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    Bug 559408 - Transparency lost when images are copied between GTK+ and the · 3f4c73d0
    Tor Lillqvist authored
    2009-01-29  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>
    
    	Bug 559408 - Transparency lost when images are copied between GTK+
    	and the clipboard on Windows
    
    	The code in gdkselection-win32.c is simplified quite a lot. When
    	an image is stored on the clipboard from GTK+, only the "PNG" and
    	CF_DIB formats are advertised. PNG is our preferred format because
    	it can losslessly represent any image that gdk-pixbuf can handle,
    	even with alpha, unambiguously. CF_DIB is also advertised because
    	of its ubiquitous support in Windows software.
    
    	Delayed rendering is used as before, so for other data than text
    	nothing is actually stored on the clipboard until some app asks
    	for it.
    
    	It's pointless to advertise images formats like "image/png" or
    	"image/x-MS-bmp" that no other Windows application is going to
    	look for anyway. Likewise it's pointless to store text under
    	formats like "text/plain" or "UTF8_STRING". Just store
    	CF_UNICODETEXT. CF_TEXT will be available as a synthesized format
    	anyways.
    
    	Office 2007 offers and asks for images in PNG format using the
    	registered clipboard format name "PNG", so we do likewise. If the
    	"PNG" format is available that is preferred when copying to GTK+
    	from the clipboard.
    
    	Unfortunately Word 2007 still uses CF_DIB without handling
    	alpha. But PowerPoint 2007 uses PNG if available and handles alpha
    	correctly. Both Word and Powerpoint offer PNG with alpha nicely.
    
    	Firefox and IE7 offer images that contain alpha as 32-bit version
    	3 BI_RGB DIBs with the undocumented "extra" bytes actually being
    	alpha. Also, alpha is premultiplied into the RGB bytes, presumably
    	because that is how AlphaBlend() wants such DIBs. That is also
    	taken care of. At least for Firefox it easy to be sure that a
    	CF_DIB on the clipboard is from Firefox.
    
    	Also some general stylistic cleanup, comment improvements, and
    	improvements of debugging printout especially in the clipboard
    	handling. Those are not detailled below.
    
    	* gdk/win32/gdkprivate-win32.h
    	* gdk/win32/gdkglobals-win32.c
    	* gdk/win32/gdkgmain-win32.c: Move some globals that were used
    	only in gdkselection-win32.c to be local to that file.
    
    	* gdk/win32/gdkproperty-win32.c (gdk_property_change): Don't
    	bother checking if text to be placed on the clipboard consists of
    	only ASCII.
    
    	* gdk/win32/gdkselection-win32.c: Add static variables for a list
    	of GdkPixbuf-supported formats, well-known registered clipboard
    	formats for images, and for GdkAtoms for well-known image and text
    	formats.
    
    	(_gdk_win32_selection_init): Initialize above static variables.
    
    	(selection_property_store) (gdk_selection_property_get)
    	(_gdk_selection_property_delete): Don't use a FIFO of GdkSelProps
    	for a window after all, it breaks testtext. See bug #163844.
    
    	(gdk_selection_convert): When converting to the TARGETS format,
    	i.e. when the caller wants to know what clipboard formats are
    	available, if PNG is available we report just that and skip
    	CF_DIB, JPEG and GIF even if advertised.
    
    	If CF_UNICODETEXT is available, report only UTF8_STRING.
    
    	When converting to the UTF8_STRING format, i.e. when the caller
    	wants text from the clipboard, try just CF_UNICODETEXT. There is
    	no point in trying CF_TEXT as Windows will synthesize
    	CF_UNICODETEXT from CF_TEXT anyway, if some app has stored just
    	CF_TEXT.
    
    	When converting to the image/bmp format, i.e. when the caller
    	wants an CF_DIB image from the clipboard, we check if the DIB is a
    	version 3 32-bit BI_RGB one that is likely to actually contain
    	alpha in the "extra" bytes. Such a DIB is likely to have
    	premultiplied alpha even, at least in the case of Firefox 3 and
    	IE7. We then edit the DIB in-place into a version 5 one in
    	BI_BITFIELDS format and undo the alpha premultiplication.
    
    	In any case, prepend a BMP file header before letting go of the
    	data which will be fed to the gdk-pixbuf bmp loader by upper
    	levels.
    
    	(gdk_win32_selection_add_targets): If some kind of pixmap image
    	format is being added, actually advertise just PNG and
    	CF_DIB. Note that alpha won't be stored on the clipboard through
    	CF_DIB. This is because gdk-pixbuf's bmp loader doesn't save
    	alpha. Furthermore, few if any non-GTK+ Windows apps seem to
    	understand a version 5 DIB with proper alpha anyway.
    
    	(_gdk_win32_selection_convert_to_dib): Simplified muchly.
    
    
    
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