Re: [Planner Dev] Prop. for new feat. - second patch overview

[Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:55 +0100, Matteo Nastasi wrote:

> > - I must add a view option to see/unsee the non working days.
> Accomplished.

great!

> > - Investigation about graphical clipping for gdk/X.
> Ok, gdk verify nothing about X overflow, my proposal is a set of draw
> functions with the same semantic of related gdk_draw_* functions and
> with an automatic clip on coordinate and dimension arguments.
> 
> Some like:
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> // Trim the value to short int work space */
> #define TRSH(a) ((int)((a) < 0xffff ? (short int)0xffff : \
>                               ((a) > 0x7fff ? (short int)0x7fff : (a))))
> 
> #define draw_cut_rectangle ((a),(b),(c),(d),(e),(f),(g))    \
>         gdk_draw_rectangle ((a),(b),(c),TRSH(d),TRSH(e),TRSH(f),TRSH(g))
> 
> #define draw_cut_line ((a),(b),(c),(d),(e),(f))  \
>         gdk_draw_line ((a),(b),TRSH(c),TRSH(d),TRSH(e),TRSH(f))
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or inline functions if you prefer.

I believe inline functions are the norm in Planner... Richard - what's
your take on this one?

> - for "rectangle" and "layout" this choise work well, 
> - for "line" there is the restriction to draw horizontal or vertical lines
>  (otherwise you must use a much more sophisticate clip algorithm); in
>  planner-gantt all lines are horiz or vert.
> - for "polygon" we can continue to use the native function and an explicit check 

ok

> > - Add #ifdef to disable vampire (or the name that we want
> >   definitively to use for it)
> Accomplished: I add the --enable-vampire param (default = no) into ./configure.in
> and the related WITH_VAMPIRE macro.

How about --enable-priority-scheduling  ??

-- 
Kurt Maute <kurt maute us>