GLib has a specific type for byte arrays: `GBytes` (and it's underlying
GType `G_TYPE_BYTES`).
By using this type, we can avoid having a `GimpUint8Array` which is a
bit cumbersome to use for both the C API, as well as bindings. By using
`GBytes`, we allow other languages to pass on byte arrays as they are
used to, while the bindings will make sure to do the right thing.
In the end, it makes the API a little bit simpler for everyone, and
reduces confusion for people who are used to working with byte arrays
in other C/GLib based code (and not having 2 different types to denote
the same thing).
Related: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5919
… the public API.
This was initially proposed by Niels De Graef in !101, and though I
still think this is much less practical for day-to-day development, it
is actually much nicer for the public part of the API. So let's use
these only in public libgimp* API only, not in core.
I actually already started to use these for some of the libgimpwidgets
classes and am now moving libgimp main classes to these macros.
* It doesn't expose the priv member (which is completely useless for
plug-in developers, only to be used for core development).
* It forces us to never have any variable members in the public API
(which we were doing fine so far in newest API, but it's nice to be
enforced with these macros).
* When using G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE in particular, it adds flexibility as
we can change the structure size and the members order as these are
not exposed. And if some day, we make the class derivable with some
signals to handle, only then will we expose the class with some
_gimp_reserved* padding (instead of from the start when none is
needed). Therefore we will allow for further extension far in the
future.
Moreover most of these libgimp classes were so far not using any private
values, so we were declaring a `priv` member with a bogus contents just
"in case we needed it in future" (as we couldn't change the struct
size). So even the easiness of having a priv member was very relative
for this public API so far (unlike in core code where we actually have
much more complex interactions and using priv data all the time).
Especially need to watch out with forgetting `(array)` and `(out)`
annotations, as they can really give a different API in certain (if not
most) bindings.
which call gimp_item_get_by_id() and additionally check if the
returned item has the right type, and return NULL if not.
This is both shorter and more readable than
layer = GIMP_LAYER (gimp_item_get_by_id (id));
and additionally makes sure we don't cast e.g. a non-layer with
GIMP_LAYER(), which will give criticals but shouldn't, because the
wrong IDs can come from anywhere and are an input problem and not a
programming error (criticals are for programming errors).
Even when the function names may have stayed the same in most cases, the
API has changed. The "Since:" tag must therefore be bumped.
Also adding docs for gimp_drawable_get_sub_thumbnail_data() which had
none.
This means that images' ownership is not given to caller in particular.
libgimp will now keep a reference of all GimpImage-s it creates and
return this same reference if called again. It also means that you can
now compare images by pointer comparison (as 2 GimpImage objects
representing the same image ID will be equal).
Obviously as a side effect, gimp_image_list() is changed to (transfer
container) as you must only free the container now, not the elements.
Also various other functions creating new images are now (transfer none)
too.
Long-time plug-ins will have to be taken in consideration in a further
step (we currently never free GimpImage for destroyed images in
particular).
I did the same trick with GIMP_DEPRECATED_REPLACE_NEW_API macro, apart
for some minor widget API to preview drawable, which I will fix right
away in our plug-ins.
The GimpDrawable abstraction is completely gone, GimpTile is now a
small struct in gimptilebackendplugin.c.
All tile handling code is now in GimpTileBackendPlugin, the backend
functions are simply calling gimp_tile_get() and gimp_tile_put()
directly.
The raw PDB wrapper _gimp_drawable_get_format() only transfers the
format's encoding, so we need to add the space from the image's color
profile.
Also fix handling of indexed formats: remove our own indexed format
cache and rely on babl_new_palette_with_space() to return the same
format for any (encoding, space) combination.
Also update the PDB docs to reflect that most magic is happening in
the libgimp C wrapper.
All babl formats now have a space equivalent to a color profile,
determining the format's primaries and TRCs. This commit makes GIMP
aware of this.
libgimp:
- enum GimpPrecision: rename GAMMA values to NON_LINEAR and keep GAMMA
as deprecated aliases, add PERCEPTUAL values so we now have LINEAR,
NON_LINEAR and PERCPTUAL for each encoding, matching the babl
encoding variants RGB, R'G'B' and R~G~B~.
