[openbeos] Re: ShowImage "Mirror" Operations

On 4/22/06, Joachim Seemer <j.seemer@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's no reasons to ever block when doing something that has even the remote
> possibility to take noticable time.

In general I would agree, especially on a system like BeOS/Haiku which
is so pervasively multi-threaded. But in this particular case I'm not
sure how much it gives you. As I said in the last email, if the
operation is something that changes the image so much (such as
flipping or rotating), the program could not allow you to change it
anyhow while it was being flipped or rotated. The only thing
applicable in my opinion is maybe a preview or a progress bar and a
cancel button, but really those are overkill for a small app like
ShowImage.

> It was just a whack idea I wanted to throw into the thread... :)

No worries, I appreciate suggestions as I've learned no developer can
have all the answers all the time (well, except maybe Axel ;)

Ryan

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