Re: Algol vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Creating, say, a window is a piece of cake -- extend the wxFrame
> class, add your components to the constructor (stuff like "myTextBox =
> new wxTextBox(this)"), and add event handler functions to deal with
> what the user does.

<Way OT rant>

The thing that's currently pissing me off about wx is that the newer ones lack the rawbits interface - at least on OS X 10.6 - and some on Linux as well.

Well, that and the fact that you can't blit an image to a DC, you have to first convert it to a bitmap.

wxBitmap can be manipulated with rawbitmap.h - only it's not available where I need it.

wxImage can be manipulated with the SETRGB macro , but you need to convert it to a bitmap before you can Blit it, and doing so is insanely, unbearably slow on OS X.
Oh sure, there are other methods of playing with wxImages, but they're even slower (using pens, drawing lines, etc.)

Worse yet, on OS X 10.6 with wxCocoa, if I use wxImage with SETRGB and then convert the image to a bitmap and blit the bitmap, I'm get weird banding artifacts when using the gray 50% desktop pattern (you know, alternating lines of 0x55 and 0xaa patterns black & white), but not on the older OS X 10.5's. It's making it very hard to get a 64 bit version of LisaEm.

That and playing sounds is fugly - you have to pass it a .wav file, so I had to resort to creating a temporary .wav file on the fly and telling it to play that. Oh sure, on SOME platforms passing raw data works, but not everywhere.

Rest of the stuff is wonderful.

:-)

</WAY OT> Received on 2010-02-11 13:24:59