Re: Render glyphs in foreground?

On 04/03/2004, at 10:37 PM, Adam Megacz wrote:
>   - Setting box.font=foo is a blocking operation.  It doesn't return
>     until the stream is completely downloaded.
>
>   - When you render a box, Ibex *synchronously* acquires the bounding
>     box of all the glyphs used.  This should be really super fast.
>     The box is then sized correctly.  This avoids the ugliness where a
>     background rendering task can trigger a reflow.
>
>   - The bitmaps of glyphs are created *asynchronously*.  For
>     simplicity we still probably want to do this in the rendering
>     thread, but limit the amount of work we do to 100ms.

This would work well. How do you plan on counting the time, 
System.currentTimeMillis()?

-- d