gecko-dev/layout/painting/ActiveLayerTracker.h

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#ifndef ACTIVELAYERTRACKER_H_
#define ACTIVELAYERTRACKER_H_

#include "nsCSSPropertyID.h"

class nsIFrame;
class nsIContent;
class nsCSSPropertyIDSet;
class nsDisplayListBuilder;
class nsDOMCSSDeclaration;

namespace mozilla {

/**
 * This class receives various notifications about style changes and content
 * changes that affect layerization decisions, and implements the heuristics
 * that drive those decisions. It manages per-frame state to support those
 * heuristics.
 */
class ActiveLayerTracker {
 public:
  static void Shutdown();

  /*
   * We track style changes to selected styles:
   *   eCSSProperty_transform, eCSSProperty_translate,
   *   eCSSProperty_rotate, eCSSProperty_scale
   *   eCSSProperty_offset_path, eCSSProperty_offset_distance,
   *   eCSSProperty_offset_rotate, eCSSProperty_offset_anchor,
   *   eCSSProperty_opacity
   *   eCSSProperty_left, eCSSProperty_top,
   *   eCSSProperty_right, eCSSProperty_bottom
   * and use that information to guess whether style changes are animated.
   */

  /**
   * Notify aFrame's style property as having changed due to a restyle,
   * and therefore possibly wanting an active layer to render that style.
   * Any such marking will time out after a short period.
   * @param aProperty the property that has changed
   */
  static void NotifyRestyle(nsIFrame* aFrame, nsCSSPropertyID aProperty);
  /**
   * Notify aFrame's left/top/right/bottom properties as having (maybe)
   * changed due to a restyle, and therefore possibly wanting an active layer
   * to render that style. Any such marking will time out after a short period.
   */
  static void NotifyOffsetRestyle(nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Mark aFrame as being known to have an animation of aProperty.
   * Any such marking will time out after a short period.
   * aNewValue and aDOMCSSDecl are used to determine whether the property's
   * value has changed.
   */
  static void NotifyAnimated(nsIFrame* aFrame, nsCSSPropertyID aProperty,
                             const nsACString& aNewValue,
                             nsDOMCSSDeclaration* aDOMCSSDecl);
  /**
   * Notify aFrame as being known to have an animation of aProperty through an
   * inline style modification during aScrollFrame's scroll event handler.
   */
  static void NotifyAnimatedFromScrollHandler(nsIFrame* aFrame,
                                              nsCSSPropertyID aProperty,
                                              nsIFrame* aScrollFrame);
  /**
   * Notify that a property in the inline style rule of aFrame's element
   * has been modified.
   * This notification is incomplete --- not all modifications to inline
   * style will trigger this.
   * aNewValue and aDOMCSSDecl are used to determine whether the property's
   * value has changed.
   */
  static void NotifyInlineStyleRuleModified(nsIFrame* aFrame,
                                            nsCSSPropertyID aProperty,
                                            const nsACString& aNewValue,
                                            nsDOMCSSDeclaration* aDOMCSSDecl);
  /**
   * Notify that a frame needs to be repainted. This is important for layering
   * decisions where, say, aFrame's transform is updated from JS, but we need
   * to repaint aFrame anyway, so we get no benefit from giving it its own
   * layer.
   */
  static void NotifyNeedsRepaint(nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if aFrame's property style in |aPropertySet| should be
   * considered as being animated for constructing active layers.
   */
  static bool IsStyleAnimated(nsDisplayListBuilder* aBuilder, nsIFrame* aFrame,
                              const nsCSSPropertyIDSet& aPropertySet);
  /**
   * Return true if any of aFrame's offset property styles should be considered
   * as being animated for constructing active layers.
   */
  static bool IsOffsetStyleAnimated(nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if aFrame's background-position-x or background-position-y
   * property is animated.
   */
  static bool IsBackgroundPositionAnimated(nsDisplayListBuilder* aBuilder,
                                           nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if aFrame's transform-like property,
   * i.e. transform/translate/rotate/scale, is animated.
   */
  static bool IsTransformAnimated(nsDisplayListBuilder* aBuilder,
                                  nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if aFrame's transform style should be considered as being
   * animated for pre-rendering.
   */
  static bool IsTransformMaybeAnimated(nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if aFrame either has an animated scale now, or is likely to
   * have one in the future because it has a CSS animation or transition
   * (which may not be playing right now) that affects its scale.
   */
  static bool IsScaleSubjectToAnimation(nsIFrame* aFrame);

  /**
   * Transfer the LayerActivity property to the frame's content node when the
   * frame is about to be destroyed so that layer activity can be tracked
   * throughout reframes of an element. Only call this when aFrame is the
   * primary frame of aContent.
   */
  static void TransferActivityToContent(nsIFrame* aFrame, nsIContent* aContent);
  /**
   * Transfer the LayerActivity property back to the content node's primary
   * frame after the frame has been created.
   */
  static void TransferActivityToFrame(nsIContent* aContent, nsIFrame* aFrame);

  /*
   * We track modifications to the content of certain frames (i.e. canvas
   * frames) and use that to make layering decisions.
   */

  /**
   * Mark aFrame's content as being active. This marking will time out after
   * a short period.
   */
  static void NotifyContentChange(nsIFrame* aFrame);
  /**
   * Return true if this frame's content is still marked as active.
   */
  static bool IsContentActive(nsIFrame* aFrame);

  /**
   * Called before and after a scroll event handler is executed, with the
   * scrollframe or nullptr, respectively. This acts as a hint to treat
   * inline style changes during the handler differently.
   */
  static void SetCurrentScrollHandlerFrame(nsIFrame* aFrame);
};

}  // namespace mozilla

#endif /* ACTIVELAYERTRACKER_H_ */