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Zantalos wrote:Just an issue, you can hide windows to the left, but you can't safely drag them to the right or at the bottom without losing them.
(probably didn't need to write all that suff)

No, this is a good bug. I will fix this as soon as the GUI is in working order again (I had to uproot a lot of stuff for the double buffering system.)

Just uploaded the latest build. This one has some rudimentary double buffering, so you should notice about a 40-50% speed increase. I get about 75 FPS on my PC now and 30 FPS on my poor, overworked Powerbook. More optimizations coming up.

Please let me know if you find any visual glitches as this was a pretty intense change.

I couldn't find any glitches.
About 50-60 fps, while having some programs on and working (and ALOT
of system/appearance mods ).

I get (19-)20FPS... I think there might be something wrong with my 3d card (6600GT <- Shouldn't be bad). Either that or my machine is overloaded by stuff.. Photoshop is running. Etc.

Also, that 1x3 rectangle at the titlebar (The one containing those 3 window control buttons, max, min, close) all activates at once if you move mouse near them. and if you click somewhere in between, they all go blank (but stil colored as in mouse hovering).

edit: it looks like it's locked at 20fps... Anybody knows how to fix?

edit2: Each window steals about 10fps. Closing them results in me having 65-70fps.

There's a glitch if you resize the radio button field to about 10 pixels of the minimum width or less. Every time you trigger a refresh in the window (pretty much any action works), the longest labels "second" and "column" are not redrawn properly. See pic, courtesy of Snapz Pro (from left to right, original, 1 refresh, lots of refreshs):

Same thing if you move the mouse over the disabled checkbox (or activate its window).

Nuky wrote:I get (19-)20FPS... I think there might be something wrong with my 3d card (6600GT <- Shouldn't be bad). Either that or my machine is overloaded by stuff.. Photoshop is running. Etc.

Also, that 1x3 rectangle at the titlebar (The one containing those 3 window control buttons, max, min, close) all activates at once if you move mouse near them. and if you click somewhere in between, they all go blank (but stil colored as in mouse hovering).

edit: it looks like it's locked at 20fps... Anybody knows how to fix?

edit2: Each window steals about 10fps. Closing them results in me having 65-70fps.

What kind of processor do you have? Your graphics card should not be used at all at the moment.

Nuky wrote:Also, that 1x3 rectangle at the titlebar (The one containing those 3 window control buttons, max, min, close) all activates at once if you move mouse near them. and if you click somewhere in between, they all go blank (but stil colored as in mouse hovering).

Ya, I'm not sure how an actual Mac runs, but on windows switches would either light up if they could be activated or just not light up at all. Same with resizing, at max, it gets locked into place. But for Macs you can still move it around, this means that if you accidently move the top a little when it's at max, you won't be able to shrink it. It will just shift in its place for whatever distance it was moved. I dunno, just thought that's a little strange compared to PCs.

Oh yeah, and the FPS improved. It increased about 15% moving my 19 fps to a whopping 24! I'm going to test this out on a much faster computer, this ones just a bit too many years outdated.

@silb: Jeeze man how do you find these things? I mean, ten pixels? I can't even recreate that!

New build for tonight.

This one has some pretty dramatic optimizations. I get about 1600 FPS on my PC (that's not a typo) and about 180 FPS on my Mac laptop. I also fixed Nuky's mouseover bug, which I saw thanks to Zantalos quoting it and Silb's redraw bug. Again, please be on the lookout for redraw issues because this was a pretty severe change.

There is still plenty of room for optimization, but I think I will concentrate on adding some new controls first. Up next, the tab panel!

wow, i am getting 1450 FPS, incredible compared to previous builds.

That is on a 2 GHz processor with all sorts of other shit running.

180 FPS on my Mac laptop- that's 6 times faster!

The redraw glitch I mentioned still happens with the disabled checkbox--just hover your mouse over it a couple times.

Fixed. It's hard to catch those because they're caused by the fact that the fonts are different on Mac and Win.

170-300 FPS, with more stuff running than last time.

Jeff wrote:What kind of processor do you have? Your graphics card should not be used at all at the moment.

Ohhhh, that would make sense, then. A hellova lot of sense: 2.8ghz CELERON!!!!

Anyways; Great work! I get about 400fps as normal, now. 6*0 if I close all them windows.

New build. This one features a pop up menu. It doesn't have a focus ring graphic yet, but it is still there, so using the keyboard with it should work.

Also, this is the last "prototype" build. The next build you'll see is going to be completely rewritten in C++/SDL, running in the Phoenix shell.

Jeff wrote:New build. This one features a pop up menu. It doesn't have a focus ring graphic yet, but it is still there, so using the keyboard with it should work.

Also, this is the last "prototype" build. The next build you'll see is going to be completely rewritten in C++/SDL, running in the Phoenix shell.

Great!
It works pretty well here.
Can't wait for any possible screenies/the socalled next build