Re: gutter fixes

Andy> At 04:10 PM 8/5/99 +0900, SL Baur wrote: Andy> *sigh*. There is a problem under X in that it is Andy> asynchronous and expose events can get generated while you Andy> are handling expose events (this can't happen under windows Andy> AFAIK) so the gutter display code gets an expose event and Andy> starts to redraw the gutter area, this involves unmapping Andy> any widgets that are there currently, this generates an Andy> expose event and we go round in an endless loop of Hm, if the gutter is a window and you unmap the gutter, some subwindow of the frame will get _one_ expose event, which will be easy to check for and throw away since it must be entirely contained in the gutter (that's not 100% error-free, but the gutter's pretty small; I doubt there are going to be many objects that aren't subobjects of the gutter that will pass that test). Then you do all the work on subobjects of the gutter which can generate no more expose events, map the gutter, and Hey Presto! Theoretically, anyway.... IANAXP Andy> Hey, speak for yourself :) I found lots of cool applications but you only have ten fingers! %^X -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."