RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] No page rulers in LX

["Phil Martin" <Phil@xxxxxxxx>]

I've been asked to pick up this job.

So if anyone else was doing it or thinking about doing it please talk to
me!

Phil 8-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 24 June 2006 14:53
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] No page rulers in LX
> 
> 
> 
> --On 24 June 2006 11:24 +0100 Gerry Iles <GerryI@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The code to toggle the display of the rulers should be very 
> easy to get
> > working (some of it is already done in the CCamView class). 
>   The code
> > for rendering the rulers will be more work but mainly involves 
> > translating lots of old MFC drawing code into the wx 
> equivalent so it 
> > still shouldn't be too difficult.
> 
> Yep I'd concur. It's pretty much restricted in scope, does a 
> clearly defined job, I think everything is PORTNOTE'd, and 
> whilst there is some MFC to wxWidgets translations, most of 
> the drawing functions map nearly identically (i.e. it's 
> obvious to someone who doesn't know MFC what is going on).
> 
> The only nit is it may be necessary to transfer some stuff 
> from the (now abandoned) ScreenView class into CCamView 
> following Gerry's view simplification.
> 
> I would have thought this would be a good a newcomer to the 
> code a weekend to spare.
> 
> Alex
>