GdkEvent has been a "I-can't-believe-this-is-not-OOP" type for ages,
using a union of sub-types. This has always been problematic when it
comes to implementing accessor functions: either you get generic API
that takes a GdkEvent and uses a massive switch() to determine which
event types have the data you're looking for; or you create namespaced
accessors, but break language bindings horribly, as boxed types cannot
have derived types.
The recent conversion of GskRenderNode (which had similar issues) to
GTypeInstance, and the fact that GdkEvent is now a completely opaque
type, provide us with the chance of moving GdkEvent to GTypeInstance,
and have sub-types for GdkEvent.
The change from boxed type to GTypeInstance is pretty small, all things
considered, but ends up cascading to a larger commit, as we still have
backends and code in GTK trying to access GdkEvent structures directly.
Additionally, the naming of the public getter functions requires
renaming all the data structures to conform to the namespace/type-name
pattern.
Make this a full async function, and add a simple wrapper.
Call gtk_show_uri_full() if you need control over the
results, and use gtk_show_uri() if you are fine with
ignoring any errors.
We have event controller apis to replace these.
There is one remaining use of gtk_get_current_event_time
in gtkwindow.c, so we can't drop the implementation yet.
Add a section in the migration guide for this.
Our new approach to modifiers works with a fixed set,
there is really no need to customize the modifier
masks if the backends are all supposed to deliver
the same modifiers.
People should use shortcut controllers instead (global, capture).
A side effect of this is that GtkAccelLabel now lost its method to
magically look up accelerators to display. Somebody needs to add that
back later.
This is mainly for internal use, but I can't see a reason to not have it
public for people who want to maintain their own lists.
I'm sure gnome-builder will never ever find a way to misuse it.
When creating shortcuts, there almost always are a trigger and an action
available for use. So make gtk_shortcut_new() take those as arguments.
Also add gtk_shortcut_new_with_arguments() so people can easily pass
those in, too.
Similar to GtkShortcutTrigger, GtkShortCutAction provides all the
different ways to activate a shortcut.
So far, these different ways are supported:
- do nothing
- Call a user-provided callback
- Call gtk_widget_activate()
- Call gtk_widget_mnemonic_activate()
- Emit an action signal
- Activate an action from the widget's action muxer
It's an outdated technology now that everybody is using GActionGroups.
If somebody wanted to support changeable shortcuts, they'd need to
reintroduce it in another way.
This adds an interface for taking care of shortcut controllers with
managed scope.
Only GtkWindow currently implements this interface, so we need to ensure
that we check if any top-level widget we reach is a shortcuts manager
before we call into it.
Mnemonics need to be triggered with help from the controllers (who
determine the modifiers). Support for that has been added, too.
Mnemonics do not use this yet though.
Allow setting the scope for a controller. The scope determines at what
point in event propagation the shortcuts will be activated.
Local scope is the usual activation, global scope means that the root
widget activates the shortcuts - ie they are activated at the very
start of event propagation (for global capture events) or the very end
(for global bubble events).
Managed scope so far is unimplemented.
This is supposed to be used to replace accelerators and mnemonics.
This is a very barebones controller that currently does nothing but
activate the binding signals. Yay.
And because we have bindings on every widget (Yes, a GtkGrid has a
keybinding - 2 in fact), we need that controller everywhere.
This function is the replacement for
gtk_binding_entry_add_signall().
The GVariant will be demarshalled and passed to the action signal upon
binding activation. The same rules apply as used to apply for
GtkBindingArg, in that long, double and string args are now replaced by
"x", "d" and "s" variant types.
Add an api to retrieve the model containing a given
item in a flatten listmodel. This is useful when the
individual items in the list don't have backpointers.
People should use shortcut controllers instead (global, capture).
A side effect of this is that GtkAccelLabel now lost its method to
magically look up accelerators to display. Somebody needs to add that
back later.
This is mainly for internal use, but I can't see a reason to not have it
public for people who want to maintain their own lists.
I'm sure gnome-builder will never ever find a way to misuse it.
When creating shortcuts, there almost always are a trigger and an action
available for use. So make gtk_shortcut_new() take those as arguments.
Also add gtk_shortcut_new_with_arguments() so people can easily pass
those in, too.
