IRC log for #arl on 20090813

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06:48.46ZhinjioTorhal|Sleep: ... ah, sleepyhead. I had a crazy thought.
06:48.56Zhinjiogonna give it a try and see what happens.
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09:35.55TorhalZhinjio: Bwah?
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20:39.28Torhal!api setuserplaced
20:39.28lua_botFrame:SetUserPlaced: Flags the frame for automatic saving and restoration of position and dimensions (http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widgets/Frame/SetUserPlaced)
20:56.54ZhinjioTorhal: ping
20:58.38TorhalZhinjio: pong
22:12.33Zhinjiook, you there?
22:13.34ZhinjioTorhal: ping a ling a long ding dong.
22:14.00ZhinjioI need to get irssi to make noises at me
22:15.31TorhalFoof
22:15.42TorhalZhinjio: I ponged your arse awhile ago
22:15.52TorhalEven talked in #wowace
22:15.56TorhalWHile you were talking :P
22:15.58TorhalHehe\
22:16.55Zhinjiook
22:16.58Zhinjioyeah
22:16.59ZhinjioI know
22:17.05Zhinjioalright, so I had an idea
22:17.23ZhinjioI dont' think lqt supports it right now, because my (admittedly meager) efforts didn't yield much
22:17.27Zhinjiobut tell me what you think of this
22:17.40Zhinjiomy addon now requires anotehr fucking scrolling button list
22:17.53Zhinjioof the type the wow/bliz api just makes my teeth ache.
22:18.06Zhinjiousing the faux scrolling template nonsense;
22:18.07Zhinjiohowever
22:18.12Zhinjioit occurred to me
22:18.22Zhinjiothat really, a scrolling tooltip, with click enabled
22:18.24Zhinjiois really the same thing
22:18.26Zhinjiohowever
22:18.31Zhinjiowhat I would need is this:
22:18.39Zhinjioa) be able to set height and width of the whole tooltip
22:19.17Zhinjiocause the UpdateScrolling(height) doesn't behave the way I expect
22:19.28TorhalI did that with GearGauge for a bit. Then I wrote my own scrollframe code because once you get to hundreds of lines it severely fucks with CPU.
22:19.35Zhinjioah
22:19.38Zhinjiosigh
22:19.48Zhinjiocan I rip it off?
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22:19.57TorhalSure. Latest alpha has it.
22:20.00Zhinjioor is it going to break my head
22:20.10ZhinjioI'll go take a look
22:20.28Zhinjioscrolling frames is probably my second least favorite thing in this api
22:20.40Zhinjioanyway
22:20.41Zhinjioalrighty
22:20.42Zhinjiothanks
22:20.43TorhalWhen I got to about 300 lines it took about 3 seconds to render the frame
22:20.50Zhinjiowow
22:20.52TorhalAnd scrolling...omfg
22:20.55ZhinjioI won't have that many
22:21.02Zhinjioer, actually... I might
22:21.02Torhal300 lines with 7-9 columns
22:21.05Zhinjioso nm
22:21.08Zhinjioyeah
22:21.18ZhinjioI can have as many as 500, now that I'm thinking about it
22:21.21TorhalJust having the frame up dropped my FPS by 20
22:21.54TorhalYou're basically just using an offset and drawing individual lines.
22:21.55Zhinjiokeeerist.
22:22.09TorhalWorks pretty damn well, and snappy too.
22:22.18Zhinjiogoes to look.
22:22.37Zhinjiohow's geargauge's progress, btw?
22:22.48Zhinjiogood enough for gov't work? or still alot left to do?
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22:26.05ZhinjioLibScrollFrame, ftw *grin*]
22:26.19Zhinjiothat would be such a great thing to have fully fleshed out.
22:26.25ZhinjioI *hate* the template shit
22:26.51Zhinjiowhere's Xinhuan to tell you you should just get used to doing things the blizz way when you need him
22:31.13TorhalZhinjio: GearGauge is usable. Needs tweaks here and there but I'm happy with it overall.
