The idea is the following:
Behind-window vibrancy is mostly rendered by the window server. For a given
vibrant region of a window, the window server renders a vibrancy "backdrop",
which is a blurred version of everything that's behind that region, modified
with a color tint and blended in some way. Then it puts our actual window
contents on top of that background.
The backdrop's shape is usually a rectangle. If we don't want it to be a
rectangle, we need to tell the window server about the shape that we want it to
be. We can't just "draw" a different shape in our own rendering, because our
own rendering is merely placed on top of the backdrop - but here we want to
modify the shape of the backdrop itself.
NSVisualEffectView lets us set a mask image on the view. If this view is the
content view of a window, then the view will automatically communicate the mask
image to the window server.
Traditionally, our popup windows have had a ChildView as their content view. If
we now want an NSVisualEffectView to be the content view of the window, then we
need to nest the ChildView inside that NSVisualEffectView.
But this NSVisualEffectView is only needed when the window is vibrant and the
vibrancy backdrop needs to have a certain shape. This is the case for our menus
which need to have rounded corners. If the window transitions to being
non-vibrant, or not needing a special shape, then we can go back to the way our
window's NSView hierarchy has worked traditionally. So we need to reparent
NSViews during those transitions.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Bo2VzjhhR0A
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The idea is the following:
Behind-window vibrancy is mostly rendered by the window server. For a given
vibrant region of a window, the window server renders a vibrancy "backdrop",
which is a blurred version of everything that's behind that region, modified
with a color tint and blended in some way. Then it puts our actual window
contents on top of that background.
The backdrop's shape is usually a rectangle. If we don't want it to be a
rectangle, we need to tell the window server about the shape that we want it to
be. We can't just "draw" a different shape in our own rendering, because our
own rendering is merely placed on top of the backdrop - but here we want to
modify the shape of the backdrop itself.
NSVisualEffectView lets us set a mask image on the view. If this view is the
content view of a window, then the view will automatically communicate the mask
image to the window server.
Traditionally, our popup windows have had a ChildView as their content view. If
we now want an NSVisualEffectView to be the content view of the window, then we
need to nest the ChildView inside that NSVisualEffectView.
But this NSVisualEffectView is only needed when the window is vibrant and the
vibrancy backdrop needs to have a certain shape. This is the case for our menus
which need to have rounded corners. If the window transitions to being
non-vibrant, or not needing a special shape, then we can go back to the way our
window's NSView hierarchy has worked traditionally. So we need to reparent
NSViews during those transitions.
MozReview-Commit-ID: Bo2VzjhhR0A
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This requires renaming the existing nsIntRegion::RectIterator as
nsIntRegion::OldRectIterator to make way for the new nsIntRegion::RectIterator.
This doesn't require many knock-on changes because most existing uses of
that type use the nsIntRegionRectIterator typedef.
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Markus Stange
Andreea Pavel
stefanh@inbox.com
Matt Woodrow
Nicholas Nethercote
Phil Ringnalda
Benoit Girard
Gijs Kruitbosch