Re: Re: [Gnash-dev] Gui hook in core lib

[strk]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:07:11AM +0200, Benjamin Wolsey wrote:
> > Yes, sorry, sent mail on -dev before the commit completed.
> > bzr slownes on commit is driving me nuts (still uncommitted
> > at time of writing, will try again now).
> 
> It's there now :)
> 
> But is it necessary to link the gui into the core? For other events I used 
> callbacks for the reason that the need to communicate between core and gui is 
> quite limited. It seemed worth keeping the gui as loosely attached as 
> possible so that other users of the core libs that need more than the Player 
> class has to offer (like pythonmodule, for instance) could forget the gui 
> entirely.
> 
> movie_root::interfaceEventHandle is used for other cases. It isn't the most 
> beautiful thing ever or particularly optimized for speed, but it returned a 
> string specifically so it could be used for things like yes/no.

The gui hook is basically to give core a chance to setup interval based
timer and fd watchers. Consider this:

        - An SWF with 1FPS loads a video at 20FPS (NetStream-based).
        - Resource loading/parsing could be fired on 'data-ready' events.

Other suggestions are welcome.

--strk;