From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-07-06T00:46:09+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] aeditor 1.0 released

On Monday 05 July 2004 16:40, Kaspar Schiess wrote:
> | on windows there are font problems.. you can make me happy if you can
> | make solve this problem. Thanks in advance.
>
> Making you happy:
> @font.create is not executed before onCanvasPrepare, and the font thusly
> accessed is invalid, causing segmentation fault. Solution proposed:

Wonderful!  


> def create
> 	read_registry
> 	super  # this is where it looses control
> 	@font_created = true
> 	@font.create
> 	@back_buffer.create
> 	@canvas.setFocus
> 	update_title
> end
>
> and then a
>
> return unless @font_created

I had assumed that #create was invoked before anything else.
but not realized this could be a problem.. (even though I have tried on 2 of 
my friends windows boxes.. changing random things in the code).


> in onCanvasPrepare (at the very start). Problems with this solution are:
> a race condition exists. You would have to do that with a semaphore or
> other.

I will browse fox's souce code to investigate this further.


> The speed of the whole editor seems to be very slow under windows with
> Fox. 

how slow?    there is outputed timing information to the console.
may I ask about details.

one time when I tried on windows I had really poor performance.
it took 10 seconds to render one frame. On my 700MHz linux box it 
takes 0.05 seconds to lex+render one frame.

I have no explanaition if the slowdown is greater than 1 second.

Suggestions how to track it down are appreciated.


> Can I ask you again to the exact reason why another fully evolved 
> editor like SciTE will not do ?

Im obsessed by ruby. I want to be able to write plugins in Ruby.
I want to be able to do changes in the editor core via plugins.
It is not possible with Scintilla to have so much freedom in the
plugins. What I want is maybe emacs ala ruby?

At some point it could be interesting to integrate my editor widget into
freeride, and see what happens.

>
> best regards,
>
> kaspar

Thanks Kaspar for making me happy :-)

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Simon Strandgaard