Re: [Gnash-dev] gui wants redraw

[Martin Guy]

> wheter the Gui wants redraw on next frame:
>
> The problem with that, in my opinion, is that
> gui events should trigger *immediate* redraw,
> not redraw on next frame.
>
> Examples of redraw needs are:
>
>         1) resize
>         2) expose
>
> We don't want to wait for next frame before refreshing
> the view, in both cases.

Yes. That way, when the user can pause the film, the window won't stop
updating itself.

There is a related problem: that gnash keeps rendering its display
window even when minimised or hidden ("burning a hole in the screen"),
and one way to solve that would be for the rendering to be triggered
by resize/expose events from the gui and 'invalidate area' events from
the flash player (every time something moves in an exposed area). -
this should bring a performance boost, as well as opening the door to
automatically dropping frames on slow hardware without affecting the
playing speed of the flash movie.

But that seems rather a large restructuring for the moment.

  M