[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V8 #104
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:11:02 +0200 CEST
> Hi,
>
> Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> > This is really good news if we're on the same page. Just to
> > clarify, the
> > X forwarding that I'm referring to isn't just about running VNC, it
> > would
> > be analogous to having the app_server on machine B managing and
> > executing
> > a program and all of the user interaction occurs on machine A, and
> > for
> > all intents and purpose the program looks as if it is running on
> > machine
> > A. You don't get a desktop in a window like with VNC or Window's
> > Remote
> > Desktop Connection, just the application's windows.
> >
> > I sincerely hope that we are on the same page. :)
>
> The feature is certainly very cool. I can even imaging a solution to
> the
> BBitmap shared memory problem. It's more a matter of what happens
> when you
> call DrawBitmap(). The BBitmap memory doesn't *have* to be shared
> with the
> app_server instance that draws it. On a local machine that is quicker
> of
> course, but it doesn't have to be that way, so apps would work
> unmodified.
No the current implementation *always* uses shared areas for BBitmaps,
so AFAIK it doesn't check for changes.
Still calling DrawBitmap a lot on a bitmap that doesn't change would be
awful if you force sending it each time, it would void the purpose.
François.
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