Provide WKView SPI to defer telling the WebPageProxy and WebProcess about changes in the hosting window

• Component: WebKit2
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Tim Horton]

Sometimes, we want to move a WKView around in the hierarchy.

Right now, if you remove a WKView and readd it elsewhere, you're likely to see a flash of white due to the asynchronous nature of the messages to the WebProcess (when a WebProcess is moved out-of-window, the TileCache unparents its tiles, among other things).

We should provide a way to say "hang on a second, I might re-add you to the same window in a bit".

I want to do this by simply providing a begin/end pair on WKView that - if you're inside a pair - we don't send WebPageProxy a viewStateDidChange with the ViewIsInWindow flag until you leave the last pair.

<rdar://problem/13095405>

[Tim Horton]

Created attachment 189425 [details]
patch

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 189425 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=189425&action=review

Let's try some new names.

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/mac/WKView.mm:211
> +    unsigned _windowChangesDeferredCount;

viewInWindowDeferredCount?

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/mac/WKView.mm:1907
> +        if ([self windowChangesDeferred]) {
> +            _data->_page->viewStateDidChange(WebPageProxy::ViewIsVisible);
> +            _data->_windowChangeWasDeferred = YES;

The naming makes this confusing. It's easy to think that -windowChangesDeferred would return data->_windowChangeWasDeferred.

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/mac/WKViewPrivate.h:60
> +- (BOOL)windowChangesDeferred;

How about:

-beginDeferringViewInWindowChanges
-endDeferringViewInWindowChanges
-shouldDeferViewInWindowChanges

[Tim Horton]

Created attachment 189444 [details]
new names

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

Comment on attachment 189444 [details]
new names

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=189444&action=review

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/mac/WKView.mm:213
> +    BOOL _windowChangeWasDeferred;

Want to rename this to 'viewInWindowChangeWasDeferred'?

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/mac/WKView.mm:3306
> +    if (!(--_data->_viewInWindowChangesDeferredCount) && _data->_windowChangeWasDeferred) {

Would be clearer to just hoist the --_data->_viewInWindowChangesDeferredCount outside the condition.

[Tim Horton]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/143558