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/.
I.e.: gimp_image_get_(layers|channels|vectors)(), gimp_image_list() and
gimp_item_get_children().
Instead of returning an array of IDs, these will now return a GList with
the right objects ready to use.
By default the new API will be used. But if we build with
GIMP_DEPRECATED_REPLACE_NEW_API macro, then the same function names will
call the old API with ids.
This way, we don't have to update all our plug-ins at once (which I
tried and is very tedious work).
Note that bindings won't have access to the deprecated API at all.
This means that all functions which were returning or taking as
parameter an image id (as gint32) are now taking a GimpImage object
instead.
The PDB is still passing around an id only over the wire. But we create
an object for plug-ins to work on.
This is quite a huge API break, but is probably the best bet for the
future quality. It will make nicer API instrospection (and nicer API in
binding), will fix the issues with pspec on GimpImageID in Python
bindings (which makes the current Python API unusable as soon as we need
to work on images, which is most of our plug-ins!), etc.
Also it will allow to use signals on images, which will be a great asset
when we will finally have bi-directionnal communications (i.e. plug-ins
would be able to connect to image changes, destructions, and whatnot).
Add property "color-tag" of type enum GimpColorTag to GimpItem so all
layers, channels and paths can be tagged with a color.
For interoperability, use the color list from Krita which is a
superset of Photoshop's colors.
Features a "Color Tag" submenu in the layers, channels and paths
menus, a row of color radio buttons in the properties dialogs,
undo and PDB API.
As a side effect, some common code is now factores out into
items-actions.[ch] and items-commands.[ch] which adds visible, linked
and lock actions for layers and channels.
Apply and heavily modify patch from remyDev which adds "lock position"
to GimpItem, similar to "lock content". Lock position disables all
sorts of translation and transform, from the GUI and the PDB.
Cleaned up some aspects of the lock content code as well because a
second instance of similar code always shows what went wrong the first
time.
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 rename them yet again to be gimp_item_foo_parasite() instead of
gimp_item_parasite_foo() because the latter is just a misnaming (they
are not GimpItemParasites, they are GimpParasites attached to
GimpItems, just as layers are attached to images).
The item groups has all the duplicated functionality from drawable
and vectors (name, visible, linked etc).
Hijack the unused GIMP_PDB_REGION and turn it into GIMP_PDB_ITEM;
change all protocol aware files accordingly and bump the protocol
version number. Change script-fu to handle the new type.
Michael Natterer