[Openfc-development] progress etc.

[Luka P. <no...@sk...>]

adam wrote:
> the design is in place at : 
> http://frequencyclock.montevideo.nl

hi all.

couple of words and thoughts from me.

first of all, latest: i just commited the fix for that 
ugly bug that didn't allow the looping events that 
stretched from foo-day to bar-day display in the 
bar-day if there was some other event on that day. 
after i spent days looking for solution, i found 
there's a quick fix comprising 10 lines of code. bah! 
but that's fixed now.

but, in more general view, i think the work on fc is 
now clearly divided into two areas: newfeatures and 
debugging. i think new features are now quite adam's 
reponsibility and, you know, all the decision-making 
stuff. on theother hand, for last month or so, i was 
trying to fix (among others) timetable layout bugs 
that appeared with passionately incorporated fetures 
like looping and recurring events.

re bugs and timetable layout, i think there are two 
more important things to fix.
o) if looping of event begins on foo-day which is not 
visible on table, and continues onto a day which is 
visible, the first block is displaced strangely.
o) events with <1.5min lenght don't appear at all (at 
100% res) - althought every event on the table should 
be represented somehow.


one of the solutions to second bug: if the short event 
apears to some longer - visible - event, the visible 
event get's an "this block contains multiple events" 
overlay onmouseover. otherwise if short event is 
isolated, its size is forced to one pixel. in third 
case, when a lot of short events are in a succesion, 
they accumulate into small blocks of one pixel all 
saying they contain multiple events.

how to do it is another thing, hehe. :))


::
anyway, i'm happy to see poeple heavily testing the 
thing (bart + chiara) and proposing different new 
features (james, pete, gio...). also bigup to goo for 
great design. i'm also looking forward to long-ago 
discussed option of opening the development more to 
other coders who would like to improve the engine. 
yes, yes, i have to write some more comments into the 
code in that case.


ok, enough from me for now. let it roll. i'm in london 
till thursday evening then off to some rest for two 
weeks, so (pete?) if some action is needed, type 
yazelf IN! :))



love, luka

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