Re: Escape from the UK/Brexit ... update

2019-03-31 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:02:17AM +, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > This week we emptied our house in Cornwall, putting things into storage in > Waterford, Ireland. A bit drastic... are you expecting a total system collapse? (Though that said, Brexit discussion are a bit off-topic for

Re: ANN: GNUstep GUI 0.26.1

2018-01-02 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 05:36:25PM +, Ivan Vučica wrote: > > Even if built separately, we'd have to merge them back into the same > repository (losing some of the history in the process) Why would you lose history? A git repro can have multiple initial commits, so just commit a merge for

Re: History rewrite for corebase and gui

2017-06-21 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 09:10:43PM +0100, Ivan Vu??ica wrote: > You *will* need to cherrypick (or rebase, though I have less faith > that this will work) if you have changes locally. I suggest > cherrypick. Exact procedure for how to do this is unfortunately out of > scope for this mail, but

Git migration (was Re: Authors.txt file for GIT migration...)

2016-03-10 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:52:42PM -0500, Gregory Casamento wrote: > All suggested corrections made. Please let me know if there is anything else. > Otherwise this is the final version. Not a comment on the Authors file, but related to the git conversion. I've done a couple of conversions in

GS and MinGW (was Re: Porting libobjc2 to MinGW)

2014-12-17 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:34:38AM +, Hovik Melikyan wrote: Thanks, and will keep the list posted if there is any interest on this. Please. So on the topic of gnustep for windows targets using mingw, is that mingw32 or mingw64? I see from the mingw64 page that it was initially created as

Re: GNUstep CoreData

2013-09-07 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 03:54:55AM -0400, Gregory Casamento wrote: Please understand that I, personally, would welcome your contributions but we are bound by the limitations of the FSF since GNUstep is a GNU project. Well, frankly the project is the people who contribute, without that it

Re: [RFC] Cambridge Hackathon

2013-04-17 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:38:23PM +0200, Ivan Vučica wrote: Also, from July 1st Croatia is in EU (or so they say). Does anyone know what's the visa regime when it comes to UK? Do I need a passport? It should be a Passport or National ID card, and looks like it is based on EEA membership.

FreeBSD with ObjC (was Re: CoreBase toll-free bridging)

2013-03-14 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:06:33pm -0400, David Chisnall wrote: On a somewhat related note, I have (assuming the paperwork happens in time) an intern this summer working on putting an Objective-C runtime in the FreeBSD kernel to support Objective-C and Pragmatic Smalltalk in kernelspace.

GS WM assumptiuons (was Re: Creating PDF reports)

2013-02-28 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 08:44:58AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: The guessing offsets repeats about 30 times. This is a delay and cosmetic issue, but won't affect functionality: it happens as the backend tries to determine some information from the window manager by displaying a window,

Re: getting old xinput patch to work.

2011-01-24 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:44:07AM +0700, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: I just look at how MotionNotify is handled, it does compress xmotion event near the comment Compress motion events to avoid flooding., I thought this was fixed but apparently this was fixed only in my tree. If you're willing to

Re: xlib backend - Xft without fontconfig

2010-08-09 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:56:37PM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: Am 08.08.2010 21:10, schrieb Derek Fawcus: Anyway, the extra stuff is: The other bits of code in setupAttributes querying FC params for the pixel sized font are unnecessary (all of the bits related to traits and weight

Re: xlib backend - Xft without fontconfig

2010-08-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 04:52:28PM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: This then eases some other clean ups and fixes I spotted. Removing some unused, broken or just left over code is always a good idea and the xlib backend is surely the place where we have the most of this still lying around. But we

Re: xlib backend - Xft without fontconfig

2010-08-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:10:18PM -0700, Derek Fawcus wrote: I have managed to make the Xft font code do more than simple pixel scaling, by using the font matrix. So more of the output with my Matrix.app test program is correct - or at least more closely matches the results seen

Re: Why does GSShowText (and its varients) exist?

2010-08-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 04:52:20PM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: Am 06.08.2010 02:53, schrieb Derek Fawcus: As far as I can see, nothing invokes this. But there is a cairo backend implementation. So is it cruft that was being removed, or something being added? I think you are right

xlib backend - Xft without fontconfig

2010-08-05 Thread Derek Fawcus
I've been looking at the xlib backend, specifically the Xft text rendering support. From looking at it, I believe the parts intended to cope with fontconfig not existing should simply be discarded. It has two effects, it allow Xft version 1 to be used, (since it preceeds the existance of

Why does GSShowText (and its varients) exist?

2010-08-05 Thread Derek Fawcus
As far as I can see, nothing invokes this. But there is a cairo backend implementation. So is it cruft that was being removed, or something being added? ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org

Re: xlib backend - Xft without fontconfig

2010-08-05 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:56:37PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Xft is optional for us and it shall remain so. Are you implying that if Xft is found, then fontconfig should be a hard dependency? Yes. On the system where I am writing this I have both fontconfig2 and Xft2 installed, but

Can DPSshow be implemented by _showString:xCharAdj:yCharAdj:char:adjArray:arrType:isRelative: ?

