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Clutter requires a new version of Cogl's API, but we never bumped the
requirement inside configure.ac.

Instead of chaining up, given that we want to bypass chaining up and
just set the allocation. This also allows us to bail out of the
overridden allocate vfunc check, given that we want the default Actor
behaviour to apply - including eventual layout manager delegates.

The usual way to implement a container actor is to override the
allocate() virtual function, chain up, and then allocate the actor's
children.

Clutter now has the ability to delegate layout management to
ClutterLayoutManager directly; in the allocation, this is done by
checking whether the actor has children, and then call
clutter_layout_manager_allocate() from within the default implementation
of the ClutterActor::allocate() vfunc. The same vfunc that everyone, has
been chaining up to.

Whoopsie.

Well, we can check if there's a layout manager, and if it's NULL, we
bail out. Except that there's a default layout manager, and it's the
fixed layout manager, so that classes like Group and Stage work by
default.

Double whoopsie.

The fix for this scenario is a bit nasty; we have to check if the actor
class has overridden the allocate() vfunc or not, before actually
looking at the layout manager. This means that classes that override the
allocate() vfunc are expected to do everything that ClutterActor's
default implementation does - which I think it's a fair requirement to
have.

For newly written code, though, it would probably be best if we just
provided a function that does the right thing by default, and that
you're supposed to be calling from within the allocate() vfunc
implementation, if you ever chose to override it. This new function,
clutter_actor_set_allocation(), should come with a warning the size of
Texas, to avoid people thinking it's a way to override the whole "call
allocate() on each child" mechanism. Plus, it should check if we're
inside an allocation sequence, and bail out if not.

Check the allocation, when one is being used to initialize the paint
volume.

Thanks to diegoe for the help with testing.

If we go through the whole exercise of having private dependencies, we
should at least use the compiler flags and linker flags that those
dependencies give us when building Clutter.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668137

Toolkits tracking first and last children of a ClutterActor can use
these properties to get notification of hierarchy changes.

If we want to set a default layout manager, we need to do so inside
init(), as it's not guaranteed that people subclassing Actor and
overriding ::constructed will actually chain up as they should.

Use ClutterActor directly, instead.

The default pick() behaviour does not take into consideration the
children of a ClutterActor because the existing containter actors
usually override pick(), chain up, and then paint their children.

With ClutterActor now a concrete class, though, we need a way to pick
its children without requiring a sub-class; we could simply iterate over
the children inside the default pick() implementation, but this would
lead to double painting, which is not acceptable.

A moderately gross hack is to check if the Actor instance did override
the pick() implementation, and if it is not the case, paint the children
in pick mode.

The hide_all() method is pretty much pointless, as hiding an actor will
automatically prevent its children from being painted. The show_all()
method would only be marginally useful, if actors weren't set to be
visible by default when added to another actor - which was the case when
we introduced show_all() and hide_all().

Accessing a variable before it is being set is not a great plan.

 * Abstracts the buffer for text in ClutterText
 * Allows implementation of undo/redo.
 * Allows use of non-pageable memory for text
   in the case of sensitive passwords.
 * Implement a test with two ClutterText using the same
   buffer.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652653

When dereferencing GArray.data to a C structure you need a double cast
from guint8* to void*, and then from void* to the actual type. This
avoids compiler warnings, especially when using clang on OSX.

The concept of "internal child" only meant anything when we had a
separate API for containers and actors. Now that we plugged that
particular hole, we can drop all the hacks we used to have in place
to work around its design limitations.

It can be convenient to be able to set, or get, all the components of an
actor's margin at the same time; since we already have a boxed type for
storing a margin, an accessors pair based on it is not a complicated
addition to the API.