Re: [Fresco-devel] animation

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 09:02, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> 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?

Would it be stupid and lurker-ish to suggest that damage generate an
event and thus the code would remain the same? Disclaimer: I do not know
what I am talking about, the only Fresco things I've done is simple
clients when it was Berlin.

Jay

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