> Il Mercoledì 13 Novembre 2013 10:34, Charlie Fenton 
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:

> > Hi Gianfranco,

Hi Charlie, David and all,

> 
> 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.


thanks for your answers, if this is ok so I would like to wait until wx3.0 
reach unstable and maybe I'll upload something on debian/experimental or on an 
ubuntu ppa
> 
> 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 was aware (a little bit) on this problem, that was one of the bugs that would 
likely be fixed with the new wx
> 
> 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.
> 
Would be nice to have one!

thanks,

G.
> 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
> 
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