Re: [Scribia-dev] GUI!

[Ludovic N. <lni...@wa...>]

>>The other think is that kills list needs to have things with no kills
>>filtered out of it.  Since falls are being recorded in the same data
>
>
>Aha! I didnt notice that. Good catch.
>

Why not setting that up as "exile against the beast" display? ;-)
I find out in personal use that I do like the ability to browse more
information at a single glance, instead of going back and forth from
various panes.

This said, I am not going to be really active ont he project for a while
and all the things I had changed locally and not committed waiting for SF
access are now gone. Someone broke into my appartment on Monday afternoon
and stole my computer with all my stuff on the hard drive. With barely no
external back-up, you can count me out of Scribia for some time (and out of
CL for a couple more days as well).

I was just wondering about one thing: has anyone ever fixed the fact that
Scribia is taking complete control of the Mac while scanning? I have had
cooperative behavior for several weeks locally, but since I never committed
that, I am not sure it has been rolle din by anyone else.

If you don't have that around, a quick (imperfect) fix is to go into the
scan folder loop and add those 2 lines there after scanning every file
(that is off the top of my head, all my prog stuff has been gone since
monday):
EventRecord	theEvent;
WaitNextEvent(everyEvent, &theEvent, 20, nil);

the 20 ticks value is quite arbitrary, one can set it to 0 and still get
cooperative behavior, but 20 mostly allows one to chat or even move within
clan lord with the scanner chugging in the background. That value could be
one of the "cooperativeness" preferences.

This is assuming the old scanning loop that was in CScribiaApp.cpp for
ScanFolder. If someone changed or moved it away, then different code may be
required instead. On the long term, better behavior would be to have the
scanner in a different thread with no UI by itself, but I had no time to
implement that.

Have fun, take backups ;-)

Geotzou