Now text layers are proper types, which means that the binding API will also be
nicer (e.g. `txt_layer.set_text('hello world')` in Python).
This commit also adds the param specs allowing to create plug-in procedures with
text layer parameters.
Finally it fixes the few calls in file-pdf-save (apparently the only plug-in
using specific text layer API right now) with explicit type conversion.
… class GimpSaveProcedureDialog.
The idea is that we have basically the same code in most file format
plug-ins to handle various generic metadata, yet usually with slight
differences here and there. Even behavior is sometimes a bit different
even though there is no reason for the logics to be different from one
format to another.
So I move the metadata support logics into GimpSaveProcedure (and
GimpProcedureConfig still keeps the main export logics). The GUI logics
is now in a new GimpSaveProcedureDialog. So export plug-ins will now get
the creation of generic metadata nearly for free. All they have to do is
to tell what kind of metadata the GimpSaveProcedure supports with the
gimp_save_procedure_set_support_*() functions.
Then consistency will apply:
- If a format supports a given metadata, they will always have an
auxiliary argument with the same name across plug-ins.
- The label and tooltips will also be always the same in the GUI.
- Order of metadata widgets will also stay consistent.
- The widgets will work the same (no more "Comment" text view missing in
one plug-in but present in another, or with an entry here, and a text
view there, and so on).
Also adding gimp_save_procedure_dialog_add_metadata() to allow plug-ins
to "declare" one of their options as a metadata option, and therefore
have it packed within the "Metadata" block which is now created (for
instance for PNG/TIFF/JPEG specific metadata). This allows a nicer
organization of dialogs.
Orientation is now handled by core code, just next to profile conversion
handling.
One of the first consequence is that we don't need to have a non-GUI
version gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch() in libgimp, next to a
GUI version of the gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() function in
libgimpui. This makes for simpler API.
Also a plug-in which wishes to get access to the rotation dialog
provided by GIMP without loading ligimpui/GTK+ (for whatever reason)
will still have the feature.
The main advantage is that the "Don't ask me again" feature is now
handled by a settings in `Preferences > Image Import & Export` as the
"Metadata rotation policy". Until now it was saved as a global parasite,
which made it virtually non-editable once you checked it once (no easy
way to edit parasites except by scripts). So say you refused the
rotation once while checking "Don't ask again", and GIMP will forever
discard the rotation metadata without giving you a sane way to change
your mind. Of course, I could have passed the settings to plug-ins
through the PDB, but I find it a lot better to simply handle such
settings core-side.
The dialog code is basically the same as an app/dialogs/ as it was in
libgimp, with the minor improvement that it now takes the scale ratio
into account (basically the maximum thumbnail size will be bigger on
higher density displays).
Only downside of the move to the core is that this rotation dialog is
raised only when you open an image from the core, not as a PDB call. So
a plug-in which makes say a "file-jpeg-load" PDB call, even in
INTERACTIVE run mode, won't have rotation processed. Note that this was
already the same for embedded color profile conversion. This can be
wanted or not. Anyway some additional libgimp calls might be of interest
to explicitly call the core dialogs.
gimpimagemetadata.[ch] was built into libgimpui because GTK+ was used
for dialog query for rotation metadata. gimpimagemetadata-save.c only
was built into libgimp, which made no sense as the declaration for its
public function was inside gimpimagemetadata.h!
That was a weird situation and somehow only made visible in the build
system because GIR build was complaining about missing annotations to
gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare() (the annotation was actually present
but in the implementation which was not in the same library as the
header, how weird!):
> Warning: GimpUi: gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare: return value: Missing (transfer) annotation
Moreover it means that only plug-ins linking libgimpui had access to the
gimp_image_metadata*() API, which is obviously not cool (that should be
a core API).
Instead I moved everything into libgimp and replaced
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() with
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch(), which is essentially the same
function except that it's not interactive (it will proceed to rotate the
image without user confirmation, provided the right flag is present).