2010-08-05 Thread Derek Fawcus
I see that most of the other DPS text output routines are implemented in terms of the above helper routine. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any reason why DPSshow cannot also be implemented by it? Maybe something like: - (void) DPSshow: (const char*)s { float arr[2]; arr[0] =

NSView caching of isFlipped

2010-07-30 Thread Derek Fawcus
I came across an interesting effect due to the above, namely a flipped view with the incorrect behaviour. This was in part defined as: @interface TextView: NSView { BOOL _flipped; /* other fields ... */ } - (id) initWithFrame:(NSRect)frameRect andStorage:(NSTextStorage *)storage

Re: PScomposite questions

2010-04-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:21:46PM +0200, Quentin Math? wrote: Hi, I have troubles to understand how PScomposite is expected to work precisely. Sun have a description of the DPS composite operators in their document: Solaris X Window System Developer's Guide - May 2002 Document 816-0279 It

Re: [bug #28590] Cairo backend displays wrong colors on X server with a different endianness

2010-01-26 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:41:36AM -0800, Derek Fawcus wrote: Yeah - that looks like what I had in mind. BTW - you should probably change the following error message: if (!XShmQueryVersion(display, major, minor, use_xshm_pixmaps)) { NSLog(@XShm pixmaps not supported by X server

Re: [bug #28590] Cairo backend displays wrong colors on X server with a different endianness

2010-01-25 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:20:05PM +0100, Fred Kiefer wrote: I just committed some code changes that try to follow your advice. Could you please have a look. Yeah - that looks like what I had in mind. The question then arises as to what now happens during the resulting exposes that this

Re: why does NSTask setpgrp on sub processes?

2010-01-20 Thread Derek Fawcus
Actually, I believe OSX (10.4.11 anyway) calls setsid() not setpgrp(). However, setsid() also causes a new process group to be created. Using the supplied program, but running /bin/cat and then examining with 'ps ajx' I see: User PID PPID PGIDSESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND

Re: [flame] NEWS file is useless

2009-11-26 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009, Nicola Pero wrote: I also occasionally work on gnustep-make offline, and the subversion logs are not available offline, while ChangeLogs are. Dare I say it, but the obvious answer to that is a DVCS, of which hg and git spring to mind. On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:08:01AM

Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

2009-10-09 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:52:34AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, Well, having just glanced at a few docs, depending upon the desired level of compatibility, the approach outlined above seems reasonable. Most underline styles seem to have appeared with OSX 10.3 - i.e. the

Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

2009-10-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
[trimmed out the discuss list] On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:42:38PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: [on gui] There are also some plainly embarrassing bugs, like the fact that underlining still doesn't work. Useful to know, I was about to try using it :-) Much of the text system code is in

Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

2009-10-08 Thread Derek Fawcus
ToÂ: Developer GNUstep gnustep-dev@gnu.org On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:43:55PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: On 8 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Derek Fawcus wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:42:38PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: There are also some plainly embarrassing bugs, like the fact that underlining

Possible NSAttributedString bug

2009-10-01 Thread Derek Fawcus
I suspect there is a bug here (and maybe in the mutable version as well - I haven't tried it), in that '-initWithString:attributes:' does not retain the attribute dictionary. Using the following chunk of code: static NSTextStorage *textStorage; void do_tv (void) { NSDictionary *attr;

Re: Possible NSAttributedString bug

2009-10-01 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:42:14PM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: I don't think this is a bug in GNUstep, there rather is a problem in your code. Certainly possible, and given my Obj-C experience not improbable. You don't own the attr object as it is created via dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:

Re: Current status of NSTextStorage/NSLayoutManager/NSTextContainer?

2009-09-23 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 05:32:56PM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote: Thank you for you example code, you really should have send it to the list, as it make such a great example of using the text system components by themselves without an NSTextView. I didn't think it'd be of general interest.

Current status of NSTextStorage/NSLayoutManager/NSTextContainer?

2009-09-17 Thread Derek Fawcus
What is the view of the current status of the above? I cobbled together a simple app using just those, together with a NSWindow holding an NSView (note not NSTextView) as mentioned here: http://zathras.de/angelweb/blog-cocoa-text-system-everywhere.htm which simply displays the text This is the

Re: windowWillResize delegate not invoked (bug #24093)

2009-05-11 Thread Derek Fawcus
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 06:04:26PM +0200, Wolfgang Lux wrote: Explicit calls to the delegate should never be necessary for methods like windowWillResize:. Instead, the window automatically should register its delegate to receive the corresponding notifications. Except the windowWillResize