class: RenderNode

[19:7] extends: object

The basic block in a scene graph to be rendered using [class@Gsk.Renderer]. Each node has a parent, except the top-level node; each node may have children nodes. Each node has an associated drawing surface, which has the size of the rectangle set when creating it. Render nodes are meant to be transient; once they have been associated to a [class@Gsk.Renderer] it's safe to release any reference you have on them. All [class@Gsk.RenderNode]s are immutable, you can only specify their properties during construction.

Members

• handleObj
• lib
• retainedCallbacks
• signalHandlerNames
• signalSetterHandlers

Methods

• RenderNode (Handle = null)

  Creates a new RenderNode by wrapping a native handle or another wrapper.

  • @p Handle is the native handle or another wrapper whose handle to adopt.

• toNativeHandle (Source)

  Normalizes a constructor argument into a raw pointer carrier. Accepts a raw NativeHandle, a raw NativeBuffer returned from fn.call(...), another generated wrapper exposing handle(), or null. Returns null when the argument carries no pointer.

  • @p Source is the raw handle, raw buffer, wrapper, or null.
  • @r A raw pointer carrier or null when no pointer is present.

• getLib ()

  Returns the opened native library for this generated wrapper.

  • @r The opened native library.

• handle ()

  Returns the wrapped NativeHandle.

  • @r The wrapped NativeHandle.

• isNull ()

  Returns true when the wrapped handle is null.

  • @r A bool.

• describe ()

  Returns a small string for debugging generated wrappers.

  • @r A string.

• draw (object cr)

  Draws the contents of a render node on a cairo context. Typically, you'll use this function to implement fallback rendering of render nodes on an intermediate Cairo context, instead of using the drawing context associated to a [class@Gdk.Surface]'s rendering buffer. For advanced nodes that cannot be supported using Cairo, in particular for nodes doing 3D operations, this function may fail.

  • @p cr is cairo context to draw to.
  • @r None.

• get_node_type ()

  Returns the type of the render node.

• ref ()

  Acquires a reference on the given GskRenderNode.

• serialize ()

  Serializes the @node for later deserialization via gsk_render_node_deserialize(). No guarantees are made about the format used other than that the same version of GTK will be able to deserialize the result of a call to gsk_render_node_serialize() and gsk_render_node_deserialize() will correctly reject files it cannot open that were created with previous versions of GTK. The intended use of this functions is testing, benchmarking and debugging. The format is not meant as a permanent storage format.

• unref ()

  Releases a reference on the given GskRenderNode. If the reference was the last, the resources associated to the @node are freed.

  • @r None.

• write_to_file (string filename)

  This function is equivalent to calling [method@Gsk.RenderNode.serialize] followed by [func@GLib.file_set_contents]. See those two functions for details on the arguments. It is mostly intended for use inside a debugger to quickly dump a render node to a file for later inspection.

  • @p filename is the file to save it to.