If you run something like 'seq 2000000000' in a GTK3 pterm, the window
never actually updates, because pterm always considers reading more
data from the pty to have higher priority than delivering the "draw"
event. Using g_io_add_watch_full instead of g_io_add_watch allows us
to explicitly lower the priority of the I/O sources, so that window
redraws will take precedence.
This is quite a pain, since it involves inventing an entire new piece
of infrastructure to install a custom Xlib error handler and give it a
queue of things to do. But it fixes a bug in which Unix pterm/PuTTY
crash out at startup if one of the root window's CUT_BUFFERn
properties contains something of a type other than STRING - in
particular, UTF8_STRING is not unheard-of.
For example, run
xprop -root -format CUT_BUFFER3 8u -set CUT_BUFFER3 "thingy"
and then pterm without this fix would have crashed.
I've made the licence text, the About box, and the host key dialog
into GTK selectable edit controls. (The former because it contains a
lot of text; the About box because pasting version numbers into bug
reports is obviously useful; the host key because of the fingerprint.)
TOOLTYPE_NONNETWORK (i.e. pterm) already has "-log" (as does Unix
PuTTY), so there's no sense suppressing the synonym "-sessionlog".
Undocumented lacunae that remain:
plink accepts -sessionlog, but does nothing with it. Arguably it should.
puttytel accepts -sshlog/-sshrawlog (and happily logs e.g. Telnet
negotiation, as does PuTTY proper).
I had originally planned to implement a Compose-type key locally in
GTK PuTTY, as I did in Windows PuTTY. But in fact we've done this for
some time by delegating to the GTK IM system, which is a far better
idea anyway. So there's no point any more having the FIXME comment
that mentions Compose keys.
Also, there was a comment worrying about what I was going to do about
double-width characters in Pango, which is long since sorted out.
The top-level loop in gtkwin.c which draws text was expecting that the
right way to draw a printing character plus combining characters was
to overprint them one by one on top of each other. This is an OK
assumption for X bitmap fonts, but in Pango, it works very badly -
most obviously because asking Pango to display a combining char on its
own causes it to print a dotted circle representing the base char, but
also because surely there will be character combinations where Pango
wants to do something more sophisticated than just printing them each
at a standard offset, and it would be a shame not to let it.
So I've moved the previous overprinting loop down into the x11font
subclass of the unifont mechanism. The top-level gtkwin.c drawing code
now calls a new method unifont_draw_combining, which in the X11 case
does the same loop as before, but in the Pango case, just passes a
whole base+combinings string to Pango in one go and lets it do the
best job it can.
Touchpad gestures can generate much smoother scrolling events than the
discrete increments of mouse wheels. GDK3 supports this by means of a
new kind of scroll event, with direction GDK_SCROLL_SMOOTH and a
floating-point delta value. Added support for this; so in GTK3 mode,
you can now touchpad-scroll at a granularity of one line rather than
five, but in mouse tracking mode, scroll events are still grouped into
5-line chunks for purposes of turning them into escape sequences to
send to the server.
Apparently, if you don't specify GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK in a widget's
event mask, then you don't receive "scroll_event" signals at all, even
of the non-smooth variety that was all GTK2 had. Hence, neither mouse
scroll wheels nor touchpad scroll gestures seem to generate any
response.
Adding GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK brings the old scroll events back again,
so this is at least no worse than GTK2 was. But in GTK3 we _ought_ to
be able to do better still, by supporting smooth scrolling from
touchpads; this commit doesn't do that.
In GTK 3, it was impossible to resize the window smaller than it
started off, because the size request on the drawing area was taken as
a minimum. (I can't actually remember how the GTK 2 version doesn't
have this problem too.)
Fixed by instead setting the initial window size using
gtk_window_set_default_geometry() (having first set up the geometry
hints to reflect the character cell size).
In any DRAWTYPE_CAIRO mode, we now do all our Cairo drawing to a Cairo
image surface which lives on the client; then we either blit directly
from that to the window (if we're in GTK3 mode, or GTK2 without
deprecated pieces of API), or else we blit from the Cairo surface to
the server-side pixmap and then from there to the actual window.
