From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: redisplay and expose_frame
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:44:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180722124418.GA8674@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
Hi all,
I’m looking for a little bit of guidance as to how exactly Emacs draws
to a GUI frame.
The background here is that I’m working on splitting the NS port’s GUI
code into its own thread, and while working on that I noticed that
Apple have deprecated the method we use to draw, so I thought that
since I’m working with the code anyway, I may as well try to
‘modernise’ it.
The ‘new’ way of drawing to the screen works thus:
1. When you want to update a portion of the screen you mark it as
dirty.
2. At some point you have to call [emacs-frame display], which does
some set‐up and then calls drawRect with an argument that is a
rectangle showing which parts of the screen need to be updated.
3. *All* the drawing *must* occur in drawRect.
4. done.
At the moment NS Emacs calls expose_frame from within drawRect which
works well, however it also does some drawing outside of drawRect, and
I strongly suspect that redisplay_internal must, somehow, call
expose_frame (or an equivalent), but I can’t see where.
Does Emacs explicitly draw to the screen as part of redisplay? If so,
where is it doing it?
Thanks!
--
Alan Third
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-22 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-22 12:44 Alan Third [this message]
2018-07-22 14:37 ` redisplay and expose_frame Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-23 9:58 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2018-07-24 20:42 ` Alan Third
2018-07-25 9:33 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2018-08-04 16:19 ` Alan Third
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