[fixed] Menu items and fonts : is this normal ?

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:21 pm

Hi !

I'm creating a menu, and seems I have a little problem when I use a different font than the default font.
The size of menu items don't change according to the font, and they overlaps.

Is this normal or am I supposed to set some parameters ??? And what are those parameters (tried several things, but failed) ?

Thanks for your help.

PS : I forgot to mention, I'm using the SVN 1055, compiled under Ubuntu Linux 7.10, with an Intel GPU compatible Opengl1.3

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:17 am

Ah yes, that's a bug. you can work around it by setting the font before creating the menu.

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 1:27 pm

Thanks for the tip

Do you think I should ignore this bug (will be solved within few weeks), or do you think I should better design my code according to the "workaround" (needs a big and deep redesign) ?

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:02 pm

PS : of course, I could try to debug it myself and submit a patch ... But I remember last year, when I wanted to use Irrlicht, I spent all my free time submitting patches, and finally, I never used the engine ...

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:16 pm

But they were really useful for all of us

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:46 pm

Yes I completely agree, your patches were very useful

However, I'll have a look at this now and commit the changes to both branches

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:15 pm

Nooooo, please only add them to one branch.
In this case I'd prefer trunk. Because it might brake even more when fixing in 1.4, so people will have to wait until 1.5.

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:54 pm

Hi.

If I spend time providing little patches to add little (but important) missing details to the engine, will someone eventually add them to the engine before next release ?

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:08 pm

oops sorry, committed this before reading your post hybrid

edit:
hey_i_am_real, if the changes are small, easy to understand and relatively important bug fixes, then they stand a good chance of making it into the engine before the 1.4 release. New features and API changes won't make it in though.

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:21 pm

Thanks for this fast debugging, Bitplane.
Unfortunately, I can't try it, because I've upgraded to SVN 1060 and I can't compile it (lots of warning in COpenGLExtensionHandler.h and an error in COpenGLExtensionHandler.cpp).
Maybe it's work in progress, I'll try again later.

if the changes are small, easy to understand and relatively important bug fixes, then they stand a good chance of making it into the engine before the 1.4 release. New features and API changes won't make it in though.

Ok. 1.4 focuses on bug fixes.
Is there an ongoing discussion in the forums about version 1.5 ? (did not found one yet)
Or a thread were efforts from external contributors are centralized and coordinated ?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:12 pm

There is no specific discussion on a 1.5 roadmap. I'll add some information on my plans to the Wiki when I find some time. This might also include some larger feature proposals from the community. All others (mostly minor things which can be assessed and fixed/finished more easily) are usually posted on the forum and discussed (and probably acknowledged for inclusion) in their threads. Adding a patch to the SourceForge patch tracker makes our job much simpler and also makes the features available to others - which also enhances inclusion probabilities.

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:26 pm

Ok. Thank you Hybrid. :-)

I'll try to follow this way.

hey_i_am_real · Post by **hey_i_am_real** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:06 pm

Thank you again Bitplane.
Everything seems to work correctly now.
:-)