Then I add gimpimagemetadata-interactive.[ch] which contains only
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() and is the alternative interactive
version of gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch(). Most plug-ins won't
even have to be changed (at least none in core GIMP) and would still
work as before, whereas now a non-interactive version exists, which
doesn't mandate to link GTK+.
Add gimp_procedure_config_begin_export() and end_export() which
are wrappers around begin_run() and end_run() and additionally
pretty much completely manage GimpMetadata handling.
A GimpProcedureConfig can provide boolean properties "save-exif",
"save-xmp" etc. in order to have them automatically managed by
begin_export() and end_export(). This also restores the feature of
overriding the procedure's saved default values with export
preferences, but not the values from the last export, like it
used to be in 2.10.
Move gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare() and save_finish() (which are
now completely handled by GimpProcedureConfig) from libgimpui to
libgimp, but keep their declarations in the libgimpui header. Not
perfect, but not finished either.
Also fix gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare() to set the affected
GimpMetadataSaveFlags to 0 when the image has no metadata at all.
No need of is_id_arg() anymore in pdb/lib.pl. Let's reuse the {id}
value. Also I had to add an additional trick for GimpDisplay which we
will now generate as such in libgimp PDB files, but still need to show
as GimpObject on app/pdb/.
As previously, only the new classes and the PDB generation for a first
step.
which are GimpProcedure subclasses with API to register as load/save
handlers and their own kind of run functions that get their standard
arguments passed directly instead of packed into a GimpValueArray.
They also register their standard arguments themselves, which removes
quite some boilerplate from load/save plug-ins.
Remove gimpprocedure-private.[ch] because install() and uninstall()
are now virtual functions of GimpProcedure.
While doing so, better break the various source categories in libgimp/.
Otherwise we were duplicating some of the header list, hence we forgot
to install some of the headers.
libgimp is anyway processed at the very end after all other libgimp*
were built. This way, it also fixes#3746, by removing the $(top_srcdir)
everywhere from introspected files, hence making the build work again
with older automake.
They only contain private functions and don't need to be installed or
included by gimp_pdb_headers.h.
The PDB generation part is done by adding a "lib_private" variable
that can be set on PDB groups which should not be public API; the rest
is manual Makefile fiddling.
The idea is that we already have a GimpProcedure object in libgimp
which has name, help, blurb, arguments, return values and everything,
so we really don't need a parallel API to query PDB procedures for
their properties.
- make run() a virtual function of GimpProcedure
- move GIMP_PDB_ERROR to GimpPDB
- GimpPDBProcedure is a trivial subblass which populates
GimpProcedure's members by querying the PDB.
- make "plug-in", "procedure-type" and "name" construct-only
properties of GimpProcedure.
This is all work in progress.
Also remove several functions which never made it to a GIMP release.
They were really meant as temporary anyway from the start, waiting for
the new API to be usable.
And GimpParam is not boxed anymore. This is made useless by the fact it
is not an introspected type now.
Recent commits broke the Python plug-ins again because the old API is
not introspected anymore. Of course, by release of GIMP 3, we should
probably remove this deprecated API from introspection. But first, we
have to figure out how and if the new API can be used in bindings.
Mostly the same code as GimpProcedure in app/pdb/.
Move the "run" function to GimpProcedure. Add API to GimpPlugIn to
list and create procedures, and always keep a list of the plug-ins
procedures around. Still only using the old params and return_vals.
At first I thought these could be different namespaces, but actually
GObject Introspection parses files and can only use (AFAICS) the
namespace actually used in our C function, which is always `gimp_` (and
not `gimpbase_` or whatever.
So make the introspection at the root level, and it will include all
libgimp* libraries in one namespace, same as the C lib anyway. For now
only libgimp and libgimpbase as I am still testing.
Also I move the introspectable sources in their own file in order to
share the list between the library building Makefile and the GI
makefile because I can't find how to pass over variables otherwise.