22:32.14Zhinjiookey dokey
22:32.40TorhalWhat you're looking for should be in Panel.lua if you haven't found it
22:34.38ZhinjioI have
22:40.08Zhinjiomy wife should be home soon, and I will give it a shot then
22:43.05TorhalGood deal.
22:43.28TorhalIt's simple shit, just an offset really.
22:46.33Zhinjiocan you explain table caching, and why it is or isn't useful?
22:47.57TorhalIf you make a lot of throwaway tables, it can lead to GC churn.
22:48.06Zhinjiohmm
22:48.07Zhinjiook
23:15.33TorhalZhinjio: To put it in perspective: ARL was allocating 2MiB _each_time_ a scan was performed. Using caching, I got that down to around 10KiB.
23:20.25Zhinjiorockin
23:21.55ZhinjioI suspect I do a bit of that in places where I make throwaways of pieces of the SV db
23:22.07Zhinjiobecause I was told making a small local copy to work from was ALWAYS better
23:22.20Zhinjioeven if you only referenced the local subtable twice.
23:22.46Zhinjioie ... local dbt = addon.db.options.display.blort; dbt.once = blort; dbt.twice = blort2
23:22.49Zhinjiothat kind of thing
23:22.58TorhalOh, no.
23:23.08TorhalYou're simply making a locally-scoped reference
23:23.14TorhalThat saves a table lookup.
23:23.18Zhinjioyaeh
23:23.22TorhalOr two, or three, depending on how deep it is
23:23.32Zhinjiobut "dbt" in that example is a throwaway, no?
23:23.44Zhinjiooh, no
23:23.48Zhinjioits not.
23:23.49ZhinjioI see
23:23.50TorhalNope. It's basically the Lua equivalent of a pointer.
23:24.59TorhalSo all you're doing is the initial table lookup. When referencing the local, you're directly accessing that area of memory.
23:28.42Zhinjioyup, I get.
23:30.07Zhinjioget it
23:34.14Zhinjiowait.
23:34.18Zhinjiooh, menu_pane
23:34.19Zhinjionm
23:34.21Zhinjiothat isn't the list
23:34.24Zhinjiothats a dropdown
23:34.51Zhinjioor the "control" pane
23:34.52Zhinjioyeah
23:34.54Zhinjiohmm
23:34.56Zhinjioyeah
23:34.56Zhinjiook
23:35.07ZhinjioI like the way thats handled.
23:35.19Zhinjiothat was ultimately what I was thinking for the listframe.
23:40.09TorhalWhat was? I'm confused now
23:40.11TorhalHehe
23:40.14Zhinjionm
23:40.17Zhinjiothe menu_pane
23:40.25Zhinjiothe thing on the right
23:40.32Zhinjiowuith the buttons that let you change sorting (I think()
23:40.54TorhalYah
23:40.57TorhalThat's a QTip
23:40.58Zhinjiothats a tooltip
23:40.59Zhinjioyeah
23:41.17Zhinjiothe problem with qtip is that you don't control the bottom edge (it seems)
23:41.23Zhinjiosince it resizes to the bottom of the screen
23:41.26Zhinjioor the bottom of the list
23:41.45Zhinjiobut if your list is short (like yours)
23:41.51Zhinjioit won't exceed the bottom of your frame
23:41.54Zhinjioyou're gtg
23:41.58TorhalWhat I was doing was calling UpdateScrolling() at the very end of all the AddLines() and whatnot
23:43.12TorhalBut then as my scanned list grew, so did the time required to do pretty much anything.
23:43.28pompy1http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/arl.aspx
23:43.32pompy1look at elsus comment
23:43.32pompy1lol
23:43.43pompy1and wait does that say 42k downloads in 1 day?
23:43.48pompy1~ 1 dat *
23:43.51pompy1day*
23:43.53pompy1damnit
23:45.29Zhinjiofrom what i can tell, the bottom edge of the qtip doesn't behave, either
23:45.34ZhinjioI have two lines in my list
23:45.38Zhinjioand the ... hmm, wait.
23:45.57TorhalI don't ever release it, and I have it specifically anchored.
23:46.15Zhinjioum...
23:48.21pompy1Hirnverstärkungsschüssel is missing from the Database 67839
23:48.23pompy1woah now
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