I'm eventually gonna want to replace this with something more clever,
like a automagically splicing vector or something, but for now, at least
we move away from immutable Strings.
This patch also adds a Format concept to GraphicsBitmap. For now there are
only two formats: RGB32 and RGBA32. Windows with alpha channel have their
backing stores created in the RGBA32 format.
Use this to make Terminal windows semi-transparent for that comfy rice look.
There is one problem here, in that window compositing overdraw incurs
multiple passes of blending of the same pixels. This leads to a mismatch in
opacity which is obviously not good. I will work on this in a later patch.
The alpha blending is currently straight C++. It should be relatively easy
to optimize this using SSE instructions.
For now I'm just happy with the cute effect. :^)
This mistake created an incredible amount of confusion. We would allocate
a slightly too small Painter on the stack and then invoke its constructor,
overwriting whatever came after it on the stack.
This is a monster patch that required changing a whole bunch of things.
There are performance and stability issues all over the place, but it works.
Pretty cool, I have to admit :^)
To facilitate listening for action on arbitrary file descriptors,
I've added a GNotifier class. It's quite simple but very useful:
GNotifier notifier(fd, GNotifier::Read);
notifier.on_ready_to_read = [this] (GNotifier& fd) {
// read from fd or whatever else you like :^)
};
The callback will get invoked by GEventLoop when select() says we
have something to read on the fd.
Let GButton have an optional icon (GraphicsBitmap) that gets rendered in the
middle of the button if present.
Also add GraphicsBitmap::load_from_file() which allows mmap'ed RGBA32 files.
I wrote a little program to take "raw" files from GIMP and swizzle them into
the correct byte order.
Font now uses the same in-memory format as the font files we have on disk.
This allows us to simply mmap() the font files and not use any additional
memory for them. Very cool! :^)
Hacking on this exposed a bug in file-backed VMObjects where the first client
to instantiate a VMObject for a specific inode also got to decide its size.
Since file-backed VMObjects always have the same size as the underlying file,
this made no sense, so I removed the ability to even set a size in that case.
To start painting, call:
gui$get_window_backing_store()
Then finish up with:
gui$release_window_backing_store()
Process will retain the underlying GraphicsBitmap behind the scenes.
This fixes racing between the WindowServer and GUI clients.
This patch also adds a WSWindowLocker that is exactly what it sounds like.
Previously we'd blit every pixel in every window that intersected any dirty
rect to the back buffer. With this patch, we limit ourselves to blitting the
pixels inside the actual dirty rects.
There's still a lot of optimizations to make in this code.
