SurfaceRenderer is a new renderer implementing the Canvas interface
running entirely on the CPU; it projects strokes and triangles
in the exact same way as OpenGL would, and it can be used for
rendering into raster or vector 2d surfaces.
This has the following benefits:
* Less geometry to generate; we can do both in one pass;
* Less geometry to draw;
* Eliminate overdraw of outlines on top of emphasized edges;
* In future, being able to seamlessly stitch stippled lines.
The contour edges are now also drawn before emphasized edges;
this makes intersections of contour and emphasized edges look better
as the thinner emphasized edge doesn't clobber the depth buffer.
This has several desirable consequences:
* It is now possible to port SolveSpace to a later version of
OpenGL, such as OpenGLES 2, so that it runs on platforms that
only have that OpenGL version;
* The majority of geometry is now rendered without references to
the camera in C++ code, so a renderer can now submit it to
the video card once and re-rasterize with a different projection
matrix every time the projection is changed, avoiding expensive
reuploads;
* The DOGD (draw or get distance) interface is now
a straightforward Canvas implementation;
* There are no more direct references to SS.GW.(projection)
in sketch rendering code, which allows rendering to multiple
viewports;
* There are no more unnecessary framebuffer flips on CPU on Cocoa
and GTK;
* The platform-dependent GL code is now confined to rendergl1.cpp.
* The Microsoft and Apple headers required by it that are prone to
identifier conflicts are no longer included globally;
* The rendergl1.cpp implementation can now be omitted from
compilation to run SolveSpace headless or with a different
OpenGL version.
Note these implementation details of Canvas:
* GetCamera currently always returns a reference to the field
`Camera camera;`. This is so that a future renderer that caches
geometry in the video memory can define it as asserting, which
would provide assurance against code that could accidentally
put something projection-dependent in the cache;
* Line and triangle rendering is specified through a level of
indirection, hStroke and hFill. This is so that a future renderer
that batches geometry could cheaply group identical styles.
* DrawPixmap and DrawVectorText accept a (o,u,v) and not a matrix.
This is so that a future renderer into an output format that
uses 2d transforms (e.g. SVG) could easily derive those.
Some additional internal changes were required to enable this:
* Pixmap is now always passed as std::shared_ptr<{const ,}Pixmap>.
This is so that the renderer could cache uploaded textures
between API calls, which requires it to capture a (weak)
reference.
* The PlatformPathEqual function was properly extracted into
platform-specific code. This is so that the <windows.h> header
could be included only where needed (in platform/w32* as well
as rendergl1.cpp).
* The SBsp{2,3}::DebugDraw functions were removed. They can be
rewritten using the Canvas API if they are ever needed.
While no visual changes were originally intended, some minor fixes
happened anyway:
* The "emphasis" yellow line from top-left corner is now correctly
rendered much wider.
* The marquee rectangle is now pixel grid aligned.
* The hidden entities now do not clobber the depth buffer, removing
some minor artifacts.
* The workplane "tab" now scales with the font used to render
the workplane name.
* The workplane name font is now taken from the normals style.
* Workplane and constraint line stipple is insignificantly
different. This is so that it can reuse the existing stipple
codepaths; rendering of workplanes and constraints predates
those.
Some debug functionality was added:
* In graphics window, an fps counter that becomes red when
rendering under 60fps is drawn.
This is to ensure that:
* it is clear, when looking at the point of usage, what is
the purpose of "true" or "false";
* when refactoring, a simple search will bring up any places that
need to be changed.
Also, argument names were synchronized between declaration and
implementation.
As an exception, these are not annotated:
* Printf(/*halfLine=*/), to avoid pointless churn.
Specifically, take the old code that looks like this:
class Foo {
enum { X = 1, Y = 2 };
int kind;
}
... foo.kind = Foo::X; ...
and convert it to this:
class Foo {
enum class Kind : uint32_t { X = 1, Y = 2 };
Kind kind;
}
... foo.kind = Foo::Kind::X;
(In some cases the enumeration would not be in the class namespace,
such as when it is generally useful.)
The benefits are as follows:
* The type of the field gives a clear indication of intent, both
to humans and tools (such as binding generators).
* The compiler is able to automatically warn when a switch is not
exhaustive; but this is currently suppressed by the
default: ssassert(false, ...)
idiom.
* Integers and plain enums are weakly type checked: they implicitly
convert into each other. This can hide bugs where type conversion
is performed but not intended. Enum classes are strongly type
checked.
* Plain enums pollute parent namespaces; enum classes do not.
Almost every defined enum we have already has a kind of ad-hoc
namespacing via `NAMESPACE_`, which is now explicit.
* Plain enums do not have a well-defined ABI size, which is
important for bindings. Enum classes can have it, if specified.
We specify the base type for all enums as uint32_t, which is
a safe choice and allows us to not change the numeric values
of any variants.
This commit introduces absolutely no functional change to the code,
just renaming and change of types. It handles almost all cases,
except GraphicsWindow::pending.operation, which needs minor
functional change.
