Since masking, for performance and themeing reasons, it becomes
interesting to be able to switch clippers on the fly. In particular,
switching from an IMAGE mask to a standard RECT clipper can save a
lot of power when masking is not required.
This new flag "description.clip_to" will behave a bit like a mix of
rel.to and visible:
- It points to a part by name, just like part.clip_to. This will
override the clipper set by the part, or override the default clipper.
- Like "visible", it can not be interpolated between two values, so
it will switch only at the end of a transition.
- By default there is no clip override, which means Edje will fallback
to the part's clipper, if any, or the base (group's) clipper.
NOTE:
- Since a clipper that does not clip anything becomes a standard object,
it is visible and rendered. This will in 99.999% cases not be the
intended behaviour. Currently we can simply use a transparent RECT
in order to always have something clipped by the clipper, but this is
a hack and this will trigger rendering of masks in their surfaces even
when they are not actually used.
Ideally, there should be a flag indicating to Edje & Evas that an object
should be considered a clipper in all situations, and never be rendered
on screen.
TODO:
- Support Edje Edit
- Add Embryo & Lua functions
- Add support in edje_convert
- Add Edje/Evas flag to mark objects as "no_render"
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