- gimp_rgb_list_names() ported as gimp_color_list_names() using NUL-terminated
GimpColorArray.
- GimpColorHexEntry uses the new function (and is therefore now GimpRGB free!).
- gimp_rgb_parse_name() deleted as it's unused since my previous commit.
With all this, gimprgb-parse.c is now deleted from the repository! \o/
New functions with the same name as these functions are created, except without
the length argument (i.e. it's equivalent to calling these with -1).
The reason for this is that using strings with a length variant which may be
negative to switch to NUL-terminated strings are not bindable. At least in our
case, when testing in Python, the input string ended up as corrupted garbage and
GObject Introspection docs warns about such interfaces:
> In particular, avoid functions taking a const char * with a signed length that
> can be set to a negative value to let the function compute the string length
> in bytes. These functions are hard to bind, and require manual overrides.
(see: https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/writingbindableapis.html#strings)
So instead, I create a simple version which runs on NUL-terminated strings only
and which is bound, whereas unbinding the generic length-version (making it
C-only, or maybe usable in some other bindings which ignore the (skip)
annotation; apparently some do this).
- "transparent" is now recognized. It was forgotten (probably because on the
GimpRGB interface, we separated the API in a _rgb_ and a _rgba_ variant).
- rgba() and hsla() formats are now fixed (implementation was there but the
function names were not recognized.
- Adding some comment about limitations of the hexadecimal notation (we don't
support the alpha channel which is now in the CSS specs, while we also support
some non-specified variant with every channel on 3 or 4 digits) for future
work.
- New libgimpcolor functions: gimp_color_parse_hex() and gimp_color_parse_name().
- GimpColorHexEntry is now space-invaded. Though recognized color names
and hexadecimal syntax are sRGB only (because CSS and SVG
specifications explicitly say that this syntax is for sRGB values), it
is possible to enter non-sRGB values with
gimp_color_hex_entry_set_color().
- GimpColorSelection is now space-invaded.
I still see some limitations in GimpGradient, and in particular, they are still
always stored as RGB in GGR files. It would be nice if we could store the actual
color format. This way, if someone chooses a gradient stop as Lab or CMYK color,
that's what the gradient file would keep track of. But also even storing the
space of a color (instead of storing/loading always in sRGB, even though this
may still work fine as we store unbounded double values). This might warrant for
a v2 of GGR file format.
This commit also fixes loading of SVG gradient which was apparently broken
regarding hexadecimal color parsing.
Finally I improve gegl_color_set_alpha() by adding an alpha channel when the
initial format had none.
Alx Sa