FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: Backbuffer access

["Mikael Jansson (mailing lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm sorry for not contributing much of anything, but I have a 
> > question:
> > In what way are you providing for a framework so that remote 
> > controlling through for example the VNC protocol can be made as 
> > fast 
> > as 
> > painlessly as possible?  Today that involves doing a memcpy() from 
> > the 
> > pointer received from a BWindowScreen at a high rate, but this 
> > scheme 
> > could be vastly improved if the background buffer used for drawing 
> > could be shared and apps could subscribe to update messages, or 
> > through 
> > other means.
>
> Right now, we're not really doing much of anything related directly 
> to 
> VNC -- support structure is intended for R2, but how all that will 
> specifically be played out has yet to be determined.
> 
Okay.  I was just thinking (not really knowing how the app_server is 
layered) that just providing the developer with a shared area or so to 
use. Main point, I guess, is that /if/ someone wants to provide for 
such a structure for the R1 app_server, it doesn't need to be 
completely rebuilt, just to hook it in in the approriate layer and 
you're set, basically.  But, like I said - I don't know the layers very 
well, so it's hard for me to tell.

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Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be