In DRAWTYPE_GDK mode, nothing much has changed: we still draw directly
to the server-side pixmap using the GDK drawing API, then blit from
there to the window. But there is one change, namely that the blit is
no longer done proactively - instead, we queue a redraw of the
affected rectangle, and wait until we're called back by the expose
handler.
The main aim of all this is to arrange that the only time we ever draw
to the real window is in response to expose/draw events. The
experimental GTK3 OS X port stopped working a week or two ago (I
presume in response to an OS update) with the symptoms that attempts
to draw on the window outside the context of a "draw" event handler
just didn't seem to work any more; this change fixes it.
In addition to that benefit, this change also has obvious performance
advantages in principle. No more expensive text rendering in response
to an expose event - just re-copy to the window from the bitmap we
already have, from wherever it's stored that's nearest.
Moreover, this seems to have fixed the significant performance problem
with X server-side fonts under GTK. I didn't expect _that_! I'd
guessed that the approach of downloading character bitmaps and
rendering them manually via Cairo was just inherently slow for some
reason. I've no real idea _why_ this change improves matters so much;
my best guess is that perhaps there's an overhead in each drawing
operation to a GDK Cairo surface, so we win by doing lots of
operations to a much faster image surface and then batching them up
into one GDK Cairo operation. But whyever it is, I'm certainly not
complaining!
(In fact, it now seems to be noticeably _faster_, at least on my usual
local X displays, to draw server-side fonts using that technique than
using the old GDK approach. I may yet decide to switch over...)
When I introduced the KEY_EVENT_DIAGNOSTICS system last month in
commit 769600b22, I somehow didn't notice that it sat next to an
existing system of ifdefs labelled KEY_DEBUGGING, which did some
things worse but some things better.
Now I've expanded both of those into a fairly complete system of
diagnostics (keeping the newer name of KEY_EVENT_DIAGNOSTICS), and
made them use debug() rather than printf() so that in situations where
no standard output is available I can still retrieve the diagnostics
from debug.log.
I turned it into Shift-Return, because I was trying to find out why
the former didn't work on OS X and replaced it with something else
random to see if the code was even being reached. And then, like an
utter doofus, I committed that change as part of a50da0e30.
Rather than trying to get my existing hugely complicated X-style
clipboard code to somehow work with the Quartz GTK back end, I've
written an entirely new and much simpler alternative clipboard handler
usnig the higher-leve GtkClipboard interface. It assumes all clipboard
text can be converted to and from UTF-8 sensibly (which isn't a good
assumption on all front ends, but on OS X I think it's reasonable),
and it talks to GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD rather than PRIMARY, which is
the only clipboard OS X has.
I had to do a fiddly thing to cope with the fact that each call to
gtk_clipboard_set_with_data caused a call to the clipboard clear
function left over from the previous set of data, so I had to avoid
mistaking that for a clipboard-clear for the _new_ data and
immediately deselecting it. I did that by allocating a distinct
placeholder object in memory for each instance of the copy operation,
so that I can tell whether a clipboard-clear is for the current copy
or a previous one.
This is only very basic support which demonstrates successful copying
and pasting is at least possible. For a sensible OS X implementation
we'll need a more believable means of generating a paste UI action
(it's quite easy to find a Mac on which neither Shift-Ins nor the
third mouse button even exists!). Also, after the trouble I had with
the clipboard-clear event, it's a bit annoying to find that it
_doesn't_ seem to get called when another application becomes the
clipboard owner. That may just be something we have to put up with, if
I can't find any reason why it's failing.
If I'm using Option as the Meta key, I want to suppress OS X GTK's
default behaviour of treating it as an AltGr-oid which changes the
keyval and Unicode translation of alphabetic keys. So on OS X I enable
a somewhat bodgy workaround which retranslates from the hardware
keycode as if the Option modifier had not been active at the time, and
use that as the character to prefix Esc to.
This is a bit nasty because I have to hardwire group = 0 in the call
to gdk_keymap_translate_keyboard_state(), whereas in principle what I
wanted was group = (whatever would have resulted from everything else
in the key event other than MOD1). However, in practice, they seem to
be the same, so this will do for the moment.
