Recent milestones

[luserdroog]

A few big items on the TODO have been completed.

 

The basic path-construction operators have been translated to C, factoring-out many interpreter cycles from each, resulting in a 50% speed increase in the drawing portions of `runtest`.

 

The type-checking optimization for operator_exec() has taken practical form and resulted in another 50% speed increase in the drawing portion of `runtest`.

 

The infamous `setdash` has been implemented.

 

`makefont` has been stubbed which finally allows xpost to execute the data/m.ps and data/s.ps illustrations of its own data structures generated by pic + troff.

 

Current focus is actually implementing makefont, for which I've asked for help. http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2014-09/msg00006.html

 

Oh yeah, and the entire interpreter is in the library. And the alternate example program `xpost-client` is now compilable, and the bgr device is being debugged.

[luserdroog]

`xpost_client` is debugged. The bgr device works, but it has been copied and extended to create the new 'raster' device which can work with rgb argb bgr or bgra. This seems more efficient than maintaining a separate source file for each buffer type.

 

After implementing this I've been slacking off. All the paths aren't tested. Bufferin doesn't work or isn't tested. And I've been playing a lot with my little lisp interpreter. https://github.com/luser-dr00g/sexp.c

 

For another excuse, I'm playing electric bass for a local musical.

http://www.straydogtheatre.org/index.php?/shows/the_great_american_trailer_park_christmas_musical

So that's been consuming some time and energy.

 

Next issues to deal with: anti-aliasing?? maybe?

[vincent.torri]

And in other hand, the xpost library has successfully been used with the EFL toolkit.

[luserdroog]

I keep meaning to ask

what is that gizmo in your message "Mark as complete"?

What's going on here?

 

--

I'm reminded of an old episode of The Twilight Zone

with "the 'button box'". If you push the button, you

get 1 000 000 dollars, and someone will die,

someone you don't even know.