AnimationCollection::HasAnimationOfProperty uses IsFinishedTransition to filter
out transitions that should otherwise be ignored. This is used in the following
places:
1. nsLayoutUtils::HasAnimations
The is only used by nsIFrame::BuildDisplayListForStackingContext to see if
there are any opacity animations
For this case, simply returning *current* animations would be sufficient
(since finished but filling animations should have already filled in the
display opacity)
2. CommonAnimationManager::GetAnimationsForCompositor
This should really only return *current* animations--that is, animations that
are running or scheduled to run. Finished animations never run on the
compositor. Indeed, only *playing* animations run on the compositor but, as
we will see in some of the cases below, it is sometimes useful to know that
an animation *will* run on the compositor in the near future (e.g. so we can
pre-render content).
The places where GetAnimationsForCompositor is used are:
- When building layers to add animations to layers in nsDisplayList--in this
case we skip any animations that aren't playing so if
GetAnimationsForCompositor only returned current animations that would be
more than sufficient.
- In nsLayoutUtils::HasAnimationsForCompositor. This in turn is used:
- In ChooseScaleAndSetTransform to see if the transform is being animated
on the compositor. If so, it calls
nsLayoutUtils::ComputeSuitableScaleForAnimation (which also calls
GetAnimationsForCompositor) and passes the result to
GetMinAndMaxScaleForAnimationProperty which we have already adjusted in
part 4 of this patch series to only deal with *relevant* animations
Relevant animations include both current animations and in effect
animations but we don't run forwards-filling animations on the compositor
so GetAnimationsForCompositor should NOT return them. Current animations
should be enough. In fact, playing animations should be enough but we
might want to pre-render layers at a suitable size during their delay
phase so returning current animations is probably ok.
- In nsDisplayListBuilder::MarkOutOfFlowFrameForDisplay to add a fuzz
factor to the overflow rect for frames undergoing a transform animation
on the compositor. In this case too current animations should be
sufficient.
- In nsDisplayOpacity::NeedsActiveLayer to say "yes" if we are animating
opacity on the compositor. Presumably in this case it would be good to
say "yes" if the animation is in the delay phase too (as it currently
does). After the animation is finished, we should drop the layer, i.e.
current animations should be sufficient.
- In nsDisplayTransform::ShouldPrerenderTransformedContent. As with
nsDisplayOpacity::NeedsActiveLayer, we only need to pre-render
transformed content for animations that are current.
- In nsDisplayTransform::GetLayerState. As with
nsDisplayOpacity::NeedsActiveLayer, we only need to return active here
for current animations.
- In nsIFrame::IsTransformed. Here we test the display style to see if
there is a transform and also check if transform is being animated on the
compositor. As a result, we really only need HasAnimationsForCompositor
to return true for animations that are playing--otherwise the display
style will tell us if we're transformed or not. Returning true for all
current compositor animations (which is a superset of playing), however,
should not cause problems (we already return true for even more than
that).
- In nsIFrame::HasOpacityInternal which is much the same as
nsIFrame::IsTransformed and hence current should be fine.
3. AnimationCollection::CanThrottleAnimation
Here, HasAnimationOfProperty is used when looking for animations that would
disqualify us from throttling the animation by having an out-of-date layer
generation or being a transform animation that affects scroll and so requires
that we do the occasional main thread sample to update scrollbars.
It would seem like current animations are enough here too. One interesting
case is where we *had* a compositor animation but it has finished or been
cancelled. In that case, the animation won't be current and we should not
throttle the animation since we need to take it off its layer.
It turns out checking for current animations is still ok in this case too.
The reasoning is as follows:
- If the animation is newly-finished, we'll pick that up in
Animation::CanThrottle and return false then.
- If the animation is newly-idle then there are two cases:
If the cancelled animation was the only compositor animation then
AnimationCollection::CanPerformOnCompositorThread will notice that there
are no playing compositor animations and return false and
AnimationCollection::CanThrottleAnimation will never be called.
If there are other compositor animations running, then
AnimationCollection::CanThrottleAnimation will still return false because
whatever cancelled the animation will update the animation generation and
we'll notice the mismatch between the layer animation generation and the
animation generation on the collection.
Based on the above analysis it appears that making
AnimationCollection::HasAnimationOfProperty return only current animations (and
simulatneously renaming it to HasCurrentAnimationOfProperty) is safe. Indeed, in
effect, we already do this for transitions but not for animations. This patch
generalizes this behavior to all animations.
This patch also updates test_animations_omta.html since it was incorrectly
testing that a finished opacity animation was still running on the compositor.
Finished animations should not run on the compositor and the changes in this
patch cause that to happen. The reason we don't just update this test to check
for RunningOn.MainThread is that for opacity animations, unlike transform
animations, we can't detect if an opacity on a layer was set by animation or
not. As a result, for opacity animations we typically test the opacity on
either the main thread or compositor in order to allow for the case where an
animation-set opacity is still lingering on the compositor.