>>>>> "Xiangfu" == Xiangfu Liu <[email protected]> writes:
> On 04/13/2012 06:25 AM, David Kuehling wrote: >> work (superseded by alfilesel+NuPDF anyways?) > Hi David > Do you think we can replace gmenu2x with a 'almenu' by using allegro > game library? is that hard? Interesting that you ask. This has been on my todo list for quite some time. But there are so many things to decide before starting, that I never got to it :) * liballegro does have a menu system. Using it, 'almenu' would be pretty easy to do, though maybe pretty ugly and not very modern GUI (same look as 'alfilesel'). * thought about using liballegro's s/w 3-D rendering support to do something fancy like a "desktop cube". this would take me a lot more time, not even sure that it would scale to larger menus (limited CPU power etc) * think we should use gmenu2x's menu and icon files. BUT: loading many small files makes it slow to startup. What I thought: use liballegro's data files (something like a ZIP file, but optimized to quickly load sprites etc. directy to memory). Make data-file keep a monolithic copy of menu and icons, only update data file once in a while when asked by the user. * We could write the whole thing in Python using 'alpy' bindings to liballegro. However, bindings do not cover allegro's menu system, nor 3-D support. Hacking alpy to support for that takes about as long as writing almenu from scratch in C. Python is slower, though allowing people to hack, extend (plugins?) the menu without openwrt cross-toolchain might be worth it!? Any ideas? Have some free time to spare the next few days and could try to code a prototype once we decided what we need. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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