RE: [paragui-dev] Paragui Developer

[Alexander Pipelka]

Am Freitag, den 18.11.2005, 11:03 -0800 schrieb Christian M. Jensen:
> We are aware of the SetBulkUpdate mechanism; however, many of the
> widgets do not abide by it and update themselves.
Which ones ?


> We are using 1.1.8 but from our experience, we have found that
> significant API changes occur even on the 0.0.1 level and at this point
> it would be difficult justifying a jump up to 1.1.9 if there are any API
> changes from 1.1.8.
There are only minor API changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9. The next
stable version will be 1.2.0. Possibly after the 1.1.9 release.

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ulf Lorenz
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:55 AM
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> Subject: Re: [paragui-dev] Paragui Developer
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:04:12PM -0800, Christian M. Jensen wrote:
> > We have been building an application with Pargui for about a year now
> > and are running into various things we would like to get fixed. We are
> > considering hiring someone to fix them, but thought it would be best
> to
> > go straight to the source.
> Well, I suppose Alex doesn't mind getting manpower. As long as he/she
> doesn't write C code. =:o)
> 
> > The biggest problems we are facing are performance and size of the
> > executable. It has a tendency to redraw all the time (many times
> > unintelligently). We are also looking to get better font rendering.
> With redrawing unintelligently you mean something like "changing text
> of 10 labels leads to 10 redraws"? If so, you may want to look at the
> function PG_Application::SetBulkUpdate, which disables these redraws.
> 
> And another issue is: the current (developed) version of paragui is
> 1.1.8 or, as Alex mentioned, the devel-1-1 branch in cvs. The other one
> had several problems.
> 
> 
> cu,
> Ulf
>