[fltk.general] Fl_Output text garbled

2012-09-20 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi, I just discovered that if you set an Fl_Output box style to NO_BOX, when you change the text it just places it over the old text without erasing the old first. This is with a fresh svn update of fltk 1.3 I can set it to FLAT_BOX and it works fine. Is this behaviour known and normal? Mos

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 09/20/12 13:26, Herman wrote: > Hmm, I usually use > > Fl_JPEG_Image* o=new Fl_JPEG_Image(file); > if (o && o->w() && o->h()) > {/*loaded successfully*/} > else {/*some error occured*/} > > It never failed so far on all the platforms I tested (Win/Linux/Mac). > > So I don't really see why to

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 09/20/12 05:10, Roman Kantor wrote: > On 20/09/2012 11:27, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: >> >> Could do - though I'm a big fan of just calling access() on the path >> before I try to use it - that pretty quickly filters out any mistakes...! >> [..] > > Yeah, I use access too - act

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread Herman
Hmm, I usually use Fl_JPEG_Image* o=new Fl_JPEG_Image(file); if (o && o->w() && o->h()) {/*loaded successfully*/} else {/*some error occured*/} It never failed so far on all the platforms I tested (Win/Linux/Mac). So I don't really see why to add anything to the library, since it works just fin

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
> > ..access().. > > Ian: as an aside: beware of access() on windows (or well, _access()) > > Although I think you prefer cygwin to VS, VS has had a long standing > bug with _access() write-testing of files and directories. See: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgrou

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 09/20/12 03:27, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: Fl_BMP_Image jpg("C:/Users/Marick/My Pictures/image.bmp"); >> I wonder if we could make error checking more obvious for the default >> behavior in FLTK for this type of thing. >> >> I can think of three possible ways

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks

2012-09-20 Thread Roman Kantor
On 20/09/2012 11:27, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: >> On 09/19/12 10:00, Doug Parks wrote: Fl_BMP_Image jpg("C:/Users/Marick/My Pictures/image.bmp"); >>> After looking at my code again for the 1000th time I just realized I was >> using an invalid file path. There is no "My

Re: [fltk.general] RFC: image loading error checks (was: Re: Importing a file from somewhere otherthanthe executable folder)

2012-09-20 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
> On 09/19/12 10:00, Doug Parks wrote: > >> Fl_BMP_Image jpg("C:/Users/Marick/My Pictures/image.bmp"); > >> > > After looking at my code again for the 1000th time I just realized I was > using an invalid file path. There is no "My Pictures" only a "Pictures" > folder. > I wonder if we co