From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Cc: Luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject: Re: Stylus drawing input?
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:00:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lelrhnpf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA++fsGHH_8MA-f36gfNN23Yy3vx1qtCZa=OQJMXmeUFG-wsocw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Dov Grobgeld on Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:55:15 +0200)
> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:55:15 +0200
> Cc: Luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tomas@tuxteam.de
>
> But I still don't understand how emacs can display such an image as an
> "overlay" on top of other buffer contents.
It cannot. Emacs treats images as large characters, so all we are
capable of doing is display images in-line.
> (Having the notion of layers would also be nice for doing
> presentations in emacs, as you can then have some static graphics as a
> background image.)
That would need a complete redesign of the current display engine,
AFAIU. Patches welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-24 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-12 6:39 Stylus drawing input? Dov Grobgeld
2023-01-14 6:06 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-14 8:17 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-14 9:38 ` Peter
2023-01-14 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-14 10:49 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-15 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2023-01-16 7:41 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-16 7:45 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-01-16 8:26 ` tomas
2023-01-23 21:15 ` Dov Grobgeld
2023-01-23 23:48 ` Po Lu
2023-01-24 8:03 ` Dov Grobgeld
2023-01-24 10:50 ` Po Lu
2023-01-24 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-24 15:55 ` Dov Grobgeld
2023-01-24 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-01-14 9:50 ` Po Lu
2023-01-15 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
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