Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #3754, comment 5
- Timestamp:
- 02/22/17 20:55:21 (7 years ago)
Legend:
- Unmodified
- Added
- Removed
- Modified
-
Ticket #3754, comment 5
initial v1 5 5 Getting scrolling right is really not a trivial task, especially with special formatting (e.g. hyperlinks, nroff, colors etc.) and UTF-8 (multibyte, double-wide, combining etc.) in the game. 6 6 7 One of the goals of the complete viewer rewrite (#3250) was to port the help viewer to that engine as well . I just never got around to that. In order to do that, there are two major features missing from the viewer: Interpreting the help format as input (this should be done on the same level as nroff is handled now), and wrapping without breaking words (should be near the current wrap/nowrap distinctions). Plus, of course, once these two are done, hook up the help viewer to actually use that.7 One of the goals of the complete viewer rewrite (#3250) was to port the help viewer to that engine as well (#3396). I just never got around to that. In order to do that, there are two major features missing from the viewer: Interpreting the help format as input (this should be done on the same level as nroff is handled now), and wrapping without breaking words (should be near the current wrap/nowrap distinctions). Plus, of course, once these two are done, hook up the help viewer to actually use that. 8 8 9 9 The reason why the viewer (especially scrolling backwards) is so complicated is because it has to handle giant files and we don't want memory consumption to grow. Hence there's no caching, buffering, preformatting, whatever. The help viewer, however, only handles small pages. It's okay to render an entire help page in memory, maybe in a row-by-row GArray or such, and then scrolling up/down and such is a piece of cake. In this case it's entirely independent of the standard viewer.
