No preview build tonight

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Thu Oct 12 01:54:08 PDT 2006


Well I've been spending the last 9 hours or so chasing my tail with 
trying to fix some problems generated from recent changes in the 
buffered DC classes, discovered mostly from Andrea's recent FlatNotebook 
update.  I finally decided that FlatNotebook is correct and that the 
problem is in the buffered DC classes, but it's one of those nice 
problems where it works fine on Windows, asserts on OS X and seg-faults 
on Linux.  So I spent a few hours putting a band-aid on wxGTK's 
wxDC::Blit so allow it to work with buffered DCs again only to run into 
the OS X problem and deciding that it can't be 'fixed' there with even a 
whole box full of band-aids.  So now I need to convince wx-dev that the 
new buffered DC changes have got to go, and if you can't tell from my 
ramblings it is too late at night for me to try to undo those changes 
now without making things worse.  So maybe we'll have the preview and 
release builds a day or two later than previously announced.

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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