On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 01:37:00PM +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2013-08-08 20:43:12, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > There are of course other ways to fix this. One of them would be to
> > abort the rendering of the page if it becomes invisible and leaves the
> > cache. However, implementing the necessary message passing for this is
> > less trivial than just exposing this one function to check if a page is
> > cached or not.
>
> I'm currently working on a different render infrastructure in the
> features/renderer-take-2 branch. The setup is currently the following:
>
> - There is a ZathuraRenderer object that renders a page in a separate
> thread.
> - Every page widget holds a ZathuraRenderRequest object to manage
> render requests. Widgets use this object to request a page to be
> renderer and can also abort an request.
> - ZathuraRenderRequest emits a signal as soon as the page is ready.
This sounds very cool! Nice work, Sebastian.
> There are somethings that are not done yet. The sorting of the render
> requests is currently broken.
I'm going to have a look at those rough edges at the nearest opportunity
(unless, of course, you reached there first!).
> In the end I hope it's enough to cancel pending requests in the caching
> code and remove the workaround again.
Yes, once the infrastructure is in place, this is going to be a matter of a
trivial check. Great work, man.
--
Marwan
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