> Quoting Denis Oliver Kropp: > > However, while this is interesting, it isn't something that is a big > > issue at the moment. We have a user who was interested in quickly > > switching between two independent full screen applications and who > > wanted to use the multi-app stuff to do this (which we had never > > tried before). They are probably correct in wanting to use that solution > > for the switching times they want (<1sec, i.e. reasonable response > > time to a remote control button press), but I just wondered why not > > use VTs instead - it seemed a simple and existing solution to the > > problem that didn't require the user to write any new code. > > Switching between applications within one DirectFB session should be faster, yes. > But if both applications have a lot of offscreen images that don't fit into > video memory at once you will have a small delay for surface management during switch > though. Thanks for the responses; with our systems the display works from normal system memory, so they can trade off memory footprint for speed to a degree. They will just have to try it and see.
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