rework mouse events propagation

modules/game/styles/miniwindow.otui

@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ MiniWindow < UIMiniWindow
 
 MiniWindowContents < ScrollablePanel
   anchors.fill: parent
-  padding: 25 21 3 8
+  margin-right: 14
+  padding: 25 8 3 8
   vertical-scrollbar: miniwindowScrollBar
 
 BorderlessGameWindow < UIWindow

modules/game_inventory/inventory.lua

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Inventory = {}
 
 -- private variables
-local inventoryWindow
+local inventoryPanel
 local inventoryButton
 
 -- public functions
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function Inventory.init()
 
   Keyboard.bindKeyDown('Ctrl+I', Inventory.toggle)
 
-  inventoryWindow = displayUI('inventory.otui', GameInterface.getRightPanel()):getChildById('inventoryWindow')
+  inventoryPanel = displayUI('inventory.otui', GameInterface.getRightPanel()):getChildById('inventoryPanel')
   inventoryButton = TopMenu.addGameToggleButton('inventoryButton', 'Inventory (Ctrl+I)', 'inventory.png', Inventory.toggle)
   inventoryButton:setOn(true)
 
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ function Inventory.terminate()
 
   Keyboard.unbindKeyDown('Ctrl+I')
 
-  inventoryWindow:destroy()
+  inventoryPanel:destroy()
-  inventoryWindow = nil
+  inventoryPanel = nil
   inventoryButton:destroy()
   inventoryButton = nil
 end
 
 function Inventory.toggle()
-  local visible = not inventoryWindow:isExplicitlyVisible()
+  local visible = not inventoryPanel:isExplicitlyVisible()
-  inventoryWindow:setVisible(visible)
+  inventoryPanel:setVisible(visible)
   inventoryButton:setOn(visible)
 end
 
@@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ end
 
 -- hooked events
 function Inventory.onInventoryChange(slot, item)
-  local itemWidget = inventoryWindow:getChildById('slot' .. slot)
+  local itemWidget = inventoryPanel:getChildById('slot' .. slot)
   itemWidget:setItem(item)
 end
 
 function Inventory.onFreeCapacityChange(freeCapacity)
-  local widget = inventoryWindow:getChildById('capacity')
+  local widget = inventoryPanel:getChildById('capacity')
   widget:setText("Cap:\n" .. freeCapacity)
 end
 
 function Inventory.onSoulChange(soul)
-  local widget = inventoryWindow:getChildById('soul')
+  local widget = inventoryPanel:getChildById('soul')
   widget:setText("Soul:\n" .. soul)
 end

modules/game_inventory/inventory.otui

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 MiniWindow
+  id: inventoryMiniWindow
   text: Inventory
   icon: inventory.png
   width: 192
   height: 154
 
   MiniWindowContents
-    id: inventoryWindow
+    id: inventoryPanel
 
     Item
       // head

src/framework/application.cpp

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ Application::Application(const std::string& appName)
 {
     g_app = this;
     m_appName = appName;
-    m_pollCycleDelay = POLL_CYCLE_DELAY;
     m_frameSleep = 0;
 }
 
@@ -181,14 +180,11 @@ void Application::run()
     g_lua.callGlobalField("g_app", "onRun");
 
     while(!m_stopping) {
+        // only update the current time once per frame to gain performance
         g_clock.updateTicks();
 
-        // poll events every POLL_CYCLE_DELAY
+        // poll all events before rendering
-        // this delay exists to avoid massive polling thus increasing framerate
+        poll();
-        //if(g_clock.ticksElapsed(lastPollTicks) >= m_pollCycleDelay) {
-            poll();
-        //    lastPollTicks = g_clock.ticks();
-        //}
 
         if(m_appFlags & Fw::AppEnableGraphics && g_window.isVisible()) {
             g_graphics.beginRender();
@@ -218,15 +214,14 @@ void Application::exit()
 
 void Application::poll()
 {
-    // poll input events
     if(m_appFlags & Fw::AppEnableGraphics) {
+        // poll input events
         g_window.poll();
-        g_particleManager.update();
+        //g_particleManager.update();
     }
 
