Benefits:
* Much simpler code.
* Handles the entire TTF spec, not just a small subset that
only really worked well on Windows fonts.
* Handles all character sets as well as accented characters.
* Much faster parsing, since Freetype lazily loads and
caches glyphs.
* Support for basically every kind of font that was invented,
not just TTF.
Note that OpenType features, e.g. ligatures, are not yet supported.
This means that Arabic and Devanagari scripts, among others, will
not be rendered in their proper form.
RTL scripts are not supported either, neither in TTF nor in
the text window. Adding RTL support is comparatively easy, but
given that Arabic would not be legibly rendered anyway, this is not
done so far.
The commit 11f29b123 has replaced most of the uses of sprintf,
but there were still many remaining in Screen* functions, and it
was annoyingly inconsistent. Moreover, while most usage of sprintf
there was fine, it is bad hygiene to leave stack overflow prone
code around.
This removes the arbitrary 64 byte restriction (which effectively
limits us to as little as 16 Unicode characters with CJK encodings),
makes classes smaller, and is easier to use.
As a consequence of making the length of all ex-NameStr fields
unbounded, all functions that returned a buffer derived from those
were changed to return std::string. Then, functions that are
contextually similar to the ones described above were changed
to return std::string. Then, functions that now happened to mostly
take an std::string argument converted to a C string were changed
to accept std::string.
This has produced a bit of churn, but is probably for the better.
After this commit, SolveSpace can robustly handle non-ASCII filenames
on every OS. Additionally, on Windows, filenames longer than 260
characeters can be used, and files on network shares can be opened
directly, without mounting them as a network drive.
After this commit, SolveSpace always uses UTF-8 strings internally
(represented as char* and std::string) on every OS, for everything:
UI labels, paths and user input. OS X always uses UTF-8; on Windows,
strings are converted at boundary; and on Linux/BSD/etc SolveSpace
refuses to start unless the current locale is UTF-8. This will
negatively affect literally no one.
This commit does not bring forth any user-visible improvement yet;
in order to correctly handle Unicode in filenames, it is still
necessary to change the fopen calls to _wfopen on Windows.
After this commit, SolveSpace deals with paths as follows:
* Paths are generally treated as opaque platform-specific strings.
This helps on Linux, because paths on Linux don't have any
specific encoding and it helps to avoid any operations on them.
* The UI in some places wants to get a basename. In this case,
the newly introduced PATH_SEP is used. This allows to treat
backslash as a regular character, which it is on Linux and OS X.
* The only place where any nontrivial operations on paths are
performed is the g->impFile/impFileRel logic.
Specifically, when saved, g->impFile always contains an absolute
path with separators of the current platform, and g->impFileRel
always contains a relative path with UNIX separators. This allows
to treat backslash as a regular character.
Old files will contain g->impFileRel with Windows separators;
these are detected by looking for a drive letter in g->impFile
and in that case mapping Windows separators to UNIX ones.
There is no need to treat UNIX separators (forward slashes) in
any special way on Windows because there is no way on Windows,
not even via UNC paths, to create or address a directory entry
with a forward slash in its name.
What do we gain from this? Several things.
* First, usage of PATH_MAX (the POSIX constant) is eliminated.
PATH_MAX is actually a lie; Linux and OS X (and probably other BSDs
too) do not have an actual path length limit. Linux claims 4096,
OS X claims 1024, but it is trivial to construct paths that are
longer.
* Second, while Windows does enforce a limit of MAX_PATH (the Win32
constant) for its ASCII functions, the Unicode variants, when
used with UNC paths, do not have this restriction.
The capability to use UNC paths is useful by itself, as it allows
to access files on network shares directly.
* Third, representing paths as std::string will make it easier to
interoperate with *W WinAPI functions later.
On Windows, freeze.{cpp,h} was factored into w32main.cpp.
The old implementation was too redundant and leaked registry
key handles.
On all platforms, Cnf* functions now use std::string.
This simplifies code everywhere, but will be particularly useful
when the Windows port switches to the *W WinAPI functions.
This is necessary to store non-POD classes in these containers.
Note that List and IdList do not use MemRealloc anymore;
this is necessarily (slightly) less efficient, but is the right
semantics, as you cannot just move non-POD types, e.g. std::string,
around in memory. All STL containers provide the same guarantees
and share the performance hit.
The slowdown is mostly mitigated by moving the contained objects,
so that no additional heap allocations or copies occur beyond
that of the object itself.
This will allow us to use non-POD classes inside these objects
in future and is otherwise functionally equivalent, as well
as more concise.
Note that there are some subtleties with handling of
brace-initialization. Specifically:
On aggregates (e.g. simple C-style structures) using an empty
brace-initializer zero-initializes the aggregate, i.e. it makes
all members zero.
On non-aggregates an empty brace-initializer calls the default
constructor. And if the constructor doesn't explicitly initialize
the members (which the auto-generated constructor doesn't) then
the members will be constructed but otherwise uninitialized.
So, what is an aggregate class? To quote the C++ standard
(C++03 8.5.1 §1):
An aggregate is an array or a class (clause 9) with no
user-declared constructors (12.1), no private or protected
non-static data members (clause 11), no base classes (clause 10),
and no virtual functions (10.3).
In SolveSpace, we only have to handle the case of base classes;
Constraint and Entity have those. Thus, they had to gain a default
constructor that does nothing but initializes the members to zero.
This is required to avoid name conflicts with the Cocoa libraries
on OS X.
I renamed the `class SolveSpace` to `class SolveSpaceUI`, because
that's what it does, and because otherwise the namespace would
have to be called something else than `namespace SolveSpace`.
In principle, GTK3 is the way forward, and GTK2 is officially
deprecated, though still maintained. In practice however, GTK3
is often unbearably buggy; e.g. on my system, combo boxes
don't ever roll up in GTK3 windows. So I have added support
for both.
This required a few minor changes to the core, namely:
* GTK wants to know beforehand whether a menu item is a check
menu item or a regular one.
* GTK doesn't give us an easy way to execute something after
any event is processed, so an explicit idle timer is added.
This is a no-op on Win32.
* A few function signatures were const'ed, since GTK expects
immutable strings when converting to Glib::ustring.
Microsoft defines an RGB() macro that at one point was compatible with our
version (returning a packed integer containing 8-bit red, green and blue
channels), but is no longer, and the incompatibility led to an awkward
situation in w32main.cpp where we had to restore Microsoft's form of the
macro in order for the commctrl.h header to compile. By renaming the macro
to RGBi()---analogous to the RGBf() macro we already define---we avoid the
hassle entirely.
The SolveSpace top-level directory was getting a bit cluttered, so
following the example of numerous other free-software projects, we move the
main application source into a subdirectory and adjust the build systems
accordingly.
Also, got rid of the obj/ directory in favor of creating it on the fly in
Makefile.msvc.
