states are encoded in two flags: frame_pending and
frame_still_painting.
frame_pending means step 1 is done, but step 2 and 3 are still
in progress. frame_still_painting means step 2 is still in progress.
After step 1 is finished the surface is frozen until step 3 is finished.
When the compositor notifies gtk it's done with step 3, with a
_NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN client message, the toolkit thaws the surface to
allow the next frame to proceed.
The compositor sometimes sends gtk a _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN client message
between steps 1 and 2. This message should be ignored because it's not
a reply to the current frame.
Unfortunately, gtk currently assumes if it gets a _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN
client message while waiting for step 2 that it's actually at step 3,
and proceeds to draw a new frame while the existing frame is still
pending, leading to a blown assertion.
This commit addresses the problem by ignoring _NET_WM_FRAME_DRAWN
client messages from the compositor unless actually expecting one.
Fixes: #2902
Since commit 972134abe4 we now call
glClientWaitSync for the vendor nvidia driver, to know when a frame
is ready for the compositor to process.
If a surface is hidden while a frame is still being rendered by the GPU,
the surface will never produce the damage event the code relies on to
trigger the call to glClientWaitSync. This leaves the fence dangling,
and the next time the surface is shown, it will start a fresh frame
and blow an assertion since the fence from the last frame is still
hanging around.
This commit ensures a frame gets fully wrapped up before hiding a
surface.
Include docstrings and format the list of supported
values better.
Also, add the same warning we have for GTK_DEBUG when
the environment variable is ignored.
This kind of transient state sets the expectative that events update
devices, while it's more accurate to say that devices generate events.
It does not make to expose this function anymore.
