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[gaim-migrate @ 14664] Faceprint is concerned about 2 things: 1)some of the random colors are very close together. as best we can tell, there are two ways to fix this 1a) for each proposed color, iterate the entire list of selected colors, looking to ensure that it is not too close to any of them. this is an O(n^2) operation, with n >= 220 (the current number of colors we look for) 1b) iterate the entire set of possible colors, skipping ahead by some guess (rather than iterating by 1). this is an O(n^3) operation, where n is 65535/(whatever we skip ahead by). This is not only a more expensive operation, but because of the nature of the color list, it is not _necessarily_ going to yield more predictable results, skipping ahead 5 (or any other number) does not necessarily guarantee that you've skipped 5 very similar colors. 2) as you can see, either solution to #1 is potentially a resource hog. #1a is a random delay, #1b is inherently expensive. How often #1a will exceed the bound #1b, if ever, is unknown. rather than doing either of these, we settled on a middle course: a .h file has been created containing a set of colors. currently the set we were previously hard coded to. Gaim will search that list for usable colors and start randomly looking only if that list does not contain sufficient usable colors. ideally this list would be generated to have colors that are known to be a "safe" distance appart, that is colors that you can tell appart. and Ideally it would have a (small) multiple of the number of colors we are searching for. This should ensure that IF we go to randomly searching, we need do so only for a few colors. Right now I have no good way to generate a "safe" list of colors though. committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im>
date Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:46:47 +0000
parents af06746954de
children fcb3f77df50d
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/**
 * @file eventloop.h Gaim Event Loop API
 * @ingroup core
 *
 * gaim
 *
 * Gaim is the legal property of its developers, whose names are too numerous
 * to list here.  Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this
 * source distribution.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */
#ifndef _GAIM_EVENTLOOP_H_
#define _GAIM_EVENTLOOP_H_

#include <glib.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * An input condition.
 */
typedef enum
{
	GAIM_INPUT_READ  = 1 << 0,  /**< A read condition.  */
	GAIM_INPUT_WRITE = 1 << 1   /**< A write condition. */

} GaimInputCondition;

typedef void (*GaimInputFunction)(gpointer, gint, GaimInputCondition);

typedef struct _GaimEventLoopUiOps GaimEventLoopUiOps;

struct _GaimEventLoopUiOps
{
	/**
	 * Creates a callback timer.
	 * @see g_timeout_add, gaim_timeout_add
	 **/
	guint (*timeout_add)(guint interval, GSourceFunc function, gpointer data);

	/**
	 * Removes a callback timer.
	 * @see gaim_timeout_remove, g_source_remove
	 */
	guint (*timeout_remove)(guint handle);

	/**
	 * Adds an input handler.
	 * @see gaim_input_add, g_io_add_watch_full
	 */
	guint (*input_add)(int fd, GaimInputCondition cond,
					   GaimInputFunction func, gpointer user_data);

	/**
	 * Removes an input handler.
	 * @see gaim_input_remove, g_source_remove
	 */
	guint (*input_remove)(guint handle);
};

/**************************************************************************/
/** @name Event Loop API                                                  */
/**************************************************************************/
/*@{*/
/**
 * Creates a callback timer.
 * The timer will repeat until the function returns @c FALSE. The
 * first call will be at the end of the first interval.
 * @param interval	The time between calls of the function, in
 *					milliseconds.
 * @param function	The function to call.
 * @param data		data to pass to @a function.
 * @return A handle to the timer which can be passed to 
 *         gaim_timeout_remove to remove the timer.
 */
guint gaim_timeout_add(guint interval, GSourceFunc function, gpointer data);

/**
 * Removes a timeout handler.
 *
 * @param handle The handle, as returned by gaim_timeout_add.
 *
 * @return Something.
 */
guint gaim_timeout_remove(guint handle);

/**
 * Adds an input handler.
 *
 * @param fd        The input file descriptor.
 * @param cond      The condition type.
 * @param func      The callback function for data.
 * @param user_data User-specified data.
 *
 * @return The resulting handle.
 * @see g_io_add_watch_full
 */
guint gaim_input_add(int fd, GaimInputCondition cond,
					 GaimInputFunction func, gpointer user_data);

/**
 * Removes an input handler.
 *
 * @param handle The handle of the input handler. Note that this is the return
 * value from gaim_input_add, <i>not</i> the file descriptor.
 */
guint gaim_input_remove(guint handle);

/*@}*/


/**************************************************************************/
/** @name UI Registration Functions                                       */
/**************************************************************************/
/*@{*/
/**
 * Sets the UI operations structure to be used for accounts.
 *
 * @param ops The UI operations structure.
 */
void gaim_eventloop_set_ui_ops(GaimEventLoopUiOps *ops);

/**
 * Returns the UI operations structure used for accounts.
 *
 * @return The UI operations structure in use.
 */
GaimEventLoopUiOps *gaim_eventloop_get_ui_ops(void);

/*@}*/

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* _GAIM_EVENTLOOP_H_ */