[haiku-appserver] Re: Going "back" & clipping

Hi,

Stephan Assmus wrote:
>>>Yes, there will be CopyRegion() and CopyRegionList() which uses the 
>>>first. There won't be a CopyBits() in DisplayDriver anymore.
>>>CopyRegion() will do the topological sorting of the rects and call 
>>>some 
>>>internal worker function to do the actual inplace copy of a rect.
>>
>>      I don't think that is a good idea. One must apply the topological
>>sort on all the rects that are to be blit. For that reason I think
>>CopyRegionList() must be the one to do the sort. You cannot blit 
>>rects
>>of a region and then continue with the next region, that may overlap/
>>overwrite
>>rects that still need to be blit.
> 
> 
> I have not implemented it in this way yet. I do understand what you 
> say, but I'm not sure the sorting will work for multiple BRegions 
> copied with different offset each. Maybe CopyRegionList should assume 
> the list of BRegions is already sorted itself, so that even if 
> overwriting takes place, it takes place in the right order and does no 
> harm.

        Nope, that won't work. All rects must be ordered, otherwise I
don't see how to avoid artifacts.

        Then, I think we should do as Be did - completely redraw center
and right aligned views. At least I don't see another way.

> Next up: I will see how far scrolling is implemented as of now.

        Hehe, you will have a bit of work to do that. :-)


bye,
Adi.

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