From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs canvas support
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:16:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429171619.GB20842@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfmexmfp.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:54:02PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[...]
> Drawing over normal text, if we don't want to redesign the entire
> display engine, needs some new kind of "display element" ( a sibling
> to "character", "image", "stretch", etc.), one that doesn't
> necessarily have any effect on the metrics of the screen lines it is
> drawn upon. I'm not sure I have a clear idea about what features such
> a drawing will need to support, but it could be possible to add such
> an element with not too much effort. Would someone want to come up
> with a reasonable list of requirements for such a feature?
That sounds... exciting. Basically, Emacs would have to have a "display
list" of graphical elements to draw, each one perhaps having a bounding
box (to discard those from redisplay which aren't currently visible)
and perhaps a "layer" (more to the background or foreground).
Hmmm.
Cheers
-- t
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2020-04-29 6:34 ` Emacs canvas support Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2020-04-29 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 9:57 ` Po Lu
2020-04-29 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 10:22 ` Po Lu
2020-04-29 10:27 ` Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2020-04-29 11:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 10:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 10:41 ` Po Lu
2020-04-29 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 12:12 ` Po Lu
2020-04-29 16:14 ` David Engster
2020-04-29 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 17:16 ` tomas [this message]
2020-04-29 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 13:11 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-30 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 14:58 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-30 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-01 14:32 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-29 18:51 ` tomas
2020-04-29 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 19:08 ` tomas
2020-04-29 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 19:59 ` tomas
2020-04-30 1:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 6:55 ` tomas
2020-04-30 12:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 12:50 ` tomas
2020-04-30 8:04 ` Po Lu
2020-04-30 12:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-01 23:27 ` Po Lu
2020-05-02 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-30 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-30 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 13:52 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-29 19:23 ` David Engster
2020-04-30 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 6:52 ` Corwin Brust
2020-04-29 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 20:14 ` David Engster
2020-04-30 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 20:48 ` Juri Linkov
2020-04-30 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30 20:20 ` Juri Linkov
2020-05-01 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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