Re: image cache

[Chetan Pandya]

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:


> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
> > Note that fixing requires changing all the functions in image.c that
> > require a frame argument, so that they use a terminal argument instead.
> > Otherwise, if you associate image caches to terminals, you run into
> > problems with terminals that have no frame (e.g. terminals created using
> > x-open-connection), because you can't supply those image functions with
> > a frame argument.
> 
> Frameless terminals can't use those functions currently
> anyway, right?
> 
> So one could change the current implementation to put the
> cache in the
> terminal data structure, but preserve the current
> interfaces.  This
> would yield more sharing, without losing functionality.

Isn't that how it is currently?

>From frame.h:
/* Return a pointer to the image cache of frame F.  */
#define FRAME_IMAGE_CACHE(F) ((F)->terminal->image_cache)

Chetan
> 
> -Miles
> 
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