Re: Improved IMFApp

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Hans Ronne wrote:

> I have checked in the improved IMFApp that I have been working on recently.
> It no longer needs 1 GB of memory and 45 minutes to load imf.dir (well,
> things were not quite that bad, but almost).

It loaded fairly quickly on my Linux box. Inside a virtual machine on my 
hardware takes a little over a minute, which is probably quite fast, 
given how long a Xconq compile takes in the VM.

The image-loading progress report is a nice touch.

I think the top-level window size is too big. In the ChangeLog, I think 
you said you changed it to 900x600 (which is much bigger than 640x480, 
and would be unwieldy at 800x600). Even at the 1024x768 resolution I 
prefer (my best monitor is 8 years old, and does not have a particularly 
good dot pitch, so higher resolutions are too hard to read text in), the 
window seems too big.

> In retrospect, I ask myself why I put a lot of work into improving
> an application that I guess only a handful of people ever use. 

Well, that handful (game developers) is a very important handful. And, I 
think your work is appreciated by that handful.

Eric