     Connection::poll();
-    //g_eventDispatcher.poll(true);
+    g_eventDispatcher.poll();
-    g_eventDispatcher.poll(true);
 }
 
 void Application::close()
@@ -237,10 +232,10 @@ void Application::close()
 
 void Application::render()
 {
-    // everything is rendered by UI components
+    // everything is rendered by UI components, even the game
     g_ui.render();
 
-    g_particleManager.render();
+    //g_particleManager.render();
 }
 
 void Application::resize(const Size& size)

src/framework/application.h

@@ -44,12 +44,10 @@ public:
     virtual void close();
 
     void setFrameSleep(int delay) { m_frameSleep = delay; }
-    void setPollCycleDelay(int delay) { m_pollCycleDelay = delay; }
 
     bool isRunning() { return m_running; }
     bool isStopping() { return m_stopping; }
     int getFrameSleep() { return m_frameSleep; }
-    int getPollCycleDelay() { return m_pollCycleDelay; }
     const std::string& getName() { return m_appName; }
     const std::string& getVersion() { return m_appVersion; }
 
@@ -68,7 +66,6 @@ protected:
     std::string m_appBuildDate;
     int m_appFlags;
     int m_frameSleep;
-    int m_pollCycleDelay;
     Boolean<false> m_initialized;
     Boolean<false> m_running;
     Boolean<false> m_stopping;

src/framework/core/eventdispatcher.cpp

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ void EventDispatcher::flush()
         m_scheduledEventList.pop();
 }
 
-void EventDispatcher::poll(bool allEvents)
+void EventDispatcher::poll()
 {
     while(!m_scheduledEventList.empty()) {
         ScheduledEventPtr scheduledEvent = m_scheduledEventList.top();
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@ void EventDispatcher::poll(bool allEvents)
         scheduledEvent->execute();
     }
 
-    do {
+    // execute events list up to 3 times, this is needed because some events can schedule new events that would
+    // change the UIWidgets layout, in this case we must execute these new events before we continue rendering,
+    // we can't loop until the event list is empty, because this could lead to infinite loops
+    // if someone write a module with bad code
+    for(int i=0;i<3;++i) {
         m_pollEventsSize = m_eventList.size();
         if(m_pollEventsSize == 0)
             break;
@@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ void EventDispatcher::poll(bool allEvents)
             m_eventList.pop_front();
             event->execute();
         }
-    } while(allEvents);
+    }
 }
 
 ScheduledEventPtr EventDispatcher::scheduleEvent(const SimpleCallback& callback, int delay)
@@ -68,8 +72,10 @@ ScheduledEventPtr EventDispatcher::scheduleEvent(const SimpleCallback& callback,
 EventPtr EventDispatcher::addEvent(const SimpleCallback& callback, bool pushFront)
 {
     EventPtr event(new Event(callback));
+    // front pushing is a way to execute an event before others
     if(pushFront) {
         m_eventList.push_front(event);
+        // the poll event list only grows when pushing into front
         m_pollEventsSize++;
     } else
         m_eventList.push_back(event);

src/framework/core/eventdispatcher.h

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class EventDispatcher
 {
 public:
     void flush();
-    void poll(bool allEvents = false);
+    void poll();
 
