Hi Gianfranco, We still need to merge the changes in master since 18 October into the wxWidgets30 branch (or perhaps the other way around) and update boinc_depends_win_vs2010 with the final wxWidgets 3.0.0 from 3.0.0-rc1 (for Windows builds). But in my preliminary tests, both the Mac and Windows builds now seem to be working well. We will of course also be testing Linux builds.
If you would like to try making a Linux build from the BOINC wxWidgets30 branch for (private) testing, I am sure we would be interested in learning your results. wxWidgets 3.0 introduces a number of API changes, so the current GIT master will not work with wxWidgets 3.0; it requires the source files from our GIT wxWidgets30 branch. One area that should be significantly improved is display of notices, which now uses the new wxWebView class, which should enable asynchronous loading of embedded image references. <http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/classwx_web_view.html> says: > Under GTK the WebKit backend uses WebKitGTK+. The current minimum version > required is 1.3.1 which ships by default with Ubuntu Natty and Debian Wheezy > and has the package name libwebkitgtk-dev. Custom schemes and virtual files > systems are supported under this backend, however embedded resources such as > images and stylesheets are currently loaded using the data:// scheme. I don't know if that last sentence has any impact on our implementation. We have been testing support for embedded images using the test project <http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/cplan/> which has notices but no tasks. Rom or David can set you up an account on that project if you need one. Cheers, --Charlie On Nov 13, 2013, at 12:39 AM, David Anderson wrote: > Gianfranco: > Charlie has been working to convert the BOINC Manager to wxwidgets 3.0, > and he recently finished. > This will be tested and released over the next couple of months. > -- David > > On 13-Nov-2013 12:18 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: >> Hi Charlie, boinc alpha testers and boinc developers! >> >> I write here just to inform you that wxwidgets 3.0 has been finally released >> after (7?) years of development. >> >> A wx3.0 branch should be already available on boinc, and wx3 is already >> packaged for debian (but still in the new queue) >> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/wxwidgets3.0_3.0.0-1.html >> >> What is the plan for boinc and debian developers? >> >> Should we use 3.0 as soon as reach debian/unstable, by merging the 3.0 >> branch or should we wait and still package with 2.8 until any official >> announcement? >> >> There should be a couple of bugs and crash that wx3.0 addresses (e.g. links >> in the notices view that with no connection leads to a crash on linux, the >> executable bit in adding exclusive applications that doesn't work as >> expected and so on). >> >> So for me would be nice to address them by updating wx, but you are the >> developers :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> Gianfranco _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