Similar to GtkShortcutTrigger, GtkShortCutAction provides all the
different ways to activate a shortcut.
So far, these different ways are supported:
- do nothing
- Call a user-provided callback
- Call gtk_widget_activate()
- Call gtk_widget_mnemonic_activate()
- Emit an action signal
- Activate an action from the widget's action muxer
- Activate a GAction
It's an outdated technology now that everybody is using GActionGroups.
If somebody wanted to support changeable shortcuts, they'd need to
reintroduce it in another way.
This adds an interface for taking care of shortcut controllers with
managed scope.
Only GtkWindow currently implements this interface, so we need to ensure
that we check if any top-level widget we reach is a shortcuts manager
before we call into it.
Mnemonics need to be triggered with help from the controllers (who
determine the modifiers). Support for that has been added, too.
Mnemonics do not use this yet though.
Allow setting the scope for a controller. The scope determines at what
point in event propagation the shortcuts will be activated.
Local scope is the usual activation, global scope means that the root
widget activates the shortcuts - ie they are activated at the very
start of event propagation (for global capture events) or the very end
(for global bubble events).
Managed scope so far is unimplemented.
This is supposed to be used to replace accelerators and mnemonics.
This is a very barebones controller that currently does nothing but
activate the binding signals. Yay.
And because we have bindings on every widget (Yes, a GtkGrid has a
keybinding - 2 in fact), we need that controller everywhere.
This function is the replacement for
gtk_binding_entry_add_signall().
The GVariant will be demarshalled and passed to the action signal upon
binding activation. The same rules apply as used to apply for
GtkBindingArg, in that long, double and string args are now replaced by
"x", "d" and "s" variant types.
Before, gtk_drag_icon_new_for_drag() allowed creating new drag icons.
This could cause multiple drag icons to exist for a single drag.
Now, gtk_drag_icon_get_for_drag() makes sure that only one drag icon is
created.
This is a huge reorganization of GtkDropTarget. I did not know how to
split this up, so it's unfortunately all one commit.
Highlights:
- Split GtkDropTarget into GtkDropTarget and GtkDropTargetAsync
GtkDropTarget is the simple one that only works with GTypes and offers
a synchronous interface.
GtkDropTargetAsync retains the full old functionality and allows
handling mime types.
- Drop events are handled differently
Instead of picking a single drop target and sending all DND events to
it, every event is sent to every drop target. The first one to handle
the event gets to call gdk_drop_status(), further handlers do not
interact with the GdkDrop.
Of course, for the ultimate GDK_DROP_STARTING event, only the first
one to accept the drop gets to handle it.
This allows stacking DND event controllers that aren't necessarily
interested in handling the event or that might decide later to drop
it.
- Port all widgets to either of those
Both have a somewhat changed API due to the new event handling.
For the ones who should use the sync version, lots of cleanup was
involved to operate on a sync API.
It is enough to just set the parent (and make the parent
call gtk_native_check_resize in size_allocate).
This commit removes the relative_to argument to the
constructors of GtkPopover and GtkPopoverMenu, and
updates all callers.
The preview widget harks from a platform before time, when we didn't
have GIO, or a thumbnail specification.
Very few applications use it correctly, if at all; it has an horrid hack
to deal with the ownership of the widget's instance when accessed
through the getter function; it messes up the layout of the widget and
its label is less than useful when it comes to file names longer than a
dozen characters; it's a poor substitute for a proper thumbnail view.
GtkFileChooser's API predates GIO by a few years, so it started off with
filenames and URI as character arrays. After introducing GIO as a
dependency, the API included GFile-based entry points.
It's much more appropriate to use GFile everywhere, as we want to
encourage people to use GIO instead of passing random bytes to low level
POSIX API.
See: #2455
Add properties, and use string arrays instead of lists.
Among other things, this renames gtk_icon_theme_list_icons
to gtk_icon_theme_get_icon_names.
Fixes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2410
Accessors like these are weird to have and we can add widgets to the
content area via gtk_container_add() as well as add widgets to the
action area via gtk_info_bar_add_action_widget().
It is not great to put a function in the public api and
document it as "do not call this" only so we can refer
to its docs in other places. Therefore, fold the docs
directly into the input handling overview chapter.
These are always set to the same value as the corresponding border
radius properties. They are also non-standard, so remove them and
replace them with the border radius properties everywhere.
