gtk2/gdk/TODO
Owen Taylor e9b6bfcc01 Move all X specific code into the x11/ directory. Aside from shuffling
Mon Nov  8 14:47:04 1999  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

	Move all X specific code into the x11/ directory.
	Aside from shuffling things around, did the following:

       * gdk/gdkprivate.h gdk/gdk.h gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.h: Add
	 gdk_arg_context_* - a simple argument parsing system
	 in the style of popt.

       * gdk/gdkdrawable.[ch] gdk/gdkprivate.h gdk/gdkwindow.[ch]
	 gdk/x11/gdkprivate-x11.h:
	 Remove X specific stuff from GdkDrawable and GdkWindowPrivate -
	 add ->klass and ->klass_data fields. The klass_data
	 field points to an auxilliary structure that is
	 windowing system dependent.

       * gdk/gdkfont.c: Make most of the measurement functions
	 simply wrappers around gdk_text_extents().

       * gdk/gdkfont.c gdk/gdkprivate.h gdk/x11/gdkfont-x11.c: Add a
	 _gdk_font_strlen() function that hides the weird
	 behavior in gtk+-1.[02] where a string is interpreted
	 differently for 8-bit and 16-bit fonts.

       * gdk/gdkevents.c: Add a new function gdk_event_button_generate()
	 to store common code for synthesizing double/triple
	 press events.

       * gdk/gdkgc.[ch]: Virtualize in the same way as gdkdrawable.h.
	 Make all the function that modify an existing GC
	 simply wrappers around gdk_gc_set_values().

       * gdk/gdkcc.[ch]: Moved into x11/ directory in preparation
	 for throwing out later.

       * gdk/gdkfont.c gdk/gdkimage.c gdk/gdkcolor.c: Change GdkFontPrivate,
	 GdkImagePrivate and GdkColormapPrivate to have a
	 windowing system dependent part (GdkFontPrivateX etc.)
	 that "derives" from the system-independent part.

       * configure.in gdk/x11/Makefile.in gdk/x11/gdkinput*.c:
	 Got rid of the included-source-files for XInput in
	 favor of automake conditionals. (Which didn't exist
	 when XInput support was originally added.)

       * gdk/gdkrgb.c: Remove the visual id from the debugging
	 statements since that is X11 specific; print out
	 type/depth info instead.
1999-11-08 20:14:59 +00:00

