Hi Micah (and other developers),
I'm (allways) porting Waba to PicoGUI. At this time, my most important
problem is the "grop node" list. Due to the way Waba work now, all
graphics are very simple draw (like line, rect, polyline,
draw_chars...). And the draw mechanisme inside Waba work as we can work
in a bitmap. This mean no memorisation of what was drawed. So, for
example, if Waba want to clear the screen, it just draw a filled
rectangle on the full screen. Doing this with PicoGUI make the grop
list every time bigger and bigger. And this is very slow, even on
my PIII 500.
What I suggest (as mentionned in my last emails) are :
- use a command like "pgWriteCmd( w, PGCANVAS_MK_BITMAP, 0 );"
to convert all the grop list to one bitmap (or pixmap)
element.
- use of the PG_WIDGET_BITMAP instead of the PG_WIDGET_CANVAS.
This implied having support for pgWriteCmd(...) for it.
- use a grop node PG_GROP_BITMAP, and have support for drawing
directly in it, when it is in the grop list of the
PG_WIDGET_CANVAS. (I think it's the most great way)
As this point is a blocking point now for me (for continuing the Waba
port to PicoGUI), I must know when I can have something like this in
PicoGUI. I don't want to use now at every place some pgWriteCmd(...)
with canvas, and change with another programming technics in some days.
I hope you understand my question.
Good day, and thanks in advance.
Olivier
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