tino rachui wrote:
> Sébastien PLISSON wrote:
>> Working on events, I ve started using Thread viewer to watch if
>> everything was going well,
>> and Ican see the thread where SalTimer resides.
>>
>> I wonder what is the role of SalTimer events and thread hits ?
>>
>> The runapplicationeventloop from carbon/apple api is sufficient to
>> manage events sot is saltimer still useful ?
> VCL draws timer driven! This contradicts the philosophy of almost all
> modern GUI based operating systems. But is a history relict of VCL.
> Don't ask me what people drove to come up with such a weird design
> decision.
Simple. Paint events get concatenated for a while to one larger paint
event since at the time (and possibly still) applciations tended to be
faster drawing a large rectangle once than many small rectangles five
times (or whatever). This was quite noticeable on your average Pentium
III 500.
Glad to help,
Mr. Weirdo himself
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