Hi all, you may have noticed the commits about non-blocking loads. This is a call for testing that.
In particular, the aim of the task was to make Openstreetmap [1] editing more pleasing with Gnash/potlatch [2]. Note that potlatch is free software which is built using free software tools [3]; so we do want it to also *run smooth* on free software :) Before the commit turning background (base) map on would have resulted in GUI blocking during loads. Now you should see tiles popping-up as soon as loaded w/out making the GUI unresponsible (right-click menu, redraw on exposure, custom cursor following your mouse, editing still possible). My commits have made all unblocking related to loads, removing also the bits due to name resolution and socket creation. This has been done for both bitmaps and SWF movies. Also, I've turned fully unblocking the load of variables/XML. Theoretically it should be now possible to also drop the blockage on first-most movie (ie: rather than construct the gnash stage passing it a movie_definition we could file a request to load an url into _level0 and draw a window immediately). This would also mean a File->load() operation should be feasible now (modulo reentrant VM...). Happy testing [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch [3] http://www.libming.org --strk; Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer () ASCII Ribbon Campaign http://foo.keybit.net/~strk/services.html /\ Keep it simple! _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
