Re: Glitches with the GTK toolkit

[Jan D.]

> > > > > > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:32:54 +0100, "Jan D." <address@hidden> 
> > > > > > said:
>
> > On GTK I actually don't see any difference, but on OSX I do.  It is an
> > improvement, and slower machines will probably benefit.  Does this
> > affect any other operations that dragging the mode line?
>
> Yes.  Dragging the scroll bar thumb, which is currently implemented
> using `track-mouse' on OSX, would behave as if redisplay-dont-pause
> were set to `t'.  Dragging the thumb updates only a few lines on slow
> machines without the patch.  I think pausing during redisplay is good
> for other kinds of events, but not for mouse movements because they
> usually come with a short interval.

The scroll bar dragging becomes smoother on OSX.  I think this patch 
should be checked in.  As you say, mouse movements comes in bursts so 
pausing doesn't need to be done.

        Jan D.