The main issue of 'type-less' standard C allocations is that there is no check on
allocated type possible.
This is a serious source of annoyance (and crashes) when making some
low-level structs non-trivial, as tracking down all usages of these
structs in higher-level other structs and their allocation is... really
painful.
MEM_[cm]allocN<T> templates on the other hand do check that the
given type is trivial, at build time (static assert), which makes such issue...
trivial to catch.
NOTE: New code should strive to use MEM_new (i.e. allocation and
construction) as much as possible, even for trivial PoD types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136134
- Fixes preview flickering on actions like undo/redo in the asset shelf (#93726), not yet for the
file browser.
- Fixes#130861.
Makes the asset shelf use the asynchronous preview loading system of the UI instead of the file
browser one. The issues above where mostly caused by the file browser caching design.
The asset system and its UIs can now manage previews independently of the file browser back-end.
This is another step towards making the asset system independent of the file browser, see
https://developer.blender.org/docs/features/asset_system/fundamentals/from_file_browser_to_asset_system/.
Code to query asset previews through file browser types is removed.
Quite some work was done to prepare the UI preview system for this, to make it on par with the file
browser preview system. E.g.: 9d83061ed4, 315e7e04a8, 5055adc1c0, 16ab6111f7.
Note that the same change should be done to the asset/file browser, but this requires more work.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131871
Instead of requiring an image buffer to draw a bigger preview image
while dragging, allow passing an icon ID and draw that as preview. This
is also how we draw previews elsewhere. Use this for attaching the asset
previews to draggable buttons.
A small user visible change is that previews from the asset browser will
always draw at the default size (multiplied by the interface scale)
while dragging. Previously it used the same size as the asset browser
preview size, which I don't think was useful really. With small sizes
the preview while dragging got unnecessarily small too, with big sizes
it got in the way.
Needed for #131871.
API: merged IMB_scalefastImBuf, IMB_scaleImBuf, IMB_scaleImBuf_threaded
into one function IMB_scale with enum IMBScaleFilter {Nearest, Bilinear, Box}
and bool "threaded" param.
Performance:
- Box filtering (nee IMB_scaleImBuf) can be multi-threaded now.
- Nearest filtering (nee IMB_scalefastImBuf) can be multi-threaded now.
Also fix performance regression on float images caused by fix in #126234
- Bilinear filtering (nee IMB_scaleImBuf_threaded) is several times faster now.
Correctness:
- Nearest and Box filtering: no longer loses half of edge pixels when scaling
up.
- Box: fixed garbage results (and possible out of bounds reads) for non-4
channel float images.
- Bilinear: no longer shifts image when scaling up.
- Bilinear: properly filters when scaling down by 2x2.
Test coverage:
- Add gtest coverage for various IMB_scale modes.
- Add a IMB_performance_test performance test, ran manually.
More details, images and performance numbers in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126390
Also see 06be295946.
These aren't all cases, but a few that I found by addding a static
assert in `MEM_new` so that it fails for trivially constructible types.
Using a non-virtual derived struct for polymorphism is error prone,
especially combined with the requirements of DNA. Instead, use a
separately allocated runtime struct as done for many other DNA structs.
In a followup commit, the remaining runtime members of `PreviewImage`
could be moved to the new runtime struct.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121509
This makes the read and write API functions match more closely, and adds
asserts to check that the data size is as expected.
There are still a few places remaining that use BLO_read_data_address
and similar generic functions, these should eventually be replaced as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120994
When data-block/asset previews were not stored in the thumbnail cache
yet (or were outdated), we'd read them from .blend files. This could
lead to random crashes (but quite reliable with a small number of
previews to be read).
Wasn't clearing runtime memory which could lead to the
`PRV_TAG_DEFFERED` bit being set. This meant we would try to free
deferred preview data since eefee47a8a, which was just garbage memory.
Previously, BKE level preview image code was in `BKE_icons.h` and `icons.hh`.
While these types are related, I always found this quite hard to navigate since
preview image stuff was just in the middle of icon functions. Plus, people
don't expect preview image functions in icon files, the relationship is not
obvious.
Instead, use focused files that make it easy to quickly navigate them
and see what they are dealing with.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111709
