Adam Huuva writes:

>  >Yes, unless you specified ASYNC mode in the application. Checking, if 
>  >something changed would be pretty much as slow for many cases
>  >(relatively fast video access) and would hog some RAM for the >checking, so 
>  >...
>  
>  So, would it not be possible to use the display structure to store a
>  "changed" flag which is set whenever the corresponding image data is
>  changed? This way, when looping through the displays one could just flush 
>  the screens that are changed.
 
The X server (XGGI) uses direct access to the buffers, so you never
know when it has changed something or not.  The only solution is to
make a smarter X server.

Cheers,
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\/   Andrew Apted   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 

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