Re: [ft-devel] problems with your branch

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> * It would be helpful, as you've already suggested, if I could stop
>>   and start the blinking, for example, by clicking on the image (or
>>   having a button for that – I don't care, as long as it is explained
>>   somewhere).
> 
> Done. Click and hold on the image to pause the animation.

This works, thanks.  However, I would rather prefer to stop the
animation completely with a click, and restarting the animation with
another click.  After some time, the blinking becomes annoying :-)

>> * The animation works with Firefox 55 but doesn't work with Chrome 58
>>   on my GNU/Linux box.  [...]
> 
> one of the solutions I've found is running this using a web server
> to run the pages.
> 
>     1. sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888
>     2. Open web browser to http://localhost and go to top.html

Well, yes, but...

> 
> Other is using window.postMessage in Javascript.

... this sounds better :-) It's quite important IMHO to find a soluion
that works universally in all browsers (not counting for browser
bugs).

> I am looking into this solution. I will commit this as soon as I do
> it.  This may not be implemented in time for the submission (today).
> Is this Ok?

Yes, but please add a note that there are currently problems with
Chrome.

BTW, please change LIBS in `tests/Makefile' to

  LIBS = -lpng -dld

If I use the original value with more (unnecessary) libraries, I get
nasty segfaults:

  Command: ./tests \
             /home/wl/kushal/base/objs/.libs/libfreetype.so \
             /home/wl/kushal/test/objs/.libs/libfreetype.so \
             test.ttf 16 RGB 96
  
  Invalid write of size 8
     at 0x700E444: FT_Library_SetLcdFilter (ftlcdfil.c:328)
     by 0x4017AB: main (make_sprite.c:275)
   Address 0x6bf6008 is 0 bytes after a block of size 376 alloc'd
     at 0x4C29160: malloc (in 
/usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
     by 0x6FFC360: ft_alloc (ftsystem.c:102)
     by 0x64D3ADF: ft_mem_qalloc (ftutil.c:76)
     by 0x64D3B27: ft_mem_alloc (ftutil.c:55)
     by 0x64D3E66: FT_New_Library (ftobjs.c:4972)
     by 0x6FFC7E4: FT_Init_FreeType (ftinit.c:253)
     by 0x401731: main (make_sprite.c:262)


    Werner