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General Software / Re: Slack, Gitter, or similar for XLights Development

« on: December 05, 2016, 04:12:59 PM »

Don't make it bigger. Make it resizable but as Gil says it may not be easy. Wxwidgets is hard to learn.

I still haven't poked around in the code yet. Super busy - I plan on starting in January. But how decoupled is the rest of the logic/application/engine from wxWidgets? If it can be decoupled, that can open some doors. Electron comes to mind - it's what powers Atom and Visual Studio Code, both of which are also multi platform. Just spitting out random thoughts here.

I use XLights, so I'm going to find SOMETHING to do.

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General Software / Re: Slack, Gitter, or similar for XLights Development

« on: December 05, 2016, 12:20:17 PM »

What kind of functionality or changes are you interested in adding?

I'm not sure yet, but I just got into this hobby and I have a former background in digital image and signal processing. A lot of that knowledge transfers fairly well to this kind of stuff.

I'd probably start with bug fixes until I get acquainted with the code base. I'd like to eventually look into improving the rendering pipeline with GPU acceleration (OpenCL or similar). There are also some other things I'd like to do, like color space transforms and maybe some usability enhancements. I also have a background in music, so maybe I can put the two together.

I'm just kinda interested in general as a hobby project. I don't have any specific goals. My real job is pretty time consuming already. Haha!

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General Software / Slack, Gitter, or similar for XLights Development

« on: December 05, 2016, 11:01:47 AM »

Hey guys. I'd like to start contributing code to XLights. I was wondering if there was a development-centric chat room for this project. I didn't even see a development sub forum, so I'm not even sure if this is the right place to ask.

Thanks in advance!