Re: Should I announce work on XI2? And some Threadmill updates.

[Gregory Casamento]

Banlu,

Threadmill is looking very appealing visually!  I can't wait to try it out.

Regarding XI2, I don't know enough about it yet to comment, but I had
to say something about Threadmill.

GC


On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Banlu Kemiyatorn <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am going to build a library for XI2 and have it integrated into
> back-x11, I am wondering if anyone is already working on it (only saw
> it mentioned in Etoile's thread)
> For the design I'll just make an objc wrapper around the extension to
> allow full access to any device, rather than bloating NSEvents but
> allow aggregating to objc XI2 instances.
>
> Would try work on this for a week or two then get back to Threadmill,
> (which I think is in a good shape and playable now and if anyone want
> to get help with the UI, aka TMKit, please don't feel hesitate. --
> check the TODO)
>
> Threadmill is now playable, git clone
> git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/threadmill.git
>
> Latest SS: 
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NRWUGak3PFo/TSyiRszNfXI/AAAAAAAAAmo/L-iWiW0ZR18/s1600/ThreadMillScreenShot.png
>
> Possible issues.
> * Don't worry, you can turn off superfluous mode!
> * A build-go.sh script will build and starts the app w/o installation
> of the libs in a bad way but I bet there's a better way to do this, so
> pls tell me.
> * Slowness when lot of nodes, the setNeedsDisplay: wasn't optmized at
> all, should safely be done later.
>
> The non-gui (TMLib) part needs advices, Should it wrap NSOperation?
> Want to guide the design of this part, David ? :-) Or anyone can
> thrown in every idea though.
>
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