     EventPtr addEvent(const SimpleCallback& callback, bool pushFront = false);
     ScheduledEventPtr scheduleEvent(const SimpleCallback& callback, int delay);

src/framework/luafunctions.cpp

@@ -429,11 +429,9 @@ void Application::registerLuaFunctions()
     g_lua.registerStaticClass("g_app");
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "exit", std::bind(&Application::exit, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "setFrameSleep", std::bind(&Application::setFrameSleep, g_app, _1));
-    g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "setPollCycleDelay", std::bind(&Application::setPollCycleDelay, g_app, _1));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "isRunning", std::bind(&Application::isRunning, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "isStopping", std::bind(&Application::isStopping, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "getFrameSleep", std::bind(&Application::getFrameSleep, g_app));
-    g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "getPollCycleDelay", std::bind(&Application::getPollCycleDelay, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "getName", std::bind(&Application::getName, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "getVersion", std::bind(&Application::getVersion, g_app));
     g_lua.bindClassStaticFunction("g_app", "getBuildCompiler", std::bind(&Application::getBuildCompiler, g_app));

src/framework/ui/uimanager.cpp

@@ -85,7 +85,16 @@ void UIManager::inputEvent(const InputEvent& event)
                     pressedWidget = nullptr;
                 updatePressedWidget(pressedWidget, event.mousePos);
             }
-            m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMousePress(event.mousePos, event.mouseButton);
+
+            m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMouseEvent(event.mousePos, widgetList);
+            for(const UIWidgetPtr& widget : widgetList) {
+                if(widget->isFocusable()) {
+                    if(UIWidgetPtr parent = widget->getParent())
+                        parent->focusChild(widget, Fw::MouseFocusReason);
+                }
+                widget->onMousePress(event.mousePos, event.mouseButton);
+            }
+
             break;
         case Fw::MouseReleaseInputEvent: {
             // release dragging widget
@@ -94,7 +103,7 @@ void UIManager::inputEvent(const InputEvent& event)
                 accepted = updateDraggingWidget(nullptr, event.mousePos);
 
             if(!accepted) {
-                m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMouseRelease(event.mousePos, event.mouseButton, widgetList);
+                m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMouseEvent(event.mousePos, widgetList);
 
                 // mouse release is always fired first on the pressed widget
                 if(m_pressedWidget) {
@@ -139,7 +148,7 @@ void UIManager::inputEvent(const InputEvent& event)
             break;
         }
         case Fw::MouseWheelInputEvent:
-            m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMouseWheel(event.mousePos, event.wheelDirection, widgetList);
+            m_mouseReceiver->propagateOnMouseEvent(event.mousePos, widgetList);
             for(const UIWidgetPtr& widget : widgetList) {
                 if(widget->onMouseWheel(event.mousePos, event.wheelDirection))
                     break;

src/framework/ui/uiwidget.cpp

@@ -1483,83 +1483,36 @@ bool UIWidget::propagateOnKeyUp(uchar keyCode, int keyboardModifiers)
     return onKeyUp(keyCode, keyboardModifiers);
 }
 
-bool UIWidget::propagateOnMousePress(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseButton button)
+bool UIWidget::propagateOnMouseEvent(const Point& mousePos, UIWidgetList& widgetList)
-{
+{
-    // do a backup of children list, because it may change while looping it
+    bool ret = false;
-    UIWidgetPtr clickedChild;
+    if(containsChildPoint(mousePos)) {
-    for(const UIWidgetPtr& child : m_children) {
+        for(auto it = m_children.rbegin(); it != m_children.rend(); ++it) {
-        // events on hidden or disabled widgets are discarded
+            const UIWidgetPtr& child = *it;
-        if(!child->isExplicitlyEnabled() || !child->isExplicitlyVisible())
+            if(child->isExplicitlyEnabled() && child->isExplicitlyVisible() && child->containsPoint(mousePos)) {
-            continue;
+                if(child->propagateOnMouseEvent(mousePos, widgetList)) {
-
+                    ret = true;
-        // mouse press events only go to children that contains the mouse position
+                    break;
-        if(child->containsPoint(mousePos) && child == getChildByPos(mousePos)) {
+                }
-            clickedChild = child;
+            }
-            break;
         }
     }
 
