Re: [Fresco-devel] animation

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 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.

You're right. A quick hack to delay the need_redraw request until after 
the traversal has completed fixes everything. Thank you.

Nick Lewycky