[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Memory leak fixed, new version uploaded

[Tuomas Airaksinen <tuma@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:26:34PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> Nathan Lovell writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > > > The file freeciv-1.11.4-win.zip can be deleted (my internet connection
>  > > > has broken down while uploading).
>  > > > 
>  > > > I don't stop working on the native windows port (it is much faster
>  > > > than the windows-gtk port).
>  > > 
>  > > I wonder why is the windows port of gtk so slow then (fixing that bug 
> didn't 
>  > > speed up it at all, I suppose)?
>  > 
>  > Yes, I noticed that GTK is EXTREMELY slow.  Is the native windows port
>  > available for testing, then?
>  > 
> I think the way to draw (pix/bit)-maps with masks (=Icons on windows)
> is quite slow because gdk_gc_set_mask is quite complex and
> slow.

Why does the same thing then work _very_ fast on linux?

> Compare that code with the code of DrawIcon in the wine sources.
> It's much simpler. As gdk_gc_set_mask is not only used for drawing
> pixmaps like in freeciv, it has to be universal and cannot be as
> simple as DrawIcon.

I think there must be a bug, and the reason is above. Why would 
the same code work slower on other environment?

> I have put a test version at
> http://home.t-online.de/home/akemnade/incomplete-win-native.zip

I tested that, and saw that you had done very good work (although
some dialogs were still a bit ugly, but that's understandable). 
 
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