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Date: 15/2/2007
| On the Mac coding front I'm implementing support for PPC byte ordering in code that reads/writes the mail2 folders. This is so I can run Scribe on my mini. I think I'm over half way through that, and I'm hoping to have a running build of Scribe next week sometime.
On the Linux front I've ditched the old hack I was using to support some KDE system settings from inside Lgi applications and I've written a new shared library that acts as glue between KDE and Lgi. When an Lgi app detects it's running on a KDE system it loads the support module (hard linked against KDE) that calls the official KDE api to query it for system information. This method has many benifits, first and foremost it's not a hack so it works well and isn't likely to break. Secondly I can now support other window managers easily, so I'll be writing a Gnome support module shortly on Fedora Core 6. The window manager glue module provides access to:
- Official system path info (e.g. the desktop path)
- System UI colour settings
- Mime -> App list translations
- The currently selected system language
And I guess I could add more if needed. All of this information is optional and Lgi will sythesis it if needed. But having it makes for a nicer user experience. One thing that I could experiement with later is seeing if I can implement a bridge between the KDE/Qt skinning code and the Lgi skinning interface. That could possibly mean that Lgi apps could look like native KDE apps without hard linking against KDE.
On the windows front, I'm still trying to fix the lose of focus issues. I've hacked a fix up for the lose of focus when selecting the root node in Scribe, but I'm finding that there are other places where the same thing is happening, even with the hack in place. For instance sometimes when you click on a message in the list the focus immediately gets lost. Which screws everything up. If I can fix that I'll make a release.
In fact we're looking good for a triple platform release of Scribe this month.
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mhf
24/02/2007 4:35pm
| Yes, the loss of focus thing is weird, if you click say on the inbox folder in the folder tree the first message in the inbox has the focus, then if you click on the next folder down in the folder tree there is no message with focus, then there is, then there isn't - every other folder down the tree... |
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