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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs canvas support
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:35:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8raziis.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu6u1tii.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:22:13 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:22:13 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > That's the technical description of the implementation.  It doesn't
> > explain when  canvases can be useful and for what purposes.
> 
> Canvases are useful for when I want to be able to control a portion of a
> screen dynamically, in a fast way, from Lisp code.  For instance,
> displaying a constantly changing bar chart or graph inside Emacs.

So this _is_ a way of putting images on the Emacs display, but in a
way that creates the image dynamically from Lisp, instead of reading
it from a file or producing the binary data for that image.  Right?

Incidentally, how does this compare with functions in svg.el?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <875zdikdge.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
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 [this message]
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
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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