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

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Hi,

Matteo Nastasi wrote:

>>4. For the drawing parts, make sure that this still works for really
>>long tasks. All the odd-looking code we have there is because the 16-bit
>>limitation in X, so we need to be careful to not wrap around when
>>drawing long tasks (and when zooming in a lot).
> 
> My code not work correctly with your clipping method (You can try it 
> using your method on the horizontal dashed border line of vampire task
> and moving another window on it). I need an alternative method to clip
> my graphical primitives.
> 
> Doesn't solve GDK this problem for us?

Theoretically it should. We can draw lines that are less then 2^16 long
anywhere in a 2^32 space. But it shouldn't be a problem since everything
should be clipped to the viewed area anyway. The current drawing code is
a bit "odd" to say the least. If you come up with a cleaner solution, I
would be happy to use that instead.

>>5. We need to come up with some other term than "vampire" in my opinion.
>>Any suggestions?
> 
>   vlad task ? 
>   parassite task ?

I think parasite is pretty good. Any native english speakers here? :)

/Richard

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