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
This was the last remaining bit in #8124. Basically I needed to check how
localization of menu paths worked. I was thinking of maybe have 2 arguments to
gimp_procedure_add_menu_path(), one non-localized (for default menu paths) and
one localized by the plug-in (for custom menus). That would break all plug-ins,
but also looking at our code, it's complicated to do right.
Instead let's just keep current API and add an example in function docs. We'll
see how we can improve the API if the very hypothetical problem I am foreseeing
actually happens some day: say a word in English translates to e.g. "Filters" in
some other language, whereas English "Filters" translates to yet another term;
in such case, this new menu would still merge with the default /Filters/ menu
when localized in this language, so we'd have the weird situation where the
custom menu label would have passed through 2 translations somehow.
But let's see how it goes. If we really need, in the future, we can deprecate
gimp_procedure_add_menu_path() and add a gimp_procedure_add_menu_paths() with a
base_path and a custom_path, while the custom_path would be expected to be
already translated.
GLib has a specific type of NULL-terminated string arrays:
`G_TYPE_STRV`, which is the `GType` of `char**` aka `GStrv`.
By using this type, we can avoid having a `GimpStringArray` which is a
bit cumbersome to use for both the C API, as well as bindings. By using
`GStrv`, we allow other languages to pass on string lists 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 string 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
gtk-doc has been slowly dying for the past few years; with gi-docgen we
have a nice successor.
This also makes sure the C documentation also uses the GIR file, which
in turn means faster build times (since all the C code doesn't have to
be parsed and recompiled again), and has a clear dependency graph.
See the [gi-docgen tutorial] for more info on how the system works.
[gi-docgen tutorial]: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gi-docgen/tutorial.html
Fixes the patch from !470 which is mostly right, except that
g_param_spec_sink() may possibly lead to finalizing the GParamSpec
(typically if it was a just-created floating spec). We don't want to
return pointer to freed data. Let's return NULL instead.
Also looking closer at the memory handling here, it looks the right
annotation for @pspec is (transfer floating). Basically we are sinking a
floating object into a full object and taking ownership of this sunk
object. But if the object was already sunk, we are reffing it and
keeping this additional reference, not the passed argument's. Hopefully
it's right since the annotation and handling of floating object with
GObject Introspection seems very unclear to me (even in core GObject
code, I see what looks like contradictory annotations).
In the normal flow, pspec is persisted in the arguments array, and is
g_param_spec_ref_sink()'d in order to sink a possible floating ref. To
avoid a leak in the error case, we need to add some g_param_spec_sink().
When GIMP_PROCEDURE_SENSITIVE_NO_IMAGE is set on a GimpImageProcedure,
add GIMP_PARAM_NO_VALIDATE to the param spec flags, allowing to pass a
NULL image.
The new function gimp_procedure_set_sensitivity_mask() allows plug-ins
to tell when a procedure should be marked as sensitive or not.
gimp_procedure_get_sensitivity_mask() retrieves this information.
Currently plug-ins are automatically marked as sensitive when an image
is present and a single drawable is selected. Nowadays, we can have
multiple selected layers so we should allow plug-ins to tell us if they
support working on multiple drawables. Actually we could even imagine
new plug-ins which would be made to work only on multiple drawables.
Oppositely, there are a lot of plug-ins which don't care at all if any
drawable is selected at all (so we should allow no drawable selected).
Finally why not even imagine plug-ins which don't care if no image is
shown? E.g. plug-ins to create new images or whatnot. This new API
allows our core to know all this and show procedure sensitivity
accordingly. By default, when the function is not called, the 1 image
with 1 drawable selected case is the default, allowing existing plug-ins
easier update.
Note: this only handles the sensitivity part right now. A plug-in which
would advertize working on several layer would still not work, because
the core won't allow sending several layers. It's coming in further
commits.
which can be set to GIMP_ARGUMENT_SYNC_NONE (the default) or
GIMP_ARGUMENT_SYNC_PARASITE, which indicates that the argument should
be synced with an image parasite of the same name.
Add internal GimpProcedureConfig API to load/save "default values"
which are to be treated as if they were the hardcoded GParamSpec
defaults, but user-configurable. Also make all other load/save
functions available to other libgimp files.
In gimp_procedure_run(), if incomplete arguments are passed, don't
just complete them with the GParamSpec defaults, but look up the
user-saved defaults and use them if they exist. This happens before
everything else and brings back the PNG export feature of using
user-saved defaults also in non-interactive mode (but for all
procedures not just PNG export).
In GimpProcedureDialog, add "Load Defaults" and "Save Defaults"
buttons, they are the only way of managing the user-configurable
procedure defaults.
When clicking "Reset", show a popover with the reset options "Initial
Values" and "Factory Defaults".
Aux arguments are arbitrary values the procedure wants managed and
remembered across invocations in GimpProcedureConfig. They are not
passed to run() and are not known to the PDB, they only exist in the
procedure's config object.
and call it gimp_pdb_set_proc_icon(). Change icon registration code in
libgimp/ and app/ so it's now possible to register icons for temporary
procedures.
Turn all ID param specs into object param specs (e.g. GimpParamImageID
becomes GimpParamImage) and convert between IDs and objects in
gimpgpparams.c directly above the the wire protocol, so all of app/,
libgimp/ and plug-ins/ can deal directly with objects down to the
lowest level and not care about IDs.
Use the actual object param specs for procedure arguments and return
values again instead of a plain g_param_spec_object() and bring back
the none_ok parameter.
This implies changing the PDB type checking functions to work on pure
integers instead of IDs (one can't check whether object creation is
possible if performing that check requires the object to already
exist).
For example gimp_foo_is_valid() becomes gimp_foo_id_is_valid() and is
not involved in automatic object creation magic at the protocol
level. Added wrappers which still say gimp_foo_is_valid() and take the
respective objects.
Adapted all code, and it all becomes nicer and less convoluted, even
the generated PDB wrappers in app/ and libgimp/.
Turn GimpPlugIn into the main factory for all proxies and keep the
main hash tables there. The hash tables keep the initial reference.
For each GimpProcedure::run(), have s "sub-factory" which hands out
proxies to the actual procedure code. Each run() has hash tables of
its own which hold additional references. When run() is done, get rid
of its hash tables and their references, *and* drop the main plug-in
reference counts from the global hashes if the proxies' refcount has
dropped to one.
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).
Though it is still possible to use an image ID as procedure parameter,
it is now possible to pass a GimpImage GParamSpecObject.
Over the wire, this will transform back and forth into a GimpImageID,
totally transparently for the plug-in which will only always get a
GimpImage.
Adding menu paths must be possible even after the procedure has been
installed, script-fu registers all menu paths afer installing its
procedures so they are properly sorted.
which are GimpProcedure subclasses with API to register as load/save
handlers and their own kind of run functions that get their standard
arguments passed directly instead of packed into a GimpValueArray.
They also register their standard arguments themselves, which removes
quite some boilerplate from load/save plug-ins.
Remove gimpprocedure-private.[ch] because install() and uninstall()
are now virtual functions of GimpProcedure.
because they are deprecated.
Change GIMP_ICON_TYPE_INLINE_PIXBUF to GIMP_ICON_TYPE_PIXBUF and the
libgimp API to (icon-name, GdkPixbuf, GFile). Use the file's uri and a
PNG blob of the pixbuf to pass around on the wire and for storage in
pluginrc.
Jehan