Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Re: wx 2.5.1?

[joakim v. <jo...@ve...>]

Dave Fancella wrote:

>Well, in keeping in the spirit of calling for major upgrades to fix minor 
>problems...
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>Why don't all you Swedes just speak English instead?
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Heh, that would be a downgrade :-P

But I agree with your point, wx 2.5 should not be a requirement at this 
point.

...and the availability of gtk 2 support in wx 2.4 nullifies my second 
point I guess.

hmmm.  I guess I'll go back to drawing dialogs then.

Anyway, a tidbit of information for you, there is a "no sequencer for 
gtk availabel" on lad right now.



/Joakim

>;)
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>Jokes aside, wxGTK has had experimental GTK2 support for awhile, even in the 
>2.4 branch.  Are you using your own built wxGTK or RedHat's provided package?  
>The Mandrake package is compiled with GTK2 support, and I've loaded Audacity 
>up with other languages and slobbered over the beautiful fonts.  Makes me 
>wish I knew Russian or something, you know?  Such pretty letters....  And 
>then I couldn't quit the application because I don't know "Close" in Russian.  
>;)  (You *might* be able to install Mandrake's RPM on your RedHat system.  
>I've had it work successfully using RedHat packages on Mandrake, so if you 
>don't mind accidentally trashing your RPM database you could give it a shot)
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>Anyway, you just:
>./configure --enable-gtk2
>I believe.  ./configure --help will show the option somewhere in there.  So if 
>you're using your own built wxGTK, I'd try recompiling it with GTK2 support 
>first and playing with localizing Jazz as it is.  That said, we will 
>eventually need to support wxGTK2.6.  But consider that to get the best 
>localization of Jazz we either have to tell users to compile wxGTK2.5 
>(experimental at best), or to compile wxGTK2.4 rather than use their 
>distro-provided package that's probably compiled against GTK1.2.
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>Dave
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>On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:29 am, joakim verona wrote:
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>>Yes, I was originally going to code it that way, I guess I should.
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>>(just a small note, when I first made the port this method wasnt
>>possible because
>>the OnPaint message didnt work, you could only derive the OnDraw method.
>>I changed the drawing to be based on the OnPaint message now, and it
>>seems to work)
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>>But there is another wx2.5 benefit.
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>>There is a gtk2 port for wx 2.5. This means
>>proper unicode support is possible.
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>>Gtk1.2 apps don't work very well with Swedish characters, which is my
>>native language.
>>The GTK1.2 apps in rh9 look very unimpressive in non english utf-8 locales,
>>for instance Audacity.
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>>So I'm going to give it a try to get it compiling in 2.5 without
>>breaking it in 2.4.
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>>We can use the wx version variable from configure to ifdef versions of
>>code.
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>>Cheers,
>>/Joakim
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>>Patrick Earl wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 08 April 2004 18:19, joakim verona wrote:
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>>>>I was wondering if anybody else was trying to compile jazz with wx
>>>>2.5.1.
>>>>
>>>>Im trying because I wanted to try to get rid of the anoying
>>>>redraw-flicker you get when scrolling a pianowin or  trackwin.
>>>>
>>>>In wx 2.5, there is a wxBufferedPaintDC that is supposed to fix the
>>>>redraw flicker.
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>>>I think it would solve the problem if we just draw to a memoryDC
>>>first, and then blit to the window when the paint event is requested.
>>>I believe the Buffered classes in 2.5 just make is slightly simpler
>>>to draw, but coding up one of those classes would be pretty easy as
>>>far as I can see.  You'd create a class that makes a wxMemoryDC in a
>>>constructor and writes to that.  Later, the destructor would blit the
>>>resulting bitmap to a wxClientDC.
>>>
>>>       Patrick
>>>      
>>>
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