Re: Re: MacOS X [was: how to write snappy benchmark]

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 02:13, Torrey Lyons wrote:

> The front application switches the cursor in response to mousing over 
> an area by receiving an mouse moved event and telling the window 
> server to change the cursor. CoreGraphics does not provide a way to 
> set a cursor image to use for a particular region of a window. 
> However, higher level API's can and do. For example Cocoa NSView's 
> can be set to use a certain cursor image whenever the cursor is over 
> them. The developer does not need to worry about switching 
> explicitly, but there is still a round trip communication with the 
> window server involved. 

So this means that the window server only provides the topmost window
for each application, unlike X11, which nest windows inside windows
inside windows?

Thanks for the overview.

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Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>