Fixes#2414
This is an unused feature that's way too complicated for a default
calendar widget and complicates the implementation a lot. Since we want
to eventually replace this with actual widgets, remove the details
support now.
Those functions are unused and the documentation says "Returns some
random number that the icon theme creator chose" which does not seem at
all useful and an implementation detail.
So get rid of it.
We expose no API to get at any colors for drawing symbolics, so we
shouldn't have APIs to draw with them.
Apart from that, those APIs look like a box of crayons, not like an
icontheme.
The API encouraged wrong usage - most of the users were indeed wrong.
Use the correct version instead:
gtk_icon_theme_get_for_display (gtk_widget_get_display ())
This is a useful widget to have, and it has minimal api.
Not having it public forces apps to recreate a lot of
complicated machinery for not good reason, if they need
an Emoji chooser in a different context.
Add GtkWidget API for adding and removing style classes, as well as
checking whether a widget has a style class applied.
Everyone has to go through GtkStyleContext for this these days but with
GtkStyleContext eventually going away, it makse sense for GtkWidget to
have API for this.
This is a more modern way of doing things, and avoids a window
of type GTK_WINDOW_POPUP. With a popover, it doesn't make sense
to have a positioning function, so remove that api.
Do away with the proxy menu items, and instead
just have toolitems provide a label for overflow
items. We create the overflow widgets ourselves
already, as model buttons.
Also replace the toggle button used for overflow
with a menubutton, simplifying things further.
- Move into its own section
- Split GtkTreeListRow into its own document
Trees are weird with listmodels and they deserve their own treatment,
they shouldn't be mushed up with the rest of the list machinery.
... and use them.
Also, rename them from is/contains-pointer-focus to is/contains-pointer,
that's clear enough and not too long.
Finally, adapt the semantics of contains-pointer to mirror
GtkEventControllerKey::contains-focus. If is-pointer is set, so is
contains-pointer, they are not exclusive.
Which is what all users of this property wanted, too.
GtkBuilderScope is an interface that provides the scope that a builder
instance operates in.
It creates closures and resolves types. Language bindings are meant to
use this interface to customize the behavior of builder files, in
particular when instantiating templates.
A default implementation for C is provided via GtkBuilderCScope (to keep
with the awkward naming that glib uses for closures). It is derivable on
purpose so that languages or extensions that extend C can use it.
The reftest code in fact does derive GtkBuilderCScope for its own scope
implementation that implements looking up symbols in modules.
gtk-widget-factory was updated to use the new GtkBuilderCScope to add
its custom callback symbols.
So it does it different from gtk-demo, which uses the normal way of
exporting symbols for dlsym() and thereby makes the 2 demos test the 2
ways GtkBuilder uses for looking up symbols.
Use it as the default object for expression binds and when connecting
signals. It is intended to work kind of as the "this" object while
parsing. In fact, the term "current object" was stolen from the Java
docs and various C++ tutorials for the this pointer.
Set the current object in gtk_widget_init_template() and
GtkListItemBuilder.
This more-or-less replaces the object passed to
gtk_builder_connect_signals() in GTK3.
gtk_builder_connect_signals() is no longer necessary, because all the
setup that made it necessary to have this extra step is now done
automatically via the closure functions.
This will be the future way to connect signals automatically (and be
used for other things, too).
For now, gtk_builder_connect_signals_default() is ported to use it.
The "iconified" state is mostly an X11-ism; every other platform calls
this state "minimized" because it may not involve turning a window into
an icon at all.
GTK uses the Meson `buildtype` option to determine whether to enable or
disable debugging code and safeties. We should document our behaviour
and expectations.
This builds upon the GtkTextHistory helper to provide undo and redo support
for the GtkTextView widget and GtkTextBuffer object.
You can undo/redo using familiar shortcuts such as Primary+Z,
Primary+Shift+Z, ad Primary+Y.
Developers that wish to disable undo, should set the
GtkTextBuffer:enable-undo property to FALSE.
You can wrap irreversible actions
gtk_text_buffer_begin_irreversible_action() and
gtk_text_buffer_end_irreversible_action(). This will cause the undo stack
to drop all undo/redo actions and the changes made between them will be
the "initial state" of the buffer.
Calling gtk_text_buffer_set_text() will do this automatically for you.
