[haiku-appserver] Re: GetMouse()

Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       Nope. Once we are done processing the _UPDATE_ request, if there
> is something that still needs to be redrawn (another window passed 
> above
> ours) the server will send another _UPDATE_ request. Now, we can't 
> stay
> and wait for this 2nd update to arrive because we don't know how long 
> it
> will take. This means that we have to do it synchronously - instead 
> of
> letting app_server send the 2nd _UPDATE_ request, we tell him to give
> it now as an attachment to the reply sent for our query message.
>       In this way, we can be 95% sure that UpdateIfNeeded(), really
> updated all that was to be updated. The remaining 5% come from the 
> fact
> that another regions of our window may become invalid while the 2nd
> _UPDATE_ request would be over and the story could continue.
>       So, I think it's better we leave it the way it is now.
[...]
>       When we'll have a beta you'll see there are no latency problems.
> (I really don't want to start talking about this issue again, I spent 
> a
> lot of time writing about this a couple months ago.)

Okay, that sounds fine. I'll just wait and see how it turns out to work 
in the real world :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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