Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Felix GUI

2014-08-19 Thread john skaller
On 20/08/2014, at 12:17 AM, srean wrote: > Could you describe the performance characteristic of reading from or writing > to an schannel. Is it fair to assume its going to be no more expensive than > writing/reading through a pointer (sans the scheduling delays). The library reads/writes value

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Felix GUI

2014-08-19 Thread john skaller
Here is the current demo! It is very important to note how termination is handled! To refresh your memory .. if you have any .. When you spawn an fthread it will block on an schannel operation until there is a matching operation: a read will block until there is a write, and a write until there

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Felix GUI

2014-08-19 Thread john skaller
On 19/08/2014, at 4:44 AM, Martin DeMello wrote: > fun :) Oh yeah. Soon, you will finally see the absolute superiority of Felix demonstrated in a context for which it was designed. Apart from the superior type system, the key thing will be the heavy use of fthreads (fibres) and schannels. in p

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Felix GUI

2014-08-18 Thread john skaller
On 18/08/2014, at 10:14 PM, Shayne Fletcher wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:09 PM, john skaller > wrote: > You will have to set up the Felix *.fpc database files > > sdl2.fpc > sdl2_ttf.fpc > sdl2_image.fpc > > Please see src/config/macosx for how to do this. > > They should be

Re: [Felix-language] [felix] Felix GUI

2014-08-17 Thread john skaller
On 18/08/2014, at 1:09 PM, john skaller wrote: > I'm bored with the build system so it is time to have some fun: My first objective here is to make a special kind of window I will call a "console". This is a window with a monospaced font, default text colour, and caret position which you can re