Currently, the default maximum size of GIH cell-width and cell-height
is 1000. These values are increased to the current image size when
exporting via a GUI. However, it is not updated when overwritten or
exported without a GUI. If the cell-width or height was previously set
to a larger value than 1000, this throws a critical and resets the value to
1. This likely causes the "slow" exporting noted in #10816, since the cell
becomes 1x1 even for large images.
This patch sets the default value to GIMP_MAX_IMAGE_SIZE, so that
if run non-interactively, we don't run into issues with the image dimensions
going beyond the bounds of the parameter maximum.
Like ranks, the number of selection modes are defined by gihparams.dim.
However, we were unconditionally setting GimpProcedureConfig's
"selection-modes" parameter to the gihparams.selection array, which
might have more elements than we had dimensions. This caused a crash.
This patch moves the selection-modes code into the check for
gihparams.dim > 0, and copies only the relevant values into a separate
array to set them.
- Fix annotations for gimp_export_options_get_image() to make it
actually introspectable with the GimpImage being both input and
output. Even though the logic doesn't change much (the input image may
be overriden or not), it doesn't matter for introspection because
images are handled centrally by libgimp and therefore must not be
freed. Actually deleting the image from the central list of images
though remains a manual action depending on code logic, not some
automatic action to be handled by binding engines.
- Add G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT to gimp_export_options_get_image()
because ignoring the returned value is rarely a good idea (as you
usually want to delete the image).
- Remove gimp_export_options_new(): we don't need this constructor
because at this point, the best is to tell plug-in developers to just
pass NULL everywhere. This leaves us free to create a more useful
default constructor if needed, in the future. Main description for
GimpExportOptions has also been updated to say this.
- Add a data_destroy callback for the user data passed in
gimp_export_procedure_set_capabilities().
- Fixing annotations of 'export_options' object from pdb/pdb.pl: input
args would actually be (nullable) and would not transfer ownership
(calling code must still free the object). Return value's ownership on
the other hand is fully transfered.
- Add C and Python unit testing for GimpExportOptions and
gimp_export_options_get_image() in particular.
- Fix or improve various details.
Note that I have also considered for a long time changing the signature
of gimp_export_options_get_image() to return a boolean indicating
whether `image` had been replaced (hence needed deletion) or not. This
also meant getting rid of the GimpExportReturn enum. Right now it would
work because there are no third case, but I was considering the future
possibility that for instance we got some impossible conversion for some
future capability. I'm not sure it would ever happen; and for sure, this
is not desirable because it implies an export failure a bit late in the
workflow. But just in case, let's keep the enum return value. It does
not even make the using code that much more complicated (well just a
value comparison instead of a simple boolean test).
This patch creates a GimpExportOptions class in both
libgimpbase and in libgimp. Currently it is a mostly empty
object, but it will be added to after 3.0 to allow for
additional export options (like resizing on export while
leaving the original image intact)
libgimp/gimpexport.c was removed, and most of its content
was copied into libgimp/gimpexportoptions.c. gimp_export_image ()
was replaced with gimp_export_options_get_image () in all
export plug-ins.
GimpExportProcedure has a new function to set the default
image capabilities for each plug-in on creation. It also sets up
a new callback function, which allows the options to respond to
user setting changes (such as toggling 'Save as Animation' in the
GIF or WEBP Plug-in).
...in non-interactive cases.
gimp_export_image () handles various
tasks like rasterizing NDE filters. It only
runs in interactive cases however, so if the
users calls gimp-file-save the filters are
not exported.
Since Jehan removed the hidden dialogue
in 0dc9ff7c, we can now safely call
gimp_export_image () in all cases to make
image export more consistent. This step is
also preparation for setting up the new
API with GimpExportOptions.
With the new API introduced int d1c4457f,
we next need to port all plug-ins using
the argument macros to functions.
This will allow us to remove the macros
as part of the 3.0 API clean-up.
Port all plug-ins to retrieve the layers
directly from the image rather than
having them passed in. This resolves some
issues with introspection and sets the
foundation for future API work.
Resolves#10932
Since GIMP distinguishes between saving
XCF and exporting image like PNG,
we should change the PDB to show
export rather than save in the function
calls.
- Replaces GimpRGB in Channel Dialog
with gdouble array, as was done in
channel_options_color_changed ()
- Replace %ld with G_GSIZE_FORMAT
in libgimp checkboard color message to
fix warning in Windows build
- Set file-gih documentation text as
translatable.
