Rather than trying to implement full i18n plural support, we just remove
this failed attempt from the past. The fact is that to get proper
support, we'd basically need to reimplement a Gettext-like plural
definition syntax within our API, then ask people to write down this
plural definition for their language, then to write every plural form…
all this for custom units which only them will ever see!
Moreover code investigation shows that the singular form was simply
never used, and the plural form was always used (whatever the actual
unit value displayed).
As for the "identifier", this was a text which was never shown anywhere
(except in the unit editor) and for all built-in units, as well as
default unitrc units, it was equivalent to the English plural value.
So we now just have a unique name which is the "long label" to be used
everywhere in the GUI, and abbreviation will be basically the "short
label". That's it. No useless (or worse, not actually usable because it
was not generic internationalization) values anymore!
This fixes all our GObject Introspection issues with GimpUnit which was
both an enum and an int-derived type of user-defined units *completing*
the enum values. GIR clearly didn't like this!
Now GimpUnit is a proper class and units are unique objects, allowing to
compare them with an identity test (i.e. `unit == gimp_unit_pixel ()`
tells us if unit is the pixel unit or not), which makes it easy to use,
just like with int, yet adding also methods, making for nicer
introspected API.
As an aside, this also fixes#10738, by having all the built-in units
retrievable even if libgimpbase had not been properly initialized with
gimp_base_init().
I haven't checked in details how GIR works to introspect, but it looks
like it loads the library to inspect and runs functions, hence
triggering some CRITICALS because virtual methods (supposed to be
initialized with gimp_base_init() run by libgimp) are not set. This new
code won't trigger any critical because the vtable method are now not
necessary, at least for all built-in units.
Note that GimpUnit is still in libgimpbase. It could have been moved to
libgimp in order to avoid any virtual method table (since we need to
keep core and libgimp side's units in sync, PDB is required), but too
many libgimpwidgets widgets were already using GimpUnit. And technically
most of GimpUnit logic doesn't require PDB (only the creation/sync
part). This is one of the reasons why user-created GimpUnit list is
handled and stored differently from other types of objects.
Globally this simplifies the code a lot too and we don't need separate
implementations of various utils for core and libgimp, which means less
prone to errors.
to gimp_base_compat_enums_init() and move its prototype from
gimputils.h to gimpbase-private.h; it's not supposed to be
public API even though it's callable from the outside.
2009-01-17 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* all files with a GPL header and all COPYING files:
Change licence to GPLv3 (and to LGPLv3 for libgimp).
Cleaned up some copyright headers and regenerated the parsers in
the ImageMap plugin.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=27913
2003-11-15 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
* libgimpbase/Makefile.am
* libgimpbase/gimpbase-private.[ch]
* libgimpbase/gimpunit.c: new files implementing GimpUnitVTable
(formerly known as GimpWidgetsVTable). Now the unit functions
finally live in the same library as their header declarations.
* libgimpbase/gimpunit.h: removed comment about being a header for
two different files.
* libgimpwidgets/gimpwidgets-private.[ch]: removed
GimpWidgetsVTable.
* libgimpwidgets/gimpsizeentry.c
* libgimpwidgets/gimpunitmenu.c
* libgimpwidgets/gimpwidgets.c: use normal gimp_unit functions
again.
* libgimp/gimpui.c
* app/gui/gui.c: removed GimpWidgetVTable stuff.
* libgimp/Makefile.am
* libgimp/gimpunitcache.[ch]: new files.
* libgimp/gimpunit.c: removed (moved to gimpunitcache.c).
* libgimp/gimp.c (gimp_main): initialize GimpUnitVTable using the
gimp_unit_cache functions.
* app/Makefile.am
* app/units.[ch]: new files implementing GimpUnitVTable.
* app/libgimp_glue.[ch]: removed.
* app/app_procs.[ch]: made "the_gimp" a static variable. Call
units_init().
* app/main.c: changed accordingly.
Jehan