Re: Commit 4f3a8eba3a doesn't compile

[Werner LEMBERG]

> However, what do you prefer for me to prioritize?
> 
>  * The Hinting Comperator Tab (= `ftdiff`), a new tab parallel to
>    singular grid view and continuous view
>  * The long, long list of TODO features, and the most wanted
>    features seem to be the zoom/scroll/drag operations and
>    click-for-detail features for continuous view. It seems that
>    Alexei is more into this.
> 
> Personally both are OK to me, so I'd like to hear your opinion.

I don't have a preference.  Both are important IMHO, so I leave this
up to you.

>> However, if I press 'continue' in gdb, it stops after one second
>> again at this place.  And again, and again...  Is this normal?  How
>> shall I ever test a change?
> 
> Very abnormal.  Is your `msyh.ttc` a symbolic link?

Aaah, yes.

> It's pretty evident that it's FS watcher part triggering font reload
> operation, thus resetting the charmap option. Because the file was
> recognized as a symbolic link, and Qt's fs watcher can't handle this
> (as is mentioned in the comment), a timer is used to periodically
> reload the font instead of listening on fs events.

Pfft, it was even me who wrote that comment :-) Will try with a normal
file.

> However, reloading of font should not reset the charmap option
> either if the charmaps didn't change during the reloading (e.g. when
> the font isn't changed actually). Line 116, 120~124 and 144~145 are
> exactly intended to avoid unexpected resetting, but it don't seem to
> work. I will look this tomorrow (7 hrs later) :P.

Thanks!


    Werner