- Also tested the backward compatibility ability of the WINGs proplist code
which seems to work quite well.
Starting with this moment, Window Maker no longer needs libPropList and is
now using the better and much more robust proplist code from WINGs. Also the
WINGs based proplist code is actively maintained while the old libPropList
code is practically dead and flawed by the fact that it borrowed concepts
from the UserDefaults which conflicted with the retain/release mechanism,
making some problems that libPropList had, practically unsolvable without a
complete redesign (which can be found in the more robust WINGs code).
WMCreateApplicationIconBlendedPixmap() to avoid confusion.
This is because this function does generate a new WMPixmap from the
available icon image by combining it with the specified color and you
need to call WMReleasePixmap() on the generated pixmap after you're
done with it.
This is unlike the case of WMGetApplicationIconPixmap() where it just
returns a pointer to the existing application icon pixmap that was set
before and where you don't need to release it after you're done working
with it.
To avoid this confusion about when you need to release and when not,
one is using Get (get existing, no release needed), while the other is
now using Create (generate a new pixmap, release required) in their
name.
Since this change was made to a function that was just added to the API
in the previous commit, no modification is needed to the existing
applications that use WINGs.
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- Added retain/release mechanism to RImage by adding RRetainImage() and
RReleaseImage(). RDestroyImage() is an alias to RReleaseImage() now, but
will be removed in a future release because it no longer fits with the
semantics. Will be kept for a while to allow a smoother transition.
More about in wrlib/NEWS
For WINGs:
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- Small API change:
1. Renamed WMSetApplicationIconImage(), WMGetApplicationIconImage() and
WMSetWindowMiniwindowImage() to respectively WMSetApplicationIconPixmap(),
WMGetApplicationIconPixmap() and WMSetWindowMiniwindowPixmap()
They operate on a WMPixmap which is practically an X Pixmap with no alpha
channel information and the new name is more suggestive and also leaves
room for the new functions added for operating on images with alpha info.
2. Added WMSetApplicationIconImage() and WMGetApplicationIconImage() which
operate on an RImage and store alpha information too.
3. Added WMGetApplicationIconBlendedPixmap() which will take the image with
alpha set by WMSetApplicationIconImage() and will blend it with a color.
If color is NULL it will blend using the default panel color (#aeaaae)
All these changes will allow WINGs to handle images with alpha blending
correctly in panels and wherever else needed. More about in WINGs/NEWS.
- updated panels to use the newly available RImages if present and fallback
to old WMPixmaps if not, to properly show alpha blended images.
- replaced some still left malloc's with wmalloc's.
For Window Maker:
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- Fixed wrong mapping position of the "Docked Applications Panel" for some
icons.
- Smoother animation for the smiley =)
- Made images with alpha blending be shown correctly in the panels and the
icon chooser.
- The icon image set to be shown in panels ("Logo.WMPanel") will be
automatically updated if its entry in WMWindowAttributes changes (without
a need to restart as until now).
*** Note!!! ***
If you are developing applications with one of libwraster or libWINGs
then you should look to wrlib/NEWS and WINGs/NEWS to see what changed
and how should you update your code.
first element in the array that is matched by match(item, cdata)==True.
- added WMArrayFirst(), WMArrayLast(), WMArrayNext() and WMArrayPrevious()
functions and also WM_ITERATE_ARRAY() and WM_ETARETI_ARRAY() macros, to make
interfaces to WMBag and WMArray similar and to make life a little simpler
when iterating through all elements of an array.
- replaced bags with arrays wherever appropriate. This will improve
performance a bit.
- replaced some recursive code with iterative code in WINGs/selection.c
- some code cleanup is src/
correct switch to it, depending on the value of the DisableDithering option.
- Replaced some functions with macros in WINGs (wmkpoint(), wmksize() and
wmkrange()). They're less expensive to call this way.
- Fixed a memleak in the info panel.
WMConnection code. do call by yourself wsyserrorwithcode() passing
WCErrorCode, whenever a call don't return the expected value, and
WCErrorCode > 0. If WCErrorCode==0 that is not an system error,
condition, so don't call wsyserrorwithcode() in that case.
- added some assertions where appropriate
connection survives or not an exec* family call. By default all
connections created by WINGs, set the socket to be closed on an exec*
call. Use the function if you need the reverse.
old one (the one renamed to wstrconcat). The new wstrappend(dst, src)
will modify and return dst, without creating a new string to hold the
result, except if dst==NULL, in which case its equivalent to calling
wstrdup(src)
be sure to replace wstrappend() with wstrconcat() anywhere in your code
because a new wstrappend() function will be implemented that will have
different semantics and if your code will use the new one instead of
the old will break.
minor work and cleanup.
- made some bag and array functions to return void instead of int.
- a few new array functions.
- better handling of mouse wheel.
!!! make clean after this update before you rebuild. some enums changed.