- gimp_color_transform_can_gegl_copy() now returns TRUE if both
profiles can return a babl space, increasing the amount of fast babl
color conversions significantly.
- TODO: no solution yet for getting libgimp drawable proxy buffers in
the right format with space.
plug-ins:
- follow the GimpPrecision change.
- TODO: everything else unchanged and partly broken or sub-optimal,
like setting a new image's color profile too late.
app:
- add enum GimpTRCType { LINEAR, NON_LINEAR, PERCEPTUAL } as
replacement for all "linear" booleans.
- change gimp-babl functions to take babl spaces and GimpTRCType
parameters and support all sorts of new perceptual ~ formats.
- a lot of places changed in the early days of goat invasion didn't
take advantage of gimp-babl utility functions and constructed
formats manually. They all needed revisiting and many now use much
simpler code calling gimp-babl API.
- change gimp_babl_format_get_color_profile() to really extract a
newly allocated color profile from the format, and add
gimp_babl_get_builtin_color_profile() which does the same as
gimp_babl_format_get_color_profile() did before. Visited all callers
to decide whether they are looking for the format's actual profile,
or for one of the builtin profiles, simplifying code that only needs
builtin profiles.
- drawables have a new get_space_api(), get_linear() is now get_trc().
- images now have a "layer space" and an API to get it,
gimp_image_get_layer_format() returns formats in that space.
- an image's layer space is created from the image's color profile,
change gimpimage-color-profile to deal with that correctly
- change many babl_format() calls to babl_format_with_space() and take
the space from passed formats or drawables
- add function gimp_layer_fix_format_space() which replaces the
layer's buffer with one that has the image's layer format, but
doesn't change pixel values
- use gimp_layer_fix_format_space() to make sure layers loaded from
XCF and created by plug-ins have the right space when added to the
image, because it's impossible to always assign the right space upon
layer creation
- "assign color profile" and "discard color profile" now require use
of gimp_layer_fix_format_space() too because the profile is now
embedded in all formats via the space. Add
gimp_image_assign_color_profile() which does all that and call it
instead of a simple gimp_image_set_color_profile(), also from the
PDB set-color-profile functions, which are essentially "assign" and
"discard" calls.
- generally, make sure a new image's color profile is set before
adding layers to it, gimp_image_set_color_profile() is more than
before considered know-what-you-are-doing API.
- take special precaution in all places that call
gimp_drawable_convert_type(), we now must pass a new_profile from
all callers that convert layers within the same image (such as
image_convert_type, image_convert_precision), because the layer's
new space can't be determined from the image's layer format during
the call.
- change all "linear" properties to "trc", in all config objects like
for levels and curves, in the histogram, in the widgets. This results
in some GUI that now has three choices instead of two.
TODO: we might want to reduce that back to two later.
- keep "linear" boolean properties around as compat if needed for file
pasring, but always convert the parsed parsed boolean to
GimpTRCType.
- TODO: the image's "enable color management" switch is currently
broken, will fix that in another commit.
because it confuses gtk-doc and breaks some links. Also change the
"Index of new symbols in GIMP 2.x" sections to be what seems to be the
modern standard (looked at the GLib and GTK+ docs), and update some
other stuff.
Add gimp_plugin_enable_precision() in libgimp which switches the
plug-in to deal with the drawables' real precision, call it from the
libgimp GeglBuffer and Babl format APIs. If it's not enabled, let the
core's plug-in convert the tiles to legacy formats when sending them
over the wire.
gimp-item-find-parasite -> gimp-item-get-parasite
gimp-item-list-parasites -> gimp-item-get-parasite-list
Also changed the signature of gimp-item-get-parasite-list's C wrapper
in libgimp to be sane.
and simply add them to the list of "compat_procs" which have a
replacement with identical signature. Move the libgimp C functions to
non-generated files.
Niels De Graef