GLUI "3.00" code dump information (github.com/mick-p1982/glui) about glui HOT 3 CLOSED

P.S. I painstakingly moved the files with Tortoise Git, but it looks like their History didn't move with them, or GitHub cannot display it. (Or maybe I didn't use Git correctly, or Tortoise Git doesn't implement Move correctly.)

I don't think there's been a great deal of changes to GLUI since it moved from SourceForge. If my rewrite is inspiring that it could have a future, then I really think moving to GitHub ought to be reconsidered. But I don't know how far back GLUI's history really goes. It may be very shallow in terms of revisions if it was principally developed by Paul Rademacher prior to being open sourced.

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Today I noticed the Spinner didn't work for clicking because it would go up wildly when clicked. I didn't think I was going to try to fix it but I did anyway.

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To do it, it was necessary to impose a speed limit on the idle function, because it's called at such a high frequency.

I don't think the display events happen at that frequency, but there's no way to slow down idle except to "sleep". Even if you waited for a display to happen knowing a control will update it will still spin. The sleep is contingent on the idle function being reentered in under x milliseconds.

EDITED: I actually think glutTimerFunc is generally better than idling for problems that require updates... but I think it's nice too to manage rapid idling for users. Though they might want to disable it.

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https://github.com/mick-p1982/glui/commits/master has some updates that grew of my beginning to repackage the code for my next phase of development.

The new code won't go into the fork code. I've opted to make a sharp departure from GLUI. I ended up going with the standard-library convention for this project. (All lowercase.) It's kind of weird and clumsy (and hard to read) but it felt like the best fit. It's not as convenient to maintain. It solves some problems with where to capitalize control names by removing capitals altogether.

Copying pasting code to/from GLUI won't be a future option. I received a letter from Nigel the maintainer. They said they were interested in backporting some things I worked on (for hundreds of hours) but I think that's really too much work for anyone to take on (so it is very unlikely to occur) and I would recommend instead copying everything over pretty much intact, and then figuring out what to change (maybe move files back, since Git seems to not be able to move/copy) before committing. I'm sure parts I would prefer to omit myself, but I don't know if it's worth so much consideration considering the abysmal state of the present code (and user experience) by comparison.

I'm not directly working on the, code but when I notice semi-serious issues I will patch them in this fork.

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