[openbeos] Re: patch for vim on haiku - VNC?

> Mikael Jansson (mailing lists) wrote on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:45:53 +
> 0200 CEST:
> > I don't do any work on app_server, but couldn't you really add 
> > those 
> > parts independent of any other feature (that is, not wait until 
> > R2)?  
> > Putting my foot in my mouth, I'd say just enabling applications to 
> > have 
> > access to the dirty rect queue shouldn't be too difficult to add. 
> 
> I suppose an API which allows interested programs to subscribe to 
> BMessages
> describing the dirty events could be done easily.  If the overhead 
> from
> that is too high (need to test to find out), an API that collects 
> dirty
> rectangles would be more CPU efficient.

BRoster (registrar) in Dano already notifies of window activations, 
that alone should help a lot, adding another thing to watch should be 
easy on the API (impl is a different thing :).

François.

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