[CF-Devel] client 'configure' gives problems

[dnh]

Here is a link to this very affect.

     
     http://mids.student.utwente.nl/~dnh/screen_shots/SDL_client.jpg
     
     

dnh

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, dnh wrote:

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      On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Scott MacFiggen wrote:
     
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      > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:32:49PM +1000, dnh wrote:
     
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      > > Firstly I would just like to say WOOOOOOOO HOOOOO! The SDL client is
     
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      > > running around 200x faster on my machine and that isn't an exxageration. I
     
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      > > was getting 10 second delays while gcfclient busily resized the window.
     
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      > > Now you don't even notice the redraw! I think we can safely say gdk's png
     
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      > > stuff is dodgy. =)
     
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      > I figured the speed improvments would be pretty hardware specific.
     
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      > I saw about 30% speed improvments with SDL, maybe 40% with the speed
     
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      > enchancments I commited last night, mark saw almost no improvment, I 
     
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      > dunno if my changes last night made things better for him or not though.
     
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      Well you have got at least one happy customer =)).
     
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      > > * Tiles left in memory. When you walk towards a wall, the tile immediatly
     
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      > > preceeding the 'blackness' is repeated in there and we see no blackness.
     
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      > > This only seems to happen with walls.
     
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      > > /me 's best guess: either the tiler isn't considering parts of the map
     
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      > > which don't exist (ie the map is 4 x 4, it doesn't just paste black for 5,
     
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      > > 4. The tiler isn't removing tiles from the cache and is leaving them there..
     
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      > > or something.
     
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      > Is this any wall or a specific place on a map? I haven't seen this before.
     
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      > Can you give me a specific example? ie: Map location that I can try?
     
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      There are heaps, the walls in the perm apartment, the walls around the
     
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      city. You obviously aren't experiencing this bug cause it happens every..
     
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      I will take a screenshot when I switch to linux.
     
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      > > * Funny colours. The hallofselection's tiles grey tiles are coming up
     
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      > > wrong, for me I got a nice cyan colour, for mids I believe a fine yellow.
     
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      > > I have no idea what is causing this.. maybe a debian thing, or maybe SDL
     
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      > > lacks that particular colour. 
     
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      > Yeah, I get yellow.. I haven't looked at that one yet.
     
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      Hmmmm
     
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      dnh
     
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      > 	-Scott
     
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