During the GimpProcedureConfigDialog port,
the "gimp-brush-pipe-parameters" parasite loading
code was unintentionally removed. This parasite
was used to restore the GIH parameters if it was
loaded as an image.
This patch restores that code on initial export as
GIH, then removes the parasite since the parameters
will be saved as part of the GimpProcedureConfig
going forward.
If we leave a space between the macro name and opening parenthese for argument
lists, the args are not considered macro args (which will be discovered when
using it). I experienced this issue while testing code on some plug-in
yesterday, so thought I might as well fix all these broken macros for casting to
the specific GimpPlugIn subclass, so that we won't have a next time.
The gimp_procedure_run() already existed, though it was with an ordered
GimpValueArray array of arguments. Its usage feels redundant to the series of
gimp_pdb_run_procedure*() functions (which is confusing), but
gimp_procedure_run() was actually a bit more generic, because it does not
necessarily calls GimpProcedure-s through the PDB! For instance, it can runs a
local GimpProcedure, such as the case of one procedure which would want to call
another procedure in the same plug-in, but without having to go through PDB. Of
course, for local code, you may as well run relevant functions directly, yet it
makes sense that if one of the redundant-looking function is removed, it should
be the more specific one. Also gimp_procedure_run() feels a lot simpler and
logical, API wise.
A main difference in usage is that now, plug-in developers have to first
explicitly look up the GimpPdbProcedure with gimp_pdb_lookup_procedure() when
they wish to call PDB procedures on the wire. This was done anyway in the
gimp_pdb_run_procedure*() code, now it's explicit (rather than calling by name
directly).
Concretely:
* gimp_pdb_run_procedure(), gimp_pdb_run_procedure_config() and
gimp_pdb_run_procedure_valist() are removed.
* gimp_procedure_run() API is modified to use a variable args list instead of a
GimpValueArray.
* gimp_procedure_run_config() and gimp_procedure_run_valist() are added.
* gimp_procedure_run_config() in particular will be the one used in bindings
which don't have variable args support through a (rename-to
gimp_procedure_run) annotation.
Passing (name, type, value) triplets is actually useless because we can get the
type information from the procedure/config anyway. That only adds one more
verification to do. Let's just change the function so that we pass (name, value)
couples instead, pretty much like in `g_object_set()`.
As far as plug-in API is concerned, at least the calling API, order of arguments
when calling PDB procedures doesn't matter anymore.
Order still matters for creating procedures with standard arguments (for
instance, "run-mode" is first, then image, or file, drawables or whatnot,
depending on the subtype of procedure), but not for calling with libgimp.
Concretely in this commit:
- gimp_pdb_run_procedure_argv() was removed as it's intrinsically order-based.
- gimp_pdb_run_procedure() and gimp_pdb_run_procedure_valist() stay but their
semantic changes. Instead of an ordered list of (type, value) couple, it's now
an unordered list of (name, type, value) triplets. This way, you can also
ignore as many args as you want if you intend to keep them default. For
instance, say you have a procedure with 20 args and you only want to change
the last one and keep the 19 first with default values: while you used to have
to write down all 20 args annoyingly, now you can just list the only arg you
care about.
There are 2 important consequences here:
1. Calling PDB procedures becomes much more semantic, which means scripts with
PDB calls are simpler (smaller list of arguments) and easier to read (when
you had 5 int arguments in a row, you couldn't know what they refer to,
except by always checking the PDB source; now you'll have associated names,
such as "width", "height" and so on) hence maintain.
2. We will have the ability to add arguments and even order the new arguments in
middle of existing arguments without breaking compatibility. The only thing
which will matter will be that default values of new arguments will have to
behave like when the arg didn't exist. This way, existing scripts will not be
broken. This will avoid us having to always create variants of PDB procedure
(like original "file-bla-save", then variant "file-bla-save-2" and so on)
each time we add arguments.
Note: gimp_pdb_run_procedure_array() was not removed yet because it's currently
used by the PDB. To be followed.
I was hoping to redesign further but the whole logic of animated brush creation
is made so complicated that I think it would require a whole more complex GUI
with visual hints. So anyway I stopped at basic redesign and port to the new
dialog generation code.
It still makes the code much simpler and a bit more powerful (also less bugs
hopefully). I have also reviewed the procedure arguments, removing redundant
ones (display-cols and display-rows are just computed from cell-width and
cell-height) and adding some aux arguments instead to simplify dynamic GUI code.
