Re[3]: Backgrounds

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 15:35 11/04/2003 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>I think I see; instead of drawing only the needed parts you draw
>the whole frame and then cut the unwanted parts off. Is this more
>efficient than drawing only the needed parts?

simplier, less error prone, less code, more educative ...

>And what about the way to determine when there is a split or not?
>Could you please put a boolean that reveals it, in the next beta?
>(even if I'm still convinced that using a multilocs of 0 would be
>enough ... ok, it would break backwards compatibility, but how
>many people are using this mechanism already?)

hm, but as a heavy context user i count myself as 2048 users so ...

Hans
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