This function is not useful. Every icon theme
on my system either does not have that field,
or has it as 'folder'. So, just use 'folder'
when you need an example icon.
This creates a new GtkTextViewChild that can manage overlay children at
given x,y offsets in buffer coordinates. This simplifies GtkTextView by
extracting this from GtkTextWindow as well as providing a real widget for
the borders.
With this change, we also rename gtk_text_view_add_child_in_window() to
gtk_text_view_add_overlay(). For those that were using
GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_WIDGET, they can use a GtkOverlay. It does not appear
that anyone was using GTK_TEXT_WINDOW_(LEFT|RIGHT|TOP|BOTTOM) for widgets
in this fashion, but that can be done by setting a gutter widget with
gtk_text_view_set_gutter(). We can make GtkTextViewChild public if
necessary to simplify this should it become necessary.
GtkTextViewChild will setup a CSS node of either "text" or "border"
depending on the GtkTextWindowType.
The old GtkTextViewChild has been renamed to AnchoredChild as it is only
used for widgets with anchors in the GtkTextBuffer. This also removes the
use of allocated GSList and instead embeds a GQueue and GList to save a
few extraneous allocations.
The renaming of this function doesn't make much since because the window
is the GtkTextWindowType, not GdkWindow specifically. So we can keep the
old name which is closer to the proper meaning and less code for consumers
to change when porting to 4.x.
The documentation stated:
GTK is a library.… GTK depends on the following libraries:
GTK The GTK library itself contains widgets, that is, GUI
components such as GtkButton or GtkTextView.
There is no point in stating, that the GTK library
depends on the GTK library.
I recently turned gtk_widget_activate_action()
into a varargs function. That is more convenient
from C, but we need a non-varargs variant for
bindings. So add the old API back, under the
name gtk_widget_activate_action_variant(),
with a rename-to annotation.
The only cases of stateful actions we've seen
so far have been boolean properties, and we
don't really want to add much state handling
API, so lets just go with property actions
for now.
Adapt the only user in GtkText.
Add a facility to register and install actions
at class init time. The intended use for these
actions is for
a) context and other model-based menus
b) key bindings
Most of these actions are going to be stateless,
so add separate apis for the simple and stateful
cases.
We avoid creating an action group for these by
teaching the action muxer about these actions.
The action muxer also maintains the enabled
state for these actions.
Drop the ::populate-popup signal and implement
the new context menu api. Things are a bit more
complicated here, since we have different menus
on links and selectable text.
Add a convenience api to skip children
that should not be included in the layout,
and call gtk_native_check_resize on all
native children outside of the vfunc.
Make gtk_popover_new_from_model() return a GtkPopoverMenu,
rename it to gtk_popover_menu_new_from_model() and add
a relative_to argument to gtk_popover_menu_new().
Update all callers.
We want to use a gdk_surface_new_popup for popups,
and align the constructor names with the surface
types, so rename
gdk_surface_new_popup -> gdk_surface_new_temp
gdk_surface_new_popup_full -> gdk_surface_new_popup
The temp surface type will disappear eventually.
The 'documentation' option also guarded the man page build. Instead
if skipping the whole docs subdir skip the specific gtkdoc calls, so that the
man page build still works.
This brings it in line with the gtk3 meson build.
This is not an api we want to propagate anymore.
If you need to, you can still emit the "clicked"
action signal on a button using g_signal_emit_by_name.
Make GtkMenuButton a widget that has a
toggle button, instead of deriving from it.
We give it icon-name and label properties,
to let people do what they expect to do
with menu buttons.
The default widget is mostly a dialog concept,
and does not really need this generic api.
If you need to mark a widget as default,
use gtk_window_set_default() directly.
This api wasn't used anywhere in GTK. And since
we've dropped the variant for the default widget,
this one should go too. If it is needed, it should
become and action too.
The skip-taskbar, skip-pager and urgency hints were
only ever implemented for X11, and are not very useful
with modern desktops. Relegate the functionality to
x11 backend api, and drop the GtkWindow api.
gtk_css_provider_get_named() is the old GTK3 style API to load themes.
Instead, export the function we currently use,
gtk_css_provider_load_named().
As a side effect we allow people to load a theme as often as they want
without conflicting with GTK's theme.
