[Pgui-devel] Fixed handle bug for good! (I hope)

2001-05-13 Thread Micah Dowty
Well, this might be the end of those dreaded Handle errors popping up randomly in PicoGUI clients! While testing a clock written with PicoGUI (more on that in a later post) I found a very reproducible way to cause those errors, (Speed up the clock and leave it running), and traced it to bad han

[Pgui-devel] Menuconfig trouble? (just curious)

2001-05-13 Thread Micah Dowty
Just wondering if anybody else has been having this problem. When I use 'make menuconfig' the submenus do not open, instead the main menu is just redrawn. I don't think anything's changed recently that would cause this, so it may just be wierdness of Debian Woody :) -- To the systems programme

[Pgui-devel] Preferred documentation format?

2001-05-13 Thread Micah Dowty
I'm about to start the documentation, first a tutorial/reference on client-side programming. (Yes, I've said this before but now I'm serious :) Just wondering if anybody has any preferences on what format it's in. I had been assuming I'd do it in HTML. But, I'd really like something that serpar

Re: [Pgui-devel] Use multiple timers within a widget

2001-05-13 Thread Micah Dowty
Currently, no. You could have the widget manage multiple timers itself, using the getticks() to find the current time. If you want to implement multiple timers, a good starting point is the trigger_timer() function in widget/widget.c. Currently a simple linked list of timers is maintained usin

Re: [Pgui-devel] Re: Few questions

2001-05-13 Thread Micah Dowty
On Fri, 11 May 2001, "Yu-Jui Lee" wrote: > > >>3) I noticed that that applications weren't always asserting themselves > >>over apps that were already running. Like when I had some bar running, > >>and the canvas animation, then tried to launch the calculator, nothing > >>appeared to happen.