From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why Emacs should have a good web-browser Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87ljmxluaj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87r5wqvqsn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ocrueqdz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4A55E438.9020106@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247156490 1874 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 16:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 18:21:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOwN6-0001F8-LC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOwN6-0000cM-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOw4E-00013U-TH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOw49-00011P-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50741 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOw49-000111-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:38660) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOw47-0002Of-M5; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014241.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n69G1epx018686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BF2BC09B; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:01:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:25:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112245 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: >> It's not that difficult to handle, you just need to take snapshots of >> the application's display now and then. The active window contains >> the real application, and any other windows can contain a snapshot of >> the display of that program. > > This is basically what I'm aiming for with my xwidget patch. The active > window contains the live component, the other windows contain inactive > snapshots of the components(currently only grey rectangles in the > inactive windows). Is this "snapshot" handled automatically by X (e.g., as an XEmbed feature), or is it something that would have to be done "by hand", e.g. by copying one X bitmap buffer into another? If the latter, doesn't that mean that clicking on a button in the "copied" application wouldn't do anything?