With only a few exceptions for simple structures, we do not expose the
members of classes. Instead, we provide accessor methods. Do this for
Camera as well as add some helper methods.
The width and height are maintained out of necessity by the canvas. A
second copy was maintained by the camera, which was only used for
computing the aspect ratio and similar metrics for projections.
Having to maintain the width/height in two places is a bit of a hassle
and provides the opportunity for bugs if they get out of sync. Instead,
have the width/height managed in one place (the canvas) and pass them as
parameters as necessary.
Move some of the management of the width, height, and buffers to the base
Canvas class. Also, when it makes sense, get the width and height from
the rendering system.
Also changed the color buffer to be a Vec so that you don't have to
manage array offsets by hand.
All of these changes snowballed from the observation that the glut
example did not properly enable the depth buffer.
Generally we try not to expose the implementation details of how things
are stored in objects.
Also changed some arguments that should have been declared const to
actually be const.
Rename rendering classes
Per our discussion in our last technical meeting, we are renaming several
of the rendering classes to be more clear and consistent with other
software products.
See merge request !437
The word surface is more often used for something like a polygonal mesh,
so this name is quite confusing. Canvas is consistent with a
conventional name in GUI widget APIs.
The rendering classes do not actually manage windows, and window was not
descriptive of what this class was doing. We decided that the class was
mostly analogous to what we call a "view" in ParaView.
For header files, this only adds the file to IDE file lists, which is
convenient but not critical. However, the test did find a ligit error in
the hello_world example where the TBB build was actually using the
serial device adapter.
Previously, DynamicArrayHandle and DynamicCellSet had slightly different
interfaces to their CastTo feature. It was a bit confusing and not all
that easy to use.
This change simplifies and unifies them by making each class have a single
CopyTo method that takes a reference to a cast object (an ArrayHandle or
CellSet, respectively) and fills that object with the data contained if
the cast is successfull. This interface gets around having to declare
strange types.
Each object also has a Cast method that has to have a template parameter
specified and returns a reference of that type (if possible).
In addition, the old behavior is preserved for DynamicArrayHandle (but
not DynamicCellSet). To avoid confusion, the name of that cast method is
CastToTypeStorage. However, the method was chaned to not take parameters
to make it consistent with the other Cast method.
Also, the IsType methods have been modified to reflect changes in
cast/copy. IsType now no longer takes arguments. However, an alternate
IsSameType does the same thing but does take an argument.
Previously each device adapter only had a unique string name. This was
not the best when it came to developing data structures to track the status
of a given device at runtime.
This adds in a unique numeric identifier to each device adapter. This will
allow classes to easily create bitmasks / lookup tables for the validity of
devices.
The RuntimeDeviceInformation class allows developers to check if a given
device is supported on a machine at runtime. This allows developers to properly
check for CUDA support before running any worklets.
When writing multiple backend code users of vtkm need to use the
DeviceAdapterTraits classes, so therefore we should move them to vtkm::cont
to signify this.
vtkm::Id is a signed integer whereas size_t used by standard C++
functions is unsigned. It doesn't matter, but compilers like to complain
about it. Make any such conversions explicit.
Improve CMake module
Some improvements to VTKmConfig.cmake and the device configuration scripts to better support CMake projects using VTK-m.
See merge request !271
