Jay McGavren's Journal

The Tivo gets a lot of tech podcasts, and I told Lenny I wanted to pick the next show after his cartoon was done.

Lenny (sincerely): “You mean that show where they talk about a lot of cell phones? Like nerds?” Me (laughing): “Yes, that show.”

Mario Steele from the wxRuby list solved my problem - I was creating an extra device context and then not even using it. draw_bitmap works a lot better, too.

It’s working within Zyps as well, but it’s about 50% slower than Ruby-Gnome2. :( Now to find out if that’s my fault or the library’s.

wxRuby animation demo not quite working...

Posted this to the wxruby-users mailing list. Let’s see if anyone else has attempted anything like this.

OK, I have a basic blit demo working (thanks to Alex Fenton for his reply, which I finally saw). However, there's a great deal of "tearing" on the screen - flickering grey lines in the black background. It looks like the blit isn't always complete when the screen refreshes. Can anyone look at this and tell me what I might be doing wrong? Any help would be most appreciated! -Jay McGavren http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps

CNN was on the TV in the cafeteria, and I looked up and saw the ticker: “Hostage Situation at Clinton Campaign Office”. There was no audio, so I asked the lady behind the counter, “Did Hillary finally snap?”

She must think I'm senile.

My vague recollection is something like this… 5:30 AM: Diana’s alarm goes off. I get up and turn off the baby monitor. Diana calmly corrects me, tells me to go back to bed, and turns the baby monitor back on.