- removing the GIMP_ITEM_SET_LINKED enum value.
- removing gimp_image_item_list_linked(). Now we should directly use
gimp_image_item_list_filter() instead.
- "preview-linked" option for transform tools is no more.
In GimpTransformGridTool, keep the transform-direction chain-button
insensitive while the tool is not active, and always unlink the
button when halting the tool. This avoids the directions from
accidentally being kept linked, resulting in the tool seemingly
having no effect.
Add a new "Preview linked items" option to the transform-grid
tools. When this option is enabled, together with composited
previews, the transform preview includes all linked layers/channels
when transforming a layer/channel. Note that paths aren't included
for now.
Ultimately, we'd probably want to cut down on the various preview
options and enable this by default, but let's make this optional
for now.
This commit also improves composited-preview clipping in some
cases.
Add a "Synchronous preview" option to the transform-grid tools,
which renders the composited preview synchronously. This reduces
the lag for painting the preview, but can harm responsiveness for
bigger images, where rendering the preview is slow.
This is mostly an experimental option for now; it will become more
interesting once we have mipmap rendering.
Add a "Composited preview" option to all transform-grid tools,
which displays the transform preview as part of the image
composition (i.e., as it would actually look when applying the
transformation, keeping the layer at the right position in the
stack, and with the right layer mode), instead of using an overlay.
This option is off by default, since it's generally slower to
render than an overlay, due to the lack of mipmap rendering. We're
also still using an overlay when transfoming a selection, and not a
whole layer.
Add a GimpTransformGridTool::matrix_to_info() virtual function,
which should extract the tool-specific transformation parameters
given a transformation matrix, and the old parameter set (which is
needed in some tools, to derive the parameters that aren't encoded
in the matrix, such as the pivot point). The transformation matrix
can be any combination of matrices calculated by the tool, and
their inverses. Subclasses should only implement this function if
every such matrix can be mapped back to transformation parameters.
This is currently the case for all the transform-grid tools, except
for the shear tool (since it only supports shearing along one of
the horizontal or the vertical directions, however, the combined
matrix may require shearing in both directions).
When a transform-grid tool implements this function, show a chain-
button between the two transform-direction radio-buttons in the
tool options. When the chain-button is linked, whenever the
transform corresponding to the active direction is modified, adjust
the transform corresponding to the non-active direction such that
the overall transform remains the same.
One notable workflow that this enables is transforming a layer
while adjusting a different area than its boundary, by first
defining the area while the transform-directions are linked, and
then transforming the area while the transform-directions are
unlinked.
While most of our transform tools use an interactive transform
grid, and have similar behavior, the flip tool is an odd one out.
The new "auto straighten" function of the measure tool introduces
another tool that performs transformations, while not behaving like
the rest of the transform tools.
Factor out the parts of GimpTransformTool that handle user
interaction into GimpTransformGridTool (with corresponding
GimpTransformGridOptions, and GimpTransformGridToolUndo), and only
leave the basic transform functionality and options in
GimpTransformTool (and GimpTransformOptions).
Derive all the transform tools (and transform-tool base classes)
that previously derived from GimpTransformTool, from
GimpTransformGridTool. The one exception is GimpFlipTool, which
still derives from GimpTransformTool directly. The next commit
will derive GimpMeasureTool from GimpTransformTool as well.
