Re: Announcement: Contiki 1.3

[Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de>]

Hi Michael,

>> It appears as if the entire screen is restored each time the mouse is
>> moved (when a window title is highlighted).... 

Indeed.

>> Perhaps the screen
>> redraw routine could be optimized to only redraw the screen area that
>> is
>> revealed when a window is moved..

If you have enough memory for all the special handling - which will be
used somewhere between seldom and never as the interesting windows are
as big as the desktop anyway and as the interesting applications are
so big that you can't run two simultaniously and thus don't have
multiple windows...

>Or to simply animate the *rectangular frame* that the window will occupy
>until the movement has stopped for a certain period...
>
>Back in the days of slower processors, this was a common approach.

In fact you don't have to look back that much. It's the default
behaviour of Win95 and still an option for Win2k.

Best, Oliver