Personally I like using Command as the Esc-prefixing Meta key in
terminal sessions, because it occupies the same physical keyboard
position as the Alt key that I'm used to using on non-Macs. OS X
Terminal uses Option for that purpose (freeing up Command for the
conventional Mac keyboard shortcuts, of course), so I anticipate
differences of opinion.
Hence, here's a pair of OSX-specific config options which permit a
user to set either, or neither, or both of those modifier keys to
function as the terminal Meta key.
In a UTF-8 pterm, it makes sense to set the IUTF8 flag (on systems
that have one) on the pty device, so that line editing will take
account of UTF-8 multibyte characters.
Several utility functions I've written over the last few weeks were in
rather random places because I didn't have a central gtkmisc.c to put
them in. Now I've got one, put them there!
I'm using a slightly more up-to-date GTK version for testing on MacOS,
and it's marked a few more functions as deprecated, among which is
gdk_color_parse(). So now parsing -fg and -bg options has to be done
by two different calls and an ugly #ifdef, depending on GTK version.
If we're not supporting server-side fonts, it's utterly silly to set
one as the default! Instead, we use Pango's guarantee that some
reasonably sensible monospaced font will be made available under the
name "Monospace", and use that at a reasonable default size of 12pt.
Using GTK to run on OS X is going to require several workarounds and
behaviour tweaks to be enabled at various points in the code, and it's
already getting cumbersome to remember what they all are to put on the
command line. Here's a central #define (OSX_GTK) that enables them all
in one go, and a configure option (--with-quartz) that sets it.
As part of this commit, I've also rearranged the #include order in the
GTK source files, so that they include unix.h (which now might be
where NOT_X_WINDOWS gets defined) before they test NOT_X_WINDOWS to
decide whether to include X11 headers.
The Quartz GDK back end, if you press (say) Ctrl-A, will generate a
GdkKeyEvent with keyval='a' and state=CONTROL, but it'll have a
translated string of "a" where the X back end would have returned
"\001". So we have to do our own translation, which fortunately isn't
hard.
These should dump out all the important parts of the incoming
GdkEventKey, so that if keys aren't being translated right, it should
be possible to work out something about why not.
To enable: make CPPFLAGS="-DKEY_EVENT_DIAGNOSTICS"
The whole of get_label_text_dimensions() should have been outside the
GTK 2 ifdef; I'd left a gtk_label_set_width_chars() unconditional; and
GDK1's gdk_window_set_background() lacks a const in its prototype.
Serves me right for not test-compiling in all three versions!
gtk_window_resize_to_geometry() allows us to make use of the already-
set-up WM resize hints to immediately figure out how to resize the
window to a particular character cell size, and hence makes a much
simpler implementation of request_resize() than the previous hackery.
The new way is gdk_display_get_name(gdk_display_get_default()), which
returns a const char * rather than a char *, so I've also had to
fiddle with the prototype and call sites of get_x_display().
(Also included gtkcompat.h into uxputty.c, since that wanted to call
gdk_get_display() but didn't previously include it.)
The entire concept has gone away in GTK3, which assumes that everyone
is now using modern true-colour video modes and so there's no longer
any reason you shouldn't just casually make up any RGB triple you like
without bothering to ask the display system's permission.
GDK3 now spells both of those as GDK_WINDOW_XID. (Of course 'drawable'
is no longer a relevant concept in GDK3, since pixmaps are no longer
supported and so all drawables are just windows.) We keep backwards
compatibility, of course.
This replaces GTK 1/2's "expose_event", and provides a ready-made
cairo_t to do the drawing with. My previous work has already separated
all constructions of a cairo_t from the subsequent drawing with it, so
the new draw event handlers just have to call the latter without the
former.
This is the new recommended approach since gdk_input_{add,remove} were
deprecated (and, honestly, seems a lot more sensible - why on earth
would those functions have lived in *GDK* of all places?). The old
implementation is preserved under ifdef for GTK1.
This was the last of the GDK deprecated functions to go! So GTK PuTTY
now compiles cleanly with -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED in addition to all
the other precautionary flags (though if you do that, you disable GDK
rendering, which greatly slows down server-side font handling). This
completes the GTK2-compatible preparation phase of the GTK 3 migration
guide.
In case a front end needs to store more than an integer id to be
returned to uxsel_input_remove, we now return a pointer to a
frontend-defined structure.
