On Aug 22, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Yeah, the IEMGUI font size issues are still very present. I think
the best way forward is to write a new GUI lib, the IEMGUI code is
really hard to follow and/or modify.
Come on. It only has with the use of the -%d in the sys_vgui calls,
whereever the "fs" variable appears. We introduced that to fix a
certain problem about sizes, but for some reason, it didn't produce
the result we expected (the use of pixel sizes). It will be a small
fix like this, by search-and-replace in a few files or so.
Please fix it and submit a patch, that would be awesome!
That's why I started the tkwidgets library and I hope to pick it up
again soon, and also that others will contribute.
Your TkWidgets won't provide the same functionality, and I have no
guarantee that it will be any easier to maintain. What will you do
differently, so that it becomes easier to maintain ?
I ask because, currently, there's mostly only one structure of GUI
widget used in externals other than mine, and it's largely a calque
of IEMGUI's, in all cases something quite verbose (though at least
it shares some code in g_all_guis.c in the case of IEMGUI). I
introduced several new ways of writing GUI externals (the old
gridflow way, the new gridflow way, and the desiredata way) but they
have been so undiscussed that I wonder whether any new GUI classes
would be any different in a good way. It really looks like whatever
research I do on the topic of readability and modifiability of the
GUI code has to be only for myself, as I don't seem to be getting
any honest feedback on it.
what I currently see in /tkwidgets/ seems somewhat different from
the usual case, but currently I can't get it to run, and then, it
doesn't have a properties dialogue either, and then, it doesn't need
to render anything as multiple canvasitems because it's for wrapping
Tk Widgets instead of Tk Canvas Items, so, it's somewhat of a
different deal anyway.
And it doesn't fix the problem with IEMGUIs, that people will
continue to use for quite a while. One of the advantages of the
IEMGUIs is that they are transparent (this is something I realised
much after I made my rewrite of IEMGUI in early 2004, in which I
made them opaque because back then I thought it was better that way).
I haven't looked at tkwidgets in a while, so I don't know the state,
sadly.
.hc
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