This patch introduces code generation for the WindowServer IPC with
its clients. The client/server endpoints are defined by the two .ipc
files in Servers/WindowServer/: WindowServer.ipc and WindowClient.ipc
It now becomes significantly easier to add features and capabilities
to WindowServer since you don't have to know nearly as much about all
the intricate paths that IPC messages take between LibGUI and WSWindow.
The new system also uses significantly less IPC bandwidth since we're
now doing packed serialization instead of passing fixed-sized structs
of ~600 bytes for each message.
Some repaint coalescing optimizations are lost in this conversion and
we'll need to look at how to implement those in the new world.
The old CoreIPC::Client::Connection and CoreIPC::Server::Connection
classes are removed by this patch and replaced by use of ConnectionNG,
which will be renamed eventually.
Goodbye, old WindowServer IPC. You served us well :^)
Added a window creation callback to GApplication that gets called
by GWindow which will reset any pending exit request in the
CEventLoop.
This is to prevent a bug which prevents your application from
starting up if you had a message box or other dialog before
showing your main application form. The bug was triggered by
there being no more visible windows which was triggering a
premature quit().
GEventLoop was just a dummy subclass of CEventLoop anyway. The only
thing it actually did was make sure a GWindowServerConnectionw was
instantiated. We now take care of that in GApplication instead.
CEventLoop is now non-virtual and a little less confusing. :^)
Okay, I've spent a whole day on this now, and it finally kinda works!
With this patch, CObject and all of its derived classes are reference
counted instead of tree-owned.
The previous, Qt-like model was nice and familiar, but ultimately also
outdated and difficult to reason about.
CObject-derived types should now be stored in RefPtr/NonnullRefPtr and
each class can be constructed using the forwarding construct() helper:
auto widget = GWidget::construct(parent_widget);
Note that construct() simply forwards all arguments to an existing
constructor. It is inserted into each class by the C_OBJECT macro,
see CObject.h to understand how that works.
CObject::delete_later() disappears in this patch, as there is no longer
a single logical owner of a CObject.
Cached tooltip windows were preventing the automatic event loop shutdown.
It's not like we were gaining much by caching these anyway, since we only
cached the GWindow, not anything on the WindowServer side.
This behavior is the new opt-out default. If you don't want your app to exit
when the last GWindow is destroyed, call this:
- void GApplication::set_quit_set_quit_when_last_window_deleted(bool)
Also renamed "windows()" to "reified_windows" in GWindow.cpp to reflect that
it only contains GWindows that have a server-side representation. :^)
