FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: Overlay support

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jonathanthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The earlier discussions of a time value being used and causing things 
> to
> fail just strikes me as sick and wrong, if things aren't available.

Rudolf just described what's there right now in R5.
If an application doesn't adhere to a certain (and in the future, well 
documented) protocol, I certainly don't have a problem with letting it 
crash. It deserves no better :-)

It's like the direct connected timeout: if an app needs more than (on 
R5) 3 seconds to acknowledge a change, it will get killed. The 
app_server can't do a lot before that point, it just have to wait until 
the shared resource become available for it again.
And with high performance video stuff like overlays and direct windows, 
a response timeout from 3 seconds or even 1 second doesn't sound like 
too little to me. Such timeouts can easily be met within an application 
so I don't see much value in having that additional user interaction.
These kind of errors should be fixed during application development.

Bye,
   Axel.