-    if(clickedChild) {
+    widgetList.push_back(asUIWidget());
-        // focusable child gains focus when clicked
-        if(clickedChild->isFocusable())
-            focusChild(clickedChild, Fw::MouseFocusReason);
-
-        // stop propagating if the child accept the event
-        if(clickedChild->propagateOnMousePress(mousePos, button))
-            return true;
-    }
-
-    // only non phatom widgets receives mouse events
-    if(!isPhantom())
-        return onMousePress(mousePos, button);
-
-    return false;
-}
-
-void UIWidget::propagateOnMouseRelease(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseButton button, UIWidgetList& widgetList)
-{
-    // do a backup of children list, because it may change while looping it
-    for(const UIWidgetPtr& child : m_children) {
-        // events on hidden or disabled widgets are discarded
-        if(!child->isExplicitlyEnabled() || !child->isExplicitlyVisible())
-            continue;
-
-        // mouse press events only go to children that contains the mouse position
-        if(child->containsPoint(mousePos) && child == getChildByPos(mousePos)) {
-            child->propagateOnMouseRelease(mousePos, button, widgetList);
-            break;
-        }
-    }
 
-    // only non phatom widgets receives mouse release events
     if(!isPhantom())
-        widgetList.push_back(asUIWidget());
+        ret = true;
-}
+    return ret;
-
-void UIWidget::propagateOnMouseMove(const Point& mousePos, const Point& mouseMoved, UIWidgetList& widgetList)
-{
-    for(const UIWidgetPtr& child : m_children) {
-        // events on hidden or disabled widgets are discarded
-        if(!child->isExplicitlyEnabled() || !child->isExplicitlyVisible())
-            continue;
-
-        // mouse move events go to all children
-        child->propagateOnMouseMove(mousePos, mouseMoved, widgetList);
-    }
-    widgetList.push_back(asUIWidget());
 }
 
-void UIWidget::propagateOnMouseWheel(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseWheelDirection direction, UIWidgetList& widgetList)
+bool UIWidget::propagateOnMouseMove(const Point& mousePos, const Point& mouseMoved, UIWidgetList& widgetList)
 {
-    for(const UIWidgetPtr& child : m_children) {
+    for(auto it = m_children.begin(); it != m_children.end(); ++it) {
-        // events on hidden or disabled widgets are discarded
+        const UIWidgetPtr& child = *it;
-        if(!child->isExplicitlyEnabled() || !child->isExplicitlyVisible())
+        if(child->isExplicitlyVisible() && child->isExplicitlyEnabled())
-            continue;
+            child->propagateOnMouseMove(mousePos, mouseMoved, widgetList);
-
-        // mouse wheel events only go to children that contains the mouse position
-        if(child->containsPoint(mousePos) && child == getChildByPos(mousePos))
-            child->propagateOnMouseWheel(mousePos, direction, widgetList);
     }
 
     widgetList.push_back(asUIWidget());
+    return true;
 }

src/framework/ui/uiwidget.h

@@ -201,10 +201,8 @@ protected:
     bool propagateOnKeyDown(uchar keyCode, int keyboardModifiers);
     bool propagateOnKeyPress(uchar keyCode, int keyboardModifiers, int autoRepeatTicks);
     bool propagateOnKeyUp(uchar keyCode, int keyboardModifiers);
-    bool propagateOnMousePress(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseButton button);
+    bool propagateOnMouseEvent(const Point& mousePos, UIWidgetList& widgetList);
-    void propagateOnMouseRelease(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseButton button, UIWidgetList& widgetList);
+    bool propagateOnMouseMove(const Point& mousePos, const Point& mouseMoved, UIWidgetList& widgetList);
-    void propagateOnMouseMove(const Point& mousePos, const Point& mouseMoved, UIWidgetList& widgetList);
-    void propagateOnMouseWheel(const Point& mousePos, Fw::MouseWheelDirection direction, UIWidgetList& widgetList);
 
 
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