This will allow us in future to accept `const T &` anywhere it's
necessary to reduce the amount of copying.
This commit is quite conservative: it does not attempt very hard to
refactor code that performs incidental mutation. In particular
dogd and caches are not marked with the `mutable` keyword.
dogd will be eliminated later, opening up more opportunities to
add const qualifiers.
This commit also doesn't introduce any uses of the newly added const
qualifers. This will be done later.
This includes explanation and context for non-obvious cases and
shortens debug cycles when just-in-time debugging is not available
(like on Linux) by immediately printing description of the assert
as well as symbolized backtrace.
This helps to ensure that a base class that changes underneath us
would not leave any overridden functions hanging.
This already highlighted some questionable use of GTKMM's API,
which were also fixed in this commit.
This commit integrates the bitmap font in the resource system, so
that cross-compilation would be easier.
The font handling code was carefully written to do glyph parsing
lazily; in practice this means that after this commit, startup
is less than 25ms slower, most of it spent in inflate().
This should also result in faster rendering, since there is no
rampant plane switching anymore; instead, all characters that are
actually used are stashed into same one texture.
This commit integrates icons in the resource system so that they
can be loaded (or reloaded, without restarting) in @2x mode, which
will be added in a future commit. png2c is no longer necessary.
png2c used to perform the following transformation:
if(r + g + b < 11) r = g = b = 11;
This is now achieved by switching the icons to RGBA mode and adding
alpha channel with the following imagemagick invocation, which is
equivalent to the transformation above:
for i in *.png; do
convert -fuzz 4% -channel rgba -matte \
-fill "rgba(255,255,255,0)" -opaque black \
$i $i
done
The Debian package solvespace now includes /usr/share/solvespace;
this should be split out into solvespace-data later.
Currently, icons, fonts, etc are converted to C structures at compile
time and are hardcoded to the binary. This presents several problems:
* Cross-compilation is complicated. Right now, it is necessary
to be able to run executables for the target platform; this
happens to work with wine-binfmt installed, but is rather ugly.
* Icons can only have one resolution. On OS X, modern software is
expected to take advantage of high-DPI ("Retina") screens and
use so-called @2x assets when ran in high-DPI mode.
* Localization is complicated. Win32 and OS X provide built-in
support for loading the resource appropriate for the user's
locale.
* Embedding strings can only be done as raw strings, using C++'s
R"(...)" literals. This precludes embedding sizable strings,
e.g. JavaScript libraries as used in Three.js export, and makes
git history less useful. Not embedding the libraries means we
have to rely on external CDNs, which requires an Internet
connection and adds a glaring point of failure.
* Linux distribution guidelines are violated. All architecture-
independent data, especially large data such as fonts, is
expected to be in /usr/share, not in the binary.
* Customization is impossible without recompilation. Minor
modifications like adding a few missing vector font characters
or adjusting localization require a complete development
environment, which is unreasonable to expect from users of
a mechanical CAD.
As such, this commit adds a resource system that bundles (and
sometimes builds) resources with the executable. Where they go is
platform-dependent:
* on Win32: into resources of the executable, which allows us to
keep distributing one file;
* on OS X: into the app bundle;
* on other *nix: into /usr/share/solvespace/ or ../res/ (relative
to the executable path), the latter allowing us to run freshly
built executables without installation.
It also subsides the platform-specific resources that are in src/.
The resource system is not yet used for anything; this will be added
in later commits.
This is good practice and helps to catch bugs. Several changes
were made to accomodate the newly enabled warnings:
* -Wunused-function:
* in exposed/, static functions that were supposed to be inlined
were explicitly marked as inline;
* some actually unused functions were removed;
* -Wsign-compare: explicit conversions were added, and in
the future we should find a nicer way than aux* fields;
* -Wmissing-field-initializers: added initializers;
* -Wreorder: reordered properly;
* -Wunused-but-set-variable: remove variable.
-Wunused-parameter was turned off as enabling it would result in
massive amount of churn in UI code. Despite that, we should enable
it at some point as it has a fairly high SNR otherwise.
Before this commit, when exporting a vector file without the shaded
model shown, or similarly when using formats that we do not export
the mesh to, we still generate (and then discard) the mesh in paint
order. This is a waste of time.
The immediate reason for refactoring this was that the GTK port broke
after 52af7256 since config.h is not included anymore, but it was
a fragile piece of code I will shed no tears for.
While we're at it, get rid of the mutable std::string &file to be
consistent with our conventions.
config.h now includes the git hash and so, as long as it's included
in solvespace.h, any change of git HEAD will trigger a complete
recompilation, which makes bisecting especially annoying.
While we're at it, remove HAVE_STDINT_H from it, since we require
C++11 and all MSVC versions that include C++11 also include stdint.h.
Before this commit, the graphics window edit control always had
a width of 30 average character widths.
After this commit, the edit control has a width of 5 average
character widths (for numeric constraints) or 30 average character
widths (for comment constraints), or just enough to display
the entire value being edited, whichever is greater.
