This thread will be used to c&p my status-reports from Pegasosforum . Look there for older posts. Discussion here should be kept to a minimum and closely on-topic.


TextView and related classes compile and link without major faults but sofar there is little to nothing functionality. It seems I'v knackered communication between TextView and TextBuffer classes resulting in TextView (and the MUI-part connected to it) not being updated when TextBuffer (the actual text) has been changed.

I've added a signal to "changed" should be sufficient and I'll have to redo most of TextView anyways to adapt to MUI-Textinput.

Valuable lessons learned (I hope) Rolling Eyes

Next steps:
- actually show text Shocked
- text-formating by GTK-functions
- CLEAN UP Embarassed

Bonus:
- port GTK-Clipboard

Next report due : August 16th

It's nice to have this kind of informations.

thx.

A small update:

TextView&relatives do work in principal on the GTK-side, but my job left me too little time to advance any further. This will get even worse in the next 2 weeks, afterwards I'll do a rudimetary Pango-port.

Did pango have external dependencies? I could port pango as shared library, I already planned it when I was working on gtk-mui many years ago.

Itix,

quite many deps, actually (pango is used in swfdec too, btw).
For a straight compilation, Pango depends on at least glib (eek), freetype, fontconfig, cairo, pixman and a couple others like expat, png, iconv, maybe (can't remember exactly ATM).

Too bad I almost had an updated glib.library but working build was lost in a delete command accident... apart from glib other libs should be there already.

Sofar I only need some utility-functions which seems to be pretty straighforward, so need to worry.

Finnally some good news.
I've decided to port "Beaver" as 1st proof-of-concept. Beaver is a rather simple editor based on only a few GTK-classes.

GTK-TextView : no change since the last update

GTK-ItemFactory : Menus will be created as normal Intuition-menus (in contrast to the normal menu-class found in the AROS-port) shortcuts and submenus are not done yet. Menu-events now go right into Beaver-code.
The port of this class was done by applying some drastic changes into the GTK-side of the class and since GTK-menus work so different than MUI/Intuition-menus only a limited level of source-compability could be reached. The adaptions to be done in the application-code should mostly consist in removing function-calls that wouldn't make any sense in MUI/Intuition anyways.
ItemFactory is deprecated but since it's still used in some older apps it's a valid canditate for porting, and some of the know-how gathered here might also prove useful in porting it's successor-class UI-Manager.

GTK-Clipboard : todo

GTK-Notebook : a partly port exist in the AROS-version and 1 (trivial) fuction has allready been added.


[ Edited by Kronos on 2009/9/18 17:16 ]

Great work and thanks for posting updates!!

http://www.pegasosforum.de/album_showpage.php?pic_id=581
Some words about the picture:

- there is still a bug in TextView crashing it while displaying more than 10 lines of text. Has been hotfixed to over 1000 lines but performance should suffer on such long texts.

- the double-scrollers are due to calling TextInput with scrollers and the app having a set defined through GTK. Problem is I can either to a clean GTK version or a clean MUI-version of this ...

-names for the tabs and window aren't set yet thats why you see some trash there.

- the "_" are GTK's way of marking shortcuts (would be printed bold), they have to be filtered out and replaced by proper Intuition-shortcuts.



[ Edited by Kronos on 2009/9/26 14:47 ]

gtk_notebook:
- it's now possible to add/remove pages (something not really supported by MUI)
- pages can now have correct headers

gtk_textview:
- TextInput turned out to be far to inflexible, TextEditor was never an option so I started my own MUI-class specially suited to interact with gtk_textview's lower levels


MUI_textview:
- text can be set in bulk or as seperate lines
- unlimited linelength
- unlimited textlength (till you run out of RAM that is)
- basic edit-functions, insert char, delete, backspace, new line, split line, merge lines, navigation with arrow-keys.
- every line can be seperated into any number of segments
- vertical and horizontal scrolling with cursor

todo:
- set cursor with mouse
- connecting to scrollers
- mark text,cut,copy,paste

planned:
- every textsegment can have it's own font, style or color without changing the actual text
- several windows showing the same text

The class is primarly focused on GTK but will be developed to be useable outside the GTK-context.

- it's now possible to add/remove pages (something not really supported by MUI)

afaik it is supported by mui4 :)

Believe me I tried ....

It only worked the hard way, read
- removing the pagegroup from it's parent
- remove/add pages
- put pagegroup back to it's parent

Would be even worse under MUI3.x where it seems one has to destroy and rebuild the whole pagegroup

I can not check this right now but IIRC,

Quote:

You dont have to remove pagegroup from its parent but just only call MUI_InitChange/MUIM_ExitChange. But more or less it is still complicated.

But then in MUI4 I would use title.mui class for tabs.

Without removing+adding the pagegroup didn't get updated till I closed opneed the window....

"title.mui" ? O.k. seems I'm missing something here .....

Quote:

Hmm.. or maybe you had to use MUIM_ExitChange2... I know I have done this before but I can not access my sources Someone at #mui (freedone.net) should know.

Quote:

It can be used to manage tabs. This is what is used in OWB and Multiview for example. But I can not give exampes, sorry.

I've seen an update on pegasosforum.de but in german. I cannot figure out what is going on with translator (meaby i'm just tired) but Kronos, can you update us in english please?

> I cannot figure out what is going on with translator

Short: http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2010-11-00013-EN.html

The gtk-mui bounty is re-opened now, becaus Kronos stopped to work on it.
Instead he will focus on adapting a component of GDK to MUI/CyberGraphX.
Maybe the goal of the bounty will be changed later to match with the new "conecpt" of kronos...
Of course the donators will be asked then, if they agree !

Is Jaca now assigned to a bounty?

I did not get any request ...
Wich bounty would be interesting for jaca ?

That bounty says Developer: JacaDcaps that's why I was asking :)

Ups, my mistake. I changed this