Re: [Fresco-devel] animation

Nick Lewycky wrote:

> Jay McCarthy wrote:

>> Would it be stupid and lurker-ish to suggest that damage generate an
>> event and thus the code would remain the same?
> 
> 
> Not at all, it sounds like a reasonable solution. Looking into it I 
> found that the event manager doesn't block on its own, but calls 
> Console->next_event() which blocks. This means that the only events it 
> can receive are ones that come in from GGI or SDL.

the 'event loop' the repair thread is sitting in is receiving input from
the input devices as well as a pipe the ScreenManager is connected to.
If you call 'need_redraw' on any graphic, it will result in the
ScreenManager to 'wake_up' the repair thread by means of that pipe.
That's about as event driven as you can get.

I agree that it would be useful to have a 'pending_events' method in the
console API that can report whether the next read ('next_event') would
block or not, or even how many events are available (ideally for a given
type mask, etc.)

Regards,
		Stefan