Re: font-backend mechanism on Windows and Mac?

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:21:52 -0400, "Adrian Robert" <address@hidden> said:

>> `drawRect:' is called back automatically during the modal loop on
>> resize drag.  You cannot do "redisplay" that may involve Lisp
>> evaluation in such a window-system-level event handling context,
>> but "expose" is OK as it just shows the contents of the "current
>> matrix" that was constructed by the previous "redisplay".

> Hmm.. the effect looks a little amateurish though.

But better than whiteout :-).

> I guess it's useful on a resize-smaller to see more or less what
> will be shown, but..  it would be nice to drop out of the modal loop
> and track drags manually, as with scrolling, but even subclassing
> NSWindow I couldn't do it.

Yes, I thought of manual (nonmodal) tracking of the resize handle,
too.  But I thought that it's too much to implement at this stage.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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