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General
=======
- gdk_pointer_grab() and gdk_keyboard_grab() are logically member
functions of GdkWindow.
X specific Functions that need to be moved out of the common header files
=========================================================================
Dir structure for ports
=======================
The directory structure here is:
gdk/
gdk/x11
gdk/win32
...
The gdk/ directory directly contains all public
header files (that are not specific to one
windowing system).
There, in general should be no system dependency
For each set of functionality, there are the following
files:
gdkwindow.h: public header file
gdkwindow.c: common implementation
x11/gdkwindow.i: functionality specific to X11
win32/gdkwindow.i: functionality specific to win32
The gdkwindow.c file looks like:
====
#include "gdkwindow.h"
#ifdef GDK_WINDOWING_X11
#include "x11/gdkwindow.i"
#elif defined(GDK_WINDOW_WIN32)
#include "win32/gdkwindow.i"
fo#endif
[ generic implementation bits ]
====
x11/gdkwindow.i should only assume that gdkwindow.h has been
included and included all other dependencies explicitely.
The x11/ directory will contain:
.i files
.c files specific to X
.h files specific to X
And a Makefile.am that takes care of distributing the
files in the directory, and also for building any
X-specific utilities. (Such as the gxid daemon).
Port Status for Files
=====================
gdk
Much of the contents have been moved to x11/gtkmain.c.
I've added a little argument-parsing abstraction.
(Currently called gdk_arg_context_*) that allows
arguments from multiple places to be combined - that
probably needs to be either fixed up and moved into
GLib or replaced with some existing solution like
popt.
gdkcc
This will be removed for GTK+-1.4. Right now, it has been moved
completely into the x11/ directory to avoid having to port it.
gdkcolor
There are a few common utility functions, and the rest
is in the port-specific files.
gdkcursor
No shared code - completely port-specific.
gdkdnd
No shared code - completely arch-specific. It's possible that some
common code for handling GdkDragContext could exist, but the
GdkDragContextPrivate will be different on each port.
gdkdrawable
Pretty much done. GdkDrawable is completely virtualized.
gdkevents
There are a few common utility functions, and the rest
is in the port-specific files.
gdkfont
Pretty much done for now - gdkfont.c contains a number of functions
reimplemented as utility functions, and the rest is
ports-specific. It will be obsoleted by pango before 1.4.
gdkgc
GdkGC is virtualized to go along with GdkDrawable. There are
a couple of functions I punted on for now and moved into the
port-specific files - the clipmask functions (because gdkregion
is not finalized) and also gdk_gc_copy, which I'm not sure
I like enough to put into the vtable.
gdkim
All in the port-specific directories. The abstraction here probably
will be changed at some point to something more convenient and
more Unicode-based.
gdkimage
GdkImage is virtualized - all of the code except for ref/unref
is in the port-specific files.
gdkinput
Right now all the code is port-specific. It should be possible
to share the code in gdkinputnone.c, but probably not worth it;
I'd like to get rid of the gdk_input_vtable in X11 code -
it doesn't make sense since you can't switch the type of input
on the fly.
gdkpixmap
All moved into the port-specific file for now. The xpm loader
should be changed to render with GdkRGB, and thus be
windowing-system independent, but that requires
first making GdkRGB able to render onto any arbitrary visual.
gdkproperty
All port-specific. Possibly should be X-specific with a higher-level
clipboard API on top of it.
gdkregion
Right now punted to being port-specific, but that probably needs
to change with the virtualized drawables and GC's.
gdkrgb
With a few changes to debugging code, it was already port-independent.
gdkselection
Completely port specific. (In fact, really doesn't make sense
on anything other than X; a higher-level clipboard facility
should be provided somewhere, though.)
gdkvisual
Completely port-specific. (The concepts are rather X-specific)
gdkwindow
The window-private data is split between windowing-system independent
parts and windowing system dependent parts. There are a few
functions in gdk/gdkwindow.c and the rest is moved off
into x11/gdkwindow-x11.c
Virtualization
==============
The concept of virtualization is that calls to draw
on a drawable are dispatched through a function table.
This potentially allows for:
Postscript drawables
metafiles
It also provides a nice clean framework for multi-windowing
support - instead of reimplementing a whole bunch of function
calls, one provides an implementaiton for the vtables.
X works in this way internally - per-screen functions are
virtualized inside a screen structure, and drawing functions
are virtualized inside the GC structure.
For the virtualization of drawing, clearly GdkDrawable needs
to be virtualized. Beyond that, one has to decide on
a case-by-case basis whether a particular structure is
drawing-mode independent (like GdkRectangle) or not.
The most important GDK structures that are involved drawing are:
GdkColor
GdkGC
GdkFont
GdkRegion
The whole font aspect of Gdk is going to get heavily
reworked with the introduction of "Pango".
GdkRegion almost certainly needs to be virtualized,
if you, way, want to do postscript drawables.
While doing so, the API of GdkRegion should be
changed so that the region operations take 3 parameters
instead of returning a newly created region.
Drawable operations:
destroy
create_gc
get_values
set_values
set_dashes
copy
GC Operations:
draw_point
draw_line
draw_rectangle
draw_arc
draw_polygon
draw_string
draw_text
draw_text_wc
draw_pixmap
draw_bitmap
draw_image
draw_points
draw_segments
draw_lines
Adding multi-screen, display support.
=====================================
The following functions need to have per-display variants:
void gdk_pointer_ungrab (guint32 time);
void gdk_keyboard_ungrab (guint32 time);
gint gdk_pointer_is_grabbed (void);
gint gdk_screen_width (void);
gint gdk_screen_height (void);
gint gdk_screen_width_mm (void);
gint gdk_screen_height_mm (void);
void gdk_beep (void);
void gdk_key_repeat_disable (void);
void gdk_key_repeat_restore (void);
gint gdk_visual_get_best_depth (void);
GdkVisualType gdk_visual_get_best_type (void);
GdkVisual* gdk_visual_get_system (void);
GdkVisual* gdk_visual_get_best (void);
GdkVisual* gdk_visual_get_best_with_depth (gint depth);
GdkVisual* gdk_visual_get_best_with_type (GdkVisualType visual_type);
GdkVisual* gdk_visual_get_best_with_both (gint depth,
GdkVisualType visual_type);
void gdk_query_depths (gint **depths,
gint *count);
void gdk_query_visual_types (GdkVisualType **visual_types,
gint *count);
GList* gdk_list_visuals (void);
void gdk_add_client_message_filter (GdkAtom message_type,
GdkFilterFunc func,
gpointer data);
guint32 gdk_drag_get_protocol (guint32 xid,
GdkDragProtocol *protocol);
GdkCursor* gdk_cursor_new (GdkCursorType cursor_type);
GdkCursor* gdk_cursor_new_from_pixmap (GdkPixmap *source,
GdkPixmap *mask,
GdkColor *fg,
GdkColor *bg,
gint x,
gint y);
GdkColormap* gdk_colormap_get_system (void);
gint gdk_colormap_get_system_size (void);
GdkFont* gdk_font_load (const gchar *font_name);
GdkFont* gdk_fontset_load (gchar *fontset_name);
gint gdk_selection_owner_set (GdkWindow *owner,
GdkAtom selection,
guint32 time,
gint send_event);
GdkWindow* gdk_selection_owner_get (GdkAtom selection);
void gdk_selection_send_notify (guint32 requestor,
GdkAtom selection,
GdkAtom target,
GdkAtom property,
guint32 time);
gint gdk_text_property_to_text_list (GdkAtom encoding, gint format,
guchar *text, gint length,
gchar ***list);
void gdk_free_text_list (gchar **list);
gint gdk_string_to_compound_text (gchar *str,
GdkAtom *encoding, gint *format,
guchar **ctext, gint *length);
void gdk_free_compound_text (guchar *ctext);
GdkAtom gdk_atom_intern (const gchar *atom_name,
gint only_if_exists);
gchar* gdk_atom_name (GdkAtom atom);
GList *gdk_input_list_devices (void);
void gdk_input_set_source (guint32 deviceid,
GdkInputSource source);
gint gdk_input_set_mode (guint32 deviceid,
GdkInputMode mode);
void gdk_input_set_axes (guint32 deviceid,
GdkAxisUse *axes);
void gdk_input_set_key (guint32 deviceid,
guint index,
guint keyval,
GdkModifierType modifiers);
gint gdk_im_ready (void);
void gdk_im_end (void);
GdkIC* gdk_ic_new (GdkICAttr *attr,
GdkICAttributesType mask);
GdkRegion* gdk_region_new (void);
void gdk_event_send_clientmessage_toall (GdkEvent *event);
gboolean gdk_event_send_client_message (GdkEvent *event,
guint32 xid);
And maybe:
void gdk_error_trap_push (void);
gint gdk_error_trap_pop (void);