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- From: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled)
- Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a memory buffer rather than screen
- Reply-To: apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:04:00 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec11.094743.20421@aber.ac.uk>, hrs@aber.ac.uk (Herbert Martin Sauro) writes:
- >The trouble with using a window is that one doesn't recveive instant feedback
- >from the slider as its draged etc. so that the window contents aren't
- >updated until after the slider has finished moving.
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- True. But live redraws would put a lot of burden on the processor.
- The Archimedes does live redraws when windows are dragged around. Quite
- impressive, but then it is a pretty nippy RISC machine.
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- Adam.
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