February 2008 - Xquartz-dev - lists.macosforge.org

1.3.0-apple10 and pixman
by Jeremy Huddleston 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

As many of you know, we've been stuck on the 1.3 branch for a while now while x.org has been working on 1.4 as their stable version. There are a few technical reasons for this... mostly focused on bugs having to do with the input side of things. I've looked into those bugs enough to know that they're not going to be simple fixes, so I decided to try integrating just some of the 1.4 changes into 1.3. Specifically, I've just committed a series of changes to git that bring the xorg-server-1.3-apple fb and render code up to the same version in xorg-server-1.4-apple. This code was heavily refactored between 1.3 and 1.4 and much of it is now shared with cairo in the pixman library. Consequently, I expect that we will see a big increase in stability with 1.3.0-apple10 over apple9, but I haven't been able to give it a thorough testing yet. While I feel confident about the code, I'm not going to release it in a package until it's been in use for a while. I'm in the process of uploading a binary to the downloads page and will send a note to x11-users when it is done uploading. I urge you all to please use it and report any issues... especially if you've been able to readily encounter crashes in fb<Blah> functions. Thanks, Jeremy

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X11-2.1.4-rc1
by Jeremy Huddleston 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Well, nobody's told me about any hosed systems with Xquartz-1.3.0- apple10, so I'm declaring victory and moving on. I have rolled up those and other changes into a new release. The release candidate can be found here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.1.4-rc1.pkg and release notes here: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.4 Note that it's a little smaller than the previous releases because some of the changes made it into 10.5.2 and are thus not included in this update. --Jeremy

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NIB File
by Jeremy Huddleston 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

I just pushed some updates to xorg-server git relating to the NIB file. I converted them to 3.x format, fixed up the X11Controller.h header file, and added an option for the quartz-wm click-through (won't actually work until quartz-wm uses org.x.X11 instead of com.apple.x11). I'm having a bit of trouble with interface builder that hopefully someone else can help me out with. I'm used to using QT's Designer for interface building, and I can't figure out how to manage the layout like I want. The issue is with the Applications->Customize window. If you make it really big or really small, it doesn't behave logically: buttons collide with eachother instead of resizing, buttons shrink when there is room to expand, etc... Also, is there a way in Interface Builder to set items as inactive (like the fullscreen checkbox / 256 color option), or is that something that can only be done programatically? Thanks in advance, Jeremy

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