[haiku-appserver] Re: Backbuffer access
- From: "DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:40:33 -0400 EDT
> Hello,
>
> I'm sorry for not contributing much of anything, but I have a
> question:
> In what way are you providing for a framework so that remote
> controlling through for example the VNC protocol can be made as fast
> as
> painlessly as possible? Today that involves doing a memcpy() from
> the
> pointer received from a BWindowScreen at a high rate, but this scheme
> could be vastly improved if the background buffer used for drawing
> could be shared and apps could subscribe to update messages, or
> through
> other means.
Right now, we're not really doing much of anything related directly to
VNC -- support structure is intended for R2, but how all that will
specifically be played out has yet to be determined.
--DW
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