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NAME

X11::Protocol::Ext::DAMAGE - drawing notifications

SYNOPSIS

use X11::Protocol;
$X = X11::Protocol->new;
$X->init_extension('DAMAGE')
  or print "DAMAGE extension not available";

my $damage = $X->new_rsrc;
$X->DamageCreate ($damage, $drawable, 'NonEmpty');

sub my_event_handler {
  my %h = @_;
  if ($h{'name'} eq 'DamageNotify') {
    my $drawable = $h{'drawable'};
    $X->DamageSubtract ($damage, 'None', $parts_region);
    # do something for $parts_region changed in $drawable
  }
}

DESCRIPTION

The DAMAGE extension lets a client listen for changes to drawables (windows, pixmaps, etc) due to drawing operations, including drawing into sub-windows which appears in the parent.

This can be used for various kinds of efficient copying or replicating of window contents, such as cloning to another screen, showing a magnified view, etc. The root window can be monitored to get changes on the whole screen.

Content changes due to drawing are conceived as "damage". A server-side damage object accumulates areas as rectangles to make a server-side "region" per the XFIXES 2.0 extension (see X11::Protocol::Ext::XFIXES)

A DamageNotify event is sent from a damage object. A reporting level controls the level of detail, ranging from just one event on becoming non-empty, up to an event for every drawing operation affecting the relevant drawable.

Fetching an accumulated damage region (or part of it) is reckoned as a "repair". It doesn't change any drawables in any way, just fetches the region from the damage object. This fetch is atomic, so nothing is lost if the listening client is a bit lagged etc.

See examples/damage-duplicate.pl in the X11-Protocol-Other sources for one way to use damage to duplicate a window in real-time.

REQUESTS

The following requests are made available with an init_extension(), as per "EXTENSIONS" in X11::Protocol.

my $is_available = $X->init_extension('DAMAGE');

DAMAGE 1.0

($server_major, $server_minor) = $X->DamageQueryVersion ($client_major, $client_minor)

Negotiate a protocol version with the server. $client_major and $client_minor is what the client would like, the returned $server_major and $server_minor is what the server will do, which might be less than requested (but not more).

The current code supports up to 1.1. If asking for higher then be careful that it's upwardly compatible. The module code negotiates a version in init_extension() so an explicit DamageQueryVersion is normally not needed.

$X->DamageCreate ($damage, $drawable, $level)

Create a new damage object in $damage (a new XID) which monitors changes to $drawable. If $drawable is a window then changes to its subwindows are included too.

# listening to every change on the whole screen
my $damage = $X->new_rsrc;
$X->DamageCreate ($damage, $X->root, 'RawRectangles');

$level is an enum string controlling how often DamageNotify events are emitted (see "EVENTS" below).

RawRectangles      every change
DeltaRectangles    when damage region expands
BoundingBox        when damage bounding box expands
NonEmpty           when damage first becomes non-empty
$X->DamageDestroy ($damage)

Destroy $damage.

$X->DamageSubtract ($damage, $repair_region, $parts_region)

Move the accumulated region in $damage to $parts_region (a region XID), and clear it from $damage.

If $parts_region is "None" then $damage is cleared and the region discarded. This can be used if for example the entire $drawable will be copied or re-examined, so the exact parts are not needed.

$repair_region is what portion of $damage to consider. "None" means move and clear everything in $damage. Otherwise $repair_region is a region XID and the portion of the damage region within $repair_region is moved and cleared. Anything outside is left in $damage.

If anything is left in $damage then a new DamageNotify event is immediately sent. This can be good for instance if you picked out a $repair_region corresponding to what you thought was the window size (perhaps from the geometry field of a DamageNotify event), but it has grown in the interim.

Region objects here can be created with the XFIXES 2.0 extension (see X11::Protocol::Ext::XFIXES). It should be available whenever DAMAGE is available. If using "None" and "None" to clear and discard then region objects are not required and there's no need for an init_extension('XFIXES').

DAMAGE 1.1

$X->DamageAdd ($drawable, $region)

Report to any interested damage objects that changes have occurred in $region (a region XID) of $drawable.

This is used by clients which modify a drawable in ways not seen by the normal protocol drawing operations. For example an MIT-SHM shared memory pixmap modified by writing to the memory (see X11::Protocol::Ext::MIT_SHM), or the various "direct rendering" to graphics hardware or GL etc.

EVENTS

DamageNotify events are sent to the client which created the damage object. These events are always generated, there's nothing to select or deselect them. The event has the usual fields

name             "DamageNotify"
synthetic        true if from a SendEvent
code             integer opcode
sequence_number  integer

and event-specific fields

damage        XID, damage object
drawable      XID, as from DamageCreate
level         enum, as from DamageCreate
more          boolean, if more DamageNotify on the way
time          integer, server timestamp
area          arrayref [$x,$y,$width,$height]
geometry      arrayref [$rootx,$rooty,$width,$height]

drawable and level are as from the DamageCreate which made the damage object.

more is true if there's further DamageNotify events on the way for this damage object. This can happen when the "level" means there's a set of area rectangles to report.

area is a rectangle within drawable, as a 4-element arrayref,

[ $x, $y, $width, $height ]

What it covers depends on the reporting level requested,

  • RawRectangles -- a rectangle around an arc, line, etc, drawing operation which changed drawable.

  • DeltaRectangles -- an additional rectangle extending the damage region. Only new rectangles are reported, not any of the existing damage region. Reporting a region addition may require multiple DamageNotify events.

  • BoundingBox -- a bounding box around the damage region accumulated, bigger than previously reported.

  • NonEmpty -- umm, something, maybe the entire drawable.

geometry is the current size and position of the drawable as a 4-element arrayref in root window coordinates. For a pixmap $root_x and $root_y are 0.

[ $root_x, $root_y, $width, $height ]

TYPES

The reporting level above is type "DamageReportLevel". So for example (after a successful $X->init_extension('DAMAGE')),

$number = $X->num('DamageReportLevel', 'RawRectangles');

$string = $X->interp('DamageReportLevel', 3);

See "SYMBOLIC CONSTANTS" in X11::Protocol.

ERRORS

Error type "Damage" is a bad $damage resource XID in a request.

BUGS

The server extension version number is queried in the init_extension, but not yet made available as such. The version determines whether DamageAdd ought to work. Currently that request is always setup, but presumably generates an Opcode error if the server doesn't have it.

SEE ALSO

X11::Protocol, X11::Protocol::Ext::XFIXES

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/x11-protocol-other/index.html

LICENSE

Copyright 2011 Kevin Ryde

X11-Protocol-Other is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

X11-Protocol-Other is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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