event handler timer.
After upgrading my kernel recently I noticed that dnotify has been
depreciated, so I decided to try and implement the new inotify code in
Window Maker instead.
During testing, I also found that one of the timers which was removed
(the one causing the most wake-ups), calling delayedAction, was
responsible for handling signals. Basically with this timer removed,
signals were only handled after an X event occurs.
After looking at the delayedAction function, I couldn't see the purpose of it.
It certainly wouldn't cause any delay as it was called by the timer every
500ms, so there is no time correlation with when a signal was received.
Also, it appeared to count the signals and call DispatchEvent for each
one, but it appears DispatchEvent would just handle the most recent signal
and take action on that. The signals handled by delayedAction are the
various exit and reset signals, so only one need to be handled. I
therefore have commented out delayedAction (it wasn't called by any other
procedure) and added a call to DispatchEvent imediately after the signal
is registered, in handleExitSig.
I'm not sure what problems this may cause with dead children - these are
only cleaned up after an Xevent now that the timer is removed- but I
haven't observed any problems since a few months ago.
WMDrawString() and WMDrawImageString() now take WMColor instead of GC as
arguments. WMDrawImageString() receives 2 colors (text & background).
This is to allow easy extension for Xft/Xrender and hide X low level details
- Added alpha channel to WMColor. 2 new functions also:
WMCreateRGBAColor() and WMSetColorAlpha()
- Miscelaneous code cleanups in wtext.c
- Removed obsoleted acconfig.h and implemented its functionality using
AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED as autoconf 2.5x recommends.
This will definitely enforce the need to use autoconf 2.5x
- fixed a bug and memleak in WMBox code.
- updated some translations
- fixed some bug in the menu code about drawing disabled entries.
- fixed Clip menu not to allow selecting of "Autoraise" if "Keep On Top"
is active.
- Added a "Browse" button to the menu editor in WPrefs where a program to run
is specified (not finished).
- Also tested the backward compatibility ability of the WINGs proplist code
which seems to work quite well.
Starting with this moment, Window Maker no longer needs libPropList and is
now using the better and much more robust proplist code from WINGs. Also the
WINGs based proplist code is actively maintained while the old libPropList
code is practically dead and flawed by the fact that it borrowed concepts
from the UserDefaults which conflicted with the retain/release mechanism,
making some problems that libPropList had, practically unsolvable without a
complete redesign (which can be found in the more robust WINGs code).
PowerPC architecture, because on LinuxPPC char is unsigned by default, not
signed like on the other platforms).
Bug fixed by Philip Derrin <philipd@student.unsw.edu.au>
- miscelaneous bug fixes
We would like people with cvs access experimenting the white 'speckles' on
images to test if they still have the problem.
