Re: Announcement: Contiki 1.3

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> Oliver Schmidt wrote:
>
> > The directory application window is as big as the desktop so it can't
> > actually be moved. But the redraws happen anyway. My assumption is
> > that it's this what you refer to as flicker.
>
>
> Ok, that is the flicker... I see the desktop flickering through to the
> directory
> window when the directory window title is highlighted (IE move window
> mode)
> ....  I was seeing flicker because my machine is accelerated... Forcing
> a
> 1mhz boot shows the screen flash between the directory and the
> desktop...
>
> It appears as if the entire screen is restored each time the mouse is
> moved (when a window title is highlighted)....  Perhaps the screen
> redraw routine could be optimized to only redraw the screen area that
> is
> revealed when a window is moved..

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.

-michael

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