On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Simon Michael
Hi Corey.. I noticed this thread via Haskell Weekly News.
Corey O'Connor wrote:
For further development of the vty package I'm really only paying attention to the requirements that fall out of the Yi project. Are there any other projects that depend on the vty package?
Why yes! I just used it within the hledger project.
Thanks for the reply! I will try out hledger and verify (As much as I can) that I don't introduce regressions with any changes I make. I'm going to add the issues you outline below to VTY's issue tracker (http://trac.haskell.org/vty/) If you think of anything else feel free to file an issue there. Though reports directly sent to me or added to the Yi issue tracker will work as well.
I expected renderBS to convert a multiline string into an Image of height > 1.
Agreed. http://trac.haskell.org/vty/ticket/8
It might be nice if the <-> and <|> combinators were more forgiving about mismatching dimensions, I get unexpected failures from them. After a failure like this my program quits but the terminal is not properly reset until I run "reset" manually.
Oh definitely. This bit me a few times when adding GUI tabs to Yi. I'd much prefer not to have to worry about matching dimensions. http://trac.haskell.org/vty/ticket/9
I believe vty supports only whole-screen updates, and you could write more performant uis by careful use of *curses ? My experiment is quick enough for regular use on my macbook, but I can only move the cursor so fast and when I highlight the whole line that it's on there is noticeable double-display while I move. I haven't tried profiling yet. I'd welcome any tips on how to write a cross-platform TUI that updates instantly!
Some optimization is attempted on update. I haven't looked into the details of how this is done yet. There is an issue with the current process with regards to multi-byte characters. After I investigate that issue I should know more. Cheers, Corey O'Connor