GTK is deprecating the use of gdk_window_set_icon(), in favour of a
method that doesn't have to drop down to the GDK level at all (and
also doesn't use a pixmap). No reason not to use that instead.
We still don't actually support more than one X display active at
once, so it's sufficient to replace every call to that macro with
GDK_DISPLAY_XDISPLAY(gdk_display_get_default()).
We won't be able to use them in GTK3, or when compiling with GTK2 and
-DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
This applies to the one we use for the main terminal window, and also
the small one we use for the preview pane in the unified font selector.
A small bug in yesterday's work: since in Cairo mode
draw_stretch_before changes the transformation matrix, if we do it
before calling draw_clip then the clip region will be interpreted in
the transformed coordinates.
This caused a subtle display bug in yesterday's commit: drawing one
half of double-height text would have drawn _both_ halves of it on to
the window's backing pixmap, but only copied the correct half on to
the window proper - but the overdrawing on the pixmap would have shown
up if the window was hidden and re-exposed.
We were previously building our own mouse pointers out of pixmaps,
having first drawn characters from the X server standard font 'cursor'
on to those pixmaps, giving an effect almost exactly the same as just
calling gdk_cursor_new(some constant) except that we got to choose the
foreground and background colours of the resulting pointers.
But it's not clear why we needed to do that! In both GTK1 and GTK2 as
of my current testing, the standard colours appear to be just what I
wanted anyway (white pointer with black outline). The previous
implementation (and commit comment) was written in 2002, so perhaps it
was working around a GTK1 bug of the time.
So I've removed it completely, and replaced it with simple calls to
gdk_cursor_new (plus a workaround for GTK1's lack of GDK_BLANK_CURSOR,
but that's still much simpler than the previous code). If anyone does
report a colour problem, I may have to go back to doing something
clever, but if I can possibly arrange it, I'll want to do it by some
other technique, probably (as suggested in a comment in the previous
implementation) getting the underlying X cursor id and calling
XRecolorCursor.
We're going to have to use Cairo in the GTK3 port, because that's all
GTK3 supports; but we still need old-style GDK for GTK1 support, and
also for performance reasons in GTK2 (see below). Hence, this change
completely restructures GTK PuTTY's drawing code so that there's a
central 'drawing context' structure which contains a type code
indicating GDK or Cairo, and then either some GDK gubbins or some
Cairo gubbins as appropriate; all actual drawing is abstracted through
a set of routines which test the type code in that structure and do
one thing or another. And because the type code is tested at run time,
both sets of drawing primitives can be compiled in at once, and where
possible, they will be.
X server-side bitmap fonts are still supported in the Cairo world, but
because Cairo drawing is entirely client-side, they have to work by
cheekily downloading each glyph bitmap from the server when it's first
needed, and building up a client-side cache of 'cairo_surface_t's
containing the bitmaps with which we then draw on the window. This
technique works, but it's rather slow; hence, even in GTK2, we keep
the GDK drawing back end compiled in, and switch over to it when the
main selected font is a bitmap one.
One visible effect of the new Cairo routines is in the double-width
and double-height text you can get by sending ESC # 3, ESC # 4 and
ESC # 6 escape sequences. In GDK, that's always been done by a really
horrible process of manually scaling the bitmap, server-side, column
by column and row by row, causing each pixel to be exactly doubled or
quadrupled. But in Cairo, we can just set a transformation matrix, and
then that takes effect _before_ the scalable fonts are rendered - so
the results are visibly nicer, and use all the available resolution.
(Sadly, if you're using a server-side bitmap font as your primary one,
then the GDK backend will be selected for all drawing in the terminal
as a whole - so in that situation, even fallback characters absent
from the primary font and rendered by Pango will get the old GDK
scaling treatment. It's only if your main font is scalable, so that
the Cairo backend is selected, that DW/DH characters will come out
looking nice.)
GTK 2 has deprecated it and provided no replacement; a bug tracker
entry I found on the subject suggested that it was functionality that
didn't really belong in GTK, and glib ought to provide a replacement
instead, which would be a perfectly fine thing to suggest if they had
waited for glib to get round to doing so *before* throwing out a
function people were actually using. Sigh.
