Re: [Fresco-devel] animation

So I had the chance to sleep and realized that it's not as simple as I 
thought the night before.

I wrote:
> block waiting for either an event or fresh damage

How do I go about blocking for either one of these two things?

I suggested adding the ability to do a non-blocking request to the Event 
Manager that would process events without waiting. Unfortunately, if I 
want to do a wait until event or damage, the server would have to sit in 
a polling loop. That's not very good at all.

The next closest thing I could think of is blocking for events for no 
longer than a third of a second. After which point, we poll for damage. 
If there's either deal with it. Otherwise block for another third of a 
second. This is more like what the code does now, but I want to remove 
the 33fps cap if possible, and process events&damage as soon as they 
arrive, if possible.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick Lewycky