Re: [XForms] New development release

[Michal Szymanski]

Hi,

Thanks for the new release. You seem, however, to have left "main()"
in goodie_colchooser.c inside "#if 1" (Line no. 654), so no user
program can be compiled:

goodie_colchooser.c:(.text.startup+0x0): multiple definition of `main'
/tmp/cc08uQ7u.o:colpicker.c:(.text.startup+0x0): first defined here

When changed to "#if 0", everything works fine :-)

regards, Michal.


On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:37:23PM +0200, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I've just uploaded a new development version:
> 
> http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/xforms/development/1.3/xforms-1.3.9.tar.gz
> 
> It comes with a number of changes to the positioner object:
> 
> a) Probably most interesting: the range of values the user can pick can
>    now be controlled via a "validator" function. When set each time the
>    user moves the postioner to a new postion the coordinates are passed
>    to that validation function and the function can then return a value
>    (FL_POSITIONER_INVALID) to indicate that the new position is unaccep-
>    table, it can flag that    the new position is ok (FL_POSITIONER_VALID),
>    or it can indicate that the position isn't ok and should be replaced by
>    a different postion also returned (FL_POSITIONER_REPLACED).
> 
>    Background is that I attempted to write a color chooser with a HSV color-
>    wheel (hi Sian, thanks for the idea) and the colorwheel is a circle
>    from which a color is to be picked. With a validator function one now
>    can keep the postioner within this circle (but also, in principle, in
>    an arbitrarily formed area).
> 
> b) There are now functions for setting both the x- and y-value of a positioner
>    at once (sometimes necessary when a validator is active since) and to
>    get the current boundary settings. Another function allows to tell the
>    positioner that its background is going to change to avoid artefacts if
>    this happens.
> 
> c) Up to now the lines of the positioner were drawn in XOR mode. This let to
>    the lines often becoming hard to see. This is now replaced by drawing
>    "real" lines in the selected color. And, while the positioner is active
>    and the mouse is over it, the cursor is switched of - this makes it easier
>    to see were exactly the positioner is.
> 
> I hope these changes make sense to you and don't interfer witch any of your
> existing programs. Otherwise please complain loudly!
> 
> With the changes of the positioner there's now also a new "goodie", a color
> chooser. You call it with
> 
> int fl_show_color_chooser( const int *rgb_in, int * rgb_out );
> 
> The first argument is an array of three RGB values the color chooser should
> start up with. If you pass it a NULL pointer it starts with white. The second
> argument is an array with three elements for returning the selected color.
> If the user clicks on "OK" the funtion returns 1 and sets up 'ref_out',
> if s/he clicks on "Cancel" 0 ist returned (and 'rgb_out' remains unchanged).
> 
> Here's a short program for testing it:
> 
> #include <forms.h>
> 
> int main( int argc, char **argv )
> {
>     int rgb[ 3 ] = { 171, 13, 198 };
> 
>     fl_initialize( &argc, argv, "", 0, 0 );
>     if ( fl_show_color_chooser( rgb, rgb ) )
>         printf( "You picked %d, %d, %d\n", rgb[ 0 ], rgb[ 1 ], rgb[ 2 ] );
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> I hope you like the changes;-) Please let me know if they break anything
> with your code.
>                                  Best regards, Jens
> -- 
>   \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ________      address@hidden
>    \_______________________________      http://toerring.de

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  Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl)
  Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND