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Comment on Woopsi 0.99.4 Released by Ant

Ant — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:17:26 +0000

Thanks! I forgot to mention that it’s a bit ropey in IE8 - that “browser” doesn’t support the CSS3 border-radius property. It’s worse in IE6 because of its broken box model; the download buttons are aligned left instead of centred.

I haven’t bothered working around bugs in IE because I’m fairly certain that Woopsi’s target audience will have taken the time to install a half-decent browser.

Comment on Woopsi 0.99.4 Released by leonelhs

leonelhs — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:43:42 +0000

Wow, nice website!!!

Comment on Farewell to SourceForge by ant.simianzombie.com » Woopsi 0.99.4 Released

ant.simianzombie.com » Woopsi 0.99.4 Released — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:14:01 +0000

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Joe — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:09:15 +0000

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Comment on Woopsi 0.99.2 Released by Lakedaemon

Lakedaemon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:40:03 +0000

Nice ! I’ll have to look into that ! (in a few days)

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Comment on Woopsi Version 0.99.1 Released by leonel

leonel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:13:49 +0000

By the way: leonel = leonelhs

Comment on Woopsi Version 0.99.1 Released by Ant

Ant — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:32:48 +0000

Key events in both TextBox and MultiLineTextBox can be overridden. To do so, you need to subclass one of those gadgets and override one or both of the following methods:

onKeyPress()
onKeyRepeat()

You can also override the onKeyRelease() method (from the Gadget class) if you need to.

These methods are called when the physical DS buttons (ie. d-pad, X, Y, L, R, Start and Select) are pressed/released/etc. If you need to change the way that the textboxes deal with the on-screen keyboard, override these methods:

handleKeyboardPressEvent()
handleKeyboardRepeatEvent()
handleKeyboardReleaseEvent()

Comment on Woopsi Version 0.99.1 Released by leonel

leonel — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:40:48 +0000

That’s ok for me. And Another thing, I think that the key events must be handled by the application not by the core, even the cursor position at miltilinetextbox or the procedure should be can overwritten.

Comment on Woopsi Version 0.99.1 Released by Ant

Ant — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:03:40 +0000

The WoopsiString’s compare method should automatically wrap any literals in new WoopsiString instances. True, this involves creating a copy of the string and a new object, but I doubt that it will ever present that great a performance problem.

As for the Text class, it’s meant to be used by the MultiLineTextBox set of classes. These only have vertical scrolling enabled, so disabling automatic wrapping would result in them being unusable for pretty much all text not written for a specific string displayed in a specific textbox size using a specific font. It’s far easier just to wrap the text automatically.

It shouldn’t be terribly difficult to create a new multiline textbox and a new text class that enables horizontal scrolling and disables wrapping, should you want to have a go at writing it. I’ll certainly help out. It’s not something that I want to add to the core library, though.