Re: [bme-develop] icon loading

[Daniel G. <al7...@ma...>]

Hello guys, sorry I have not reply till now, it's been a busy week.

> > maybe also write a BHandler to handle the 
> > icons...IconManager or something...My idea is this: the handler 
> > will 
> > be 
> > owned by the main application object and the windows will send 
> > messages to 
> > that app to request for:
> > -the entire list of emoticon objects
> > -a message item representing an entire text with emoticons in it
> > -a bitmap for one part of text(can be used when typing text in a 
> > textbox and 
> > instantly changing that to emoticons)
> > 
> > what do you guys think?
> 
> I agree with a BHandler owned by the be_app, that sounds fine. I 
> think 
> we need a class to parse text that is passed a simple char * or 
> BString
> of a bit of text, and returns some kind of custom structure 
> containing
> processed text - ie the raw characters along with emoticons and thier
> offsets, plus maybe url detection and things like that.
>
It sounds ok, but does it really need to be a BHandler, why not just a 
Class with some methods to do the parsing, load the images, convert 
strings to icon enabled messages, etc. What are the benefits of using a 
BHandler instead of just regular class?
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it's a bad idea, just want to know 
the reasons why either approach would be better.
 
> > >
> > >Where the number after each frame represents the number of 
> > > hundreths 
> > > of
> > >seconds to display the frame for, and the final 0 means to loop
> > >forever.
> > >
> > We can do it like this....but why? If we do it like this we better 
> > use the 
> > gifs(get some gif animation code from the web)...I think converting
> > gifs to
> > a file like this is a lot of work, and we're just working around 
> > the 
> > problem, introducing another file format in stead of the 
> > gifs....anyway it 
> > can be done, but it's a lot of work...
> 
> How else are we going to load the animated images? The translation 
> kit 
> doesn't support animated images, and I couldn't find a free library 
> on 
> the web to handle reading GIFs (probably due to patent restrictions 
> of 
> the GIF format). If you have easier ideas that will work, by all 
> means 
> implement them!
> 
I thought there was a translator for GIFs, isn't there? But I don't 
know how we are going to paint animated gifs into the views, there 
should be some code out there we could use as examples, I never dealt 
with animated gifs before. All the animations I have worked on have 
always involved threads looping through a bunch of images.

> > >Other news:
> > >
> > >I've finally got a BListItem class that does proper automatic text
> > >wrapping, performance seems similar to a BTextView on resizing a 
> > > lot 
> > > of
> > >items.
> > >
> > Nice work! have a screenshot?
> 
> http://si-msn.port5.com/bme2.png
>  
Great work! It looks good. 

> > P.s. Daniel did you upload your latest code into cvs?
> 
Not yet... mmm... I have made some changes in the Network handlers 
code, change some things to get p2p messages again (somehow it got 
broken when I changed to BLoopers), and a few other changes. So far.. 
looks good! There might be an improvement on stability ... maybe.. je, 
I need you guys to test it because you do a better work on testing than 
I :D . 

I promise I will get it up there on friday evening (my time).

Good work team!!

Regards,
Daniel