From: Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>
To: JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drawing UI elements behind text
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:47:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3daed050-3e9a-4d5f-98d0-501d20fd40ca@imayhem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60D305B8-1D67-4D68-AC48-0E6E34F65AB0@gmail.com>
On 27/11/2024 22:15, JD Smith wrote:
>
>> On Nov 27, 2024, at 1:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> They are anchored at locations on the buffer, specified by line/column.
>
> Would it make sense to attach the drawn elements to text rather than row/column positions? Otherwise you may need to recompute and redraw the entire buffer’s line content even after inserting a single character. For concreteness, suppose you are drawing a fancy box around a paragraph.
Yes, that makes sense as an additional option. Maybe attach it to an
overlay position + (x,y).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-27 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-10 16:39 Drawing UI elements behind text Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-10 18:09 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-10 19:06 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-10 19:29 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-24 23:37 ` JD Smith
2024-11-26 23:19 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-27 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-27 18:28 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-27 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-27 20:01 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-27 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-27 20:30 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-28 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-28 8:43 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-28 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-28 10:41 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-28 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-28 12:09 ` Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-27 21:15 ` JD Smith
2024-11-27 21:47 ` Cecilio Pardo [this message]
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2024-11-27 2:31 JD Smith
2024-11-27 18:33 ` Cecilio Pardo
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