Re: using charles library

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Roman V. Isaev wrote:
>    I would not touch Gtk stuff with a ten-foot pole. Gtk on WinXX performance
> is a joke and even Gtk on X11 performance is lousy (I always compile freeciv
> with Xaw3D because of that despite of Xaw3D interface strangeness). Seeing 
> simple windows redraw themselves in times of common 1Ghz+ computers is Not
> Right. 

Huh? I use Gtk on my old 166Mhz and I don't these problems, not even on
faster computers (1GHz). But I think you are refering to the lack of
double buffering in the Gtk 1.2. As I understand this is fixed in 2.2.
However I have not experienced this. Please explain a bit more which
programs you see this and what happens.

Freeciv works nice with Gtk on both my old machine and the faster onces
as far as I can see. But Gtk is not for action games if that is what you
mean.

At any rate you can have a look at how they did it with the gettext :-)

> Anyway, this isn't the main reason. The main reason is to learn
> some Ada, I have to start somewhere and I'll need translation code
> anyway. Recently I dug out some old father's Pascal code that does
> some scientific calculations.  It needs user interface and cleanup.
> Don't want to use Delphi. Many years ago I did an interface for it,
> using Clarion 2.1 for DOS, but program wasn't released :) Now I
> want to use AWS (I'm playing with it right now and it's amazing) so
> the interface would be accessible via TCP/IP and the program would
> be extremely portable (to run it on the openbsd server in demo
> mode).  Scientific code produces lengthy text output, right now
> only cyrillic, and that output has to be translated somehow. I want
> to use gettext .mo files because I like poEdit and I want to give
> it to my father to translate most of his messages (I don't know a
> damn in oil field science). Didn't try to run xgettext on ada

Oh, interesting. What was the program used for?

> sources yet tho... but I hope string extraction is not a big
> problem.

You could also consider making a binding to the gettext.


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Preben Randhol                    http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/