This makes the edit control overlap the sketch less in case of
editing numeric constraints (since in most cases, the numbers being
edited are short), and removes annoying scrolling in case of editing
long comments.
Before this commit, the position of the edit box was adjusted
by trial and error, as far as I can tell. This commit changes
the positioning machinery for edit controls as follows:
The coordinates passed to ShowTextEditControl/ShowGraphicsEditControl
now denote: X the left bound, and Y the baseline.
The font height passed to ShowGraphicsEditControl denotes
the absolute font height in pixels, i.e. ascent plus descent.
Platform-dependent code uses these coordinates, the font metrics
for the font appropriate for the platform, and the knowledge of
the decorations drawn around the text by the native edit control
to position the edit control in a way that overlays the text inside
the edit control with the rendered text.
On OS X, GNU Unifont (of height 16) has metrics identical to
Monaco (of height 15) and so as an exception, the edit control
is nudged slightly for a pixel-perfect fit.
Also, since the built-in vector font is proportional, this commit
also switches the edit control font to proportional when editing
constraints.
A new button is added, "Show/hide outline of solid model".
When the outline is hidden, it is rendered using the "solid edge"
style. When the outline is shown, it is rendered using the "outline"
style.
In SolveSpace's true WYSIWYG tradition, the 2d view export follows
the rendered view exactly.
Moreover, shell edges are not rendered anymore, since there is not
much need in them anymore and not drawing them lessens the overlap
between various kinds of lines, which already includes entities,
solid edges and outlines.
Before this change, the two buttons "Show/hide shaded model" (S) and
"Show/hide hidden lines" (H) resulted in drawing the following
elements in the following styles:
Button | Non-occluded | Non-occluded | Occluded | Occluded
state | solid edges | entities | solid edges | entities
--------+--------------+--------------+-------------+--------------
!S !H | | | solid-edge | entity style
--------+ | +-------------+--------------
S !H | | | invisible
--------+ solid-edge | entity style +-------------+--------------
!S H | | | |
--------+ | | solid-edge | entity style
S H | | | |
--------+--------------+--------------+-------------+--------------
After this change, they are drawn as follows:
Button | Non-occluded | Non-occluded | Occluded | Occluded
state | solid edges | entities | solid edges | entities
--------+--------------+--------------+-------------+--------------
!S !H | | | solid-edge | entity style
--------+ | +-------------+--------------
S !H | | | invisible
--------+ solid-edge | entity style +-------------+--------------
!S H | | | |
--------+ | | hidden-edge | stippled¹
S H | | | |
--------+--------------+--------------+-------------+--------------
¹ entity style, but the stipple parameters taken from hidden-edge
In SolveSpace's true WYSIWYG tradition, the 2d view export follows
the rendered view exactly.
Also, it is now possible to edit the stipple parameters of built-in
styles, so that by changing the hidden-edge style to non-stippled
it is possible to regain the old behavior.
Before this commit, trying to export image on *nix platforms yielded
a black rectangle, since since there is nowhere to render to
when we're not in a GUI toolkit draw callback.
On Windows, nothing changes: we do a repaint without the toolbar,
glReadPixels, export. On *nix, we create another offscreen rendering
context, render into it, then destroy it. As a bonus this avoids
some minor flickering that would happen if we reused the regular
rendering path.
Most of these were just converting char* into std::string back and
forth; some more used ReadUTF8, which was converted to use nicer
STL-style iterators over UTF-8 text.
The remaining ones are:
* arguments to Expr::From, which we'll change when refactoring
the expression lexer;
* arguments to varargs functions, which we'll change when adding
localization (that requires custom printf-style functions to
allow for changing argument order);
* arguments where only string literals are ever passed, which
are OK;
* in platform-specific code, which is OK.
After commit 2f734d9, inactive groups are no longer regenerated
for trivial changes, e.g. changing parameters, so it's possible to
switch to an earlier group and work on it without incurring
the computational (slowdown) and cognitive (annoyance by red
background) overhead of later groups failing to solve.
However, if a group--any group anywhere--was not solved OK,
the interface reacted accordingly, which diminished usefulness of
the change, especially given that, if we have groups A and B with
B depending on A, if B is broken by a change in A and we activate A
and fix it, B will not be regenerated.
After this commit, only active groups are considered when deciding
if generating the entire sketch would fail.
This font is less complete than our bitmap font, Unifont: Unifont
has essentially complete Unicode coverage and LibreCAD's font only
has Latin, Cyrillic and Japanese, but it can be extended rather
easily, so this should be fine for now.
These embedded fonts fatten glhelper.o quite a bit:
bitmapfont.table.h is about 8M in gzip-compressed bitmaps and
vectorfont.table.h is about 2M in raw vector data.
In spite of that it takes just around five seconds to build
glhelper.c on my laptop, so it should be fine.
The final executable grows from about 2M to about 8M, but this
is a small price to pay for fairly extensive i18n support.
The new font has somewhat different metrics, so the rendering
code has been fudged to make it look good.
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.
whitequark
EvilSpirit
Peter Barfuss