Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Ubuntu

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 02:49:01PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The "time" command should do for that part of the problem.
> What I was getting at is the problem of benchmarking
> something that is normally interactive and unpredictable.
> You had a playback thing... is it not working anymore?

There never WAS a playback thing.  Years ago, I had attempted to add it,
but never got it working, so it was just cruft lying around in the code
(and apparently annoying valgrind, so I finally took it out). :)


<snip>
> I would have used threads on Win32, but SDL_ttf is not
> thread-safe. Perhaps SDL_pango is thread-safe.

SDL_pango is, unfortunately, not being used with the Text Tool at the moment.
I still need to figure out how, if at all, that would be possible.
I may need to use Pango directly.


<snip> 
> I too have a job. :-/
> 
> I just got it compiled again. I'm coming up with some
> code to set X properties on the window **before** it
> gets popped up. This involves intercepting libX11 calls
> because SDL doesn't give me a normal opportunity.
> Right now it runs, but if I switch away from it then I
> can't switch back to it.

Tux Paint on the Nokia had a similar problem, I think.


> I also need to deal with paths
> and packaging.

Right on.  Thanks!

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