Re: [Shapefusion-devel] status

[<ti...@da...>]

> I'm in a big need of help there, because I'm thinking of
> Object-  Orienting the Marathon structs so I could just
> write   ShapesDocument::LoadObject(), and it will issue  
> ShapesChunk::LoadObject(), which will work as a a chain...
> I need   some help from you to (re)do that.
Mumble... Chunks are well-defined, self-consistent,
independent data blocks.  ShapesChunk::LoadObject() would
need an offset and size to load its chunk, then it could
just grab the data block from the stream and decode it (like
happened with BigEndianBuffer). So I guess
ShapesDocument::LoadObject() could first load the 32
collection headers and then issue as many
ShapesChunk::LoadObject() as needed, giving them the right
offsets and sizes. I hope wxDoc supports random stream
access!

However, couldn't you just reproduce what Shapes::Shapes()
did inside ShapesDocument::LoadObject()? That code is well
tested.

> I'm also trying to remove everything std (vectors
> principally) and   changing them into wxList subclasses to
> ensure portability... It   won't be a problem for you ?
Well I think std is more portable than wx. But it should not
be a problem. Are you also using wxFile instead of std
streams?

I guess we are actually rewriting ShapeFusion from scratch.
Will *Browser and *View classes work? I really hope so.

Bye,
Tito