cairo/TODO
Carl Worth 1baa4d1329 Originally: 2005-04-19 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Add cairo_stroke_preserve, cairo_fill_preserve, and cairo_clip_preserve.
Rip the path out of cairo_gstate_t.
Add path to cairo_t.
Bring in most of the path code that used to live in cairo-gstate.c
Move arc generation code into its own file.
Accept path+ctm_inverse+tolerance instead of gstate. Absorb flattening and device space->user space conversion that used to be in _cairo_gstate_intepret_path.
Prefer cairo_fixed_t parameters over ciaro_point_t for cross-file interfaces.
Track changes in _cairo_path_fixed interfaces.
Port to use cairo_fill_preserve rather than cairo_save/cairo_restore which no longer work for saving the path.
Remove get and set of current point since it is no longer affected by cairo_save and cairo_restore. Add get and set testing for cairo_matrix_t.
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API Shakeup planning
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Patch submitted to mailing list?
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Somewhat backwards-compatible changes
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PDRTC user data (was Re: [cairo] Patch improving fallbacks)
PDRTC setters and getters
PDR C cairo_output_stream_t and cairo_surface_finish()
PDRTC cairo_current_path -> cairo_copy_path_data
PDR C cairo_surface_finish, cairo_surface_flush
PDR C Abbreviation hunt: cairo_init_clip and cairo_concat_matrix
----- Renaming the terms of the rendering equation
PDR C default matrix
PD T cairo_paint
cairo_begin_group, cairo_end_group, cairo_get_group
PDRTC Making set_source consistent
----- cairo_stroke_path -> cairo_stroke_to_path
PDRTC cairo_current_matrix
cairo_mask
cairo_create and eliminating cairo_set_target_surface
PDRTC cairo_fill_preserve, cairo_stroke_preserve, cairo_clip_preserve
cairo_<device>_surface_mark_dirty
PDR C A hidden offset for the xlib backend
Simplifying the operator set
Consistent error handling for all objects
Backwards incompatible
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Eliminating cairo_copy
Eliminating cairo_surface_set_repeat/matrix/filter
Eliminating cairo_show_surface
* Add support for non-antialiased rendering. API ?
* Clean up the cache code a bit, (there is at least one redundant
level of cacheing, and there are some minor style issues).
* Add CAIRO_FILL_RULE_INVERSE_WINDING and CAIRO_FILL_RULE_INVERSE_EVEN_ODD
* Fix clipping to work for all operators. The equation we have come up
with is:
((src Op dest) In clip) Add (dest Out clip)
* Clean up the API in preparation for freezing and release.
* Make a more interesting PS backend, (other than the current
"giant-image for every page" approach).
* Figure out what to do with DPI for image/png backends.
* Change stroke code to go through one giant polygon. This will fix
problems with stroking self-intersecting paths.
* Re-work the backend clipping interface to use geometry rather than
images.
* Fix the intersection problem, (see reference to Hobby's paper
mentioned in cairo_traps.c).
* Add a new cairo_text_glyphs function (a sort of bridge between the
toy and the real text API):
> void
> cairo_text_glyphs (cairo_t *cr, const unsigned char *utf8,
> cairo_glyph_t *glyphs, int *num_glyphs);
>
> with num_glyphs as an input-output parameter. The behavior of this
> function would be such that calling:
>
> cairo_text_glyphs (cr, string, glyphs, &num_glyphs);
> cairo_show_glyphs (cr, glyphs, num_glyphs);
>
> would be equivalent too:
>
> cairo_show_text (cr, string);
>
> as long as the original size of glyphs/num_glyphs was large
> enough.
* Implement dashing for cairo_curve_to.
* Implement support for programmatic patterns, (ie. figure out how to
do gradients the Right Way).
* Implement cairo_arc_to.
* Stroking closed, degenerate paths should still draw caps. Round
caps are easy; square should probably draw an axis-aligned square.
* It would be nice if the user had a mechanism to reliably draw custom
caps. One approach here would be to provide the coordinates of the
butt cap faces so that the user can append seamless caps to the
current path. We may also need to provide the coordinates of the
faces of every dash as well.
* Should add geometry pruning as appropriate.
* We need a way to get at the image data after something
like cairo_surface_create_similar with the image backend.
* Three suggestions from Owen that will help GTK+ performance:
- The ability have an additional rectangle-list clip in the
Xlib surface. Frequently during an expose event, GTK+ is
drawing L shaped areas
XXXXXX
X.....
X.....
And passing the real clip to the server is going to save
a lot of pixel operations that will be thrown away.
- The ability to pass in a width/height to cairo_xlib_surface_create()
to avoid a round-trip. (Round-trips are bad to the point where
querying the the server is something you don't want to do in
production software)
- More of a future thing, the ability to hint to to cairo that
the contents of the Xlib surface passed to
cairo_xlib_surface_create() are a solid fill ... this is
very much the normal case for GTK+ usage and allows for
big optimization in the no-RENDER case.
(see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-March/msg00045.html
* Verification, profiling, optimization.
centi_unfinished.svg may provide a good test case.