It's now possible to create a little applet window that sits inside the
system's menubar. This is done using the new CreateMenuApplet IPC call.
So far, it's possible to assign a backing store ID, and to invalidate
rects for repaint. There is no way to get the events from inside the
applet just yet.
This will allow us to move the CPU graph and audio thingy to separate
applet processes. :^)
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 :^)
Clicking on this icon toggles the AudioServer muted state.
It currently does not react to muted state changes caused by other
programs, since it has no way of learning about those from AudioServer,
other than performing a synchronous IPC call (GetMuted), which we don't
want to be doing in the WindowServer :^)
This patch adds pthread_create() and pthread_exit(), which currently
simply wrap our existing create_thread() and exit_thread() syscalls.
LibThread is also ported to using LibPthread.
Instead of LibGUI and WindowServer building their own copies of the drawing
and graphics code, let's it in a separate LibDraw library.
This avoids building the code twice, and will encourage better separation
of concerns. :^)
Previously we were rendering the whole menubar on every compose(),
even if nothing changed about it. Now it's in its own window and can
be invalidated and painted separately.
This was pretty straightforward thanks to the work I did separating out
LibCore from LibGUI already. :^)
- WSMessageLoop now inherits from CEventLoop.
- WSMessage now inherits from CEvent.
- WSMessageReceiver goes away.
Now there is only one event loop in Serenity. Very nice!
The window frame is an object that contains a window, its title bar and
window border. This way WSWindowManager doesn't have to know about all the
different types of window borders, titlebar rects, etc.
Cooperate with the compiler to generate and execute the _init_array list
of constructor functions on userspace program statup. This took two days
to get working, my goodness. :^)