Anyway, it turns out that subsidiary invocations of gtk_main() don't
happen inside GTK as far as I can see, so all I need to do is to make
sure my own invocations of gtk_main() are followed by a cleanup
function which runs any quit functions that I've registered.
That was the last deprecated GTK function, so we now build cleanly
with -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED. (But, as mentioned a couple of commits
ago, we still don't build with -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED, because that
has migrating to Cairo drawing as a prerequisite.)
Now that I've got a general place to centralise handling of at least
the simple differences between GTK 1 and 2, I should use it wherever
possible. So this commit removes just a small number of ifdefs which
are either obsoleted by definitions already in gtkcompat.h (like
set_size_request vs set_usize), or can easily be replaced by adding
another (e.g. gtk_color_selection_set_has_opacity_control).
Building with -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED, we now suffer only one compile
failure, for the use of gtk_quit_add() in idle_toplevel_callback_func.
That function is apparently removed with no replacement in GTK 3, so
I'll need to find a completely different approach to getting toplevel
callbacks to run only in the outermost instance of gtk_main().
Also, this change doesn't do anything about the use of *GDK*
deprecated functions, because those include the entire family of
old-style drawing functions - i.e. the only way to build cleanly with
-DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED will be to switch to Cairo drawing.
On GTK versions where it's available, this is a much nicer way of
handling the -geometry command-line option, since not only do we get
all the faffing about with gravity for free, it also automatically
sets the user-position WM hints.
All the things like GtkType, GtkObject, gtk_signal_connect and so on
should now consistently have the new-style glib names like GType,
GObject, g_signal_connect, etc.
A major aim of introducing GTK 3 support is to permit compiling for
non-X11 platforms that GTK 3 supports, so I'm going to need to be able
to build as a pure GTK application with no use of X11 internals.
Naturally, I don't intend to stop supporting the hybrid GTK+X11 mode
in which X server-side bitmap fonts are available.
Use of X11 can be removed by compiling with -DNOT_X_WINDOWS. That's
the same compatibility flag that was already used by the unfinished OS
X port to disable the X-specific parts of uxpty.c; now it just applies
to more source files.
(There's no 'configure' option to set this flag at present. I haven't
worked out whether we'll need one yet.)
GTK 2 doesn't _documentedly_ provide a helpful compile option to let
us check this one in advance of GTK 3, but you can fake one anyway by
compiling with -D__GDK_KEYSYMS_COMPAT_H__, so that gdkkeysyms-compat.h
will believe that it's already been included :-) We now build cleanly
under GTK 2 with that predefine.
This is the first of several cleanup steps recommended by the GTK 2->3
migration guide.
I intend to begin work towards compatibility with GTK 3, but without
breaking GTK 2 and even GTK 1 compatibility in the process; GTK 2 is
still useful to _me_ (not least because it permits much easier support
of old-style server-side X11 fonts), and I recall hearing a rumour
that at least one kind of strange system can only run GTK 1, so for
the moment I don't intend to stop supporting either.
Including gdkkeysyms.h is not optional in GTK 2, because gdk.h does
not include it. In GTK 3 it does, so we don't explicitly reinclude it
ourselves.
We now build cleanly in GTK2 with -DGTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES. (But
that doesn't say much, because we did already! Apparently gdkkeysyms.h
was a special case which that #define didn't forbid.)
Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
having the right constness).
Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
- the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
- I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
- I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
- stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
I'm not actually sure why we've always had back ends notify ldisc of
changes to echo/edit settings by giving ldisc_send(ldisc,NULL,0,0) a
special meaning, instead of by having a separate dedicated notify
function with its own prototype and parameter set. Coverity's recent
observation that the two kinds of call don't even have the same
requirements on the ldisc (particularly, whether ldisc->term can be
NULL) makes me realise that it's really high time I separated the two
conceptually different operations into actually different functions.
While I'm here, I've renamed the confusing ldisc_update() function
which that special operation ends up feeding to, because it's not
actually a function applying to an ldisc - it applies to a front end.
So ldisc_send(ldisc,NULL,0,0) is now ldisc_echoedit_update(ldisc), and
that in turn figures out the current echo/edit settings before passing
them on to frontend_echoedit_update(). I think that should be clearer.
