[ptx] artifacts when scrolling

Rob Park rbpark at gmail.com
Tue May 31 20:48:16 BST 2005


On 5/31/05, douglas wilkins <dgswilkins at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> True, but the problem is that the toolkit needs to have the functionality of
> more than just GUI layout. for example, wx allows us to store configuration
> information in a platform transparent manner - in .hugin on linux and in the
> registry on windows - with one piece of code and without multiple platform
> dependant #ifdef statements to control it.

Interesting.

> > xpfe?
> 
> The rendering engine that actually interprets the XUL

Shows how much research I did ;)

Just dove right into the tutorial.

> > I think the control point tab would not be that hard. XUL has a widget
> > called, IIRC, "stackbox", which allows you to basically lay widgets
> > overtop of each other in an arbitrary way. So you just display the
> > image, and then display control point widgets on top of it. You can
> > embed SVG into XUL, so it'd be fairly straightforward to create little
> > colored circles to represent the control points like hugin does now,
> > without need for bitmapped images.
> 
> Yes you could display them with XUL, but you couldn't move them with the mouse,
> or create them on the fly with a click of a mouse as far as I can see.

I'm sure it could be done. Worst case scenario, import HTML and then
use an image map for placing points. Not sure about moving them
though.

> You're assuming that GTK is the only widget engine out there and the only one
> we should use? :-)

Being a GNOME bigot, actually, yes ;)

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