Re: [dev] [vis] ui separation and mainloop considerations

2015-04-05 Thread Ralph Eastwood
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 12:48:14AM +0200, Marc André Tanner wrote: > What is your opinion on libuv? Is there a better alternative I > should look into? I did some googling and came up with this: http://www.davetech.com/blog/notes-libuv-little-library-could Maybe someone with more knowledge about

Re: [dev] [vis] ui separation and mainloop considerations

2015-04-05 Thread noname
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 12:48:14AM +0200, Marc André Tanner wrote: > What is your opinion on libuv? Is there a better alternative I > should look into? What would you use for communication purposes? > Sending raw structs around or using something like msgpack? http://suckless.org/rocks links libev

[dev] [vis] ui separation and mainloop considerations

2015-04-03 Thread Marc André Tanner
I just pushed a fairly invasive change which tries to separate out all the ui related code into a single file: ui-curses.c. The idea is that by implementing the interface of ui.h it should be possible to add a different user interface backend. This should also be useful if somebody finds the time a