and in an attack of madness, changes almost all file plug-in
code to use GFile instead of filenames, which means passing
the GFile down to the bottom and get its filename at the very
end where it's actually needed.
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.
They are simply setting properties on GimpPlugInProcedures, just like
the other functions in gimpplugin-proc.[ch], so there is no reason to
have them elsewhere and with worse checks and error messages.
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.
- remove the menu path and image types from "gimp-plugins-query",
they are available via GimpProcedure, also reorder and rename
its remaining return values to make sense
- remove the "menu_path" parameter to gimp_proc_view_new(),
it can also ask GimpProcedure
- adapt plugin-browser to the new API and make it use GimpProcedure
- fix plugin-browser's tree view to show all menu hierarchies
completely, it was still expecting menu paths that contain
the menu label too
In the generated libgimp wrappers, we can't return object arrays
from a call to GIMP_VALUES_DUP_OBJECT_ARRAY() because it returns
a deep copy and adds a reference to all objects, which the caller
would have to unref.
But we want a shallow (transfer container) copy because we don't want
libgimp proxy objects to be refed or unrefed by any user code.
Therefore, add a HACK that simply memdup()s and returns the
GimpObjectArray's array memory, and leaves the contained object
pointers alone.
Add a show_all parameter to gimp_image_pick_color(), which, when
TRUE, allows picking colors outside the canvas bounds in sample-
merged mode. Forward the display's "show all" mode through this
parameter where applicable (in particular, in the color-picker tool
and the pointer dockable).
GimpDisplay contains only the ID logic and the "gimp" and "config"
pointers, and lives in the core.
GimpDisplayImpl is a subclass and contains all the actual display
stuff. The subclass is only an implementation detail and doesn't
appear in any API.
Remove all hacks which pass displays as gpointer, GObject or
GimpObject through the core, or even lookup its type by name,
just use GimpDisplay.
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/.
Same for returned value though it seems we have no function with none_ok
as return value. At least we have the rule in the generation script for
when this will happen.
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).
Michael Natterer