Adriaan van Os wrote:
>>> LCL supports drawing only on paint event. Yes, 'arbitrary drawing' is
>>> possible with win32 and gtk widgetsets, but not with carbon and qt.
>>> The only legal way for you is to move all that Canvas calls to
OnPaint.
>>
>> I assume that "the only legal way" is to be read as "currently not
>> implemented".
Paul Ishenin wrote:
Read that "will not be implemented before 1.0 or maybe never".
Vincent Snijders wrote:
> It is doubtful, if it is possible to implement it. Do you have ideas how
> it can be accomplished?
May I revert the question, what has to be done to make it work now ?
Would that be an acceptable patch (now) ? What issues are there apart
from buffer-flushing and (probably) clipping ?
eehh...
I can answer about qt. Qt Widgets have apropriate event QEventPaint
where all painting should be done. We just map that event to OnPaint of
TWinControl. So all painting inside OnPaint are legal for Qt library
while painting outside not.
I know (mostly from other devels - hope they will answer too) that
carbon behave same way.
So some workarounds should be done to implement painting outside paint
event.
Possible workarounds:
- perform all painting outside paint event to special image and later
(in paint event handler) apply this painting to widget window
- if painting outside paint event is happen then a) request window
redraw, so paint event should be called b) wait until paint event happen
I dont know, maybe other can suggest something better.
Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.
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