Re: Implementing Better String Storage

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
[ Is the #freeamp hidden? It was not on the list, but I could join it... ] Theme for this whole thread of discussion: [chrisk@kuklewicz ~/www]$ fortune Nothing endures but change. -- Heraclitus An update on my progress, Yesterday I replaced how metadata is stored internally

Re: Implementing Better String Storage

2000-09-26 Thread Mark B. Elrod
So I am interested in hearing how much memory savings we are seeing from all this. Can you run freeamp on your machine pre-patch and post-patch with the same playlists, etc. and let us know the memory footprints? elrod Chris Kuklewicz wrote: [ Is the #freeamp hidden? It was not on the list,

Re: Implementing Better String Storage

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:13:08AM -0700, Mark B. Elrod wrote: So I am interested in hearing how much memory savings we are seeing from all this. Can you run freeamp on your machine pre-patch and post-patch with the same playlists, etc. and let us know the memory footprints? elrod Patience.

Is support for searching a good idea?

2000-09-26 Thread David A. Walker
I couldn't help but notice that there is not much support for searching a playlist. I've seen the proposals for regexp-based searching and having a dialog of search results, but that method does not work well for the text-based interfaces. I was wondering if it would be appropriate to add a

Re: Is support for searching a good idea?

2000-09-26 Thread Isaac Richards
Um. That's the desired behaviour, else there's going to be a mem leak. the 'meta' in this instance is a local variable -- why set it to null when the function returns a line later? If you're having problems with this, I'd say it's because you changed the MetaData class so that it needs an

Title scrolling

2000-09-26 Thread gunnm
I have the current stable version of freeamp, 2.0.8, and I think the program rules! No really, it is way better than winamp, I am very impressed. I think you need to improve your "marketing" though, since I just heard about it recently from a slashdot post and would have used it a long time ago

Re: Is support for searching a good idea?

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:45:12PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote: Um. That's the desired behaviour, else there's going to be a mem leak. the 'meta' in this instance is a local variable -- why set it to null when the function returns a line later? If you're having problems with this, I'd say

Re: Title scrolling

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:18:40PM -0700, gunnm wrote: I have the current stable version of freeamp, 2.0.8, and I think the program rules! No really, it is way better than winamp, I am very impressed. I think you need to improve your "marketing" though, since I just heard about it recently

More String debugging

2000-09-26 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:22:06AM -0400, Chris Kuklewicz wrote: Freeamp is playing right now...But opening the music browser causes a segfault. Ah..found the cause...compiling... Ah..the music plays, as before. Ah...now the music browser comes up without segfaulting. The tree looks good

RE: More String debugging

2000-09-26 Thread Isaac Richards
On 27-Sep-2000 Chris Kuklewicz wrote: I'll ask for a second opinion: when a pointer is passed as the string data for a column of the clist widget, what memory management is required? I am assuming it keeps the pointer, and you are not supposed to alter the string it points to. Metadata