It's the basic stupid port, though this dialog is so bad that I think I'm going
for a second stage with a basic redesign of this GUI while also moving to
GimpSaveProcedureDialog. To be continued.
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 is the consequence of previous commit. Plug-ins' label and
documentation are now localized before sending these data to GIMP core.
In other words, we replace N_() macros with basic gettext calls.
Hence avoiding the stderr messages. These are going to be localized with
centrally installed catalogs "gimp*-std-plugins", "gimp*-script-fu" and
"gimp*-python".
We now handle core plug-in localizations differently and in particular,
with kind of a reverse logic:
- We don't consider "gimp*-std-plugins" to be the default catalog
anymore. It made sense in the old world where we would consider the
core plug-ins to be the most important and numerous ones. But we want
to push a world where people are even more encouraged to develop their
own plug-ins. These won't use the standard catalog anymore (because
there are nearly no reasons that the strings are the same, it's only a
confusing logic). So let's explicitly set the standard catalogs with
DEFINE_STD_SET_I18N macro (which maps to a different catalog for
script-fu plug-ins).
- Doing something similar for Python plug-ins which have again their own
catalog.
- Getting rid of the INIT_I18N macro since now all the locale domain
binding is done automatically by libgimp when using the set_i18n()
method infrastructure.
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
We currently cannot call gimp_pdb_run_procedure() for procedures
containing arrays because this C-type doesn't contain the size
information (which is in a second parameter but since the rule is not
hard-coded, our API can't know this).
See issue #7369.
s/gimp_image_base_type/gimp_image_get_base_type/
s/gimp_image_width/gimp_image_get_width/
s/gimp_image_height/gimp_image_get_height/
Sorry plug-in developers, more porting work! But really this seems like
the right thing to do in order not to get stuck with inconsistent naming
for many more years to come.
Similarly to the previous commit, it is not only about using the new
API. I also make sure we do not assume that parasite data is
nul-terminated. In many places, we were just assuming so because these
were supposed to be parasite our code set. Yet these are data input
contained in files which can be wrong for any reason (corrupted file,
bugs, other scripts/plug-ins editing these parasites…). So instead of
assuming string parasites are always correctly formatted, I make sure
they are nul-terminated by passing them through g_strndup() when
necessary.
This commit just changes our saving API (i.e. the GimpSaveProcedure
class) to take an array of drawables as argument instead of a single
drawable.
It actually doesn't matter much for exporting as the whole API seems
more or less bogus there and all formats plug-ins mostly care only
whether they will merge/flatten all visible layers (the selected ones
don't really matter) or if the format supports layers of some sort. It
may be worth later strengthening a bit this whole logics, and maybe
allow partial exports for instance.
As for saving, it was not even looking at the passed GimpDrawable either
and was simply re-querying the active layer anyway.
Note that I don't implement the multi-selection saving in XCF yet in
this commit. I only updated the API. The reason is that the current
commit won't be backportable to gimp-2-10 because it is an API break. On
the other hand, the code to save multi-selection can still be backported
even though the save() API will only pass a single drawable (as I said
anyway, this argument was mostly bogus until now, hence it doesn't
matter much for 2.10 logics).
It's an ancient concept from ancient times when we didn't have URIs
and only filenames (not to speak of GFile), and actually even from
before the ancient time before that ancient time when we first had
ones and zeros, and only had zeros.
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/.
We now have both variants, one returning a GList, and another
returning an array. Turns out that while a list is often nicer,
sometimes a random-access array really keeps the code much simpler.
Adapt all plug-ins, and clean up a bit (like use g_list_reverse() once
instead of iterating the list reversed).
It's just too weird to be public. Remove its properties from the wire
protocol and from pluginrc. Instead, have all GParamSpecs' flags on
the wire and in pluginrc, so we can use stuff like
GIMP_PARAM_NO_VALIDATE.
Port the remaining few places to GIMP_PROC_ARG_STRING().
I'm sure something is broken now wrt UTF-8 validation,
will add tighter checks in the next commit.
And always pass URIs to all file procedures, the ones what didn't
register as "handles remove" will only ever get local file:// URIs.
Change all file plug-ins (also legacy ones) to expect URIs instead
of filenames, and convert to local paths in the plug-in.
The wire protocol should now be almost 100% clean of non-UTF-8 strings.
Alx Sa